Birkenfeld

Birkenfeld is a district in , . Its seat is the town of . It is bounded by the districts of Sankt Wendel, , , Rhein-Hunsrück, and .
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  • Type: Locality with 82,600 residents
  • Description: district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
  • Also known as: Birkenfeld (district)”, “DEB15”, and “Landkreis Birkenfeld

Places of Interest

Highlights include Deutsches Edelsteinmuseum and Stadion Im Haag.

Museum

Pitch
is a pitch.

Railway station
serves the town of in the German state of . It is on the Nahe Valley Railway and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station. is situated 3½ km southeast of Birkenfeld.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Idar-Oberstein and Hettenrodt.

is a city in the region of and is in is at a narrows, between rocky cliffs and the banks of the Nahe. Since every square meter of land is at a premium here, the river has been covered over in the town.

Village
Photo: giggel, CC BY 3.0.
is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in , . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Herrstein-Rhaunen, whose seat is in .

Village
is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in , . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Herrstein-Rhaunen, whose seat is in .

Birkenfeld

Latitude
49.7194° or 49° 43′ 10″ north
Longitude
7.2814° or 7° 16′ 53″ east
Population
82,600
Elevation
411 metres (1,348 feet)
Open location code
8FX9P79J+QH
Geo­Names ID
2948589
Wiki­data ID
Q8575
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Birkenfeld” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: منطقة بيركنفلد
  • Arabic: منطقة بيركنفيلد
  • Aragonese: Districto de Birkenfeld
  • Armenian: Բիրկենֆելդ
  • Azerbaijani: Birkenfeld
  • Belarusian: Біркенфельд
  • Catalan: districte de Birkenfeld
  • Catalan: Landkreis Birkenfeld
  • Cebuano: Landkreis Birkenfeld
  • Chinese: Birkenfeld Kūn
  • Chinese: 比肯费尔德县
  • Czech: Zemský okres Birkenfeld
  • Danish: Landkreis Birkenfeld
  • Dutch: Landkreis Birkenfeld
  • Esperanto: distrikto Birkenfeld
  • Esperanto: Distrikto Birkenfeld
  • French: arrondissement de Birkenfeld
  • French: Arrondissement de Birkenfeld
  • French: Birkenfeld
  • Georgian: ბირკენფელდის რაიონი
  • German: Landkreis Birkenfeld
  • Hebrew: חבל בירקנפלד
  • Indonesian: Birkenfeld
  • Interlingue: Subdistrict Birkenfeld
  • Italian: circondario di Birkenfeld
  • Italian: Circondario di Birkenfeld
  • Japanese: ビルケンフェルト郡
  • Kazakh: Биркенфельд
  • Kurdish: Birkenfeld
  • Ladin: Landkreis Birkenfeld
  • Limburgan: Landkreis Birkenfeld
  • Malay: Birkenfeld
  • Min Nan Chinese: Birkenfeld Kūn
  • Persian: بیرکنفلد (ناحیه)
  • Persian: بیرکنفلد
  • Polish: Powiat Birkenfeld
  • Portuguese: Birkenfeld
  • Romanian: Birkenfeld
  • Russian: Биркенфельд
  • Saterfriesisch: Loundkring Birkenfeld
  • Spanish: Birkenfeld
  • Spanish: Distrito de Birkenfeld
  • Swedish: Landkreis Birkenfeld
  • Turkish: Birkenfeld
  • Turkish: Landkreis Birkenfeld
  • Ukrainian: Біркенфельд
  • Vietnamese: Birkenfeld
  • Waray (Philippines): Birkenfeld
  • Western Frisian: Birkenfeld (Landkreis)
  • Western Frisian: Birkenfeld
  • Western Panjabi: برکنفیلڈ

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