Altenburg
Altenburg is a city in Thuringia, Germany, located 40 kilometres south of Leipzig, 90 kilometres west of Dresden and 100 kilometres east of Erfurt. It is the capital of the Altenburger Land district and part of a polycentric old-industrial textile and metal production region between Gera, Zwickau and Chemnitz with more than 1 million inhabitants, while the city itself has a population of 33,000.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rathaus Altenburg and St.-Bartholomäi-Kirche Altenburg.
Landestheater Altenburg
Theater building
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kosma and Steinwitz.
Altenburg
- Type: Town with 32,900 residents
- Description: town in Thuringia, Germany
- Categories: urban municipality in Germany, district capital, and locality
- Location: Altenburg, Altenburger Land, Thuringia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.98524° or 50° 59′ 7″ north
Longitude
12.4341° or 12° 26′ 3″ east
Population
32,900
Elevation
193 metres (633 feet)
IATA airport code
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United Nations Location Code
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Open location code
9F2JXCPM+3J
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Altenburg” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Altenburg”
- Arabic: “آلتنبورغ”
- Arabic: “ألتنبورغ”
- Aragonese: “Altenburg”
- Armenian: “Ալտենբուրգ”
- Arpitan: “Altenburg”
- Asturian: “Altenburg”
- Bashkir: “Альтенбург”
- Basque: “Altenburg”
- Bavarian: “Altenburg”
- Belarusian: “Альтэнбург”
- Breton: “Altenburg”
- Bulgarian: “Алтенбург”
- Catalan: “Altenburg”
- Cebuano: “Altenburg”
- Chechen: “Альтенбург”
- Chinese: “阿尔滕堡”
- Chinese: “阿爾滕堡”
- Chinese: “阿爾騰堡”
- Corsican: “Altenburg”
- Croatian: “Altenburg”
- Czech: “Altenburg”
- Danish: “Altenburg”
- Dutch: “Altenburg”
- Egyptian Arabic: “آلتنبورج”
- Esperanto: “Altenburg”
- Estonian: “Altenburg”
- Finnish: “Altenburg”
- French: “Altenbourg”
- Friulian: “Altenburg”
- Galician: “Altenburg”
- German: “Altenburg”
- Greek: “Άλτενμπουργκ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Altenburg”
- Hebrew: “אלטנבורג”
- Hungarian: “Altenburg”
- Icelandic: “Altenburg”
- Ido: “Altenburg”
- Indonesian: “Altenburg”
- Interlingua: “Altenburg”
- Interlingue: “Altenburg”
- Irish: “Altenburg”
- Italian: “Altenburg”
- Japanese: “アルテンブルク”
- Kazakh: “Альтенбург”
- Kongo: “Altenburg”
- Korean: “알텐부르크”
- Kurdish: “Altenburg”
- Ladin: “Altenburg”
- Latin: “Altenburgum in Misnia”
- Latvian: “Altenburga”
- Ligurian: “Altenburg”
- Limburgan: “Altenburg”
- Lithuanian: “Altenburgas”
- Lombard: “Altenburg”
- Low German: “Altenburg”
- Lower Sorbian: “Starograd”
- Luxembourgish: “Altenburg”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Altenburg”
- Macedonian: “Алтенбург”
- Malagasy: “Altenburg”
- Malay: “Altenburg”
- Minangkabau: “Altenburg”
- Moksha: “Альтэнбург”
- Narom: “Altenburg”
- Neapolitan: “Altenburg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Altenburg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Altenburg”
- Norwegian: “Altenburg”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Altenburg”
- Persian: “آلتنبورگ”
- Picard: “Altenburg”
- Piemontese: “Altenburg”
- Polish: “Altenburg”
- Portuguese: “Altemburgo”
- Portuguese: “Altenburg”
- Romanian: “Altenburg”
- Romansh: “Altenburg”
- Russian: “Альтенбург”
- Sardinian: “Altenburg”
- Scots: “Altenburg”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Altenburg”
- Serbian: “Altenburg”
- Serbian: “Алтенбург”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Altenburg”
- Sicilian: “Altenburg”
- Silesian: “Altenburg”
- Slovak: “Altenburg”
- Slovenian: “Altenburg”
- South Azerbaijani: “آلتنبورق”
- Spanish: “Altemburgo”
- Spanish: “Altenburgo”
- Swahili: “Altenburg”
- Swedish: “Altenburg”
- Swiss German: “Altenburg”
- Tatar: “Альтенбург”
- Thai: “อัลเทินบวร์ค”
- Tumbuka: “Altenburg”
- Turkish: “Altenburg”
- Ukrainian: “Альтенбург”
- Ukrainian: “Альтенбурґ”
- Upper Sorbian: “Starohród”
- Urdu: “الٹنبورگ”
- Uzbek: “Altenburg”
- Venetian: “Altenburg”
- Vietnamese: “Altenburg”
- Vlaams: “Altenburg”
- Volapük: “Altenburg”
- Walloon: “Altenburg”
- Waray (Philippines): “Altenburg”
- Welsh: “Altenburg”
- Western Panjabi: “التنبرگ”
- Wolof: “Altenburg”
- Wu Chinese: “阿尔滕堡”
- Yue Chinese: “阿爾滕堡”
- Zulu: “Altenburg”
- “Altenburg”
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