Altena
Altena is a town in the district of Märkischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The town's castle is the origin for the later Dukes of Berg. Altena is situated on the Lenne river valley, in the northern stretches of the Sauerland.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Altena Castle and Burg Holtzbrinck.
Altena Castle
Museum
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Evingsen and Nachrodt-Wiblingwerde.
Nachrodt-Wiblingwerde
Village
Altena
- Categories: city, Hanseatic city, urban municipality in Germany, and locality
- Location: Altena, Märkischer Kreis, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
51.29903° or 51° 17′ 57″ north
Longitude
7.67348° or 7° 40′ 25″ east
Population
17,300
Elevation
167 metres (548 feet)
United Nations Location Code
DE ALT
Open location code
9F397MXF+J9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Altena” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Altena”
- Arabic: “آلتنا”
- Aragonese: “Altena”
- Arpitan: “Altena”
- Asturian: “Altena”
- Basque: “Altena”
- Bavarian: “Altena”
- Belarusian: “Альтэна”
- Breton: “Altena”
- Bulgarian: “Алтена”
- Catalan: “Altena”
- Cebuano: “Altena”
- Chechen: “Альтена”
- Chinese: “阿尔特纳”
- Corsican: “Altena”
- Croatian: “Altena”
- Czech: “Altena”
- Danish: “Altena”
- Dutch: “Altena”
- Egyptian Arabic: “آلتنا”
- Esperanto: “Altena”
- Estonian: “Altena”
- Finnish: “Altena”
- French: “Altena”
- Friulian: “Altena”
- Galician: “Altena”
- German: “Altena (Westf.)”
- German: “Altena (Westf)”
- German: “Altena”
- German: “Altena/Westfalen”
- Greek: “Άλτενα”
- Hungarian: “Altena”
- Icelandic: “Altena”
- Ido: “Altena”
- Indonesian: “Altena”
- Interlingua: “Altena”
- Interlingue: “Altena”
- Irish: “Altena”
- Italian: “Altena”
- Japanese: “アルテナ”
- Kazakh: “Альтена”
- Kirghiz: “Альтена”
- Kongo: “Altena”
- Kurdish: “Altena”
- Ladin: “Altena”
- Ligurian: “Altena”
- Limburgan: “Altena”
- Low German: “Altena”
- Low German: “Altenoa”
- Luxembourgish: “Altena”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Altena”
- Malagasy: “Altena”
- Malay: “Altena”
- Minangkabau: “Altena”
- Narom: “Altena”
- Neapolitan: “Altena”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Altena”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Altena”
- Norwegian: “Altena”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Altena”
- Persian: “آلتنا”
- Picard: “Altena”
- Piemontese: “Altena”
- Polish: “Altena”
- Portuguese: “Altena”
- Pushto: “آلتنا”
- Romanian: “Altena”
- Romansh: “Altena”
- Russian: “Альтена”
- Sardinian: “Altena”
- Scots: “Altena”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Altena”
- Serbian: “Altena”
- Serbian: “Алтена”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Altena”
- Sicilian: “Altena”
- Slovak: “Altena”
- Slovenian: “Altena”
- Somali: “Altena”
- South Azerbaijani: “آلتنا”
- Spanish: “Altena”
- Swahili: “Altena”
- Swedish: “Altena, Tyskland”
- Swedish: “Altena”
- Swiss German: “Altena”
- Tatar: “Альтена”
- Tumbuka: “Altena/Westfalen”
- Tumbuka: “Altena”
- Turkish: “Altena (Westf.)”
- Turkish: “Altena (Westf)”
- Turkish: “Altena/Westfalen”
- Turkish: “Altena”
- Ukrainian: “Альтена”
- Urdu: “الٹینا”
- Uzbek: “Altena”
- Venetian: “Altena”
- Vietnamese: “Altena”
- Vlaams: “Altena”
- Volapük: “Altena”
- Walloon: “Altena”
- Waray (Philippines): “Altena”
- Welsh: “Altena”
- Wolof: “Altena”
- Zulu: “Altena”
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