Altena

Altena is a town in the district of , , Germany. The town's castle is the origin for the later Dukes of Berg. Altena is situated on the river valley, in the northern stretches of the .
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  • Type: Town with 17,300 residents
  • Description: town in the district of Märkischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Also known as: “Altena/Westfalen”
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Altena Castle and Burg Holtzbrinck.

Museum
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is a medieval hill castle in the town of Altena in . Built on a spur of hill, the castle lies near the in the .

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Church
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is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Evingsen and Nachrodt-Wiblingwerde.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 4 km east of Altena.

Village
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is a municipality in the , , . is situated 4 km west of Altena.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 4½ km northwest of Altena.

Altena

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
node 240044370
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2957886
Wiki­data ID
Q5276
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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”
  • 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”
  • 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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