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Göttingen

Gleichen

Gleichen is a municipality in the , in , . Named after the two castles, Neuen-Gleichen and Alten-Gleichen on the twin peaks in the Gemeinde, it is situated about 10 km southeast of , from which the peaks are visible.
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  • Type: Municipality with 8,760 residents
  • Description: municipality in Lower Saxony, Germany
  • Also known as: “03159015” and “Gleichen, Lower Saxony”
  • Postal code: 37130

Places of Interest

Highlights include Akademie Waldschlösschen and Die Gleichen.

College
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The is an education and conference center near in , between and .

Peak
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are a pair of hills, up to 430 metres high, in the district of Göttingen in in . The twin hills, that were once the site of two fortifications, gave their name to the village of Gleichen.

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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bremke and Reinhausen.

Village
is a village in the Gemeinde Gleichen in southern . The village of 814 residents is located about ten kilometers south-east of and lies in the shadow of the two small mountains called the Gleichen for the castles that once stood on their peaks.

Village
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is the largest village in the municipality Gleichen in the district , . It is also the seat of government for the Gleichen. The village has 1,500 residents.

Village
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is a village in the Gemeinde Gleichen in southern with a population of 326. The village is located close to the previous border with what was the GDR and near the peaks called the Gleichen, with their castle ruins.

Gleichen

Latitude
51.4689° or 51° 28′ 8″ north
Longitude
10.0396° or 10° 2′ 23″ east
Population
8,760
Elevation
241 metres (791 feet)
Open location code
9F3GF29Q+HV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9355521843
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­municipality
Geo­Names ID
3207210
Wiki­data ID
Q643951
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Gleichen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Gleichen”
  • Aragonese: “Gleichen”
  • Arpitan: “Gleichen”
  • Asturian: “Gleichen”
  • Basque: “Gleichen”
  • Bavarian: “Gleichen”
  • Belarusian: “Гляйхен”
  • Breton: “Gleichen”
  • Bulgarian: “Глайхен”
  • Catalan: “Gleichen”
  • Cebuano: “Gleichen”
  • Chechen: “Глайхен”
  • Chinese: “Gleichen, Lower Saxony”
  • Chinese: “格莱兴”
  • Chinese: “格萊興”
  • Corsican: “Gleichen”
  • Croatian: “Gleichen”
  • Czech: “Gleichen”
  • Danish: “Gleichen”
  • Dutch: “Gleichen”
  • Esperanto: “Gleichen”
  • Estonian: “Gleichen”
  • Finnish: “Gleichen”
  • French: “Gleichen”
  • Friulian: “Gleichen”
  • Galician: “Gleichen”
  • German: “Gleichen”
  • Hungarian: “Gleichen”
  • Icelandic: “Gleichen”
  • Ido: “Gleichen”
  • Indonesian: “Gleichen”
  • Interlingua: “Gleichen”
  • Interlingue: “Gleichen”
  • Irish: “Gleichen”
  • Italian: “Gleichen”
  • Japanese: “グライヒェン”
  • Kazakh: “Glaýxen”
  • Kazakh: “Глайхен”
  • Kazakh: “گلايحەن”
  • Kirghiz: “Глайхен”
  • Kongo: “Gleichen”
  • Ladin: “Gleichen”
  • Latin: “Gilicha”
  • Ligurian: “Gleichen”
  • Limburgan: “Gleichen”
  • Low German: “Gleichen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Gleichen”
  • Macedonian: “Глајхен”
  • Malagasy: “Gleichen”
  • Malay: “Gleichen, Lower Saxony”
  • Malay: “Gleichen”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gleichen”
  • Minangkabau: “Gleichen”
  • Narom: “Gleichen”
  • Neapolitan: “Gleichen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gleichen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gleichen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gleichen”
  • Persian: “گلایشن (نیدرزاکسن)”
  • Persian: “گلایشن”
  • Picard: “Gleichen”
  • Piemontese: “Gleichen”
  • Polish: “Gleichen”
  • Portuguese: “Gleichen”
  • Romanian: “Gleichen”
  • Romansh: “Gleichen”
  • Russian: “Глайхен”
  • Sardinian: “Gleichen”
  • Scots: “Gleichen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Gleichen”
  • Serbian: “Glajhen”
  • Serbian: “Gleichen”
  • Serbian: “Глајхен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gleichen”
  • Sicilian: “Gleichen”
  • Slovak: “Gleichen”
  • Slovenian: “Gleichen”
  • Spanish: “Gleichen”
  • Swahili: “Gleichen”
  • Swedish: “Gleichen, Niedersachsen”
  • Swedish: “Gleichen”
  • Swiss German: “Gleichen”
  • Tatar: “Глайхен”
  • Turkish: “Gleichen”
  • Ukrainian: “Гляйхен”
  • Uzbek: “Gleichen”
  • Uzbek: “Глеичен”
  • Venetian: “Gleichen”
  • Vietnamese: “Gleichen, Göttingen”
  • Vietnamese: “Gleichen”
  • Vlaams: “Gleichen”
  • Volapük: “Gleichen”
  • Walloon: “Gleichen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gleichen, Lower Saxony”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gleichen”
  • Welsh: “Gleichen”
  • Wolof: “Gleichen”
  • Zulu: “Gleichen”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Neue Gleichen and Alte Gleichen.

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