Hochtaunuskreis
The Hochtaunuskreis is a Kreis in the middle of Hesse, Germany and is part of the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region. Neighbouring districts are Lahn-Dill, Wetteraukreis, district-free Frankfurt, Main-Taunus-Kreis, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, Limburg-Weilburg.Places of Interest
Highlights: Kolbenberg and Bleibeskopf.
Bleibeskopf
Peak
Photo: Leipold, Marc, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Neu-Anspach and Fuchstanz.
Hochtaunuskreis
- Categories: rural district of Hesse, Option municipality, and locality
- Location: South Hesse, Hesse, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.2431° or 50° 14′ 35″ north
Longitude
8.5093° or 8° 30′ 33″ east
Population
242,000
Elevation
385 metres (1,263 feet)
Open location code
9F2C6GV5+7P
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Hochtaunuskreis” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Arabic: “هوختاونوسكرايس”
- Aragonese: “Districto de Hochtaunus”
- Armenian: “Վերին Տաունուս”
- Azerbaijani: “Yuxarı Taunus”
- Basque: “Hochtaunus barrutia”
- Bavarian: “Hochtaunuskroas”
- Belarusian: “Верхні Таўнус”
- Belarusian: “раён Верхні Таўнус”
- Catalan: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Cebuano: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Chinese: “上陶努斯县”
- Chinese: “上陶努斯縣”
- Croatian: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Czech: “Zemský okres Vysoký Taunus”
- Danish: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Dutch: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Hochtaunus”
- Finnish: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- French: “arrondissement du Haut-Taunus”
- French: “Arrondissement du Haut-Taunus”
- Galician: “Distrito do Alto Taunus”
- Georgian: “ზემო ტაუნუსის რაიონი”
- German: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Hakka Chinese: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Hebrew: “מחוז הוכטאונוס”
- Hungarian: “Hochtaunus járás”
- Indonesian: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Interlingue: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Italian: “circondario dell’Alto Taunus”
- Italian: “Circondario dell’Alto Taunus”
- Japanese: “ホーホタウヌス郡”
- Kazakh: “Жоғарғы Таунус”
- Korean: “호흐타우누스군”
- Kurdish: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Ladin: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Low German: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Macedonian: “Горен Таунус (округ)”
- Macedonian: “Горен Таунус”
- Malay: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Manx: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Northern Frisian: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Norwegian: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Persian: “هختاونوسكرايس”
- Persian: “هختاونوسکرایس”
- Polish: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Polish: “Powiat Hochtaunus”
- Portuguese: “Distrito do Alto Taunus”
- Portuguese: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Romanian: “Districtul Hochtaunus”
- Romanian: “Districtul Hochtaunuskreis”
- Russian: “Верхний Таунус”
- Saterfriesisch: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Slovenian: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Spanish: “Distrito del Alto Taunus”
- Swedish: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Turkish: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Ukrainian: “Верхній Таунус”
- Urdu: “ہوخ ٹاؤنس کرائس”
- Uzbek: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Vietnamese: “Hochtaunus”
- Vietnamese: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Western Frisian: “Hochtaunuskreis”
- Western Panjabi: “ہوختاؤنسکریس”
- “Hochtaunuskreis”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Kreuzwege and Mathkreuz.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Limesturm WP 3/55 and Klingenkopf.
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