Wechselburg
Wechselburg is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. It is well known for its twelfth century Benedictine monastery, the Wechselburg Priory. The lordship and the castle were owned by the House of Schönburg from 1546 until 1945.- Type: Locality with 1,720 residents
- Description: municipality of Germany
- Also known as: “14522580”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Basilika Wechselburg and Rochlitzer Berg.
Rochlitzer Berg
Peak
Photo: Norbert Kaiser, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rochlitzer Berg is a mountain of volcanic origin in Saxony, southeastern Germany. It is situated south-west of the town of Rochlitz on the river Zwickauer Mulde.
St.-Otto-Kirche (Wechselburg)
Church
Photo: Kolossos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St.-Otto-Kirche (Wechselburg) is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lunzenau and Narsdorf.
Lunzenau
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lunzenau is a town in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Zwickauer Mulde, 16 km west of Mittweida, and 18 km northwest of Chemnitz. Lunzenau is situated 4½ km south of Wechselburg.
Narsdorf
Village
Photo: Jwaller, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Narsdorf is a former municipality in the Leipzig district, in Saxony, Germany. As of 1 July 2017 Narsdorf has been incorporated into Geithain. The villages of Ossa, and Rathendorf had been incorporated administratively into Narsdorf in 1996, while nearby Seifersdorf had already been incorporated in 1934 and Dölitzsch in 1973. Narsdorf is situated 4 km northwest of Wechselburg.
Rochlitz
Town
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Rochlitz is a major district town in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. Rochlitz is the head of the "municipal partnership Rochlitz" with its other members being the municipalities of Königsfeld, Seelitz and Zettlitz. Rochlitz is situated 6 km northeast of Wechselburg.
Wechselburg
- Category: municipality without town privileges in Germany
- Location: Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Bashkir to Waray—“Wechselburg” goes by many names.
- Bashkir: “Вексельбург”
- Bulgarian: “Векселбург”
- Catalan: “Wechselburg”
- Cebuano: “Wechselburg (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Wechselburg”
- Chechen: “Вехзельбург”
- Chinese: “韦克瑟尔堡”
- Czech: “Wechselburg”
- Dutch: “Wechselburg”
- Esperanto: “Wechselburg”
- Estonian: “Wechselburgi vald”
- French: “Wechselburg”
- German: “Wechselburg”
- Hungarian: “Wechselburg”
- Irish: “Wechselburg”
- Italian: “Wechselburg”
- Japanese: “ヴェクセルブルク”
- Ladin: “Wechselburg”
- Macedonian: “Векселбург”
- Malay: “Wechselburg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wechselburg”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Wechselburg”
- Persian: “واشزلبورگ”
- Polish: “Wechselburg”
- Portuguese: “Wechselburg”
- Romanian: “Wechselburg”
- Russian: “Вексельбург”
- Serbian: “Вехселбург”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wechselburg”
- Slovak: “Wechselburg”
- Spanish: “Wechselburg”
- Swedish: “Wechselburg”
- Tatar: “Вехзельбург”
- Turkish: “Wechselburg”
- Ukrainian: “Вексельбург”
- Uzbek: “Wechselburg”
- Vietnamese: “Wechselburg”
- Volapük: “Wechselburg”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wechselburg”
- “Wechselburg”
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