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Großschönau

Großschönau is a municipality in the district , in , located in the cross-border region with the . It used to be a famous center of Damask fabric production until the end of the 1980s.
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  • Type: Village with 5,160 residents
  • Description: municipality of Germany
  • Also known as: “14626140”, “Grossschoenau”, and “Großschönau, Saxony”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Varnsdorf railway station and Museum of motorcycles und Technology Großschönau.

Railway station
Photo: Homy, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Museum
Photo: P.H. Louw, CC BY 2.5 nl.

Museum
Photo: RoesslerP, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Varnsdorf and Hainewalde.

Town
Photo: VitVit, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town in the of the . It has about 15,000 inhabitants. It lies on the border with . is situated 3½ km northwest of Großschönau.

Village
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is a village in on the river , in the Bundesland of and the district , historically belonging to . The village is part of the administrative partnership Großschönau-Waltersdorf.

Town
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is a town in the district of , in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the border with the , and the Czech towns of and lie across the border to the north-east and south of the town. is situated 6 km northwest of Großschönau.

Großschönau

Latitude
50.8965° or 50° 53′ 48″ north
Longitude
14.6613° or 14° 39′ 41″ east
Population
5,160
Elevation
322 metres (1,056 feet)
Open location code
9F2PVMW6+JG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240092208
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6548674
Wiki­data ID
Q572527
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Großschönau” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Großschönau”
  • Aragonese: “Großschönau”
  • Arpitan: “Großschönau”
  • Asturian: “Großschönau”
  • Bashkir: “Гросшёнау”
  • Basque: “Großschönau”
  • Bavarian: “Großschönau”
  • Breton: “Großschönau”
  • Catalan: “Großschönau”
  • Chechen: “Гросшоьнау”
  • Chinese: “大舍瑙_(德国)”
  • Chinese: “大舍瑙”
  • Corsican: “Großschönau”
  • Croatian: “Großschönau”
  • Czech: “Großschönau”
  • Czech: “Velký Šenov”
  • Danish: “Großschönau”
  • Dutch: “Großschönau”
  • Esperanto: “Großschönau”
  • Estonian: “Großschönau (Saksimaa)”
  • Estonian: “Großschönau vald”
  • Finnish: “Großschönau”
  • French: “Großschönau”
  • Friulian: “Großschönau”
  • Galician: “Großschönau”
  • German: “Groß-Schönau”
  • German: “Großschönau Sachs”
  • German: “Grossschönau”
  • German: “Großschönau”
  • Hungarian: “Großschönau”
  • Icelandic: “Großschönau”
  • Ido: “Großschönau”
  • Indonesian: “Großschönau”
  • Interlingua: “Großschönau”
  • Interlingue: “Großschönau”
  • Irish: “Großschönau”
  • Italian: “Großschönau”
  • Kazakh: “Grosşyonaw”
  • Kazakh: “Гросшёнау”
  • Kazakh: “گروسشيوناۋ”
  • Kirghiz: “Гросшөнау”
  • Kongo: “Großschönau”
  • Ladin: “Großschönau”
  • Ligurian: “Großschönau”
  • Limburgan: “Großschönau”
  • Low German: “Großschönau”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Großschönau”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Wulki Šunow”
  • Luxembourgish: “Großschönau”
  • Macedonian: “Гросшенау”
  • Malagasy: “Großschönau”
  • Malay: “Großschönau, Saxony”
  • Malay: “Großschönau”
  • Minangkabau: “Großschönau”
  • Narom: “Großschönau”
  • Neapolitan: “Großschönau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Großschönau”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Großschönau”
  • Norwegian: “Großschönau”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Großschönau”
  • Persian: “گروسشوناو (زاکسونی)”
  • Persian: “گروسشوناو”
  • Picard: “Großschönau”
  • Piemontese: “Großschönau”
  • Polish: “Großschönau”
  • Portuguese: “Großschönau”
  • Romanian: “Grossschonau”
  • Romanian: “Großschönau”
  • Romansh: “Großschönau”
  • Russian: “Гросшенау”
  • Russian: “Гросшёнау”
  • Sardinian: “Großschönau”
  • Scots: “Großschönau”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Großschönau”
  • Serbian: “Grosšenau”
  • Serbian: “Großschönau”
  • Serbian: “Гросшенау”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Großschönau”
  • Sicilian: “Großschönau”
  • Slovak: “Großschönau”
  • Slovenian: “Großschönau”
  • Spanish: “Großschönau”
  • Swahili: “Großschönau”
  • Swedish: “Großschönau, Sachsen”
  • Swedish: “Großschönau”
  • Swiss German: “Großschönau”
  • Tatar: “Гросшёнау”
  • Turkish: “Großschönau”
  • Ukrainian: “Гросшенау”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Großschönau”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Wulki Šunow”
  • Uzbek: “Grossschonau”
  • Uzbek: “Großschönau”
  • Uzbek: “Гроßсчöнау”
  • Venetian: “Großschönau”
  • Vietnamese: “Großschönau”
  • Vlaams: “Großschönau”
  • Volapük: “Großschönau”
  • Walloon: “Großschönau”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Großschönau, Saxony”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Großschönau”
  • Welsh: “Großschönau”
  • Wolof: “Großschönau”
  • Zulu: “Großschönau”

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