Forst
Forst or Baršć is a town in Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, in eastern Germany. It lies east of Cottbus, on the Lusatian Neisse river which is also the German-Polish border.- Type: Town with 19,100 residents
- Description: town in Spree-Neiße District, Brandenburg, Germany
- Also known as: “12071076”, “Baršć”, “Forst (Lausitz)”, “Forst/Lausitz”, and “Stadt Forst (Lausitz)”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Forst station and Brandenburg Textile Museum Forst (Lausitz).
Forst station
Railway station
Forst /Baršć is a border railway station located in Forst, Germany. The station is located on the Cottbus–Forst railway and the former Forst–Guben and Weißwasser–Forst railway lines.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zasieki and Brożek.
Zasieki
Village
Zasieki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Brody, within Żary County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland, on the border with Germany.
Brożek
Village
Brożek is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Brody, within Żary County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland, close to the German border. Brożek is situated 3½ km southeast of Forst.
Janiszowice
Village
Janiszowice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Brody, within Żary County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland, close to the German border. Janiszowice is situated 3½ km north of Forst.
Forst
- Categories: urban municipality in Germany, border city, town divided by border, district capital, and locality
- Location: Spree-Neiße, Brandenburg, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
51.7439° or 51° 44′ 38″ north
Longitude
14.6455° or 14° 38′ 44″ east
Population
19,100
Elevation
73 metres (240 feet)
Open location code
9F3PPJVW+G6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Forst” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Arabic: “فورست”
- Aragonese: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Aragonese: “Forst”
- Armenian: “Ֆորսթ”
- Arpitan: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Asturian: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Basque: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Basque: “Forst”
- Bavarian: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Belarusian: “Форст (Лужыца)”
- Belarusian: “Форст”
- Breton: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Catalan: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Catalan: “Forst”
- Cebuano: “Forst”
- Chechen: “Форст (Лужица)”
- Chechen: “Форст”
- Chinese: “佛尔斯特”
- Chinese: “劳西茨地区福斯特”
- Corsican: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Croatian: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Czech: “Baršć”
- Czech: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Czech: “Forst/Lausitz”
- Czech: “Forst”
- Danish: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Danish: “Forst”
- Dutch: “Forst”
- Esperanto: “Forst”
- Estonian: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Finnish: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Finnish: “Forst”
- French: “Forst (Lusace)”
- French: “Forst”
- Friulian: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Galician: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- German: “Baršć”
- German: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- German: “Forst”
- German: “Forst/Lausitz”
- German: “Forsta”
- German: “Forste”
- Hebrew: “פורסט”
- Hungarian: “Forst”
- Icelandic: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Ido: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Indonesian: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Interlingua: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Interlingue: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Irish: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Italian: “Baršć”
- Italian: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Italian: “Forst/Lausitz”
- Italian: “Forst”
- Japanese: “フォルスト (ラウジッツ)”
- Japanese: “フォルスト”
- Kongo: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Korean: “포르스트”
- Kurdish: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Kurdish: “Forst”
- Ladin: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Ladin: “Forst”
- Latvian: “Forste (Lauzica)”
- Latvian: “Forste”
- Ligurian: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Limburgan: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Lithuanian: “Forstas (Lužica)”
- Lithuanian: “Forstas”
- Low German: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Lower Sorbian: “Baršć (Łužyca)”
- Lower Sorbian: “Baršć”
- Luxembourgish: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Macedonian: “Форст (Лужица)”
- Macedonian: “Форст”
- Malagasy: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Malay: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Malay: “Forst”
- Minangkabau: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Narom: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Neapolitan: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Forst”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Persian: “فرست”
- Picard: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Piemontese: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Polish: “Baršć (Łužyca)”
- Polish: “Barść (Łużyce)”
- Polish: “Baršć”
- Polish: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Polish: “Forst”
- Portuguese: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Portuguese: “Forst (Lusácia)”
- Portuguese: “Forst”
- Romanian: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Romanian: “Forst”
- Romansh: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Russian: “Форст (Лужица)”
- Russian: “Форст”
- Sardinian: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Scots: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Serbian: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Serbian: “Форст”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Forst”
- Sicilian: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Silesian: “Forst”
- Slovak: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Slovenian: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Spanish: “Forst (Lusacia)”
- Spanish: “Forst”
- Swahili: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Swedish: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Swedish: “Forst in der Lausitz”
- Swedish: “Forst”
- Swiss German: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Tatar: “Форст (Лужица)”
- Tatar: “Форст”
- Tumbuka: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Tumbuka: “Forst”
- Turkish: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Turkish: “Forst”
- Ukrainian: “Форст”
- Upper Sorbian: “Baršć”
- Upper Sorbian: “Forst”
- Urdu: “فورسٹ (لاوسیتز)”
- Urdu: “فورسٹ”
- Uzbek: “Forst”
- Uzbek: “Форст”
- Venetian: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Vietnamese: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Vietnamese: “Forst”
- Vlaams: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Volapük: “Forst”
- Walloon: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Forst”
- Welsh: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Wolof: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- Zulu: “Forst (Lausitz)”
- “Forst (Lausitz) - Baršć (Łužyca)”
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