Weißenberg
Weißenberg or Wóspork is a town in the district of Bautzen, in Saxony, in eastern Germany. The Upper Lusatian town has approximately 3,100 inhabitants and is part of the recognized Sorbian settlement area in Saxony.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 3,670 residents
- Description: municipality in Saxony
- Also known as: “14625610”, “Stadt Weißenberg”, “Weissenberg”, “Weißenberg - Wóspork”, “Wospork”, and “Wóspork”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Strohmberg and Gröditzer Skala.
Strohmberg
Peak
Photo: J budissin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Strohmberg is a mountain of Saxony, southeastern Germany In earlier times there was a Basalt quarry. Strahmberg is 264 metres above sea level and is situated east of Särka/Žarki, close to Kgl.-sächs. Postmeilenstein Särka.
Gröditzer Skala
Nature reserve
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Gröditzer Skala is a nature reserve.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hohendubrau and Gröditz.
Hohendubrau
Village
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Hohendubrau or Wysoka Dubrawa is a municipality in the district of Görlitz in eastern Saxony, Germany. The larger part of the municipality belongs to the recognized Sorbian settlement area in Saxony. Hohendubrau is situated 5 km north of Weißenberg.
Nostitz
Village
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Nostitz is a village and a former municipality in the federal state of Saxony in Germany. It was absorbed into the town Weißenberg in 1994. The Nostitz family is named after it. The theologian and author Adam Gottlob Schirach was born in Nostitz. Nostitz is situated 3½ km south of Weißenberg.
Weißenberg
- Categories: urban municipality in Germany and locality
- Location: Bautzen, Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
51.1968° or 51° 11′ 49″ northLongitude
14.6587° or 14° 39′ 31″ eastPopulation
3,670Elevation
196 metres (643 feet)Open location code
9F3P5MW5+PFOpenStreetMap ID
node 240059048OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6550797Wikidata ID
Q81753
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Weißenberg” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فايسنبرغ”
- Arabic: “وايسنبرغ (اوبرلواسزيتس)”
- Arabic: “وايسنبرغ”
- Bashkir: “Вайсенберг (Үрге Лужица)”
- Bashkir: “Вайсенберг”
- Basque: “Weißenberg”
- Bulgarian: “Вайсенберг”
- Catalan: “Weißenberg”
- Cebuano: “Weißenberg”
- Chechen: “Вайсенберг (Лакха Лужица)”
- Chechen: “Вайсенберг”
- Chinese: “魏森贝格”
- Czech: “Weißenberg”
- Czech: “Wóspork”
- Danish: “Weißenberg”
- Dutch: “Weißenberg”
- Esperanto: “Weißenberg”
- Estonian: “Weißenberg”
- French: “Weißenberg”
- German: “Weißenberg”
- German: “Wóspork”
- Hungarian: “Weißenberg”
- Irish: “Weißenberg”
- Italian: “Weißenberg”
- Kurdish: “Weißenberg”
- Ladin: “Weißenberg”
- Latvian: “Veisenberga”
- Lower Sorbian: “Weißenberg”
- Lower Sorbian: “Wóspork”
- Macedonian: “Вајсенберг”
- Malay: “Weißenberg”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Weißenberg”
- Persian: “وایسنبرگ”
- Polish: “Weißenberg”
- Portuguese: “Weißenberg”
- Romanian: “Weißenberg”
- Russian: “Вайсенберг”
- Serbian: “Вајсенберг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Weißenberg/Wóspork”
- Slovak: “Weißenberg”
- South Azerbaijani: “وایسنبرق”
- Spanish: “Weißenberg”
- Swedish: “Weißenberg, Tyskland”
- Swedish: “Weißenberg”
- Tatar: “Вайсенберг (Югары Лужица)”
- Tatar: “Вайсенберг”
- Turkish: “Weißenberg”
- Ukrainian: “Вайсенберг”
- Upper Sorbian: “Weißenberg”
- Upper Sorbian: “Wóspork”
- Uzbek: “Weißenberg”
- Vietnamese: “Weißenberg”
- Volapük: “Weißenberg”
- Waray (Philippines): “Weißenberg”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Alte Pfefferküchlerei and Kgl.-sächs. Postmeilenstein Museum.
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