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Nossen

Nossen is a town in the district of Meissen, in , Germany. It is located 80 km southeast of Leipzig. The town is dominated by a large Renaissance castle. Nossen is best known for its proximity to a motorway junction where the A14 merges onto the A4.
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  • Type: Town with 6,340 residents
  • Description: town in the district of Meißen, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany
  • Also known as: “14627180” and “Stadt Nossen”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Altzella Abbey and Schloss Nossen.

Photo: Shelog, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also Altzelle Abbey, is a former Cistercian monastery near Nossen in , . The former abbey contains the tombs of the Wettin margraves of Meissen from 1190 to 1381.

Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Photo: Brücke-Osteuropa, CC0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Siebenlehn and Ilkendorf.

Village
Photo: Jwaller, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a district of the town in Landkreis Mittelsachsen. Until 2003 it was a separate town. Upon fusion with the neighbouring rural municipality Großschirma on 1 September 2003, the town privileges were transferred to the joint municipality.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 3½ km northeast of Nossen.

Village
Photo: Jwaller, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village, which is situated 4 km northeast of Nossen.

Nossen

Latitude
51.0566° or 51° 3′ 24″ north
Longitude
13.2981° or 13° 17′ 53″ east
Population
6,340
Elevation
268 metres (879 feet)
Open location code
9F3M374X+J6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29915939
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6550802
Wiki­data ID
Q8751
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Nossen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Nossen”
  • Arabic: “نزن”
  • Arabic: “نوسن”
  • Aragonese: “Nossen”
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  • Bashkir: “Носсен”
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  • Chechen: “Носсен”
  • Chinese: “诺森”
  • Chinese: “諾森”
  • Corsican: “Nossen”
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  • Italian: “Nossen”
  • Japanese: “ノッセン”
  • Kazakh: “Носсен”
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  • Kongo: “Nossen”
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  • Ladin: “Nossen”
  • Latvian: “Nosene”
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  • Macedonian: “Носен”
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  • Neapolitan: “Nossen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nossen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nossen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nossen”
  • Persian: “نزن”
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  • Russian: “Носсен”
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  • Serbian: “Носен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nossen”
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  • South Azerbaijani: “نزن”
  • Spanish: “Nossen”
  • Swahili: “Nossen”
  • Swedish: “Nossen, Tyskland”
  • Swedish: “Nossen”
  • Swiss German: “Nossen”
  • Tatar: “Носсен”
  • Tumbuka: “Nossen”
  • Ukrainian: “Носсен”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Nosyn”
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  • Waray (Philippines): “Nossen”
  • Welsh: “Nossen”
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  • Zulu: “Nossen”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Nossen”. Photo: Norbert Kaiser, CC BY-SA 3.0.