Germany
Saxony
Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge

Tharandt

Tharandt is a municipality in , , situated on the , 13 km southwest of . It has a Protestant Church and the oldest academy of forestry in Germany, founded as the Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry by Heinrich Cotta in 1811, together with its arboretum, the .
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  • Type: Town with 5,700 residents
  • Description: municipality in Saxony, Germany
  • Also known as: “14628400” and “Stadt Tharandt”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tharandt station and Forstbotanischer Garten Tharandt.

Railway station
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is a station on the Dresden–Werdau railway in the town of Tharandt in the German state of . Until the electrification of the line in 1966, Tharandt was an important stopover for the attachment of bank engines for operations on the Steil ramp up to .

Park
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The , also known as the Sächsisches Landesarboretum, is an arboretum maintained by the Dresden University of Technology.

Castle
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is a castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Freital and Rabenau.

Photo: Ubahnverleih, CC0.
is a town in the Elbe Valley region of . One of the major centers of coal-mining, preserves late 19th-century buildings and some technical landmarks, including the historical narrow-gauge railway Weißeritztalbahn.

Town
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is a town in the district, in the Free State of Saxony, . It is situated 8 kilometres north of , and 12 kilometres southwest of . is situated 5 km southeast of Tharandt.

Village
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is a municipality in the district, in , . is situated 6 km south of Tharandt.

Tharandt

Latitude
50.9853° or 50° 59′ 7″ north
Longitude
13.5795° or 13° 34′ 46″ east
Population
5,700
Elevation
410 metres (1,345 feet)
Open location code
9F2MXHPH+4Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30226976
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6550831
Wiki­data ID
Q8245
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Tharandt” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تارانت”
  • Bashkir: “Тарандт”
  • Basque: “Tharandt”
  • Catalan: “Tharandt”
  • Cebuano: “Tharandt”
  • Chechen: “Тарандт”
  • Chinese: “塔兰特”
  • Czech: “Tharandt”
  • Danish: “Tharandt”
  • Dutch: “Tharandt”
  • Esperanto: “Tharandt”
  • Estonian: “Tharandt”
  • French: “Tharandt”
  • German: “Tharand”
  • German: “Tharandt”
  • Hungarian: “Tharandt”
  • Irish: “Tharandt”
  • Italian: “Tharandt”
  • Japanese: “タラント”
  • Kurdish: “Tharandt”
  • Ladin: “Tharandt”
  • Latvian: “Tāranta”
  • Latvian: “Tārante”
  • Macedonian: “Тарант”
  • Malay: “Tharandt”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tharandt”
  • Norwegian: “Tharandt”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tharandt”
  • Persian: “تارانت”
  • Polish: “Tharandt”
  • Portuguese: “Tharandt”
  • Romanian: “Tharandt”
  • Russian: “Тарандт”
  • Serbian: “Тарандт”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tharandt”
  • Slovak: “Tharandt”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تارانت”
  • Spanish: “Tharandt”
  • Swedish: “Tharandt”
  • Tatar: “Тарандт”
  • Tumbuka: “Tharandt”
  • Ukrainian: “Тарандт”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Tharandt”
  • Uzbek: “Tharandt”
  • Vietnamese: “Tharandt”
  • Volapük: “Tharandt”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tharandt”

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