Geisa
Geisa is a town in the Wartburgkreis district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated in the Rhön Mountains, 26 km northeast of Fulda. The near border with Hesse was the border between West Germany and the GDR during the Cold War.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 4,700 residents
- Description: municipality of Germany
- Also known as: “16063032”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Observation Post Alpha and Schloss Geisa.
Observation Post Alpha
Museum
Photo: Michael Sander, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Observation Post Alpha, OP Alpha, or Point Alpha was a Cold War observation post between Rasdorf, Hesse, West Germany and Geisa, Thuringia, East Germany.
Kulturhaus Geisa
Community center
Photo: Michael Sander, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kulturhaus Geisa is a community center.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Schleid and Buttlar.
Schleid
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Schleid is a municipality in the Wartburgkreis district of Thuringia, Germany.
Buttlar
Town
Photo: 2micha, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Buttlar is a municipality in the Wartburgkreis district of Thuringia, Germany. Buttlar is situated 4½ km north of Geisa.
Geisa
- Categories: urban municipality in Germany and locality
- Location: Wartburgkreis, Thuringia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.7145° or 50° 42′ 52″ northLongitude
9.9499° or 9° 56′ 60″ eastPopulation
4,700Elevation
318 metres (1,043 feet)Open location code
9F2FPW7X+QWOpenStreetMap ID
node 1674690998OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6550965Wikidata ID
Q539040
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Geisa” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Geisa”
- Arabic: “غايزا”
- Aragonese: “Geisa”
- Arpitan: “Geisa”
- Asturian: “Geisa”
- Bashkir: “Гайза”
- Basque: “Geisa”
- Bavarian: “Geisa”
- Belarusian: “Гайза”
- Breton: “Geisa”
- Catalan: “Geisa”
- Cebuano: “Geisa”
- Chechen: “Гайза”
- Chinese: “盖萨”
- Chinese: “蓋薩”
- Corsican: “Geisa”
- Croatian: “Geisa”
- Czech: “Geisa”
- Danish: “Geisa”
- Dutch: “Geisa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جايزا”
- Esperanto: “Geisa”
- Estonian: “Geisa”
- Finnish: “Geisa”
- French: “Geisa”
- Friulian: “Geisa”
- Galician: “Geisa”
- German: “Geisa”
- Hungarian: “Geisa”
- Icelandic: “Geisa”
- Ido: “Geisa”
- Indonesian: “Geisa”
- Interlingua: “Geisa”
- Interlingue: “Geisa”
- Irish: “Geisa”
- Italian: “Geisa”
- Japanese: “ガイザ”
- Kongo: “Geisa”
- Kurdish: “Geisa”
- Ladin: “Geisa”
- Ligurian: “Geisa”
- Limburgan: “Geisa”
- Low German: “Geisa”
- Luxembourgish: “Geisa”
- Macedonian: “Гајза”
- Malagasy: “Geisa”
- Malay: “Geisa”
- Minangkabau: “Geisa”
- Narom: “Geisa”
- Neapolitan: “Geisa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Geisa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Geisa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Geisa”
- Persian: “گایزا”
- Picard: “Geisa”
- Piemontese: “Geisa”
- Polish: “Geisa”
- Portuguese: “Geisa”
- Romanian: “Geisa”
- Romansh: “Geisa”
- Russian: “Гайза”
- Sardinian: “Geisa”
- Scots: “Geisa”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Geisa”
- Serbian: “Gajza”
- Serbian: “Geisa”
- Serbian: “Гајза”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Geisa”
- Sicilian: “Geisa”
- Slovak: “Geisa”
- Slovenian: “Geisa”
- South Azerbaijani: “قایزا”
- Spanish: “Geisa”
- Swahili: “Geisa”
- Swedish: “Geisa”
- Swiss German: “Geisa”
- Tatar: “Гайза”
- Tumbuka: “Geisa”
- Turkish: “Geisa”
- Ukrainian: “Гайза”
- Uzbek: “Gayza”
- Uzbek: “Geisa”
- Uzbek: “Гайза”
- Uzbek: “Геиса”
- Venetian: “Geisa”
- Vietnamese: “Geisa”
- Vlaams: “Geisa”
- Volapük: “Geisa”
- Walloon: “Geisa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Geisa”
- Welsh: “Geisa”
- Wolof: “Geisa”
- Zulu: “Geisa”
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