Wacken
Wacken is a municipality near the town of Itzehoe in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Wacken was first mentioned in 1148, but there were probably some settlements before, which is proven by the trove of Germanic artefacts.Photo: Athanasius Soter, GFDL.
- Type: Locality with 2,100 residents
- Description: municipality of Germany
- Also known as: “01061107” and “Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vaale, Rugenbarg and Holy Spirit Church.
Wacken
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Waray—“Wacken” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Wacken”
- Bulgarian: “Вакен”
- Catalan: “Wacken”
- Cebuano: “Wacken (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Wacken”
- Chechen: “Ваккен”
- Chinese: “Wacken”
- Chinese: “瓦肯”
- Danish: “Wacken”
- Dutch: “Wacken”
- Esperanto: “Wacken”
- Estonian: “Wacken”
- Estonian: “Wackeni vald”
- French: “Wacken”
- German: “Wacken”
- Hungarian: “Wacken”
- Icelandic: “Wacken Open Air”
- Icelandic: “Wacken”
- Irish: “Wacken”
- Italian: “Wacken”
- Japanese: “ヴァッケン”
- Kazakh: “Vaken”
- Kazakh: “Вакен”
- Kazakh: “ۆاكەن”
- Kirghiz: “Вакен”
- Korean: “바켄”
- Ladin: “Wacken”
- Macedonian: “Вакен”
- Malay: “Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wacken (Schleswig-Holstein)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wacken”
- Persian: “واکن (شلسویگ-هولشتاین)”
- Persian: “واکن”
- Polish: “Wacken”
- Portuguese: “Wacken”
- Romanian: “Wacken”
- Russian: “Вакен”
- Russian: “Ваккен”
- Serbian: “Vaken”
- Serbian: “Wacken”
- Serbian: “Вакен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wacken”
- Spanish: “Wacken”
- Swedish: “Wacken”
- Tatar: “Ваккен”
- Turkish: “Wacken”
- Ukrainian: “Вакен”
- Uzbek: “Vaken”
- Uzbek: “Wacken”
- Uzbek: “Wаcкен”
- Uzbek: “Вакен”
- Vietnamese: “Wacken, Steinburg”
- Vietnamese: “Wacken”
- Volapük: “Wacken”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wacken”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Twischelberg and Reselith-Berg.
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