Hesse
Giessen
Lahn-Dill-Kreis

Greifenstein

Greifenstein is a municipality in the in , . Its administrative seat is Beilstein. Greifenstein covers 67.43 km2 on the eastern slope of the range.
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  • Type: Municipality with 6,560 residents
  • Description: municipality in Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany
  • Also known as: “06532010”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Burg Beilstein and Ulmtalsperre.

Castle
Photo: Peter Eisenburger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a castle.

Reservoir
Photo: Wolkenkratzer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a reservoir.

Castle
Photo: SBT, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a levelled spur castle on the hill of Burgberg Lichtenstein, 315 m above sea level, near the Greifenstein village of Holzhausen on the old military High Road, that ran from Frankfurt via Wetzlar to Cologne.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hirschberg (Herborn).

Village
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is a village.

Greifenstein

Latitude
50.5951° or 50° 35′ 43″ north
Longitude
8.2584° or 8° 15′ 30″ east
Population
6,560
Elevation
351 metres (1,152 feet)
Open location code
9F2CH7W5+38
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9333782541
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­municipality
Geo­Names ID
6553222
Wiki­data ID
Q622167
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Waray—“Greifenstein” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Greifenstein”
  • Bulgarian: “Грайфенщайн”
  • Catalan: “Greifenstein”
  • Cebuano: “Greifenstein”
  • Chechen: “Грайфенштайн”
  • Chinese: “格賴芬施泰因”
  • Chinese: “格赖芬斯泰因”
  • Chinese: “格赖芬施泰因”
  • Czech: “Greifenstein”
  • Danish: “Greifenstein”
  • Dutch: “Greifenstein”
  • Esperanto: “Greifenstein”
  • French: “Greifenstein”
  • German: “Greifenstein”
  • Greek: “Γκράιφενσταϊν”
  • Hebrew: “גרייפנשטיין”
  • Hungarian: “Greifenstein”
  • Irish: “Greifenstein”
  • Italian: “Greifenstein”
  • Japanese: “グライフェンシュタイン”
  • Kurdish: “Greifenstein”
  • Ladin: “Greifenstein”
  • Malay: “Greifenstein”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Greifenstein”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Greifenstein”
  • Persian: “گرایفنشتاین”
  • Piemontese: “Greifenstein”
  • Polish: “Greifenstein”
  • Portuguese: “Greifenstein”
  • Romanian: “Greifenstein”
  • Russian: “Грайфенштайн”
  • Serbian: “Grajfenštajn”
  • Serbian: “Greifenstein”
  • Serbian: “Грајфенштајн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Greifenstein”
  • Spanish: “Greifenstein”
  • Swedish: “Greifenstein, Hessen”
  • Swedish: “Greifenstein”
  • Tatar: “Грайфенштайн”
  • Turkish: “Greifenstein”
  • Ukrainian: “Грайфенштайн”
  • Uzbek: “Greifenstein”
  • Uzbek: “Греифенстеин”
  • Volapük: “Greifenstein”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Greifenstein”

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