Germany
Rhineland-Palatinate
Donnersbergkreis

Falkenstein

Falkenstein is a municipality in the district, in , . The castle was the seat of the Counts of Falkenstein.
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  • Type: Village with 178 residents
  • Description: municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
  • Also known as: “07333020” and “Falkenstein, Rhineland-Palatinate”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Falkenstein Castle and Hohenfels Castle.

Castle
Photo: Vaticarsten, CC BY-SA 2.0 de.
is a ruined hill castle dating to the Middle Ages. It is situated above the eponymous village of Falkenstein on the , the highest point in the Palatinate region, which rises within the German state of .

Castle
Photo: Holger Labus, Public domain.
is a ruined hill castle at a height of 545 m above sea level, in the Beutelfels Nature Reserve north of the village of in the county of in the German state of .

Peak
Photo: Kolling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is the highest peak of the region of . The mountain lies between the towns of and , in the district, which is named after the mountain. is situated 3½ km northeast of Falkenstein.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Winnweiler and Imsbach.

Village
Photo: Awilms, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the , in , . It is situated on the upper course of the river Alsenz, approx. is situated 4½ km south of Falkenstein.

Village
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is a municipality in the district, in , .

Village
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is a municipality in the district, in , . is situated 4 km southwest of Falkenstein.

Falkenstein

Latitude
49.6079° or 49° 36′ 29″ north
Longitude
7.8741° or 7° 52′ 27″ east
Population
178
Elevation
362 metres (1,188 feet)
Open location code
8FX9JV5F+5J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240084960
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6554943
Wiki­data ID
Q818576
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Falkenstein” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Falkenstein”
  • Aragonese: “Falkenstein”
  • Arpitan: “Falkenstein”
  • Asturian: “Falkenstein”
  • Basque: “Falkenstein”
  • Bavarian: “Falkenstein”
  • Breton: “Falkenstein”
  • Bulgarian: “Фалкенщайн”
  • Catalan: “Falkenstein”
  • Cebuano: “Falkenstein”
  • Chechen: “Фалькенштайн”
  • Chinese: “Falkenstein”
  • Chinese: “法尔肯施泰因”
  • Corsican: “Falkenstein”
  • Croatian: “Falkenstein”
  • Czech: “Falkenstein”
  • Danish: “Falkenstein”
  • Dutch: “Falkenstein”
  • Esperanto: “Falkenstein”
  • Estonian: “Falkenstein”
  • Finnish: “Falkenstein”
  • French: “Falkenstein (Palatinat)”
  • French: “Falkenstein”
  • Friulian: “Falkenstein”
  • Galician: “Falkenstein, Renania-Palatinado”
  • Galician: “Falkenstein”
  • German: “Falkenstein (Pfalz)”
  • German: “Falkenstein”
  • Hungarian: “Falkenstein”
  • Icelandic: “Falkenstein”
  • Ido: “Falkenstein”
  • Indonesian: “Falkenstein, Rheinland-Pfalz”
  • Indonesian: “Falkenstein”
  • Interlingua: “Falkenstein”
  • Interlingue: “Falkenstein”
  • Irish: “Falkenstein”
  • Italian: “Falkenstein”
  • Japanese: “ファルケンシュタイン (ラインラント＝プファルツ)”
  • Kazakh: “Falʹkenştaýn”
  • Kazakh: “Фалькенштайн”
  • Kazakh: “فالكەنشتاين”
  • Kirghiz: “Фалькенштайн”
  • Kongo: “Falkenstein”
  • Kurdish: “Falkenstein, Rheinland-Pfalz”
  • Ladin: “Falkenstein (Pfalz)”
  • Ladin: “Falkenstein”
  • Ligurian: “Falkenstein”
  • Limburgan: “Falkenstein”
  • Low German: “Falkenstein”
  • Luxembourgish: “Falkenstein”
  • Malagasy: “Falkenstein”
  • Malay: “Falkenstein, Rhineland-Palatinate”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Falkenstein (Rheinland-Pfalz)”
  • Minangkabau: “Falkenstein”
  • Narom: “Falkenstein”
  • Neapolitan: “Falkenstein”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Falkenstein”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Falkenstein”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Falkenstein”
  • Persian: “فالکنشتاین (راینلاند-فالتس)”
  • Persian: “فالکنشتاین”
  • Picard: “Falkenstein”
  • Piemontese: “Falkenstein”
  • Polish: “Falkenstein”
  • Portuguese: “Falkenstein”
  • Romanian: “Falkenstein”
  • Romansh: “Falkenstein”
  • Russian: “Фалькенштайн”
  • Sardinian: “Falkenstein”
  • Scots: “Falkenstein”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Falkenstein”
  • Serbian: “Falkenštajn”
  • Serbian: “Фалкенштајн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Falkenstein”
  • Sicilian: “Falkenstein”
  • Slovak: “Falkenstein”
  • Slovenian: “Falkenstein”
  • Spanish: “Falkenstein”
  • Swahili: “Falkenstein”
  • Swedish: “Falkenstein, Rheinland-Pfalz”
  • Swedish: “Falkenstein”
  • Swiss German: “Falkenstein”
  • Tatar: “Фалькенштайн”
  • Ukrainian: “Фалькенштайн”
  • Urdu: “فالکینسٹین، رہینیلینڈ-پالاٹیناٹی”
  • Uzbek: “Falkenstein”
  • Uzbek: “Фалкенстеин”
  • Venetian: “Falkenstein”
  • Vietnamese: “Falkenstein, Donnersberg”
  • Vietnamese: “Falkenstein”
  • Vlaams: “Falkenstein”
  • Volapük: “Falkenstein”
  • Walloon: “Falkenstein”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Falkenstein, Rhineland-Palatinate”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Falkenstein”
  • Welsh: “Falkenstein”
  • Wolof: “Falkenstein”
  • Zulu: “Falkenstein”

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