Waakirchen
Waakirchen is a municipality in the district of Miesbach in Bavaria in Germany. At the end of World War II, Japanese American soldiers rescued concentration camp victims on a death march at this village.- Type: Village with 5,500 residents
- Description: municipality of Germany
- Also known as: “09182134”, “Schaftlach”, “Vakirxen”, and “Wаакирчен”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Heilig Kreuz and St. Martin.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gmund am Tegernsee and Greiling.
Gmund am Tegernsee
Village
Gmund am Tegernsee is a municipality in the district of Miesbach in Bavaria in Germany. Gmund am Tegernsee is situated 6 km southeast of Waakirchen.
Greiling
Village
Greiling is a municipality in the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen in Bavaria in Germany. Greiling is situated 5 km west of Waakirchen.
Waakirchen
- Categories: municipality without town privileges in Germany and locality
- Location: Miesbach, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.7726° or 47° 46′ 21″ north
Longitude
11.6728° or 11° 40′ 22″ east
Population
5,500
Elevation
786 metres (2,579 feet)
Open location code
8FVHQMFF+24
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Waakirchen” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فأكيرشن”
- Aragonese: “Waakirchen”
- Armenian: “Վակիրխեն”
- Basque: “Waakirchen”
- Catalan: “Waakirchen”
- Cebuano: “Waakirchen (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Waakirchen”
- Chechen: “Вакирхен”
- Chinese: “瓦基兴”
- Chinese: “瓦基興”
- Danish: “Waakirchen”
- Dutch: “Waakirchen”
- Esperanto: “Waakirchen”
- French: “Waakirchen”
- German: “Waakirchen”
- Hungarian: “Waakirchen”
- Irish: “Waakirchen”
- Italian: “Waakirchen”
- Kurdish: “Waakirchen”
- Ladin: “Waakirchen”
- Lombard: “Waakirchen”
- Malay: “Waakirchen”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Waakirchen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Waakirchen”
- Persian: “واکیرشن”
- Polish: “Waakirchen”
- Portuguese: “Waakirchen”
- Romanian: “Waakirchen”
- Russian: “Вакирхен”
- Serbian: “Vakirhen”
- Serbian: “Вакирхен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Waakirchen”
- Spanish: “Waakirchen”
- Swedish: “Waakirchen”
- Tatar: “Вакирхен”
- Turkish: “Waakirchen”
- Ukrainian: “Ваакірхен”
- Uzbek: “Waakirchen”
- Vietnamese: “Waakirchen”
- Volapük: “Waakirchen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Waakirchen”
- “Waakirchen”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Point and Hauserdörfl.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Lotto Stüberl Silczak and Oberländerdenkmal.
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