Schwangau

Schwangau is a municipality in the district of in , Germany. The village lies 4 km from the larger town of and just 1.5 km from , a collection of tourist-oriented facilities adjacent to the major tourist attractions of and .
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  • Type: Locality with 3,260 residents
  • Description: municipality in the district of Ostallgäu, Bavaria, Germany
  • Also known as: “09777169”
  • Neighbors: and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Neuschwanstein Castle and Hohenschwangau Castle.

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is a 19th-century historicist palace on a rugged hill of the foothills of the in the very south of Germany, near the border with .

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is a 19th-century palace in southern Germany. It was built by King Maximilian II of Bavaria, and was the childhood residence of his son, King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

Peak
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or Saulingspitze is a twin-peak mountain in the German , though part of the mountain is in . The two summits have heights of 2,047 metres and 2,038 metres. It is located near the town of and the castle Neuschwanstein.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Füssen and Pinswang.

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in is an enchanting town in the south of , known for the Hohes Schloss and its Basilica and former Benedictine monastery of St Mang.

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is a picturesque historic Alpine village in the Austrian Ausserfern region of the northern Tirol. It lies on the border with the Allgäu region of Bavaria .

Village
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is a former village and now an urban district of the municipality of Schwangau, district, , . It is located between Schloss Neuschwanstein and Schloss , and is visited by about two million people annually, where they start tours to the former royal palaces.

Schwangau

Latitude
47.5604° or 47° 33′ 37″ north
Longitude
10.7721° or 10° 46′ 20″ east
Population
3,260
Elevation
1,532 metres (5,026 feet)
Open location code
8FVGHQ6C+5R
Geo­Names ID
6557229
Wiki­data ID
Q256547
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Western Panjabi—“Schwangau” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Շվանգաու”
  • Basque: “Schwangau”
  • Bavarian: “Schwangau”
  • Belarusian: “Швангау”
  • Catalan: “Schwangau”
  • Cebuano: “Schwangau”
  • Central Kurdish: “شڤانگاو”
  • Chechen: “Швангау”
  • Chinese: “Schwangau”
  • Chinese: “施万高”
  • Chinese: “施旺高”
  • Czech: “Schwangau”
  • Danish: “Schwangau”
  • Dutch: “Schwangau”
  • Esperanto: “Schwangau”
  • French: “Schwangau”
  • German: “Schwangau”
  • Greek: “Σβάνγκαου”
  • Hebrew: “שוואנגאו”
  • Hungarian: “Schwangau”
  • Indonesian: “Schwangau”
  • Irish: “Schwangau”
  • Italian: “Schwangau”
  • Japanese: “シュヴァンガウ”
  • Kazakh: “Швангау”
  • Kirghiz: “Швангау”
  • Kurdish: “Schwangau”
  • Ladin: “Schwangau”
  • Lombard: “Schwangau”
  • Malay: “Schwangau”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Schwangau”
  • Mongolian: “Швангау”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Schwangau”
  • Norwegian: “Schwangau”
  • Persian: “شوانگائو”
  • Persian: “شوانگاو”
  • Polish: “Schwangau”
  • Portuguese: “Schwangau”
  • Pushto: “شوانګاو”
  • Romanian: “Schwangau”
  • Russian: “Швангау”
  • Serbian: “Швангау”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Schwangau”
  • Slovak: “Schwangau”
  • Slovenian: “Schwangau”
  • Spanish: “Schwangau”
  • Swedish: “Schwangau”
  • Swiss German: “Schwangau”
  • Tatar: “Швангау”
  • Thai: “ชวังเกา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Schwangau”
  • Turkish: “Schwangau”
  • Ukrainian: “Швангау”
  • Uzbek: “Schwangau”
  • Vietnamese: “Schwangau”
  • Volapük: “Schwangau”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Schwangau”
  • Western Panjabi: “شوانگاؤ”
  • “Schwangau”

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