Griesheim
Griesheim is the largest town of the district Darmstadt-Dieburg in southern Hesse, Germany. It has just over 28,000 inhabitants as of December 2023. Griesheim is known for being the location of the first German airfield, which was founded in 1908.
- Type: Locality with 29,300 residents
- Description: town in Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg in Hesse, Germany
- Also known as: “06432008”, “Griesheim, Hesse”, and “Stadt Griesheim”
- Neighbors: Darmstadt
Places of Interest
Highlights include Griesheim Airport and Griesheimer Bruch.
Griesheim Airport
Aerodrome
Griesheim Airport is a private airfield in Germany, located 1-mile southwest of Griesheim; approximately 270 miles southwest of Berlin. Formerly a NATO military airfield, it was closed in 1992.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Büttelborn and Braunshardt.
Büttelborn
Village
Griesheim
- Categories: town and urban municipality in Germany
- Location: Darmstadt-Dieburg, South Hesse, Hesse, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
49.8666° or 49° 51′ 60″ north
Longitude
8.555° or 8° 33′ 18″ east
Population
29,300
Elevation
96 metres (315 feet)
Open location code
8FXCVH84+J2
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Griesheim” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Griesheim”
- Arabic: “غريسهايم”
- Aragonese: “Griesheim”
- Arpitan: “Griesheim”
- Asturian: “Griesheim”
- Basque: “Griesheim”
- Bavarian: “Griesheim”
- Belarusian: “Горад Грысхайм”
- Belarusian: “Грысгайм”
- Belarusian: “Грысхайм”
- Breton: “Griesheim”
- Catalan: “Griesheim”
- Cebuano: “Griesheim (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Griesheim”
- Chechen: “Грисхайм”
- Chinese: “格里斯海姆”
- Corsican: “Griesheim”
- Croatian: “Griesheim”
- Czech: “Griesheim”
- Danish: “Griesheim”
- Dutch: “Griesheim”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جريسهايم”
- Esperanto: “Griesheim”
- Estonian: “Griesheim”
- Finnish: “Griesheim”
- French: “Griesheim”
- Friulian: “Griesheim”
- Galician: “Griesheim”
- German: “Griesheim”
- German: “Zwiebelmarkt Griesheim”
- Greek: “Γκρίσχαϊμ”
- Hungarian: “Griesheim”
- Icelandic: “Griesheim”
- Ido: “Griesheim”
- Indonesian: “Griesheim”
- Interlingua: “Griesheim”
- Interlingue: “Griesheim”
- Irish: “Griesheim”
- Italian: “Griesheim”
- Japanese: “グリースハイム”
- Kongo: “Griesheim”
- Kurdish: “Griesheim”
- Ladin: “Griesheim”
- Ligurian: “Griesheim”
- Limburgan: “Griesheim”
- Low German: “Griesheim”
- Luxembourgish: “Griesheim”
- Malagasy: “Griesheim”
- Malay: “Griesheim”
- Minangkabau: “Griesheim”
- Narom: “Griesheim”
- Neapolitan: “Griesheim”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Griesheim”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Griesheim”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Griesheim”
- Persian: “گریزهایم”
- Persian: “گریسهایم”
- Picard: “Griesheim”
- Piemontese: “Griesheim”
- Polish: “Griesheim”
- Portuguese: “Griesheim”
- Romanian: “Griesheim”
- Romansh: “Griesheim”
- Russian: “Грисхайм”
- Sardinian: “Griesheim”
- Scots: “Griesheim”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Griesheim”
- Serbian: “Griesheim”
- Serbian: “Grishajm”
- Serbian: “Грисхајм”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Griesheim”
- Sicilian: “Griesheim”
- Slovak: “Griesheim”
- Slovenian: “Griesheim”
- South Azerbaijani: “قریزهایم”
- Spanish: “Griesheim”
- Swahili: “Griesheim”
- Swedish: “Griesheim”
- Swiss German: “Griesheim”
- Tatar: “Грисхайм”
- Turkish: “Griesheim”
- Ukrainian: “Грісгайм”
- Urdu: “گریشیم، ہیسے”
- Uzbek: “Griesheim”
- Uzbek: “Grisxaym”
- Uzbek: “Гриешеим”
- Uzbek: “Грисхайм”
- Venetian: “Griesheim”
- Vietnamese: “Griesheim”
- Vlaams: “Griesheim”
- Volapük: “Griesheim”
- Walloon: “Griesheim”
- Waray (Philippines): “Griesheim”
- Welsh: “Griesheim”
- Wolof: “Griesheim”
- Zulu: “Griesheim”
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