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Wissen

Wissen is a town in the , in , . It is situated on the river , approximately 12 km northeast of . Wissen is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Wissen.
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  • Type: Town with 8,300 residents
  • Description: town in Germany
  • Also known as: “07132117”, “Stadt Wissen”, and “Wissen (Sieg)”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wissen station and Kreuzerhöhungskirche.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Church
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is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Birken-Honigsessen and Etzbach.

Village
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is a municipality in the , in , . is situated 4 km north of Wissen.

Village
is a municipality in the , in , . is situated 3½ km west of Wissen.

Village
Photo: STYX69, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a municipality in the , in , .

Wissen

Latitude
50.7829° or 50° 46′ 59″ north
Longitude
7.7345° or 7° 44′ 4″ east
Population
8,300
Elevation
160 metres (525 feet)
Open location code
9F29QPMM+5Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240077382
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6557854
Wiki­data ID
Q26364
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Wissen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Wissen”
  • Arabic: “فيسن”
  • Arabic: “ويسن”
  • Aragonese: “Wissen”
  • Arpitan: “Wissen”
  • Asturian: “Wissen”
  • Basque: “Wissen”
  • Bavarian: “Wissen”
  • Breton: “Wissen”
  • Catalan: “Wissen”
  • Cebuano: “Wissen”
  • Chechen: “Виссен (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Виссен”
  • Chinese: “維森”
  • Chinese: “维森”
  • Corsican: “Wissen”
  • Croatian: “Wissen”
  • Czech: “Wissen”
  • Danish: “Wissen”
  • Dutch: “Wissen”
  • Esperanto: “Komunumaro Wissen”
  • Esperanto: “Verbandsgemeinde Wissen”
  • Esperanto: “Wissen”
  • Estonian: “Wissen”
  • Finnish: “Wissen”
  • French: “Wissen”
  • Friulian: “Wissen”
  • Galician: “Wissen”
  • German: “Wissen an der Sieg”
  • German: “Wissen”
  • German: “Wissen/Sieg”
  • Hungarian: “Wissen”
  • Icelandic: “Wissen”
  • Ido: “Wissen”
  • Indonesian: “Wissen”
  • Interlingua: “Wissen”
  • Interlingue: “Wissen”
  • Irish: “Wissen”
  • Italian: “Wissen”
  • Japanese: “ヴィッセン”
  • Kazakh: “Виссен”
  • Kirghiz: “Виссен”
  • Kongo: “Wissen”
  • Kurdish: “Wissen”
  • Ladin: “Wissen”
  • Ligurian: “Wissen”
  • Limburgan: “Wissen”
  • Low German: “Wissen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wissen”
  • Malagasy: “Wissen”
  • Malay: “Wissen”
  • Minangkabau: “Wissen”
  • Narom: “Wissen”
  • Neapolitan: “Wissen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wissen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wissen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Wissen”
  • Persian: “ویسن”
  • Picard: “Wissen”
  • Piemontese: “Wissen”
  • Polish: “Wissen”
  • Portuguese: “Wissen”
  • Romanian: “Wissen”
  • Romansh: “Wissen”
  • Russian: “Виссен (город)”
  • Russian: “Виссен”
  • Russian: “город Виссен”
  • Sardinian: “Wissen”
  • Scots: “Wissen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Wissen”
  • Serbian: “Wissen”
  • Serbian: “Висен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wissen”
  • Sicilian: “Wissen”
  • Slovak: “Wissen”
  • Slovenian: “Wissen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ویسن”
  • Spanish: “Wissen”
  • Swahili: “Wissen”
  • Swedish: “Wissen”
  • Swiss German: “Wissen”
  • Tatar: “Виссен (шәһәр)”
  • Tatar: “Виссен”
  • Tumbuka: “Wissen”
  • Turkish: “Wissen”
  • Ukrainian: “Віссен”
  • Uzbek: “Wissen”
  • Venetian: “Wissen”
  • Vietnamese: “Wissen”
  • Vlaams: “Wissen”
  • Volapük: “Wissen”
  • Walloon: “Wissen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wissen”
  • Welsh: “Wissen”
  • Wolof: “Wissen”
  • Zulu: “Wissen”

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