Westerburg

Westerburg is a small town of roughly 6,000 inhabitants in the in , Germany. The town is named after the castle built on a hill above the medieval town centre…
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  • Type: Town with 5,730 residents
  • Description: town of Westerwaldkreis, Germany
  • Also known as: “07143308” and “Stadt Westerburg”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Schloss Westerburg and Westerburg station.

Castle
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, first recorded in 1192, but probably built earlier, is situated in the town of Westerburg in the forested hills of the and is on the site of an older castle dating to the 12th century.

Railway station
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is a junction station on the currently closed Herborn–Montabaur railway and the still operated Limburg–Altenkirchen railway. It is in Westerburg in , in the German state of .

Grassland
The was an , dammed up in 1971, in the low mountain range. The lake covered about 80 hectares and lied in the area of 's various centres on the lake's west shore, and on the north shore in the . is situated 3½ km northeast of Westerburg.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kölbingen and Willmenrod.

Village
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is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the in , .

Village
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is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the in , .

Village
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is a municipality in district, , in western . People named "Hergenröther" may well have come from this town.

Westerburg

Latitude
50.5623° or 50° 33′ 44″ north
Longitude
7.9693° or 7° 58′ 10″ east
Population
5,730
Elevation
385 metres (1,263 feet)
Open location code
9F29HX69+WP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240034104
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6557895
Wiki­data ID
Q537491
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Westerburg” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فستربورغ”
  • Arabic: “وستربورغ”
  • Bulgarian: “Вестербург”
  • Catalan: “Leiningen-Westerburg”
  • Catalan: “Westerburg-Leiningen”
  • Catalan: “Westerburg”
  • Cebuano: “Westerburg”
  • Chechen: “Вестербург”
  • Chinese: “韋斯特堡”
  • Chinese: “韦斯特堡”
  • Czech: “Westerburg”
  • Danish: “Westerburg”
  • Dutch: “Westerburg”
  • Esperanto: “Westerburg”
  • French: “Westerburg”
  • German: “Westerburg”
  • Greek: “Βέστερμπουργκ”
  • Hungarian: “Westerburg”
  • Irish: “Westerburg”
  • Italian: “Westerburg”
  • Japanese: “ヴェスターブルク”
  • Kazakh: “Vesterbwrg”
  • Kazakh: “Вестербург”
  • Kazakh: “ۆەستەربۋرگ”
  • Kirghiz: “Вестербург”
  • Kurdish: “Westerburg”
  • Ladin: “Westerburg”
  • Malay: “Westerburg”
  • Persian: “وستربورگ”
  • Piemontese: “Westerburg”
  • Polish: “Westerburg”
  • Portuguese: “Westerburg”
  • Romanian: “Westerburg”
  • Russian: “Вестербург”
  • Serbian: “Vesterburg”
  • Serbian: “Westerburg”
  • Serbian: “Вестербург”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Westerburg”
  • Slovak: “Westerburg”
  • South Azerbaijani: “وستربورق”
  • Spanish: “Westerburg”
  • Swedish: “Westerburg”
  • Tatar: “Вестербург”
  • Tumbuka: “Westerburg”
  • Turkish: “Westerburg”
  • Ukrainian: “Вестербург”
  • Uzbek: “Vesterburg”
  • Uzbek: “Westerburg”
  • Uzbek: “Wестербург”
  • Uzbek: “Вестербург”
  • Volapük: “Westerburg”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Westerburg”
  • Western Frisian: “Westerburg”

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