Daun
Daun is a town in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the district seat and also the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Daun.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 7,990 residents
- Description: municipality of Germany
- Also known as: “07233501”, “Daun, Germany”, and “Stadt Daun”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gemündener Maar and Weinfelder Maar.
Gemündener Maar
Lake
Photo: Wolkenkratzer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Gemündener Maar is the northernmost of the three Daun Maars. It lies in the immediate vicinity of the village of Gemünden and ca. 1.5 km south of Daun in the Eifel and in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Weinfelder Maar
Lake
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The Weinfelder Maar, also called the Totenmaar, is a maar around two kilometres southeast of the town of Daun in the Eifel Mountains, in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Volcano Museum, Daun
Museum
Photo: Wikimisch11, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Volcano Museum in the old district administrative office in Daun, Germany, was set up as an extension of the existing 'geopaths' at Hillesheim, Manderscheid and Gerolstein and is part of the Volcanic Eifel Nature and Geopark.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mehren and Schalkenmehren.
Mehren
Village
Photo: Dkvtig, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mehren is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Daun, whose seat is in the like-named town. Mehren is situated 4 km southeast of Daun.
Schalkenmehren
Village
Photo: AndreaHeck, CC BY 2.5.
Schalkenmehren is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Schalkenmehren is situated 4 km southeast of Daun.
Hörscheid
Village
Photo: Wolkenkratzer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hörscheid is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Daun, whose seat is in the like-named town. Hörscheid is situated 4 km northeast of Daun.
Daun
- Categories: urban municipality in Germany, district capital, spa town, and locality
- Location: Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.1962° or 50° 11′ 47″ northLongitude
6.8305° or 6° 49′ 50″ eastPopulation
7,990Elevation
401 metres (1,316 feet)Open location code
9F285RWJ+F6OpenStreetMap ID
node 240078162OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6557902Wikidata ID
Q161825
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Daun” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Daun”
- Arabic: “داون”
- Arabic: “دييون ألمانيا”
- Aragonese: “Daun”
- Arpitan: “Daun”
- Asturian: “Daun”
- Basque: “Daun”
- Bavarian: “Daun”
- Breton: “Daun”
- Catalan: “Daun”
- Cebuano: “Daun (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Daun”
- Chechen: “Даун (гӀала)”
- Chechen: “Даун”
- Chinese: “多因”
- Chinese: “道恩”
- Corsican: “Daun”
- Croatian: “Daun”
- Czech: “Daun”
- Danish: “Daun”
- Dutch: “Daun”
- Esperanto: “Daun”
- Estonian: “Daun”
- Finnish: “Daun”
- French: “Daun”
- Friulian: “Daun”
- Galician: “Daun”
- German: “Boverath”
- German: “Daun”
- German: “Pützborn”
- German: “Waldkönigen”
- Hebrew: “דאון”
- Hungarian: “Daun”
- Icelandic: “Daun”
- Ido: “Daun”
- Indonesian: “Daun, Jerman”
- Indonesian: “Daun”
- Interlingua: “Daun”
- Interlingue: “Daun”
- Irish: “Daun”
- Italian: “Daun”
- Japanese: “ダウン”
- Kazakh: “Dawn”
- Kazakh: “Даун”
- Kazakh: “داۋن”
- Kirghiz: “Даун”
- Kongo: “Daun”
- Kurdish: “Daun”
- Ladin: “Daun”
- Ligurian: “Daun”
- Limburgan: “Daun”
- Low German: “Daun”
- Luxembourgish: “Daun”
- Malagasy: “Daun”
- Malay: “Daun, Jerman”
- Malay: “Daun”
- Minangkabau: “Daun”
- Narom: “Daun”
- Neapolitan: “Daun”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Daun”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Daun”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Daun”
- Persian: “داون، آلمان”
- Persian: “دیئون، آلمان”
- Persian: “دیئون، المان”
- Picard: “Daun”
- Piemontese: “Daun”
- Polish: “Daun”
- Portuguese: “Daun”
- Romanian: “Daun”
- Romansh: “Daun”
- Russian: “Даун”
- Sardinian: “Daun”
- Scots: “Daun”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Daun”
- Serbian: “Daun”
- Serbian: “Даун”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Daun”
- Sicilian: “Daun”
- Slovak: “Daun”
- Slovenian: “Daun”
- South Azerbaijani: “داون، آلمان”
- Spanish: “Daun”
- Swahili: “Daun”
- Swedish: “Daun”
- Swiss German: “Daun”
- Tatar: “Даун (шәһәр)”
- Tatar: “Даун”
- Tumbuka: “Daun, Germany”
- Turkish: “Daun”
- Ukrainian: “Даун”
- Venetian: “Daun”
- Vietnamese: “Daun, Vulkaneifel”
- Vietnamese: “Daun”
- Vlaams: “Daun”
- Volapük: “Daun”
- Walloon: “Daun”
- Waray (Philippines): “Daun, Germany”
- Waray (Philippines): “Daun”
- Welsh: “Daun”
- Wolof: “Daun”
- Zulu: “Daun”
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