Waldkirch
Waldkirch is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located 15 kilometers northeast of Freiburg im Breisgau. While the English translation of its name is Forest Church, it is known as the "town of mechanical organs", where fairground organs played on the streets were long manufactured by such well-known firms as Carl Frei, Andreas Ruth and Son, and Wilhelm Bruder and Sons.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 21,100 residents
- Description: city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Also known as: “08316056” and “Stadt Waldkirch”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kastelburg and Elztalmuseum.
Kastelburg
Grassland
Photo: Thomas Berwing, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Kastelburg is a ruined castle above Waldkirch in the district Emmendingen in Baden-Württemberg. It stands on a hill about 100 meters above the center of Waldkirch in Breisgau.
Schwarzenburg
Castle
The Schwarzenburg, historically called Schwarzenberg, is a castle near Waldkirch in the district Emmendingen in the southwest of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gutach im Breisgau and Glottertal.
Gutach im Breisgau
Village
Photo: Jdsteakley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gutach im Breisgau is a municipality in the district of Emmendingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Gutach includes six villages:…
Glottertal
Village
Photo: Pischdi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Glottertal is a municipality in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. Glottertal is situated 5 km south of Waldkirch.
Denzlingen
Town
Photo: Sjaak Kempe, CC BY 2.0.
Denzlingen is a municipality in the district of Emmendingen, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 8 kilometres north of Freiburg. Denzlingen is situated 6 km southwest of Waldkirch.
Waldkirch
Latitude
48.0939° or 48° 5′ 38″ northLongitude
7.961° or 7° 57′ 40″ eastPopulation
21,100Elevation
264 metres (866 feet)Open location code
8FW93XV6+HCOpenStreetMap ID
node 240101387OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6558101Wikidata ID
Q505447
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Waldkirch” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Waldkirch”
- Aragonese: “Waldkirch”
- Armenian: “Վալդկիրխ”
- Arpitan: “Waldkirch”
- Asturian: “Waldkirch”
- Basque: “Waldkirch”
- Bavarian: “Waldkirch”
- Belarusian: “Вальдкірх (Брайсгау)”
- Belarusian: “Вальдкірх”
- Breton: “Waldkirch”
- Catalan: “Waldkirch”
- Chechen: “Вальдкирх (Брайсгау)”
- Chechen: “Вальдкирх”
- Chinese: “瓦尔德基希”
- Chinese: “瓦爾德基希”
- Corsican: “Waldkirch”
- Croatian: “Waldkirch”
- Czech: “Waldkirch”
- Danish: “Waldkirch”
- Dutch: “Waldkirch”
- Esperanto: “Waldkirch”
- Estonian: “Waldkirch”
- Finnish: “Waldkirch”
- French: “Waldkirch”
- Friulian: “Waldkirch”
- Galician: “Waldkirch”
- German: “Buchholz”
- German: “Kollnau”
- German: “Siensbach”
- German: “Suggental”
- German: “Waldkirch”
- Greek: “Βάλντκιρχ”
- Hebrew: “ואלדקירך”
- Hungarian: “Waldkirch”
- Icelandic: “Waldkirch”
- Ido: “Waldkirch”
- Indonesian: “Waldkirch”
- Interlingua: “Waldkirch”
- Interlingue: “Waldkirch”
- Irish: “Waldkirch”
- Italian: “Waldkirch”
- Japanese: “ヴァルトキルヒ”
- Kazakh: “Valʹdkïrx”
- Kazakh: “Вальдкирх”
- Kazakh: “ۆالدكىيرح”
- Kirghiz: “Вальдкирх”
- Kongo: “Waldkirch”
- Kurdish: “Waldkirch”
- Ladin: “Waldkirch”
- Latin: “Waldkirch”
- Latin: “Waltchirecha”
- Ligurian: “Waldkirch”
- Limburgan: “Waldkirch”
- Lombard: “Waldkirch”
- Low German: “Waldkirch”
- Luxembourgish: “Waldkirch”
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- Malay: “Waldkirch”
- Minangkabau: “Waldkirch”
- Narom: “Waldkirch”
- Neapolitan: “Waldkirch”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Waldkirch”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Waldkirch i Baden-Württemberg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Waldkirch”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Waldkirch”
- Persian: “والدکیرش”
- Picard: “Waldkirch”
- Piemontese: “Waldkirch”
- Polish: “Waldkirch”
- Portuguese: “Waldkirch”
- Romanian: “Waldkirch”
- Romansh: “Waldkirch”
- Russian: “Вальдкирх”
- Sardinian: “Waldkirch”
- Scots: “Waldkirch”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Waldkirch”
- Serbian: “Valdkirh”
- Serbian: “Waldkirch”
- Serbian: “Валдкирх”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Waldkirch”
- Sicilian: “Waldkirch”
- Slovak: “Waldkirch”
- Slovenian: “Waldkirch”
- South Azerbaijani: “والدکیرش”
- Spanish: “Waldkirch”
- Swahili: “Waldkirch”
- Swedish: “Waldkirch, Tyskland”
- Swedish: “Waldkirch”
- Swiss German: “Waldkirch”
- Tatar: “Вальдкирх (Брайсгау)”
- Tatar: “Вальдкирх”
- Tosk Albanian: “Waldkirch”
- Tumbuka: “Waldkirch”
- Turkish: “Waldkirch”
- Ukrainian: “Вальдкірх”
- Uzbek: “Waldkirch”
- Uzbek: “Wалдкирч”
- Venetian: “Waldkirch”
- Vietnamese: “Waldkirch”
- Vlaams: “Waldkirch”
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- Walloon: “Waldkirch”
- Waray (Philippines): “Waldkirch”
- Welsh: “Waldkirch”
- Wolof: “Waldkirch”
- Zulu: “Waldkirch”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Stadskantoor Toeristen informatie and Wochenmarkt Waldkirch.
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