Baden-Württemberg
Tübingen Region
Zollernalbkreis

Hechingen

Hechingen is a town in central , Germany. It is situated about 60 kilometres south of the state capital of and 90 kilometres north of and the border.
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  • Type: Town with 18,700 residents
  • Description: municipality in Germany
  • Also known as: “08417031” and “Stadt Hechingen”
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hohenzollern Castle and Villa Eugenia.

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is the ancestral seat of the imperial House of Hohenzollern. The third of three hilltop castles built on the site, it is located atop , above and south of Hechingen, on the edge of the of central , Germany.

Castle
Photo: Muesse, CC BY 3.0.
is a castle.

Town hall
Photo: Felix Koenig, CC BY 3.0.
is a town hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bodelshausen and Bisingen.

Village
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is a municipality in the in the of . is situated 4½ km north of Hechingen.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of , . is situated 6 km southwest of Hechingen.

Village
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is a town in the district, in , . is situated 6 km west of Hechingen.

Hechingen

Latitude
48.3526° or 48° 21′ 9″ north
Longitude
8.9642° or 8° 57′ 51″ east
Population
18,700
Elevation
531 metres (1,742 feet)
Open location code
8FWC9X37+2M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 95678184
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6558166
Wiki­data ID
Q494529
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Hechingen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Hechingen”
  • Arabic: “هشينغن”
  • Aragonese: “Hechingen”
  • Arpitan: “Hechingen”
  • Asturian: “Hechingen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hexingen”
  • Basque: “Hechingen”
  • Bavarian: “Hechingen”
  • Belarusian: “Гехінген”
  • Breton: “Hechingen”
  • Bulgarian: “Хехинген”
  • Catalan: “Hechingen”
  • Cebuano: “Hechingen”
  • Chechen: “Хехинген”
  • Chinese: “黑兴根”
  • Chinese: “黑興根”
  • Corsican: “Hechingen”
  • Croatian: “Hechingen”
  • Czech: “Hechingen”
  • Danish: “Hechingen”
  • Dutch: “Hechingen”
  • Esperanto: “Hechingen”
  • Estonian: “Hechingen”
  • Finnish: “Hechingen”
  • French: “Hechingen”
  • Friulian: “Hechingen”
  • Galician: “Hechingen”
  • German: “Hechingen”
  • Greek: “Χέχινγκεν”
  • Hebrew: “הכינגן”
  • Hungarian: “Hechingen”
  • Icelandic: “Hechingen”
  • Ido: “Hechingen”
  • Indonesian: “Hechingen”
  • Interlingua: “Hechingen”
  • Interlingue: “Hechingen”
  • Irish: “Hechingen”
  • Italian: “Hechingen”
  • Japanese: “ヘーヒンゲン”
  • Japanese: “ヘシンゲン”
  • Japanese: “ヘッヒンゲン”
  • Japanese: “ヘヒンゲン”
  • Kazakh: “Xexïngen”
  • Kazakh: “Хехинген”
  • Kazakh: “حەحىينگەن”
  • Kirghiz: “Хехинген”
  • Kongo: “Hechingen”
  • Kurdish: “Hechingen”
  • Ladin: “Hechingen”
  • Latin: “Hechinga”
  • Latin: “Hechingen”
  • Latvian: “Hehingene”
  • Ligurian: “Hechingen”
  • Limburgan: “Hechingen”
  • Lombard: “Hechingen”
  • Low German: “Hechingen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hechingen”
  • Macedonian: “Хехинген”
  • Malagasy: “Hechingen”
  • Malay: “Hechingen”
  • Minangkabau: “Hechingen”
  • Narom: “Hechingen”
  • Neapolitan: “Hechingen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hechingen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hechingen”
  • Norwegian: “Hechingen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hechingen”
  • Persian: “هشینگن”
  • Picard: “Hechingen”
  • Piemontese: “Hechingen”
  • Polish: “Hechingen”
  • Portuguese: “Hechingen”
  • Romanian: “Hechingen”
  • Romansh: “Hechingen”
  • Russian: “Гехинген”
  • Russian: “Хехинген”
  • Sardinian: “Hechingen”
  • Scots: “Hechingen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Hechingen”
  • Serbian: “Hechingen”
  • Serbian: “Hehingen”
  • Serbian: “Хехинген”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hechingen”
  • Sicilian: “Hechingen”
  • Slovak: “Hechingen”
  • Slovenian: “Hechingen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هشینقن”
  • Spanish: “Hechingen”
  • Swahili: “Hechingen”
  • Swedish: “Hechingen”
  • Swiss German: “Hächenga”
  • Tatar: “Хехинген”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Hechingen”
  • Tumbuka: “Hechingen”
  • Turkish: “Hechingen”
  • Ukrainian: “Гехінген”
  • Uzbek: “Hechingen”
  • Uzbek: “Xexingen”
  • Uzbek: “Хехинген”
  • Uzbek: “Ҳечинген”
  • Venetian: “Hechingen”
  • Vietnamese: “Hechingen”
  • Vlaams: “Hechingen”
  • Volapük: “Hechingen”
  • Walloon: “Hechingen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hechingen”
  • Welsh: “Hechingen”
  • Wolof: “Hechingen”
  • Zulu: “Hechingen”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

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