Laufen
Laufen is a town in Berchtesgadener Land district in Bavaria at the Austria–Germany border.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 7,340 residents
- Description: German town in the district of Berchtesgadener Land, Upper Bavaria, Germany
- Also known as: “09172122”, “Laufen, Germany”, “Laufen/Salzach”, and “Stadt Laufen”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stille Nacht Museum Olberndorf and Silent Night Chapel.
Silent Night Chapel
Chapel
Photo: Gakuro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Silent Night Chapel is located in the town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg in the Austrian province of Salzburg, and is a monument to the Christmas carol "Silent Night", its lyricist Joseph Mohr, and its composer Franz Xaver Gruber.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oberndorf bei Salzburg and Laufen and Bürmoos.
Oberndorf bei Salzburg and Laufen
Photo: High Contrast, CC BY 3.0 at.
Oberndorf bei Salzburg in Austria's Salzburg region, and Laufen in Bavaria, Germany, face each other across the River Salzach. The Christmas carol Silent Night was composed and first performed in Oberndorf.
Bürmoos
Village
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Bürmoos is a municipality in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung in the state of Salzburg in Austria. Bürmoos is situated 5 km north of Laufen.
Steinbrünning
Village
Photo: Mkfrei, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Steinbrünning is a village, which is situated 5 km south of Laufen.
Laufen
- Categories: urban municipality in Germany and locality
- Location: Berchtesgadener Land, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.9354° or 47° 56′ 8″ northLongitude
12.9303° or 12° 55′ 49″ eastPopulation
7,340Elevation
407 metres (1,335 feet)Open location code
8FVJWWPJ+54OpenStreetMap ID
node 60603517OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6558207Wikidata ID
Q201066
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Laufen” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لاوفن”
- Armenian: “Լաուֆեն”
- Basque: “Laufen”
- Bavarian: “Laffa an da Soizach”
- Bavarian: “Laffa an da Soizoch”
- Cebuano: “Laufen (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Laufen”
- Chechen: “Лауфен (Зальцах)”
- Chechen: “Лауфен”
- Chinese: “劳芬 (德国)”
- Chinese: “劳芬”
- Czech: “Laufen”
- Danish: “Laufen”
- Dutch: “Laufen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لاوفن”
- Esperanto: “Laufen”
- French: “Laufen”
- German: “Laufen (Berchtesgadener Land)”
- German: “Laufen (Salzach)”
- German: “Laufen an der Salzach”
- German: “Laufen”
- German: “Laufen/Salzach”
- Hebrew: “לאופן”
- Hungarian: “Laufen”
- Indonesian: “Laufen”
- Irish: “Laufen”
- Italian: “Laufen”
- Japanese: “ラウフェン”
- Kurdish: “Laufen, Almanya”
- Ladin: “Laufen (Salzach)”
- Ladin: “Laufen”
- Lombard: “Laufen”
- Malay: “Laufen, Jerman”
- Persian: “لاوفن، آلمان”
- Polish: “Laufen”
- Portuguese: “Laufen”
- Romanian: “Laufen”
- Russian: “Лауфен”
- Serbian: “Лауфен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Laufen”
- Slovak: “Laufen”
- Slovenian: “Laufen”
- South Azerbaijani: “لاوفن، آلمان”
- Spanish: “Laufen”
- Swedish: “Laufen, Tyskland”
- Swedish: “Laufen”
- Tatar: “Лауфен (Зальцах)”
- Tatar: “Лауфен”
- Tumbuka: “Laufen, Germany”
- Turkish: “Laufen, Bavyera”
- Ukrainian: “Лауфен”
- Uzbek: “Laufen”
- Vietnamese: “Laufen, Đức”
- Volapük: “Laufen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Laufen, Alemanya”
- “Laufen”
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