Grafenau
Grafenau is a town in the Freyung-Grafenau district, in Bavaria, Germany. 32 km north of Passau, the town is situated in the Bavarian Forest and is the base of the Bavarian Forest National Park Authority.
- Type: Town with 8,500 residents
- Description: municipality in Bavaria, Germany
- Also known as: “09272120”, “Grafenau (Freyung-Grafenau)”, “Grafenau (Niederbayern)”, “Grafenau, Bavaria”, “Grafenau/Niederbayern”, “Grofanau”, and “Stadt Grafenau”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Heilige Dreifaltigkeit and Mariä Himmelfahrt.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Schönberg and Neuschönau.
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Neuschönau
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Grafenau
- Categories: urban municipality in Germany and locality
- Location: Freyung-Grafenau, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
48.8562° or 48° 51′ 23″ north
Longitude
13.3969° or 13° 23′ 49″ east
Population
8,500
Elevation
577 metres (1,893 feet)
Open location code
8FWMV94W+FQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Grafenau” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Grafenau”
- Arabic: “غرافناو”
- Aragonese: “Grafenau”
- Armenian: “Գրաֆենաու”
- Arpitan: “Grafenau”
- Asturian: “Grafenau”
- Basque: “Grafenau”
- Bavarian: “Grafenau”
- Breton: “Grafenau”
- Catalan: “Grafenau”
- Cebuano: “Grafenau”
- Chechen: “Графенау (Лаха Бавари)”
- Chechen: “Графенау”
- Chinese: “格拉弗瑙”
- Corsican: “Grafenau”
- Croatian: “Grafenau”
- Czech: “Grafenau”
- Danish: “Grafenau”
- Dutch: “Grafenau”
- Esperanto: “Grafenau”
- Estonian: “Grafenau”
- Finnish: “Grafenau”
- French: “Grafenau”
- Friulian: “Grafenau”
- Galician: “Grafenau”
- German: “Grafenau”
- Hungarian: “Grafenau”
- Icelandic: “Grafenau”
- Ido: “Grafenau”
- Indonesian: “Grafenau”
- Interlingua: “Grafenau”
- Interlingue: “Grafenau”
- Irish: “Grafenau”
- Italian: “Grafenau”
- Japanese: “グラーフェナウ”
- Jèrriais: “Grafenau”
- Kongo: “Grafenau”
- Kurdish: “Grafenau, Bavyera”
- Kurdish: “Grafenau”
- Ladin: “Grafenau”
- Ligurian: “Grafenau”
- Limburgan: “Grafenau”
- Lombard: “Grafenau”
- Low German: “Grafenau”
- Luxembourgish: “Grafenau”
- Malagasy: “Grafenau”
- Malay: “Grafenau, Bavaria”
- Malay: “Grafenau”
- Minangkabau: “Grafenau”
- Neapolitan: “Grafenau”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Grafenau”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Grafenau”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Grafenau”
- Persian: “گرفناو، بایرن”
- Persian: “گرفناو”
- Picard: “Grafenau”
- Piemontese: “Grafenau”
- Polish: “Grafenau”
- Portuguese: “Grafenau”
- Romanian: “Grafenau”
- Romansh: “Grafenau”
- Russian: “Графенау”
- Sardinian: “Grafenau”
- Scots: “Grafenau”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Grafenau”
- Serbian: “Grafenau”
- Serbian: “Графенау”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Grafenau”
- Sicilian: “Grafenau”
- Slovak: “Grafenau”
- Slovenian: “Grafenau”
- South Azerbaijani: “قرفناو، بایرن”
- South Azerbaijani: “قرفناو”
- Spanish: “Grafenau”
- Swahili: “Grafenau”
- Swedish: “Grafenau, Bayern”
- Swedish: “Grafenau”
- Swiss German: “Grafenau”
- Tatar: “Графенау”
- Tumbuka: “Grafenau, Bavaria”
- Tumbuka: “Grafenau”
- Turkish: “Grafenau”
- Ukrainian: “Графенау”
- Ukrainian: “Ґрафенау”
- Uzbek: “Grafenau”
- Venetian: “Grafenau”
- Vietnamese: “Grafenau, Freyung-Grafenau”
- Vietnamese: “Grafenau”
- Vlaams: “Grafenau”
- Volapük: “Grafenau”
- Walloon: “Grafenau”
- Waray (Philippines): “Grafenau, Bavaria”
- Waray (Philippines): “Grafenau”
- Welsh: “Grafenau”
- Wolof: “Grafenau”
- Zulu: “Grafenau”
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Places to explore: Friedl-Wiese and Altbachhaus.
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Highlights: Nepomuk-Denkmal and Luitpoldbrunnen.
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