Egloffstein
Egloffstein is a municipality in the district of Forchheim in Bavaria in Germany.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 2,110 residents
- Description: market municipality in the district of Forchheim, Bavaria, Germany
- Also known as: “09474124” and “Egloffstein, Markt”
- Neighbors: Gößweinstein
Places of Interest
Highlights include Egloffstein Castle and Thuisbrunn Castle.
Egloffstein Castle
Castle
Egloffstein Castle is a former high mediaeval, aristocratic castle, that stands immediately west of the eponymous village of Egloffstein in the Upper Franconian county of Forchheim in the German state of Bavaria. The castle may be visited for an entrance fee.
Thuisbrunn Castle
Castle
Photo: Arnomane, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Thuisbrunn Castle is located centrally within the parish of Thuisbrunn in the municipality of Gräfenberg in the Bavarian province of Upper Franconia. After having been destroyed and rebuilt several times, the castle is now in private ownership.
Osterbrunnen
Fountain
Photo: J. Lunau, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Osterbrunnen is a German tradition of decorating public wells or fountains with Easter eggs for Easter. It began in the early 20th century in the Franconian Switzerland region of Upper Franconia but has spread to other regions. Osterbrunnen is situated 3½ km west of Egloffstein.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gräfenberg and Haidhof (Gräfenberg).
Gräfenberg
Town
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Gräfenberg is a Franconian town in the district of Forchheim, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated 16km southeast of Forchheim and 25km northeast of Nuremberg. Gräfenberg is situated 6 km south of Egloffstein.
Thuisbrunn
Village
Photo: Arnomane, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Thuisbrunn is a village in the municipality of Gräfenberg and lies in the region of Franconian Switzerland in Germany.
Egloffstein
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Egloffstein” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Egloffstein”
- Arabic: “إجلوفشتاين”
- Aragonese: “Egloffstein”
- Armenian: “Էգլոֆշթայն”
- Arpitan: “Egloffstein”
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- Bavarian: “Egloffstein”
- Belarusian: “Эглафштайн”
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- Chechen: “Эглофштайн”
- Chinese: “Egloffstein”
- Chinese: “埃格洛夫斯泰因”
- Chinese: “埃格洛夫施泰因”
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- Italian: “Egloffstein”
- Japanese: “エグロフシュタイン”
- Kazakh: “Églofştaýn”
- Kazakh: “Эглофштайн”
- Kazakh: “ەگلوفشتاين”
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- Persian: “اگلوفشتاین”
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- Russian: “Эглофштайн”
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- Serbian: “Eglofštajn”
- Serbian: “Еглофштајн”
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- Tatar: “Эглофштайн”
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- Ukrainian: “Еглоффштайн”
- Uzbek: “Egloffstein”
- Uzbek: “Eglofshtayn”
- Uzbek: “Еглоффстеин”
- Uzbek: “Эглофштайн”
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