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Altenkirchen

Altenkirchen

Altenkirchen is a town in , , capital of the . It is located approximately 40 km east of and 50 km north of . Altenkirchen is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld.
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  • Type: Town with 6,350 residents
  • Description: municipality of Germany
  • Also known as: “07132501” and “Stadt Altenkirchen (Westerwald)”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Altenkirchen station and Christ Church.

Railway station
Photo: Scribo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the station of the district town of Altenkirchen in the German state of . It is at track-kilometre 65.1 on the Limburg–Altenkirchen railway and at track-km 61.1 on the Engers–Au railway, also known as the Holzbachtalbahn.

Church
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Church
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is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Helmenzen and Mammelzen.

Village
is a municipality in the , in , in western .

Village
Photo: Wolkenkratzer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a municipality in the , in , in western .

Village
is a municipality in the , in , . Early in 2011, the discovery of a child abuse case going on for years brought nationwide headlines across Germany, and to a lesser extent, internationally.

Altenkirchen

Latitude
50.688° or 50° 41′ 17″ north
Longitude
7.6477° or 7° 38′ 52″ east
Population
6,350
Elevation
235 metres (771 feet)
Open location code
9F29MJQX+63
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240126982
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6558896
Wiki­data ID
Q488373
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Altenkirchen” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “آلتنكيرشن”
  • Aragonese: “Altenkirchen”
  • Basque: “Altenkirchen”
  • Belarusian: “Альтэнкірхен”
  • Belarusian: “Альтэнкірхэн”
  • Bulgarian: “Алтенкирхен”
  • Catalan: “Altenkirchen”
  • Cebuano: “Altenkirchen”
  • Chechen: “Альтенкирхен”
  • Chinese: “阿尔滕基兴”
  • Chinese: “韦斯特林山区阿尔滕基兴”
  • Czech: “Altenkirchen”
  • Danish: “Altenkirchen”
  • Dutch: “Altenkirchen”
  • Esperanto: “Altenkirchen”
  • French: “Altenkirchen (Westerwald)”
  • French: “Altenkirchen”
  • German: “Altenkirchen”
  • Hebrew: “אלטנקירכן”
  • Hungarian: “Altenkirchen”
  • Irish: “Altenkirchen”
  • Italian: “Altenkirchen”
  • Japanese: “アルテンキルヒェン”
  • Kazakh: “Альтенкирхен”
  • Kirghiz: “Альтенкирхен”
  • Korean: “알텐키르헨”
  • Kurdish: “Altenkirchen, Westerwald”
  • Ladin: “Altenkirchen (Westerwald)”
  • Ladin: “Altenkirchen”
  • Malay: “Altenkirchen”
  • Moksha: “Альтэнкирхэн”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Altenkirchen”
  • Persian: “آلتنکیرشن”
  • Piemontese: “Altenkirchen”
  • Polish: “Altenkirchen”
  • Portuguese: “Altenkirchen”
  • Pushto: “آلتنکیرشن”
  • Romanian: “Altenkirchen”
  • Russian: “Альтенкирхен”
  • Serbian: “Алтенкирхен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Altenkirchen”
  • Slovak: “Altenkirchen”
  • Slovenian: “Altenkirchen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آلتنکیرشن”
  • Spanish: “Altenkirchen”
  • Swedish: “Altenkirchen”
  • Tatar: “Альтенкирхен”
  • Tumbuka: “Altenkirchen (Westerwald)”
  • Tumbuka: “Altenkirchen”
  • Turkish: “Altenkirchen”
  • Ukrainian: “Альтенкірхен”
  • Uzbek: “Altenkirchen”
  • Vietnamese: “Altenkirchen”
  • Volapük: “Altenkirchen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Altenkirchen”
  • “Altenkirchen”

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