Wels
Wels is a city in Upper Austria. Its old town is well worth seeing. It has about 59,000 inhabitants.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wels Airport and Burg Wels.
Wels Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wels Airfield is an airfield serving Wels, a city in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. It is not used for commercial scheduled services but features business and general aviation as well as private and military training flights and medical transportation.
Wels Hauptbahnhof
Railway station
Photo: Linzer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wels Hauptbahnhof, occasionally Wels Central Station or Wels central station is a railway station at Wels, which is the second largest city in the federal state of Upper Austria, in the north of Austria.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Krenglbach.
Krenglbach
Village
Photo: Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Krenglbach is a municipality in the district of Wels-Land in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. Krenglbach is situated 6 km northwest of Wels.
Wels
- Type: Locality with 60,700 residents
- Also known as: “40301” and “Bels”
- Location: Wels, Upper Austria, Austria, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.1744° or 48° 10′ 28″ northLongitude
14.0218° or 14° 1′ 19″ eastPopulation
60,700Elevation
319 metres (1,047 feet)Open location code
8FWP52FC+QPGeoNames ID
7871525
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Western Panjabi—“Wels” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Wöis”
- Belarusian: “Горад Вельс”
- Bulgarian: “Велс”
- Chinese: “韋爾斯”
- Greek: “Βελς”
- Hebrew: “ולס”
- Japanese: “ヴェルス”
- Korean: “벨스”
- Latin: “Ovilava”
- Lithuanian: “Velsas”
- Persian: “ولز”
- Russian: “Вельс”
- Serbian: “Велс”
- Ukrainian: “Вельс”
- Western Panjabi: “ولز”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Klinikum Kreuzschwestern and Schloss Dietach.
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