Werfen
Werfen is a market town in the district of St. Johann im Pongau, in the Austrian state of Salzburg. It is mainly known for medieval Hohenwerfen Castle and the Eisriesenwelt ice cave, the largest in the world.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Residential area
- Description: municipality in St. Johann/Pongau District, Salzburg, Austria
- Also known as: “50424”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Eisriesenwelt and Friedhof Werfen.
Eisriesenwelt
Cave
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Eisriesenwelt is a natural limestone and ice cave located in Werfen, Austria, about 40 km south of Salzburg. The cave is inside the Hochkogel mountain in the Tennengebirge section of the Alps. Eisriesenwelt is situated 4 km north of Werfen.
Wasserkraftwerk Werfen
Power station
Photo: FlocciNivis, CC BY 4.0.
Wasserkraftwerk Werfen is a power station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pfarrwerfen and Tenneck.
Pfarrwerfen
Village
Photo: Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pfarrwerfen is a municipality in the St. Johann im Pongau district in the Austrian state of Salzburg.
Werfen
- Categories: market municipality and municipality of Austria
- Location: St. Johann im Pongau District, Salzburg, Austria, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.4766° or 47° 28′ 36″ northLongitude
13.1883° or 13° 11′ 18″ eastPopulation
2,970Elevation
748 metres (2,454 feet)Open location code
8FVMF5GQ+J8OpenStreetMap ID
way 155509070OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialGeoNames ID
7873317Wikidata ID
Q255361
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Waray—“Werfen” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Werfen”
- Bavarian: “Wérfen”
- Bavarian: “Werfm”
- Catalan: “Werfen”
- Cebuano: “Werfen”
- Chechen: “Верфен”
- Chinese: “維爾芬”
- Chinese: “维尔芬”
- Danish: “Werfen”
- Dutch: “Werfen”
- Esperanto: “Werfen”
- Estonian: “Werfen”
- Finnish: “Werfen”
- French: “Werfen”
- German: “Werfen”
- Hungarian: “Werfen”
- Irish: “Werfen”
- Italian: “Werfen”
- Japanese: “ヴェルフェン”
- Kazakh: “Верфен”
- Ladin: “Werfen”
- Lombard: “Werfen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Werfen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Werfen”
- Polish: “Werfen”
- Portuguese: “Werfen”
- Russian: “Верфен”
- Slovak: “Werfen”
- Slovenian: “Werfen”
- Spanish: “Werfen”
- Swedish: “Werfen”
- Tatar: “Верфен”
- Turkish: “Werfen”
- Ukrainian: “Верфен”
- Uzbek: “Werfen”
- Venetian: “Werfen”
- Volapük: “Werfen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Werfen”
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