Fossa Carolina
The Fossa Carolina was a canal named after Charlemagne in what is today the German state of Bavaria, intended to connect the Swabian Rezat river to the Altmühl river.Photo: Franzfoto, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Kunigunde and Grönhart.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Graben and Grönhart.
Fossa Carolina
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: canal in Germany
- Categories: canal, graben, tourism, archaeological site, and historic site
- Location: Treuchtlingen, Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, Middle Franconia, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.98617° or 48° 59′ 10″ northLongitude
10.92467° or 10° 55′ 29″ eastElevation
418 metres (1,371 feet)Open location code
8FWGXWPF+FVOpenStreetMap ID
way 552698044OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
11670204Wikidata ID
Q566411
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Fossa Carolina” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Fossa Carolina”
- Aragonese: “Fossa Carolina”
- Arpitan: “Fossa Carolina”
- Asturian: “Fossa Carolina”
- Basque: “Fossa Carolina”
- Bavarian: “Fossa Carolina”
- Breton: “Fossa Carolina”
- Catalan: “Fossa Carolina”
- Corsican: “Fossa Carolina”
- Croatian: “Fossa Carolina”
- Czech: “Fossa Carolina”
- Danish: “Fossa Carolina”
- Dutch: “Fossa Carolina”
- Dutch: “Regnitz-Altmuhlkanaal”
- Dutch: “Regnitz-Altmühlkanaal”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فوسا كارولينا”
- Esperanto: “Fossa Carolina”
- Estonian: “Fossa Carolina”
- Finnish: “Fossa Carolina”
- French: “Fosse caroline”
- Friulian: “Fossa Carolina”
- Galician: “Fossa Carolina”
- German: “Fossa Carolina”
- German: “Karlsgraben”
- Greek: “Κανάλι του Καρλομάγνου”
- Hungarian: “Fossa Carolina”
- Icelandic: “Fossa Carolina”
- Ido: “Fossa Carolina”
- Indonesian: “Fossa Carolina”
- Interlingua: “Fossa Carolina”
- Interlingue: “Fossa Carolina”
- Irish: “Fossa Carolina”
- Italian: “Fossa Carolina”
- Japanese: “フォッサ・カロリーナ”
- Kongo: “Fossa Carolina”
- Latin: “Fossa Carolina”
- Ligurian: “Fossa Carolina”
- Limburgan: “Fossa Carolina”
- Low German: “Fossa Carolina”
- Luxembourgish: “Fossa Carolina”
- Malagasy: “Fossa Carolina”
- Malay: “Fossa Carolina”
- Minangkabau: “Fossa Carolina”
- Narom: “Fossa Carolina”
- Neapolitan: “Fossa Carolina”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fossa Carolina”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fossa Carolina”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Fossa Carolina”
- Picard: “Fossa Carolina”
- Piemontese: “Fossa Carolina”
- Polish: “Fossa Carolina”
- Portuguese: “Fossa Carolina”
- Romanian: “Fossa Carolina”
- Romansh: “Fossa Carolina”
- Russian: “Карлсграбен”
- Sardinian: “Fossa Carolina”
- Scots: “Fossa Carolina”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fossa Carolina”
- Serbian: “Fossa Carolina”
- Sicilian: “Fossa Carolina”
- Slovak: “Fossa Carolina”
- Slovenian: “Fossa Carolina”
- Spanish: “Fossa Carolina”
- Swahili: “Fossa Carolina”
- Swedish: “Fossa Carolina”
- Swedish: “Karlsgraben”
- Swiss German: “Fossa Carolina”
- Ukrainian: “Фосса-Кароліна”
- Venetian: “Fossa Carolina”
- Vietnamese: “Fossa Carolina”
- Vlaams: “Fossa Carolina”
- Volapük: “Fossa Carolina”
- Walloon: “Fossa Carolina”
- Welsh: “Fossa Carolina”
- Wolof: “Fossa Carolina”
- Zulu: “Fossa Carolina”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Hagenau and Naßwiesen.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Europäische Tal-Wasserscheide and Karlsgrabenausstellung.
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