Werk X

Werk X is in Ulm, Universitätsstadt, Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, and is located on Beim Alten Fritz. Werk X is situated nearby to the scenic viewpoint King-William-Tower, as well as near the neighborhood Fischerviertel.

Photo: Reutlingendorf, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Type: Tourist attraction
Also known as: “Kienlesberg Bastion” and “Kienlesbergbastion (Werk X)”
Address: Beim Alten Fritz 1, Ulm, 89075

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ulm Minster and Werk XI.

Ulm Minster

Church

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

Ulm Minster is a Gothic church of the Evangelical Church in Germany located in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg. It is the second-tallest church building in the world, with a steeple measuring 161.53 metres. Ulm Minster is situated 1¼ km southeast of Werk X.

Werk XI

Photo: MikeAtari, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Werk XI is situated 280 metres north of Werk X.

King-William-Tower

Scenic viewpoint

Photo: Muck50, CC BY-SA 4.0.

King-William-Tower is a scenic viewpoint, which is situated 550 metres northeast of Werk X.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fischerviertel and Neu-Ulm.

Fischerviertel

Neighborhood

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Fischerviertel is a neighborhood.

Neu-Ulm

Photo: -stk, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Neu-Ulm is a town in Bavarian Swabia. It's just across the Danube from Ulm. In many ways Neu-Ulm serves as a suburb of Ulm, but it has attractions of its own.

Jungingen

Village

Ulm-Jungingen is a borough of Ulm in the German Bundesland of Baden-Württemberg with a population of 3,706. Jungingen is situated 4 km north of Werk X.

Werk X

Categories: defence work, bastion, and tourism
Location: Ulm, Universitätsstadt, Ulm, Tübingen Region, Swabian Mountains, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude

48.40724° or 48° 24′ 26″ north

Longitude

9.97966° or 9° 58′ 47″ east

Elevation

500 metres (1,640 feet)

Inception

1852

Open location code

8FWFCX4H+VV

OpenStreetMap ID

way 229999912

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=attraction

GeoNames ID

12060464

Wikidata ID

Q108123390

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From French to Spanish—“Werk X” goes by many names.

French: “Bastion de Kienlesberg”
German: “Kienlesbergbastion”
German: “Werk X (Kienlesbergbastion)”
German: “Werk X”
Spanish: “Bastión Kienlesberg”

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