Bad Schandau
Bad Schandau is a spa town in Germany, in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district of Saxony. It is situated on the right bank of the Elbe, at the mouth of the valley of the Kirnitzsch and in the area often described as Saxon Switzerland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dirk Schmidt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 3,410 residents
- Description: town in Saxon Switzerland, Germany
- Also known as: “14628030” and “Stadt Bad Schandau”
- Neighbors: Königstein and Rathen
Photo: L. Beck, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bad Schandau Elevator and Bad Schandau station.
Bad Schandau Elevator
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Bad Schandau Elevator is a passenger truss-tower elevator built in 1904 at Bad Schandau, a spa town in Saxony, Germany. The height of the elevator is 52.6 metres, in an art nouveau-style steel framework tower, which has a diameter of 5.2 metres at the ground and at the door such of 2.5 metres.
Bad Schandau station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rathmannsdorf and Gohrisch.
Rathmannsdorf
Village
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Rathmannsdorf is a township in the Saxon district of Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge. Rathmannsdorf is 2 km down the Elbe from Bad Schandau.
Gohrisch
Village
Photo: Dirk Schmidt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gohrisch is a village, which is situated 3½ km west of Bad Schandau.
Porschdorf
Village
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Porschdorf is a former municipality in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, in Saxony, in eastern Germany. With effect from 1 January 2012, it has been incorporated into the town of Bad Schandau.
Bad Schandau
- Categories: urban municipality in Germany, Kneippkurort, and locality
- Location: Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxon Switzerland, Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.9181° or 50° 55′ 5″ northLongitude
14.1534° or 14° 9′ 12″ eastPopulation
3,410Elevation
119 metres (390 feet)Open location code
9F2PW593+69OpenStreetMap ID
node 27453044OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6550817Wikidata ID
Q6406
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Bad Schandau” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باد شانداو”
- Arabic: “باد شاندو”
- Bashkir: “Бад-Шандау”
- Basque: “Bad Schandau”
- Bulgarian: “Бад Шандау”
- Catalan: “Bad Schandau”
- Cebuano: “Bad Schandau”
- Chechen: “Бад-Шандау”
- Chinese: “巴特尚道”
- Croatian: “Bad Schandau”
- Czech: “Bad Schandau”
- Danish: “Bad Schandau”
- Dutch: “Bad Schandau”
- Esperanto: “Bad Schandau”
- Estonian: “Bad Schandau”
- French: “Bad Schandau”
- German: “Bad Schandau”
- German: “Schandau”
- Hebrew: “באד שנדאו”
- Hungarian: “Bad Schandau”
- Irish: “Bad Schandau”
- Italian: “Bad Schandau”
- Japanese: “バート・シャンダウ”
- Kazakh: “Бад-Шандау”
- Kirghiz: “Бад-Шандау”
- Kurdish: “Bad Schandau”
- Ladin: “Bad Schandau”
- Latvian: “Bādšandava”
- Macedonian: “Бад Шандау”
- Malay: “Bad Schandau”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bad Schandau”
- Norwegian: “Bad Schandau”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bad Schandau”
- Persian: “باد شاندو”
- Persian: “باد شواندوا”
- Polish: “Bad Schandau”
- Portuguese: “Bad Schandau”
- Romanian: “Bad Schandau”
- Russian: “Бад-Шандау”
- Serbian: “Бад Шандау”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bad Schandau”
- Slovak: “Bad Schandau”
- Slovenian: “Bad Schandau”
- Slovenian: “Schandau”
- South Azerbaijani: “باد شواندوا”
- Spanish: “Bad Schandau”
- Swedish: “Bad Schandau”
- Tatar: “Бад-Шандау”
- Tumbuka: “Bad Schandau”
- Turkish: “Bad Schandau”
- Ukrainian: “Бад-Шандау”
- Upper Sorbian: “Bad Schandau”
- Upper Sorbian: “Žandow”
- Urdu: “باد شاندو”
- Uzbek: “Bad Schandau”
- Vietnamese: “Bad Schandau”
- Volapük: “Bad Schandau”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bad Schandau”
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