Berchtesgaden
Berchtesgaden is a small, picturesque and historic town in the southeast of the German state of Bavaria, within a small enclave surrounded on three sides by the Austrian border.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 7,740 residents
- Description: market municipality of Germany
- Also known as: “09172116” and “Berchtesgaden, Markt”
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Berchtesgaden Hauptbahnhof and Ramsauer Ache.
Berchtesgaden Hauptbahnhof
Railway station
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Berchtesgaden Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the Bavarian market town of Berchtesgaden, the smallest town in Germany with a Hauptbahnhof. It has five platform tracks and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.
Ramsauer Ache
River
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Ramsauer Ache is a river of Bavaria, Germany. At its confluence with the Königsseer Ache in Berchtesgaden, the Berchtesgadener Ache is formed.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Schönau am Königssee and Bischofswiesen.
Schönau am Königssee
Village
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Schönau am Königssee is a municipality in the district of Berchtesgadener Land in the German state of Bavaria. It is located at the northern end of the Königssee lake.
Bischofswiesen
Village
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Bischofswiesen is a municipality in the district of Berchtesgadener Land in Bavaria in Germany. Bischofswiesen is situated 3½ km northwest of Berchtesgaden.
Obersalzberg
Locality
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Obersalzberg is a mountainside retreat situated above the market town of Berchtesgaden in Bavaria, Germany. Located about 120 kilometres south-east of Munich, close to the border with Austria, it is best known as the site of Adolf Hitler's former mountain residence, the Berghof, and of the mountaintop Kehlsteinhaus, popularly known in the English-speaking world as the "Eagle's Nest".
Berchtesgaden
Latitude
47.633° or 47° 37′ 59″ northLongitude
13.002° or 13° 0′ 7″ eastPopulation
7,740Elevation
546 metres (1,791 feet)Open location code
8FVMJ2M2+6ROpenStreetMap ID
node 21627771OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6558517Wikidata ID
Q278221
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Berchtesgaden” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Berchtesgaden”
- Arabic: “بيرتشسغادن”
- Aragonese: “Berchtesgaden”
- Armenian: “Բերխտեսգադեն”
- Arpitan: “Berchtesgaden”
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- Basque: “Berchtesgaden”
- Bavarian: “Berchtsgoan”
- Belarusian: “Берхтэсгадэн”
- Breton: “Berchtesgaden”
- Bulgarian: “Берхтесгаден”
- Catalan: “Berchtesgaden”
- Cebuano: “Berchtesgaden (munisipyo)”
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- Chinese: “Berchtesgaden”
- Chinese: “貝希特斯加登”
- Chinese: “贝希特斯加登”
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- German: “Berchtesgaden”
- Greek: “Μπερχτεσγκάντεν”
- Greek: “Μπέρχτεσγκαντεν”
- Hebrew: “ברכטסגאדן”
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- Japanese: “ベルヒテスガーデン”
- Kazakh: “Берхтесгаден”
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- Kongo: “Berchtesgaden”
- Korean: “베르히테스가덴”
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- Latin: “Berchtesgadenum”
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- Persian: “برشتس گادن”
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- Russian: “Берхтесгаден”
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- Serbian: “Берхтесгаден”
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- Ukrainian: “Берхтесгаден”
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