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Upper Bavaria
Altötting

Burghausen

Burghausen is a town in . The longest castle complex in the world watches over a hill above the excellently preserved old town: six castle courtyards strung together make up a length of over one kilometre.
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  • Type: Town with 17,700 residents
  • Description: city in the Altötting district, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany
  • Also known as: “Burghausen, Altötting”, “Burghausen/Salzach”, and “Burkhausen”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Burghausen Castle and Wöhrsee.

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in Burghausen, , is the longest castle complex in the world, confirmed by the Guinness World Record company, and the third largest. The castle is therefore also among the largest palaces in the world.

Lake
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is a lake.

Town hall
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is a town hall.

Burghausen

Latitude
48.1589° or 48° 9′ 32″ north
Longitude
12.8329° or 12° 49′ 59″ east
Population
17,700
Elevation
422 metres (1,385 feet)
United Nations Location Code
DE BHN
Open location code
8FWJ5R5M+G5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240057442
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2941279
Wiki­data ID
Q262669
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Burghausen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Burghausen”
  • Arabic: “بورغهاوزن التوتيغ”
  • Arabic: “بورغهاوزن”
  • Aragonese: “Burghausen”
  • Armenian: “Բուրգհաուզեն”
  • Arpitan: “Burghausen”
  • Asturian: “Burghausen”
  • Basque: “Burghausen”
  • Bavarian: “Burghausn”
  • Belarusian: “Бурггаўзен”
  • Belarusian: “Бургхаўзен”
  • Breton: “Burghausen”
  • Bulgarian: “Бургхаузен”
  • Catalan: “Burghausen”
  • Cebuano: “Burghausen”
  • Chinese: “布尔格豪森”
  • Chinese: “布格豪森”
  • Corsican: “Burghausen”
  • Croatian: “Burghausen”
  • Czech: “Burghausen”
  • Danish: “Burghausen”
  • Dutch: “Burghausen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بورجهاوزن”
  • Esperanto: “Burghausen”
  • Estonian: “Burghausen”
  • Finnish: “Burghausen”
  • French: “Burghausen”
  • Friulian: “Burghausen”
  • Galician: “Burghausen”
  • German: “Burghausen”
  • German: “Burghausen/Salzach”
  • Greek: “Μπουρκάουζεν”
  • Hebrew: “בורגהאוזן”
  • Hungarian: “Burghausen”
  • Icelandic: “Burghausen”
  • Ido: “Burghausen”
  • Iloko: “Burghausen, Altötting”
  • Iloko: “Burghausen”
  • Indonesian: “Burghausen, Altötting”
  • Interlingua: “Burghausen”
  • Interlingue: “Burghausen”
  • Irish: “Burghausen”
  • Italian: “Burghausen”
  • Japanese: “ブルクハウゼン”
  • Kazakh: “Бургхаузен”
  • Kirghiz: “Бургхаузен”
  • Kongo: “Burghausen”
  • Korean: “부르크하우젠”
  • Kurdish: “Burghausen”
  • Ladin: “Burghausen”
  • Latin: “Burchusia”
  • Latin: “Burghausen”
  • Ligurian: “Burghausen”
  • Limburgan: “Burghausen”
  • Lombard: “Burghausen”
  • Low German: “Burghausen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Burghausen”
  • Malagasy: “Burghausen”
  • Malay: “Burghausen, Altötting”
  • Minangkabau: “Burghausen”
  • Narom: “Burghausen”
  • Neapolitan: “Burghausen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Burghausen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Burghausen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Burghausen”
  • Persian: “بورگ‌هاوزن، التوتیگ”
  • Picard: “Burghausen”
  • Piemontese: “Burghausen”
  • Polish: “Burghausen”
  • Portuguese: “Burghausen”
  • Romanian: “Burghausen”
  • Romansh: “Burghausen”
  • Russian: “Бургхаузен”
  • Sardinian: “Burghausen”
  • Scots: “Burghausen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Burghausen”
  • Serbian: “Burghausen”
  • Serbian: “Бургхаузен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Burghausen”
  • Sicilian: “Burghausen”
  • Silesian: “Burghausen”
  • Slovak: “Burghausen”
  • Slovenian: “Burghausen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بورقهاوزن، التوتیق”
  • Spanish: “Burghausen”
  • Swahili: “Burghausen”
  • Swedish: “Burghausen”
  • Swiss German: “Burghausen”
  • Tumbuka: “Burghausen, Altötting”
  • Turkish: “Burghausen”
  • Ukrainian: “Бурггаузен”
  • Uzbek: “Burghausen”
  • Venetian: “Burghausen”
  • Vietnamese: “Burghausen, Altötting”
  • Vlaams: “Burghausen”
  • Volapük: “Burghausen”
  • Walloon: “Burghausen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Burghausen, Altötting”
  • Welsh: “Burghausen”
  • Wolof: “Burghausen”
  • Zulu: “Burghausen”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Burghausen”. Photo: Dmitry Slavinsky, CC BY-SA 3.0.