Calw

Calw, the birth place of the writer Herman Hesse, is a little town in the Baden-Wurttemberg, .
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Photo: Softeis, Public domain.
  • Type: Town with 22,400 residents
  • Description: city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  • Also known as: 08235085” and “Stadt Calw

Places of Interest

Highlights include Palais Vischer and Hermann-Hesse-Höri-Museum.

Museum
is a museum.

Church
Photo: Softeis, Public domain.
is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Althengstett and Alzenberg.

Village
is a municipality in the district of in in . is situated 4½ km east of Calw.

Suburb
is a suburb.

Calw

Latitude
48.7143° or 48° 42′ 51″ north
Longitude
8.7398° or 8° 44′ 23″ east
Population
22,400
Elevation
441 metres (1,447 feet)
Open location code
8FWCPP7Q+PW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26595210
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6558077
Wiki­data ID
Q487921
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Calw” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Calw
  • Arabic: كالف
  • Aragonese: Calw
  • Armenian: Կալվ
  • Arpitan: Calw
  • Asturian: Calw
  • Basque: Calw
  • Bavarian: Calw
  • Belarusian: Кальв
  • Breton: Calw
  • Bulgarian: Калв
  • Catalan: Calw
  • Cebuano: Calw (kapital sa distrito)
  • Cebuano: Calw
  • Chechen: Кальв
  • Chinese: 卡尔夫
  • Chinese: 卡爾夫
  • Corsican: Calw
  • Croatian: Calw
  • Czech: Calw
  • Danish: Calw
  • Dutch: Calw
  • Egyptian Arabic: كالپ
  • Esperanto: Calw
  • Estonian: Calw
  • Finnish: Calw
  • French: Calw
  • Friulian: Calw
  • Galician: Calw
  • Georgian: კალვი
  • German: Calw
  • Hebrew: קלוו
  • Hungarian: Calw
  • Icelandic: Calw
  • Ido: Calw
  • Indonesian: Calw
  • Interlingua: Calw
  • Interlingue: Calw
  • Irish: Calw
  • Italian: Calw
  • Japanese: カルフ
  • Kazakh: Kalʹv
  • Kazakh: Кальв
  • Kazakh: كالۆ
  • Kirghiz: Кальв
  • Kongo: Calw
  • Korean: 칼브
  • Kurdish: Calw
  • Ladin: Calw
  • Latin: Calewa
  • Ligurian: Calw
  • Limburgan: Calw
  • Lithuanian: Kalvas
  • Lombard: Calw
  • Low German: Calw
  • Luxembourgish: Calw
  • Malagasy: Calw
  • Malay: Calw
  • Minangkabau: Calw
  • Narom: Calw
  • Neapolitan: Calw
  • Northern Frisian: Calw (Stää)
  • Northern Frisian: Calw
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Calw
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Calw
  • Norwegian: Calw
  • Occitan (post 1500): Calw
  • Persian: كالف
  • Persian: کالف
  • Persian: کلاو
  • Picard: Calw
  • Piemontese: Calw
  • Polish: Calw
  • Portuguese: Calw
  • Portuguese: Hirsau
  • Romanian: Calw
  • Romansh: Calw
  • Russian: Кальв
  • Sardinian: Calw
  • Scots: Calw
  • Scottish Gaelic: Calw
  • Serbian: Calw
  • Serbian: Kalv
  • Serbian: Калв
  • Serbo-Croatian: Calw
  • Sicilian: Calw
  • Slovak: Calw
  • Slovenian: Calw
  • Spanish: Calw
  • Swahili: Calw
  • Swedish: Calw
  • Swedish: Kalw
  • Swiss German: Calp
  • Tatar: Кальв
  • Tosk Albanian: Calw
  • Tumbuka: Calw
  • Turkish: Calw
  • Ukrainian: Кальв
  • Uzbek: Calw
  • Uzbek: Cалw
  • Uzbek: Kalv
  • Uzbek: Калв
  • Venetian: Calw
  • Vietnamese: Calw
  • Vlaams: Calw
  • Volapük: Calw
  • Walloon: Calw
  • Waray (Philippines): Calw
  • Welsh: Calw
  • Western Frisian: Calw
  • Wolof: Calw
  • Zulu: Calw

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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 “Calw”. Photo: qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0.