Colditz
Colditz is a country town in the state of Saxony in Germany. It is widely known for its medieval castle, which served as a prisoner-of-war camp for Allied officers during World War II.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 8,250 residents
- Description: town in the Free State of Saxony, Germany
- Also known as: “14729080” and “Stadt Colditz”
- Neighbors: Grimma
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oflag IV-C and Königlich sächsischer Meilenstein.
Oflag IV-C
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Oflag IV-C, generally known as Colditz Castle, was a prominent German Army prisoner-of-war camp for captured Allied officers during World War II. Located in Colditz, Saxony, the camp operated within the medieval Colditz Castle, which overlooks the town.
Königlich sächsischer Meilenstein
Historic site
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Königlich sächsischer Meilenstein is a historic site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zschadraß and Podelwitz.
Zschadraß
Village
Zschadraß is a village and a former municipality in the Leipzig district in Saxony, Germany. Since 1 January 2011, it is part of the town Colditz.
Colditz
- Category: urban municipality in Germany
- Location: Leipzig, Leipzig Lowlands-Central Hills, Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Colditz” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كولديتس”
- Aragonese: “Colditz”
- Bashkir: “Кольдиц”
- Basque: “Colditz”
- Belarusian: “Кольдзіц”
- Breton: “Colditz”
- Bulgarian: “Колдиц”
- Catalan: “Colditz”
- Cebuano: “Colditz”
- Chechen: “Кольдиц”
- Chinese: “科尔迪茨”
- Czech: “Colditz”
- Danish: “Colditz”
- Dutch: “Colditz”
- Esperanto: “Colditz”
- Estonian: “Colditz”
- Finnish: “Colditz”
- French: “Colditz”
- German: “Colditz”
- Greek: “Κόλντιτς”
- Hebrew: “קולדיץ”
- Hungarian: “Colditz”
- Irish: “Colditz”
- Italian: “Colditz”
- Japanese: “コルディーツ”
- Japanese: “コルディッツ”
- Kazakh: “Кольдиц”
- Kirghiz: “Кольдиц”
- Kurdish: “Colditz”
- Ladin: “Colditz”
- Latvian: “Koldica”
- Macedonian: “Колдиц”
- Malay: “Colditz”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Colditz”
- Norwegian: “Colditz”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Colditz”
- Persian: “کلدیتز”
- Polish: “Colditz”
- Portuguese: “Colditz”
- Romanian: “Colditz”
- Russian: “Кольдиц”
- Serbian: “Колдиц”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Colditz”
- Slovak: “Colditz”
- Slovenian: “Colditz”
- South Azerbaijani: “کلدیتز”
- Spanish: “Colditz”
- Swedish: “Colditz”
- Tatar: “Кольдиц”
- Tumbuka: “Colditz”
- Turkish: “Colditz”
- Ukrainian: “Кольдіц”
- Upper Sorbian: “Colditz”
- Uzbek: “Colditz”
- Volapük: “Colditz”
- Waray (Philippines): “Colditz”
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