Cottbus
Cottbus is the second-largest city in the state of Brandenburg, Germany. It is considered one of the cultural centres of the Sorbs, a Slavic ethnic minority in eastern Germany.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 98,700 residents
- Description: city in Brandenburg, Germany
- Also known as: “Chóśebuz” and “Cottbus - Chóśebuz”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wendish Museum and Cottbus Hauptbahnhof.
Wendish Museum
Museum
Photo: Alexandru.giurca, Public domain.
The Wendish Museum, Lower Sorbian: Serbski muzej, German: Wendisches Museum, is a museum of the culture and history of the Wends and Sorbs in Lower Lusatia.
Cottbus Hauptbahnhof
Railway station
Photo: Karatecoop, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cottbus Hauptbahnhof or Chóśebuz głowne dwórnišćo is one of the main railway stations of the German state of Brandenburg. It was called Cottbus station until 9 December 2018.
Staatstheater Cottbus
Theater building
The Staatstheater Cottbus is the only state theatre of the German federal state of Brandenburg in Cottbus. It has its own ensemble presenting plays, operas, operettas, musicals, orchestral concerts and ballet.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ströbitz and Sandow.
Kolkwitz
Village
Photo: Raboe001, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Kolkwitz is a municipality in the district of Spree-Neiße, in Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany.
Cottbus
Latitude
51.7567° or 51° 45′ 24″ northLongitude
14.3357° or 14° 20′ 9″ eastPopulation
98,700Elevation
80 metres (262 feet)IATA airport code
CBUUnited Nations Location Code
DE COTOpen location code
9F3PQ84P+M7OpenStreetMap ID
node 1628927045OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2939811Wikidata ID
Q3214
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Cottbus” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Cottbus”
- Arabic: “كتبوس”
- Arabic: “كوتبوس”
- Aragonese: “Cottbus”
- Armenian: “Կոտբուս”
- Arpitan: “Cottbus”
- Asturian: “Cottbus”
- Azerbaijani: “Kotbus”
- Balinese: “Cottbus”
- Bashkir: “Котбус”
- Basque: “Cottbus”
- Bavarian: “Cottbus”
- Belarusian: “Котбус”
- Breton: “Cottbus”
- Bulgarian: “Котбус”
- Catalan: “Cottbus”
- Cebuano: “Kreisfreie Stadt Cottbus”
- Chechen: “Котбус”
- Chinese: “Cottbus”
- Chinese: “科特布斯”
- Corsican: “Cottbus”
- Croatian: “Cottbus”
- Czech: “Choćebuz”
- Czech: “Chóśebuz”
- Czech: “Chotěbuz”
- Czech: “Cottbus”
- Danish: “Cottbus”
- Dimli (individual language): “Cottbus”
- Dutch: “Cottbus”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوتبوس”
- Esperanto: “Cottbus”
- Estonian: “Cottbus”
- Finnish: “Cottbus”
- French: “Cottbus”
- Friulian: “Cottbus”
- Galician: “Cottbus”
- Georgian: “კოტბუსი”
- German: “Chóśebuz”
- German: “Cottbus”
- German: “Cottbus/Chóśebuz”
- German: “Kottbus”
- Greek: “Κότμπους”
- Hakka Chinese: “Cottbus”
- Hebrew: “קוטבוס”
- Hungarian: “Cottbus”
- Icelandic: “Cottbus”
- Ido: “Cottbus”
- Indonesian: “Cottbus”
- Interlingua: “Cottbus”
- Interlingue: “Cottbus”
- Irish: “Cottbus”
- Italian: “Cottbus”
- Japanese: “ガリンヒェン”
- Japanese: “キーケブッシュ (コトブス)”
- Japanese: “コトブス”
- Javanese: “Cottbus”
- Kazakh: “Коттбус”
- Kongo: “Cottbus”
- Korean: “콧부스”
- Kurdish: “Cottbus”
- Ladin: “Cottbus”
- Latin: “Cotbusium”
- Latvian: “Kotbusa”
- Ligurian: “Cottbus”
- Limburgan: “Cottbus”
- Lithuanian: “Kotbusas”
- Lombard: “Cottbus”
- Low German: “Cottbus/Chóśebuz”
- Low German: “Cottbus”
- Lower Sorbian: “Chóśebuz”
- Luxembourgish: “Cottbus”
- Macedonian: “Котбус”
- Malagasy: “Cottbus”
- Malay: “Cottbus”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cottbus”
- Minangkabau: “Cottbus”
- Mingrelian: “კოტბუსი”
- Narom: “Cottbus”
- Neapolitan: “Cottbus”
- Northern Frisian: “Cottbus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chóśebuz”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cottbus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cottbus”
- Norwegian: “Cottbus”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Chóśebuz”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cottbus”
- Ossetian: “Котбус”
- Persian: “کتبوس”
- Persian: “کوتبوس”
- Picard: “Cottbus”
- Piemontese: “Cottbus”
- Polish: “Chociebuż”
- Portuguese: “Cottbus”
- Romanian: “Cottbus”
- Romansh: “Cottbus”
- Russian: “Котбус”
- Sardinian: “Cottbus”
- Saterfriesisch: “Cottbus”
- Scots: “Cottbus”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cottbus”
- Serbian: “Cottbus”
- Serbian: “Котбус”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cottbus/Chośebuz”
- Sicilian: “Cottbus”
- Slovak: “Chotebuz”
- Slovak: “Cottbus”
- Slovenian: “Cottbus”
- South Azerbaijani: “کوتبوس”
- Spanish: “Cottbus”
- Swahili: “Cottbus”
- Swedish: “Cottbus”
- Swiss German: “Cottbus”
- Tatar: “Котбус”
- Thai: “คอทท์บุส”
- Thai: “ค็อทบุส”
- Tumbuka: “Cottbus”
- Turkish: “Chóśebuz”
- Turkish: “Cottbus/Chóśebuz”
- Turkish: “Cottbus”
- Turkish: “Kottbus”
- Ukrainian: “Котбус/Хосебуз”
- Ukrainian: “Котбус”
- Upper Sorbian: “Choćebuz”
- Upper Sorbian: “Chóśebuz”
- Upper Sorbian: “Cottbus”
- Uzbek: “Cottbus”
- Venetian: “Cottbus”
- Vietnamese: “Cottbus”
- Vlaams: “Cottbus”
- Volapük: “Cottbus”
- Walloon: “Cottbus”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cottbus”
- Welsh: “Cottbus”
- Western Frisian: “Cottbus”
- Western Panjabi: “کوٹبس”
- Wolof: “Cottbus”
- Wu Chinese: “科特布斯”
- Yue Chinese: “科特布斯”
- Zulu: “Cottbus”
- “Cottbus”
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