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Dachau

Dachau

Dachau is a city with about 44,800 citizens in , and has a history of more than 1,200 years, but best known for being the location of the very first Nazi concentration camp.
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  • Type: Town with 45,600 residents
  • Description: town in Upper Bavaria district of Bavaria in Germany
  • Also known as: “Dachau, Bavaria”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dachau Palace and Dachau Bahnhof.

Castle
Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a former residence of the rulers of Bavaria at Dachau, southern .

Railway station
Photo: WiNG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dachau station is a station in the town of Dachau on the Munich S-Bahn network. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station and it has five platform tracks.

Church
Photo: Rufus46, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hebertshausen and Karlsfeld.

Village
Photo: K.Baas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a municipality in the district of in in Germany. is situated 4 km northeast of Dachau.

Village
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is a municipality in the , and a suburb to Munich in , Germany. During World War II, it was the location of a subcamp of . is situated 4½ km southeast of Dachau.

Suburb
Photo: GFreihalter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb.

Dachau

Latitude
48.2595° or 48° 15′ 34″ north
Longitude
11.4347° or 11° 26′ 5″ east
Population
45,600
Elevation
502 metres (1,647 feet)
IATA airport code
ZCR
United Nations Location Code
DE DAC
Open location code
8FWH7C5M+RV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240024838
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2939623
Wiki­data ID
Q7077
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Dachau” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Dachau”
  • Arabic: “داخاو”
  • Aragonese: “Dachau”
  • Armenian: “Դախաու”
  • Arpitan: “Dachau”
  • Asturian: “Dachau”
  • Basque: “Dachau”
  • Bavarian: “Dochau”
  • Belarusian: “Дахау”
  • Bosnian: “Dachau”
  • Breton: “Dachau”
  • Bulgarian: “Дахау”
  • Catalan: “Dachau”
  • Cebuano: “Dachau (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Dachau”
  • Chinese: “达豪”
  • Chinese: “達豪”
  • Corsican: “Dachau”
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  • Czech: “Dachau”
  • Danish: “Dachau”
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  • Finnish: “Dachau”
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  • Galician: “Dachau”
  • German: “Dachau”
  • Greek: “Νταχάου”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Dachau”
  • Hebrew: “דכאו”
  • Hungarian: “Dachau”
  • Icelandic: “Dachau”
  • Ido: “Dachau”
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  • Interlingua: “Dachau”
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  • Irish: “Dachau”
  • Italian: “Dachau”
  • Japanese: “ダッハウ”
  • Kazakh: “Дахау”
  • Kirghiz: “Дахау”
  • Kongo: “Dachau”
  • Korean: “다하우”
  • Kurdish: “Dachau”
  • Ladin: “Dachau”
  • Latin: “Dachanum”
  • Latvian: “Dahava”
  • Ligurian: “Dachau”
  • Limburgan: “Dachau”
  • Lithuanian: “Dachau”
  • Lombard: “Dachau”
  • Low German: “Dachau”
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  • Macedonian: “Дахау”
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  • Northern Frisian: “Dachau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dachau”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dachau”
  • Norwegian: “Dachau”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dachau”
  • Persian: “داخائو”
  • Persian: “داخاو”
  • Persian: “داشاو”
  • Picard: “Dachau”
  • Piemontese: “Dachau”
  • Polish: “Dachau”
  • Portuguese: “Dachau”
  • Romanian: “Dachau”
  • Romansh: “Dachau”
  • Russian: “Дахау (город)”
  • Russian: “Дахау”
  • Sardinian: “Dachau”
  • Scots: “Dachau”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dachau”
  • Serbian: “Dachau”
  • Serbian: “Дахау”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dachau”
  • Sicilian: “Dachau”
  • Slovak: “Dachau”
  • Slovenian: “Dachau”
  • South Azerbaijani: “داخاو”
  • Spanish: “Dachau”
  • Swahili: “Dachau”
  • Swedish: “Dachau”
  • Swiss German: “Dachau”
  • Tamil: “டேச்சு”
  • Tatar: “Дахау”
  • Thai: “ดัคเคา”
  • Thai: “ดาเคา”
  • Tumbuka: “Dachau, Bavaria”
  • Tumbuka: “Dachau”
  • Turkish: “Dachau”
  • Ukrainian: “Дахау”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Dachau”
  • Uzbek: “Dachau”
  • Venetian: “Dachau”
  • Vietnamese: “Dachau”
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  • Waray (Philippines): “Dachau”
  • Welsh: “Dachau”
  • Western Frisian: “Dachau”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈاکسو”
  • Wolof: “Dachau”
  • Wu Chinese: “达豪”
  • Yiddish: “דאכוי”
  • Yue Chinese: “達豪”
  • Zulu: “Dachau”

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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 “Dachau”. Photo: Guido Radig, CC BY 3.0.