Erfurt

Erfurt is the capital and largest city of the German state of , with a population of around 215,000. Located at a major geographic and transportation crossroads in central Germany, the city is characterized by its large, intact medieval old town.
Photo: JFKCom, CC BY 2.5.
  • City with 213,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 194 metres (636 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code ERF
  • Description: capital city of the German federal state of Thuringia
  • Postal codes
    99090
    99095

Places of Interest

Highlights include Old Synagogue and Merchants‘ Bridge.

Museum
The is a former Jewish synagogue, located in Erfurt, , .

The Krämerbrücke is a medieval arch bridge in the city…

Railway station
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
Erfurt Hauptbahnhof or is the central railway station at Erfurt in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hochheim and Dittelstedt.

Suburb
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Village
is a village.

Neighborhood
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Erfurt

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Latitude
50.9778° or 50° 58′ 40″ north
Longitude
11.0287° or 11° 1′ 43″ east
UN/LOCODE
DE ERF
Open location code
9F2HX2HH+4F
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Open­Street­Map feature
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Erfurt” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Erfurt”
  • Albanian: “Erfurti”
  • Amharic: “ኤርፉርት”
  • Arabic: “إرفورت”
  • Aragonese: “Erfurt”
  • Armenian: “Էրֆուրտ”
  • Arpitan: “Erfurt”
  • Asturian: “Erfurt”
  • Aymara: “Erfurt”
  • Azerbaijani: “Erfurt”
  • Balinese: “Erfurt”
  • Bashkir: “Эрфурт”
  • Basque: “Erfurt”
  • Bavarian: “Erfurt”
  • Belarusian: “Эрфурт”
  • Bengali: “এরফার্ট”
  • Bengali: “এরফুর্ট”
  • Bosnian: “Erfurt”
  • Breton: “Erfurt”
  • Bulgarian: “Ерфурт”
  • Catalan: “Erfurt”
  • Cebuano: “Erfurt (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Kreisfreie Stadt Erfurt”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئێرفورت”
  • Chechen: “Эрфурт”
  • Chinese: “埃尔富特”
  • Chinese: “埃尔福特”
  • Chinese: “爱尔福特”
  • Chinese: “艾福特”
  • Chuvash: “Эрфурт”
  • Corsican: “Erfurt”
  • Croatian: “Erfurt”
  • Czech: “Erfurt”
  • Danish: “Erfurt”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Erfurt”
  • Dutch: “Erfurt”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ارفورت”
  • Esperanto: “Erfurto”
  • Estonian: “Erfurt”
  • Extremaduran: “Erfurt”
  • Finnish: “Erfurt”
  • Frankish: “Erpisfurt”
  • French: “Erfurt”
  • Friulian: “Erfurt”
  • Galician: “Erfurt”
  • Georgian: “ერფურტი”
  • German: “Erfurt”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍆𐌿𐍂𐍄”
  • Greek: “Ερφούρτη”
  • Gujarati: “એરફર્ટ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Erfurt”
  • Hausa: “Erfurt”
  • Hebrew: “ארפורט”
  • Hindi: “अरफ़र्ट”
  • Hindi: “एरफर्ट”
  • Hungarian: “Erfurt”
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  • Ido: “Erfurt”
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  • Irish: “Erfurt”
  • Italian: “Erfurt”
  • Japanese: “エアフルト”
  • Javanese: “Erfurt”
  • Jèrriais: “Erfurt”
  • Kannada: “ಎರ್ಫರ್ಟ್”
  • Kashubian: “Erfurt”
  • Kazakh: “Эрфурт”
  • Kirghiz: “Эрфурт”
  • Kongo: “Erfurt”
  • Korean: “에르푸르트”
  • Kotava: “Erfurt”
  • Kurdish: “Erfurt”
  • Ladin: “Erfurt”
  • Latin: “Erfordia”
  • Latin: “Erpsfordia [a. 1222]”
  • Latvian: “Erfurte”
  • Ligurian: “Erfurt”
  • Limburgan: “Erfurt”
  • Lithuanian: “Erfurtas”
  • Lombard: “Erfurt”
  • Low German: “Erfurt”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Erfurt”
  • Luxembourgish: “Erfurt”
  • Macedonian: “Ерфурт”
  • Malagasy: “Erfurt”
  • Malay: “Erfurt”
  • Marathi: “एरफुर्ट”
  • Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500): “Erfesfurt [a. 1144]”
  • Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500): “Erphord [a. 1210]”
  • Middle Low German: “Erpesforth [a. 1133]”
  • Middle Low German: “Erpsfurd [a. 1196]”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Erfurt”
  • Minangkabau: “Erfurt”
  • Mingrelian: “ერფურტი”
  • Moksha: “Эрфурт”
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  • Neapolitan: “Erfurt”
  • Nepali: “अरफ़र्ट”
  • Northern Frisian: “Erfurt”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Erfurt”
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  • Novial: “Erfurt”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Erfurt”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Erfesford”
  • Old High German (ca. 750-1050): “Erphesfurt [a. 742]”
  • Oromo: “Erfurt”
  • Ossetian: “Эрфурт”
  • Panjabi: “ਐਰਫਰਟ”
  • Persian: “ارفورت”
  • Picard: “Erfurt”
  • Piemontese: “Erfurt”
  • Polish: “Erfurt”
  • Portuguese: “Erfurt”
  • Pushto: “ارفورت”
  • Pushto: “ایرفرت”
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  • Romanian: “Erfurt”
  • Romansh: “Erfurt”
  • Russian: “Эрфурт (город)”
  • Russian: “Эрфурт”
  • Rusyn: “Ерфурт”
  • Saraiki: “ایرفورٹ”
  • Sardinian: “Erfurt”
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  • Sicilian: “Erfurt”
  • Silesian: “Erfurt”
  • Sinhala: “එර්ෆර්ට්”
  • Slovak: “Erfurt”
  • Slovenian: “Erfurt”
  • Somali: “Erfurt”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ارفورت”
  • Spanish: “Erfurt”
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  • Swedish: “Erfurt”
  • Swiss German: “Erfurt”
  • Tagalog: “Erfurt”
  • Tajik: “Эрфурт”
  • Tamil: “ஏர்பியூர்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Эрфурт”
  • Telugu: “అర్ఫర్ట్”
  • Thai: “แอร์ฟวร์ท”
  • Thai: “แอร์ฟูร์ท”
  • Tumbuka: “Erfurt”
  • Turkish: “Erfurt”
  • Ukrainian: “Ерфурт”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Jarobrod”
  • Urdu: “ایرفرٹ”
  • Urdu: “ایرفورٹ”
  • Urdu: “یرفورت”
  • Uzbek: “Erfurt”
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  • Veps: “Erfurt”
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  • Welsh: “Erfurt”
  • Western Frisian: “Erfurt”
  • Western Panjabi: “ارفرٹ”
  • Wolof: “Erfurt”
  • Wu Chinese: “爱尔福特”
  • Yiddish: “ערפורט”
  • Yoruba: “Erfurt”
  • Yue Chinese: “艾雅福”
  • Zulu: “Erfurt”

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Localities in the Area

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Thuringia: Highlights

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