Erfurt
Erfurt is the capital of the German state of Thuringia. The city is the largest one in that province and likewise a major transportation hub.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 213,000 residents
- Description: capital city of the German federal state of Thuringia
- Postal codes: 99090 and 99095
Places of Interest
Highlights include Old Synagogue and Merchants‘ Bridge.
Old Synagogue
Museum
Photo: HeinrichStuerzl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Old Synagogue is a former Jewish synagogue, located in Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany. Dating from the late 11th century, the synagogue is one of the best preserved Medieval synagogues in Europe.
Merchants‘ Bridge
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Krämerbrücke is a medieval arch bridge in the city of Erfurt, in Thuringia, central Germany, which is lined with half-timbered shops and houses on both sides of a cobblestone street.
Erfurt Central Station
Railway station
Erfurt Hauptbahnhof or Erfurt Central Station is the central railway station at Erfurt in Germany. It is an important junction on the German rail network, served by numerous local and long-distance rail services.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hochheim and Dittelstedt.
Erfurt
Latitude
50.9778° or 50° 58′ 40″ northLongitude
11.0287° or 11° 1′ 43″ eastPopulation
213,000Elevation
194 metres (636 feet)IATA airport code
ERFUnited Nations Location Code
DE ERFOpen location code
9F2HX2HH+4FOpenStreetMap ID
node 240038130OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2929670Wikidata ID
Q1729
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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”
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- Aymara: “Erfurt”
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- Balinese: “Erfurt”
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- Bavarian: “Erfurt”
- Belarusian: “Эрфурт”
- Bengali: “এরফুর্ট”
- Bosnian: “Erfurt”
- Breton: “Erfurt”
- Bulgarian: “Ерфурт”
- Catalan: “Erfurt”
- Cebuano: “Erfurt (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Kreisfreie Stadt Erfurt”
- Central Kurdish: “ئێرفورت”
- Chechen: “Эрфурт”
- Chinese: “Erfurt”
- Chinese: “埃尔富特”
- Chinese: “埃尔福特”
- Chinese: “爱尔福特”
- Chinese: “艾福特”
- Chinese: “艾雅福”
- Chuvash: “Эрфурт”
- Corsican: “Erfurt”
- Croatian: “Erfurt”
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- 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”
- Hungarian: “Erfurt”
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- Ido: “Erfurt”
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- Irish: “Erfurt”
- Italian: “Erfurt”
- Japanese: “エアフルト”
- Javanese: “Erfurt”
- Kannada: “ಎರ್ಫರ್ಟ್”
- Kashubian: “Erfurt”
- Kazakh: “Эрфурт”
- Kirghiz: “Эрфурт”
- Kongo: “Erfurt”
- Korean: “에르푸르트”
- Kurdish: “Erfurt”
- Ladin: “Erfurt”
- Latin: “Erfordia”
- Latin: “Erpsfordia [a. 1222]”
- Latvian: “Erfurte”
- Ligurian: “Erfurt”
- Limburgan: “Erfurt”
- Lithuanian: “Erfurtas”
- Lombard: “Erfurt”
- Low German: “Erfurt”
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- 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”
- Mongolian: “Эрфурт”
- Narom: “Erfurt”
- Neapolitan: “Erfurt”
- Nepali: “अरफ़र्ट”
- Northern Frisian: “Erfurt”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Erfurt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Erfurt”
- Norwegian: “Erfurt”
- Novial: “Erfurt”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Erfurt”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Erfesford”
- Old High German (ca. 750-1050): “Erphesfurt [a. 742]”
- Ossetian: “Эрфурт”
- Persian: “ارفورت”
- Picard: “Erfurt”
- Piemontese: “Erfurt”
- Polish: “Erfurt”
- Portuguese: “Erfurt”
- Pushto: “ارفورت”
- Quechua: “Erfurt”
- Romanian: “Erfurt”
- Romansh: “Erfurt”
- Russian: “Эрфурт (город)”
- Russian: “Эрфурт”
- Rusyn: “Ерфурт”
- Saraiki: “ایرفورٹ”
- Sardinian: “Erfurt”
- Saterfriesisch: “Erfurt”
- Scots: “Erfurt”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Erfurt”
- Serbian: “Erfurt”
- Serbian: “Ерфурт”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Erfurt”
- Sicilian: “Erfurt”
- Silesian: “Erfurt”
- Sinhala: “එර්ෆර්ට්”
- Slovak: “Erfurt”
- Slovenian: “Erfurt”
- South Azerbaijani: “ارفورت”
- Spanish: “Erfurt”
- Spanish: “Érfurt”
- Swahili: “Erfurt”
- Swedish: “Erfurt”
- Swiss German: “Erfurt”
- Tagalog: “Erfurt”
- Tamil: “ஏர்பியூர்ட்”
- Tatar: “Эрфурт”
- Telugu: “అర్ఫర్ట్”
- Thai: “แอร์ฟวร์ท”
- Thai: “แอร์ฟูร์ท”
- Tosk Albanian: “Erfurt”
- Tumbuka: “Erfurt”
- Turkish: “Erfurt”
- Ukrainian: “Ерфурт”
- Upper Sorbian: “Jarobrod”
- Urdu: “ایرفورٹ”
- Urdu: “یرفورت”
- Uzbek: “Erfurt”
- Venetian: “Erfurt”
- Veps: “Erfurt”
- Vietnamese: “Erfurt”
- Vlaams: “Erfurt”
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- Walloon: “Erfurt”
- Waray (Philippines): “Erfurt”
- 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”
- “Erfurt”
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