Föhr
Föhr is one of the North Frisian Islands. One of the island's main attraction is the 12 km sand beach on the southern shore.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in North Frisia, Germany
- Also known as: “Foehr”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Museum Kunst der Westküste and Lembecksburg.
Museum Kunst der Westküste
Museum
Photo: E-W, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Museum Kunst der Westküste is a non-profit foundation, located in Alkersum on the north Frisian island, Föhr. The museum collects, researches, communicates and exhibits art that deals with the themes of sea and coast.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wyk auf Föhr and Goting.
Wyk auf Föhr
Town
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Wyk auf Föhr is the only town on Föhr, the second largest of the North Frisian Islands on the German coast of the North Sea. Like the entire island it belongs to the district of Nordfriesland.
Föhr
- Category: landform
- Location: Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Föhr” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة فوهر”
- Basque: “Föhr”
- Breton: “Föhr”
- Bulgarian: “Фьор”
- Catalan: “Föhr”
- Cebuano: “Föhr”
- Chinese: “弗尔岛”
- Chinese: “弗爾”
- Danish: “Før”
- Dutch: “Fohr”
- Dutch: “Föhr”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره فوهر”
- Esperanto: “Föhr”
- Estonian: “Föhr”
- French: “Föhr”
- Georgian: “ფერი”
- German: “Föhr”
- Hungarian: “Föhr”
- Icelandic: “Föhr”
- Indonesian: “Föhr”
- Italian: “Föhr”
- Japanese: “フェール島”
- Latin: “Fora”
- Lithuanian: “Fėras”
- Macedonian: “Фер”
- Northern Frisian: “Feer”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Föhr”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Föhr”
- Norwegian: “Föhr”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Feer”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Föhr”
- Persian: “فوهر”
- Polish: “Föhr”
- Russian: “Фёр”
- Saterfriesisch: “Föhr”
- Slovenian: “Foehr”
- Slovenian: “Föhr”
- Spanish: “Föhr”
- Swedish: “Föhr”
- Ukrainian: “Фер”
- Ukrainian: “Фьор”
- Upper Sorbian: “Föhr”
- Vietnamese: “Föhr”
- Western Frisian: “Feer”
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