Faxe
Faxe is a city in Zealand that is famous for its limestone quarry and clean water which was the base for the brewery Faxe started by Nicoline Nielsen. Faxe was called Fakse until the beginning of 2007.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 3,830 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Historically known as: “Fakse”
- Postal code: 4640
Places of Interest
Highlights include Faxe Limestone Quarry and Geomuseum Faxe.
Faxe Limestone Quarry
Paleontological site
Photo: Thuecl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Faxe Limestone Quarry is a paleontological site.
Faxe Church
Church
Photo: Storgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Faxe Church is a Danish church located in the Diocese of Roskilde, in Faxe, Region Sjælland on the island of Zealand. It was built at the end of the 15th century on a site where there had originally been a Romanesque church.
Faxe
- Category: locality
- Location: Faxe Municipality, Region Zealand, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.2521° or 55° 15′ 8″ northLongitude
12.1142° or 12° 6′ 51″ eastPopulation
3,830Elevation
67 metres (220 feet)United Nations Location Code
DK AAMOpen location code
9F7J7427+RMOpenStreetMap ID
node 9105385739OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Faxe” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Fakse”
- Afrikaans: “Faxe”
- Asturian: “Faxe”
- Bulgarian: “Факсе”
- Catalan: “Faxe”
- Cebuano: “Fakse”
- Chinese: “法克瑟”
- Danish: “Fakse”
- Danish: “Faxe”
- Dutch: “Fakse (plaats)”
- Dutch: “Fakse”
- Faroese: “Fakse”
- Faroese: “Faxe”
- French: “Faxe”
- German: “Fakse”
- German: “Faxe (Ort)”
- German: “Faxe”
- Italian: “Fakse”
- Japanese: “ファクセ”
- Korean: “팍세”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fakse”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Faxe”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fakse”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Faxe”
- Norwegian: “Fakse”
- Norwegian: “Faxe”
- Polish: “Fakse”
- Polish: “Faxe”
- Polish: “Gmina Fakse”
- Portuguese: “Fakse”
- Romanian: “Fakse”
- Romanian: “Faxe”
- Russian: “Факсе”
- Spanish: “Faxe”
- Swedish: “Fakse”
- Swedish: “Faxe”
- Turkish: “Faxe”
- Welsh: “Faxe”
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