Forbach
Forbach is in Lorraine on the German border approximately 15 minutes from the centre of Saarbrücken, Germany.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jean-Marc Pascolo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Town with 21,100 residents
- Description: commune in Moselle, France
- Also known as: “Fuerboch”
- Postal code: 57600
- Neighbors: Saarbrücken
Places of Interest
Highlights include Forbach station and Le Carreau.
Forbach station
Railway station
Photo: Thommess, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Forbach railway station is a railway station in Forbach in the Moselle department of north-eastern France. It is the last station in France before the German border at Saarbrücken.
Château Barrabino
Historic building
Photo: Jean-Marc Pascolo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Château Barrabino is a historic building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Œting and Petite-Rosselle.
Petite-Rosselle
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Petite-Rosselle is a commune in the Moselle department of the Grand Est region in north-eastern France. The commune is separated from neighbouring Großrosseln to its west by the small river Rossel, which forms the border between France and Germany. Petite-Rosselle is situated 4 km northwest of Forbach.
Schœneck
Village
Photo: Alain meier, CC0.
Schœneck is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It is located in the Warndt Basin, and is a border town with Germany, wedged between Stiring-Wendel and Saarbrücken. Schœneck is situated 4½ km northeast of Forbach.
Forbach
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Arrondissement de Forbach-Boulay-Moselle, Moselle, Grand Est, France, Europe
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Latitude
49.1863° or 49° 11′ 11″ northLongitude
6.8959° or 6° 53′ 45″ eastPopulation
21,100Elevation
208 metres (682 feet)United Nations Location Code
FR FOROpen location code
8FX85VPW+G8OpenStreetMap ID
node 26692207OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Forbach” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Forbach”
- Arabic: “فورباخ”
- Aragonese: “Forbach”
- Armenian: “Ֆորբակ”
- Arpitan: “Forbach”
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- Bambara: “Forbach”
- Basque: “Forbach”
- Bavarian: “Forbach”
- Belarusian: “Фарбак”
- Breton: “Forbach”
- Breton: “Fuerboch”
- Bulgarian: “Форбак”
- Bulgarian: “Форбах”
- Cajun French: “Forbach”
- Catalan: “Forbach”
- Cebuano: “Forbach”
- Chechen: “ФогӀбак”
- Chinese: “Forbach”
- Chinese: “福尔巴克”
- Chinese: “福爾巴克”
- Corsican: “Forbach”
- Croatian: “Forbach”
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- Dimli (individual language): “Forbach”
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- Dutch: “Fuerboch”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فورباخ”
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- French: “Fuerboch”
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- German: “Forbach”
- German: “Fuerboch”
- Greek: “Φορμπάκ”
- Hebrew: “פורבק”
- Hungarian: “Forbach”
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- Italian: “Forbach”
- Italian: “Fuerboch”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Forbach”
- Japanese: “フォルバック”
- Kabyle: “Forbach”
- Kalaallisut: “Forbach”
- Kazakh: “Форбак”
- Kongo: “Forbach”
- Korean: “포르바크”
- Kurdish: “Forbach”
- Ladin: “Forbach”
- Latin: “Forbach”
- Latin: “Forbacum”
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- Mazanderani: “فوربک”
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- Neapolitan: “Forbach”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Forbach”
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- Norwegian: “Forbach”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Forbach”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Fuerboch”
- Papiamento: “Forbach”
- Persian: “فوربک”
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- Romansh: “Forbach”
- Russian: “Форбак”
- Russian: “Форбах”
- Russian: “Форбаш”
- Sardinian: “Forbach”
- Scots: “Forbach”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Forbach”
- Serbian: “Forbach”
- Serbian: “Форбах”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Forbach”
- Sicilian: “Forbach”
- Slovak: “Forbach”
- Slovenian: “Forbach, Moselle”
- Slovenian: “Forbach”
- Spanish: “Forbach”
- Spanish: “Fuerboch”
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- Swedish: “Forbach”
- Swiss German: “Fuerboch”
- Tatar: “Форбак”
- Tosk Albanian: “Forbach”
- Turkish: “Forbach”
- Ukrainian: “Форбак”
- Uzbek: “Forbach”
- Venetian: “Forbach”
- Vietnamese: “Forbach, Moselle”
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