Forchheim
Forchheim is a small town in Franconia with an interesting old town. Forchheim is most famous for its ten-day-long beer and music festival which takes place in late July in an idyllic wooded hillside, home to 24 beer gardens, on the outskirts of the town.
- Type: Town with 32,900 residents
- Description: city in the Forchheim District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
- Also known as: “Forchheim (Oberfranken)”, “Forchheim/Oberfranken”, and “فورشهايم (اوبرفرانكن)”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Schleusenwärterhaus 93 and Forchheim.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Burk (Forchheim) and Buckenhofen.
Forchheim
- Categories: Greater district town, urban municipality in Germany, district capital, and locality
- Location: Forchheim, Upper Franconia, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
49.7201° or 49° 43′ 12″ north
Longitude
11.0579° or 11° 3′ 29″ east
Population
32,900
Elevation
261 metres (856 feet)
UN/LOCODE
DE FOH
Open location code
8FXHP3C5+25
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Forchheim” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Forchheim”
- Arabic: “فورشهايم”
- Aragonese: “Forchheim”
- Armenian: “Ֆորխհայմ”
- Arpitan: “Forchheim”
- Asturian: “Forchheim”
- Basque: “Forchheim”
- Bavarian: “Forchheim”
- Belarusian: “Форхгайм”
- Breton: “Forchheim”
- Catalan: “Forchheim”
- Cebuano: “Forchheim”
- Chechen: “Форххайм”
- Chinese: “福希海姆”
- Corsican: “Forchheim”
- Croatian: “Forchheim”
- Czech: “Forchheim”
- Danish: “Forchheim”
- Dutch: “Forchheim”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فورشهايم”
- Esperanto: “Forchheim”
- Estonian: “Forchheim”
- Finnish: “Forchheim”
- French: “Forchheim”
- Friulian: “Forchheim”
- Galician: “Forchheim”
- German: “Forchheim / Bayern”
- German: “Forchheim”
- Hebrew: “פורשהיים”
- Hungarian: “Forchheim”
- Icelandic: “Forchheim”
- Ido: “Forchheim”
- Indonesian: “Forchheim”
- Interlingua: “Forchheim”
- Interlingue: “Forchheim”
- Irish: “Forchheim”
- Italian: “Forchheim”
- Japanese: “フォルヒハイム”
- Jèrriais: “Forchheim”
- Kazakh: “Форххайм”
- Kirghiz: “Форххайм”
- Kongo: “Forchheim”
- Korean: “포르히하임”
- Kurdish: “Forchheim”
- Ladin: “Forchheim”
- Ligurian: “Forchheim”
- Limburgan: “Forchheim”
- Lithuanian: “Forchheimas”
- Lombard: “Forchheim”
- Low German: “Forchheim”
- Luxembourgish: “Forchheim”
- Malagasy: “Forchheim”
- Malay: “Forchheim”
- Minangkabau: “Forchheim”
- Neapolitan: “Forchheim”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Forchheim”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Forchheim”
- Norwegian: “Forchheim”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Forchheim”
- Persian: “فرشهايم”
- Persian: “فرشهایم”
- Persian: “فورشهایم”
- Picard: “Forchheim”
- Piemontese: “Forchheim”
- Polish: “Forchheim”
- Portuguese: “Forchheim”
- Romanian: “Forchheim”
- Romansh: “Forchheim”
- Russian: “Форххайм”
- Sardinian: “Forchheim”
- Scots: “Forchheim”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Forchheim”
- Serbian: “Forchheim”
- Serbian: “Форххајм”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Forchheim”
- Sicilian: “Forchheim”
- Slovak: “Forchheim”
- Slovenian: “Forchheim”
- Spanish: “Forchheim”
- Swahili: “Forchheim”
- Swedish: “Forchheim”
- Swiss German: “Forchheim”
- Tatar: “Форххайм”
- Turkish: “Forchheim”
- Ukrainian: “Форхгайм”
- Urdu: “فورخہائیم”
- Uzbek: “Forchheim”
- Venetian: “Forchheim”
- Vietnamese: “Forchheim”
- Vlaams: “Forchheim”
- Volapük: “Forchheim”
- Walloon: “Forchheim”
- Waray (Philippines): “Forchheim”
- Welsh: “Forchheim”
- Western Panjabi: “فورچہایم”
- Wolof: “Forchheim”
- Zulu: “Forchheim”
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