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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 32,900 residents
- Description: city in the Forchheim District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
- Also known as: “Forchheim/Oberfranken”
Photo: Benreis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Forchheim and Kellerberg.
Forchheim
Railway station
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Forchheim station is a railway station in the town of Forchheim, in the Forchheim district in Upper Franconia, Germany. The station is located at the junction of the Nuremberg–Bamberg and Forchheim–Behringersmühle lines of Deutsche Bahn.
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
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.7201° or 49° 43′ 12″ northLongitude
11.0579° or 11° 3′ 29″ eastPopulation
32,900Elevation
261 metres (856 feet)United Nations Location Code
DE FOHOpen location code
8FXHP3C5+25OpenStreetMap ID
node 21749653OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Forchheim” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Forchheim”
- Arabic: “فورشهايم (اوبرفرانكن)”
- 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 (Oberfranken)”
- German: “Forchheim / Bayern”
- German: “Forchheim”
- German: “Forchheim/Oberfranken”
- 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”
- 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”
- Narom: “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”
- 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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