Freital

Freital is a town in the Elbe Valley region of . One of the major centers of coal-mining, Freital preserves late 19th-century buildings and some technical landmarks, including the historical narrow-gauge railway Weißeritztalbahn.
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  • Type: Town with 39,300 residents
  • Description: town in the district of Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge in the Free State of Saxony, Germany
  • Also known as: Freithal
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Freital-Potschappel station and Jochhöhschlösschen.

Railway station
is a station on the Dresden–Werdau railway in the district of Potschappel of the municipality of Freital in the German state of .

Fountain
Photo: Inkowik32, Public domain.
is a fountain.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gorbitz and Pesterwitz.

Suburb
is an area in south-west , . It is part of the Stadtbezirk Cotta, and is subdivided into three Stadtteile: Gorbitz-Nord/Neu-Omsewitz, Gorbitz-Ost and Gorbitz-Sud. is situated 3½ km north of Freital.

Suburb
is a suburb.

Suburb
is a municipal subdivision of Freital in district.

Freital

Latitude
51.0163° or 51° 0′ 59″ north
Longitude
13.653° or 13° 39′ 11″ east
Population
39,300
Elevation
171 metres (561 feet)
United Nations Location Code
DE FTA
Open location code
9F3M2M83+G6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240024401
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2925017
Wiki­data ID
Q5870
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Freital” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: فرايتال
  • Aragonese: Freital
  • Bashkir: Фрайталь
  • Basque: Freital
  • Belarusian: Фрайталь
  • Bulgarian: Фрайтал
  • Catalan: Freital
  • Cebuano: Freital
  • Chechen: Фрайталь
  • Chinese: 弗賴塔爾
  • Chinese: 弗赖塔尔
  • Czech: Freital
  • Danish: Freital
  • Dutch: Freital
  • Esperanto: Freital
  • French: Freital
  • German: Einheitsgemeinde Freital
  • German: Freital
  • German: Große Kreisstadt Freital
  • German: Kreisstadt Freital
  • German: Stadt Freital
  • German: Wilhelmine-Reichard-Stadt
  • Hakka Chinese: Freital
  • Hebrew: פרייטאל
  • Hungarian: Freital
  • Irish: Freital
  • Italian: Freital
  • Japanese: フライタール
  • Kazakh: Фрайталь
  • Kirghiz: Фрайталь
  • Kurdish: Freital
  • Ladin: Freital
  • Latvian: Freitāle
  • Macedonian: Фрајтал
  • Malay: Freital
  • Northern Frisian: Freital
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Freital
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Freital
  • Norwegian: Freital
  • Occitan (post 1500): Einheitsgemeinde de Freital
  • Occitan (post 1500): Freital
  • Persian: فرایتال
  • Polish: Freital
  • Portuguese: Freital
  • Romanian: Freital
  • Russian: Фрайталь
  • Scots: Freital
  • Serbian: Фрајтал
  • Serbo-Croatian: Freital
  • Silesian: Freital
  • Slovak: Freital
  • Slovenian: Freital
  • South Azerbaijani: فرایتال
  • Spanish: Freital
  • Swedish: Freital
  • Tatar: Фрайталь
  • Tumbuka: Freital
  • Turkish: Freital
  • Turkish: Große Kreisstadt Freital
  • Turkish: Kreisstadt Freital
  • Turkish: Stadt Freital
  • Turkish: Wilhelmine-Reichard-Stadt
  • Ukrainian: Фрайталь
  • Upper Sorbian: Freital
  • Uzbek: Freital
  • Vietnamese: Freital
  • Volapük: Freital
  • Waray (Philippines): Freital
  • Welsh: Freital
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