Hesse
South Hesse
Wetteraukreis

Friedberg

Friedberg is a charming medieval town dating to the 12th or 13th century in . Its main claim to international fame is the fact that Elvis Presley was stationed here during his military service.
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  • Type: Town with 27,500 residents
  • Description: seat of Wetteraukreis and town in Hesse, Germany
  • Also known as: “Friedberg (Hessen)”, “Friedberg in der Wetterau”, “Friedberg in Hessen”, “Friedberg, Hesse”, and “Friedburg”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Adolfsturm Friedberg and Wetterau-Museum.

Scenic viewpoint
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is a scenic viewpoint.

Museum
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bad Nauheim.

Photo: Dysmachus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is in . It has beautiful parks and a cozy old town, geared towards the many senior citizens who take a spa treatment here but also a good destination for family outings.

Friedberg

Latitude
50.3366° or 50° 20′ 12″ north
Longitude
8.7537° or 8° 45′ 13″ east
Population
27,500
Elevation
159 metres (522 feet)
United Nations Location Code
DE FRB
Open location code
9F2C8QP3+JF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31440660
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2924802
Wiki­data ID
Q516485
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Friedberg” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Friedberg”
  • Arabic: “فريدبرغ هسن”
  • Arabic: “فريدبرغ”
  • Aragonese: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • Aragonese: “Friedberg”
  • Arpitan: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • Asturian: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • Basque: “Friedberg”
  • Bavarian: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • Belarusian: “Фрыдберг”
  • Breton: “Friedberg”
  • Bulgarian: “Фридберг”
  • Catalan: “Friedberg”
  • Cebuano: “Friedberg (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Friedberg”
  • Chechen: “Фридберг”
  • Chinese: “弗里德贝格”
  • Chinese: “黑森州弗里德貝格”
  • Chinese: “黑森州弗里德贝格”
  • Corsican: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • Croatian: “Friedberg”
  • Czech: “Friedberg”
  • Danish: “Friedberg”
  • Dutch: “Friedberg”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فريدبرج هسن”
  • Esperanto: “Friedberg”
  • Estonian: “Friedberg”
  • Finnish: “Friedberg”
  • French: “Friedberg”
  • Friulian: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • Galician: “Friedberg, Hessen”
  • Galician: “Friedberg”
  • German: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • German: “Friedberg”
  • Greek: “Φρίντμπεργκ”
  • Hebrew: “פרידברג”
  • Hungarian: “Friedberg”
  • Icelandic: “Friedberg”
  • Ido: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • Indonesian: “Friedberg, Hessen”
  • Indonesian: “Friedberg”
  • Interlingua: “Friedberg”
  • Interlingue: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • Irish: “Friedberg”
  • Italian: “Friedberg”
  • Japanese: “フリートベルク”
  • Kongo: “Friedberg”
  • Korean: “프리트베르그”
  • Kurdish: “Friedberg, Hessen”
  • Ladin: “Friedberg”
  • Ligurian: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • Limburgan: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • Lithuanian: “Fridbergas”
  • Low German: “Friedberg”
  • Luxembourgish: “Friedberg”
  • Malagasy: “Friedberg”
  • Malay: “Friedberg, Hesse”
  • Malay: “Friedberg”
  • Minangkabau: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • Narom: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • Neapolitan: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Friedberg”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Friedberg i Hessen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Friedberg”
  • Norwegian: “Friedberg”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Friedberg”
  • Ossetian: “Фридберг (Гессен)”
  • Ossetian: “Фридберг”
  • Persian: “فریدبرگ، هسن”
  • Persian: “فریدبرگ”
  • Picard: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • Piemontese: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • Polish: “Friedberg”
  • Portuguese: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • Portuguese: “Friedberg”
  • Romanian: “Friedberg”
  • Romansh: “Friedberg”
  • Russian: “Фридберг”
  • Sardinian: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • Scots: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Friedberg”
  • Serbian: “Fridberg”
  • Serbian: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • Serbian: “Фридберг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Friedberg”
  • Sicilian: “Friedberg”
  • Slovak: “Friedberg”
  • Slovenian: “Friedberg”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فریدبرق، هسن”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فریدبرق”
  • Spanish: “Friedberg”
  • Swahili: “Friedberg”
  • Swedish: “Friedberg, Hessen”
  • Swedish: “Friedberg”
  • Swiss German: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • Tatar: “Фридберг”
  • Tumbuka: “Friedberg, Hesse”
  • Tumbuka: “Friedberg”
  • Turkish: “Friedberg”
  • Ukrainian: “Фрідберг”
  • Uzbek: “Friedberg”
  • Uzbek: “Фриедберг”
  • Venetian: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • Vietnamese: “Friedberg, Hessen”
  • Vietnamese: “Friedberg”
  • Vlaams: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • Volapük: “Friedberg”
  • Walloon: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Friedberg, Hesse”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Friedberg”
  • Welsh: “Friedberg”
  • Western Frisian: “Friedberch”
  • Wolof: “Friedberg (Hessen)”
  • Zulu: “Friedberg (Hessen)”

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