Baden-Württemberg
Rhine-Neckar
Karlsruhe Region

Heidelberg

Heidelberg is a jewel among travel destinations. Heidelberg has retained its baroque charm of narrow streets, picturesque houses and of course the world-famous Schloss. It is home to the oldest university in Germany.
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  • Type: City with 152,000 residents
  • Description: large city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  • Also known as: “Heidelburg”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Heidelberg Castle and Heidelberg Central Station.

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is a ruin in Germany and landmark of Heidelberg. The castle ruins are among the most important Renaissance structures north of the Alps.

Railway station
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Heidelberg Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station for the city of Heidelberg. In 2005 it was used by around 42,000 passengers per day and is one of the largest passenger stations in the German state of .

Museum
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The was established in Heidelberg, , in the early 1990s, as a memorial to Sinti and Roma people who were killed by the National Socialists Party.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Heidelberg old town and Neuenheimer Feld.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Quarter
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is an area in the city of Heidelberg, , . The area lies on the north side of the river and consists mostly of buildings associated with the University of Heidelberg, including student accommodation and research facilities, as well as the .

Suburb
Bergheim is a district of the German city of Heidelberg. It is bounded on the North by the , the East by the Bismarkplatz, on the South by the Kurfürsten Anlage and the South by the city line.

Heidelberg

Latitude
49.4094° or 49° 24′ 34″ north
Longitude
8.6947° or 8° 41′ 41″ east
Population
152,000
Elevation
115 metres (377 feet)
IATA airport code
HDB
United Nations Location Code
DE HEI
Open location code
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Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
2907911
Wiki­data ID
Q2966
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Heidelberg” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Heidelberg, Duitsland”
  • Afrikaans: “Heidelberg”
  • Albanian: “Haidelbergu”
  • Albanian: “Hajdelberg”
  • Amharic: “ሃይደልበርግ”
  • Arabic: “هايدلبرغ”
  • Arabic: “هايدلبيرغ”
  • Arabic: “هيدلبرغ”
  • Arabic: “هَيدلبرغ”
  • Aragonese: “Heidelberg”
  • Armenian: “Հայդելբերգ”
  • Asturian: “Heidelberg”
  • Azerbaijani: “Heydelberq”
  • Balinese: “Heidelberg”
  • Basque: “Heidelberg”
  • Bavarian: “Heidlbeag”
  • Bavarian: “Heidlberg”
  • Belarusian: “Гайдэльберг”
  • Belarusian: “Гайдэльбэрг”
  • Belarusian: “Гейдэльберг”
  • Bengali: “হাইডেলবার্গ”
  • Bosnian: “Heidelberg”
  • Breton: “Heidelberg”
  • Bulgarian: “Хайделберг”
  • Catalan: “Heidelberg”
  • Cebuano: “Heidelberg”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھایدلبێرگ”
  • Chechen: “Хайдельберг”
  • Chinese: “Heidelberg”
  • Chinese: “海德堡”
  • Chuvash: “Гейдельберг”
  • Corsican: “Heidelberg”
  • Croatian: “Heidelberg”
  • Czech: “Heidelberg”
  • Danish: “Heidelberg”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Heidelberg”
  • Dutch: “Heidelberg”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هايديلبيرج”
  • Esperanto: “Hajdelbergo”
  • Esperanto: “Heidelberg”
  • Esperanto: “Hejdelbergo”
  • Estonian: “Heidelberg”
  • Finnish: “Heidelberg”
  • French: “Heidelberg”
  • Galician: “Heidelberg”
  • Georgian: “ჰაიდელბერგი”
  • German: “Heidelberg”
  • Greek: “Χαϊδελβέργη”
  • Gujarati: “હાઈડલબર્ગ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Heidelberg”
  • Hebrew: “היידלברג”
  • Hindi: “हीडलबर्ग”
  • Hungarian: “Heidelberg”
  • Icelandic: “Heidelberg”
  • Ido: “Heidelberg”
  • Indonesian: “Heidelberg”
  • Interlingua: “Heidelberg”
  • Interlingue: “Heidelberg”
  • Irish: “Heidelberg”
  • Italian: “Heidelberg”
  • Japanese: “ハイデルベルク”
  • Kannada: “ಹೈಡೆಲ್ಬರ್ಗ್”
  • Kannada: “ಹೈಡೆಲ್ಬೆರ್ಕ್”
  • Kashubian: “Heidelberg”
  • Kazakh: “Гейдельберг”
  • Kirghiz: “Хайдельберг”
  • Korean: “하이델베르크”
  • Kurdish: “Heidelberg”
  • Ladin: “Heidelberg”
  • Latin: “Heidelberga”
  • Latvian: “Heidelberga”
  • Limburgan: “Heidelberg”
  • Lithuanian: “Heidelbergas”
  • Lombard: “Heidelberg”
  • Low German: “Heidelbarg”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Heidelberg”
  • Luxembourgish: “Heidelberg”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Heidelberg”
  • Macedonian: “Хајделберг”
  • Malagasy: “Heidelberg”
  • Malay: “Heidelberg”
  • Malayalam: “ഹൈഡൽബർഗ്”
  • Maltese: “Heidelberg”
  • Marathi: “हायडेलबर्ग”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “هايدلبرگ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Heidelberg”
  • Northern Frisian: “Heidelberg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Heidelberg”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Heidelberg”
  • Norwegian: “Heidelberg”
  • Nyanja: “Heidelberg”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Heidelberg”
  • Ossetian: “Гейдельберг”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Heidelberg”
  • Persian: “هایدلبرگ”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Haidlbärsch”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Heidelberg”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Heidlberg”
  • Piemontese: “Heidelberg”
  • Polish: “Heidelberg”
  • Portuguese: “Edelberga”
  • Portuguese: “Heidelberg”
  • Portuguese: “Heidelberga”
  • Quechua: “Heidelberg”
  • Romanian: “Heidelberg”
  • Romansh: “Heidelberg”
  • Russian: “Гейдельберг”
  • Russian: “Хайдель­берг”
  • Russian: “Хайдельберг”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Heidelberg”
  • Scots: “Heidelberg”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Heidelberg”
  • Serbian: “Хајделберг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Heidelberg”
  • Sicilian: “Heidelberg”
  • Silesian: “Heidelberg”
  • Sinhala: “හෙඩ්ල්බර්ග්”
  • Slovak: “Heidelberg”
  • Slovenian: “Heidelberg”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هایدلبرق”
  • Spanish: “Heidelberg”
  • Swahili: “Heidelberg”
  • Swedish: “Heidelberg”
  • Swiss German: “Heidelbärg”
  • Swiss German: “Heidelberg”
  • Tajik: “Гейделберг”
  • Tajik: “Ҳайделберг”
  • Tajik: “Ҳойделберг”
  • Tamil: “ஐடெல்பெர்கு”
  • Tamil: “ஹைடெல்பர்க்”
  • Tatar: “Һайделберг”
  • Telugu: “హైడెల్బర్గ్”
  • Thai: “ไฮเดิลแบร์ค”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Heidelberg”
  • Tumbuka: “Heidelberg”
  • Turkish: “Heidelberg”
  • Uighur: “Héydélbérg”
  • Ukrainian: “Гайдельберг”
  • Ukrainian: “Гайдельберґ”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Heidelberg”
  • Urdu: “ہائیڈل برک”
  • Urdu: “ہائیڈل برگ”
  • Uzbek: “Geydelberg”
  • Uzbek: “Heidelberg”
  • Venetian: “Heidelberg”
  • Vietnamese: “Heidelberg”
  • Vlaams: “Heidelberg”
  • Volapük: “Heidelberg”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Heidelberg”
  • Welsh: “Heidelberg”
  • Western Frisian: “Heidelberch”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہائیڈلبرگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “海德堡”
  • Yakut: “Гейдельберг”
  • Yiddish: “היידלבערג”
  • Yoruba: “Heidelberg”
  • Yue Chinese: “海德堡”
  • Zeeuws: “Heidelberg”
  • “Heidelberg”

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