Germany
Saarland
Saarpfalz-Kreis

Homburg

Homburg is a city in in Germany. It's midway between Kaiserlautern and Saarbrücken, and 20 km from the border with France. Its main attraction is the huge system of sandstone caves, tunnelled out since the 17th century as raw material for glass-making.
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  • Type: Town with 42,000 residents
  • Description: town in Saarland, Germany
  • Also known as: “Homburg, Saarland” and “Homburg/Saar”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Homburg Hauptbahnhof and Waldstadion Homburg.

Railway station
Photo: Lantus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a railway station in the town of Homburg in the German state of . It is a through station with four platforms and seven platform tracks and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a station of category 3.

Stadium
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The is the home stadium of Oberliga Südwest club FC 08 Homburg. It has a spectator capacity of 16,488. In the three seasons — 1986–87, 1987–88 and 1989–90 — that Homburg were in the Bundesliga the average attendance was less than 8,000 per game.

Photo: Pascal Dihé, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Erbach and Limbach.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb, which is situated 4½ km west of Homburg.

Suburb
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is a suburb, which is situated 3½ km north of Homburg.

Homburg

Latitude
49.3182° or 49° 19′ 5″ north
Longitude
7.334° or 7° 20′ 3″ east
Population
42,000
Elevation
242 metres (794 feet)
United Nations Location Code
DE HOM
Open location code
8FX9889M+7J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240125262
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2899449
Wiki­data ID
Q7040
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Homburg” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Homburg”
  • Arabic: “هومبورغ”
  • Aragonese: “Homburg”
  • Armenian: “Հոմբուրգ”
  • Arpitan: “Homburg”
  • Asturian: “Homburg”
  • Basque: “Homburg”
  • Bavarian: “Homburg”
  • Belarusian: “Гомбург”
  • Breton: “Homburg”
  • Bulgarian: “Хомбург”
  • Catalan: “Homburg”
  • Cebuano: “Homburg”
  • Chechen: “Хомбург”
  • Chinese: “洪堡”
  • Corsican: “Homburg”
  • Croatian: “Homburg”
  • Czech: “Homburg”
  • Danish: “Homburg”
  • Dutch: “Homburg”
  • Esperanto: “Homburg”
  • Estonian: “Homburg”
  • Finnish: “Homburg”
  • French: “Hombourg”
  • Friulian: “Homburg”
  • Galician: “Homburg”
  • German: “Homburg”
  • German: “Homburg/Saar”
  • Greek: “Χόμπουργκ”
  • Hebrew: “הומבורג”
  • Hungarian: “Homburg”
  • Icelandic: “Homburg”
  • Ido: “Homburg”
  • Indonesian: “Homburg”
  • Interlingua: “Homburg”
  • Interlingue: “Homburg”
  • Irish: “Homburg”
  • Italian: “Homburg”
  • Japanese: “ホムブルク”
  • Japanese: “ホンブルク”
  • Kazakh: “Хомбург”
  • Kirghiz: “Хомбург”
  • Kongo: “Homburg”
  • Kurdish: “Homburg”
  • Ladin: “Homburg”
  • Latin: “Homburg”
  • Ligurian: “Homburg”
  • Limburgan: “Homburg”
  • Lithuanian: “Homburgas”
  • Low German: “Homburg”
  • Luxembourgish: “Homburg”
  • Malagasy: “Homburg”
  • Malay: “Homburg, Saarland”
  • Malay: “Homburg”
  • Minangkabau: “Homburg”
  • Narom: “Homburg”
  • Neapolitan: “Homburg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Homburg”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Homburg”
  • Norwegian: “Homburg”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Homburg”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Homburg”
  • Persian: “همبورگ”
  • Persian: “هومبورگ، زارلند”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Homburg”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Humborch”
  • Picard: “Homburg”
  • Piemontese: “Homburg”
  • Polish: “Homburg”
  • Portuguese: “Homburg”
  • Romanian: “Homburg, Saarland”
  • Romanian: “Homburg”
  • Romansh: “Homburg”
  • Russian: “Хомбург”
  • Sardinian: “Homburg”
  • Scots: “Homburg, Saarland”
  • Scots: “Homburg”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Homburg”
  • Serbian: “Homburg”
  • Serbian: “Хомбург”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Homburg”
  • Sicilian: “Homburg”
  • Slovak: “Homburg”
  • Slovenian: “Homburg”
  • Spanish: “Homburg”
  • Spanish: “Homburgo”
  • Swahili: “Homburg”
  • Swedish: “Homburg, Saarland”
  • Swedish: “Homburg”
  • Swiss German: “Homburg”
  • Tajik: “Ҳомбург”
  • Tatar: “Һомбург”
  • Turkish: “Homburg/Saar”
  • Turkish: “Homburg”
  • Ukrainian: “Гомбург”
  • Ukrainian: “Гомбурґ”
  • Uzbek: “Homburg”
  • Venetian: “Homburg”
  • Vietnamese: “Homburg, Saarpfalz”
  • Vietnamese: “Homburg”
  • Vlaams: “Homburg”
  • Volapük: “Homburg”
  • Walloon: “Homburg”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Homburg, Saarland”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Homburg”
  • Welsh: “Homburg”
  • Wolof: “Homburg”
  • Zulu: “Homburg”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Homburg”. Photo: Lokilech, CC BY-SA 3.0.