Idar-Oberstein

Idar-Oberstein is a city in the region of and is in is at a narrows, between rocky cliffs and the banks of the Nahe. Since every square meter of land is at a premium here, the river has been covered over in the town.
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  • Type: Town with 28,300 residents
  • Description: town in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
  • Also known as: “07134045” and “Stadt Idar-Oberstein”
Photo: Rkal, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Deutsches Edelsteinmuseum and Castle Oberstein.

Museum
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Photo: Rkal, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Railway station
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serves the town of Idar-Oberstein in the German state of . It is on the Nahe Valley Railway and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vollmersbach and Rötsweiler-Nockenthal.

Village
is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the district in , . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Herrstein-Rhaunen, whose seat is in . is situated 3½ km north of Idar-Oberstein.

Village
is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the district in , . is situated 3½ km west of Idar-Oberstein.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Idar-Oberstein

Latitude
49.7107° or 49° 42′ 39″ north
Longitude
7.3137° or 7° 18′ 49″ east
Population
28,300
Elevation
296 metres (971 feet)
Open location code
8FX9P867+7F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240063385
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6557862
Wiki­data ID
Q16119
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Idar-Oberstein” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Idar-Oberstein”
  • Arabic: “إيدار-أوبرشتاين”
  • Aragonese: “Idar-Oberstein”
  • Armenian: “Իդար Օբերշտայն”
  • Arpitan: “Idar-Oberstein”
  • Asturian: “Idar-Oberstein”
  • Azerbaijani: “İdar-Oberşteyn”
  • Basque: “Idar-Oberstein”
  • Bavarian: “Idar-Oberstein”
  • Belarusian: “Ідар-Оберштайн”
  • Belarusian: “Ідар-Обэрштайн”
  • Breton: “Idar-Oberstein”
  • Bulgarian: “Идар-Оберщайн”
  • Catalan: “Idar-Oberstein”
  • Cebuano: “Idar-Oberstein (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Idar-Oberstein”
  • Chechen: “Идар-Оберштайн”
  • Chinese: “伊达尔-奥伯施泰因”
  • Chinese: “伊達-奧伯斯坦”
  • Chinese: “伊達爾-奧伯施泰因”
  • Corsican: “Idar-Oberstein”
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  • Galician: “Idar-Oberstein”
  • Georgian: “იდარ-ობერშტაინი”
  • German: “Idar-Oberstein”
  • Greek: “Ίνταρ Όμπερσταϊν”
  • Hebrew: “אידאר-אוברשטיין”
  • Hungarian: “Idar-Oberstein”
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  • Japanese: “イダー＝オーバーシュタイン”
  • Kazakh: “Идар-Оберштайн”
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  • Persian: “ایدار-اوبراشتاین”
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  • Russian: “Идар-Оберштайн”
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  • Serbian: “Idar-Oberstein”
  • Serbian: “Идар-Оберштајн”
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  • South Azerbaijani: “ایدار-اوبراشتاین”
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  • Tagalog: “Idar-Oberstein”
  • Tatar: “Идар-Оберштайн”
  • Thai: “อีดาร์-โอเบอร์ชไตน์”
  • Tumbuka: “Idar-Oberstein”
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  • Ukrainian: “Ідар-Оберштайн”
  • Urdu: “ایڈار-اوبرسٹائن”
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