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Köthen

Köthen is a small town in that was once the residence of the petty principality of Anhalt-Köthen.
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  • Type: Town with 30,300 residents
  • Description: capital of the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
  • Also known as: “Koethen” and “Köthen/Anhalt”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Köthen station and Schloss Köthen.

Railway station
Photo: Global Fish, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Köthen is a railway station located in Köthen, . The station is located on the Magdeburg-Leipzig railway, Dessau–Köthen railway and Köthen–Aschersleben railway.

Photo: Oursana, Public domain.
is a palace in Köthen, Germany. Begun as a castle, it was protected by a moat. It was the residence of the Princes and Dukes of Anhalt from 1244 to 1847, and now belongs to a foundation for the preservation of sites in .

Town hall
Photo: Michael Sander, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Großpaschleben and Thurau.

Village
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is a village and a former municipality in the district of , in , . Since January 1, 2010, it is part of the municipality .

Hamlet
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is a hamlet, which is situated 4 km northwest of Köthen.

Köthen

Latitude
51.751° or 51° 45′ 4″ north
Longitude
11.9737° or 11° 58′ 25″ east
Population
30,300
Elevation
83 metres (272 feet)
IATA airport code
KOQ
United Nations Location Code
DE KOA
Open location code
9F3HQX2F+CF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240068165
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2885237
Wiki­data ID
Q1796771
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Köthen” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كوتن”
  • Aragonese: “Köthen”
  • Bashkir: “Кётен”
  • Basque: “Köthen”
  • Belarusian: “Кётен”
  • Belarusian: “Кётэн”
  • Bulgarian: “Кьотен”
  • Catalan: “Köthen”
  • Cebuano: “Köthen (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Köthen”
  • Chechen: “Коьтен (Анхальт)”
  • Chechen: “Коьтен”
  • Chinese: “克滕”
  • Chinese: “柯登”
  • Chinese: “科坦”
  • Chinese: “科登”
  • Czech: “Köthen”
  • Danish: “Köthen (Anhalt)”
  • Danish: “Køthen (Anhalt)”
  • Danish: “Köthen”
  • Dutch: “Kothen”
  • Dutch: “Köthen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوتن”
  • Esperanto: “Kothen (Anhalt)”
  • Esperanto: “Köthen”
  • Estonian: “Köthen (Anhalt)”
  • Estonian: “Köthen”
  • Finnish: “Cöthen”
  • Finnish: “Köthen”
  • French: “Coethes”
  • French: “Cothen”
  • French: “Cöthen”
  • French: “Köthen”
  • Galician: “Köthen”
  • German: “Cöthen”
  • German: “Köthen (Anh.)”
  • German: “Köthen (Anhalt)”
  • German: “Köthen”
  • German: “Köthen/Anhalt”
  • Greek: “Κέτεν”
  • Hebrew: “קוטן”
  • Hebrew: “קותן”
  • Hebrew: “קטן”
  • Hebrew: “קתן”
  • Hungarian: “Köthen”
  • Ido: “Köthen”
  • Interlingue: “Köthen”
  • Irish: “Köthen”
  • Italian: “Cöthen”
  • Italian: “Köthen (Anhalt)”
  • Italian: “Köthen”
  • Japanese: “ケーテン”
  • Korean: “쾨텐”
  • Kurdish: “Köthen”
  • Ladin: “Köthen”
  • Latin: “Cotha”
  • Latin: “Cothena”
  • Lithuanian: “Kėtenas”
  • Macedonian: “Кетен”
  • Malay: “Köthen (Anhalt)”
  • Malay: “Köthen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Köthen (Anhalt)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Köthen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Köthen”
  • Norwegian: “Köthen”
  • Persian: “کوتن”
  • Polish: “Koethen (Anhalt)”
  • Polish: “Köthen (Anhalt)”
  • Polish: “Köthen”
  • Portuguese: “Köthen”
  • Portuguese: “Köthen/Anhalt”
  • Romanian: “Kothen (Anhalt)”
  • Romanian: “Köthen (anhalt)”
  • Romanian: “Köthen (Anhalt)”
  • Romanian: “Köthen”
  • Russian: “Кётен”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Köthen”
  • Serbian: “Кетен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Köthen”
  • Slovak: “Köthen”
  • Slovenian: “Köthen”
  • Spanish: “Cothen”
  • Spanish: “Cöthen”
  • Spanish: “Kothen (Anhalt)”
  • Spanish: “Köthen (Anhalt)”
  • Spanish: “Kothen”
  • Spanish: “Köthen”
  • Swedish: “Köthen (Anhalt)”
  • Swedish: “Köthen”
  • Tatar: “Кётен (Анхальт)”
  • Tatar: “Кётен”
  • Tumbuka: “Köthen”
  • Turkish: “Köthen”
  • Ukrainian: “Кетен”
  • Urdu: “کوتن”
  • Uzbek: “Kothen”
  • Uzbek: “Köthen”
  • Uzbek: “Kyoten”
  • Uzbek: “Кётен”
  • Vietnamese: “Köthen (Anhalt)”
  • Vietnamese: “Köthen”
  • Volapük: “Köthen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Köthen”
  • Wu Chinese: “克滕”

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