Kempten
Kempten is a city of 69,000 people in Swabia, Bavaria, is on the banks of the Iller in the foothills of the Allgäu Alps.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 61,400 residents
- Description: district-free city in Bavaria, Germany
- Also known as: “Kempten (Allgaeu)”, “Kempten (Allgäu)”, and “Kempten/Allgäu”
- Postal codes: 87434, 87435, and 87437
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Lorenz Basilica and Kempten Hauptbahnhof.
St. Lorenz Basilica
Church
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St. Lorenz Basilica is a baroque minor basilica in Kempten, Bavaria, named after the Christian martyr Lawrence of Rome. It is the former abbey church of the Benedictine Kempten Abbey.
Kempten Hauptbahnhof
Railway station
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Kempten Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in Kempten in the German state of Bavaria. It is the most important station of Kempten and a hub for the Neu-Ulm–Kempten railway, the Buchloe–Lindau railway and the Ausserfern Railway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lauben and Mariaberg.
Lauben
Village
Photo: Richard Mayer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lauben is a municipality in the district of Oberallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. Lauben is situated 6 km north of Kempten.
Waltenhofen
Village
Photo: Richard Mayer, CC BY 3.0.
Waltenhofen is a village, which is situated 6 km south of Kempten.
Kempten
- Categories: major regional center, urban district of Bavaria, urban municipality in Germany, and locality
- Location: Bavarian Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.7267° or 47° 43′ 36″ northLongitude
10.3169° or 10° 19′ 1″ eastPopulation
61,400Elevation
681 metres (2,234 feet)IATA airport code
ZNSUnited Nations Location Code
DE KENOpen location code
8FVGP8G8+MQOpenStreetMap ID
node 240126519OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2891621Wikidata ID
Q3994
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kempten” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kempten”
- Arabic: “كمبتن”
- Aragonese: “Kempten”
- Armenian: “Քեմպտեն”
- Armenian: “Քեմփթեն”
- Basque: “Kempten”
- Bavarian: “Kempten (Allgäu)”
- Bavarian: “Kempten”
- Belarusian: “Кемптэн (Альгой)”
- Belarusian: “Кемптэн”
- Breton: “Kempten”
- Bulgarian: “Кемптен”
- Catalan: “Kempten”
- Cebuano: “Kempten”
- Chechen: “Кемптен (Алльгой)”
- Chechen: “Кемптен”
- Chinese: “肯普滕”
- Chinese: “肯普田”
- Chinese: “肯普騰”
- Czech: “Kempten (Allgäu)”
- Czech: “Kempten”
- Danish: “Kempten”
- Dutch: “Kempten”
- Esperanto: “Kempten”
- Estonian: “Kempten”
- Finnish: “Kempten”
- French: “Kempten (Allgäu)”
- French: “Kempten”
- Georgian: “კემპტენი”
- German: “Allgäu-Metropole”
- German: “Cambidanum”
- German: “Cambodunum”
- German: “Hauptstadt des Allgäus”
- German: “Illerstadt”
- German: “Kempten (Allgäu)”
- German: “Kempten im Allgäu”
- German: “Kempten”
- Greek: “Κέμπτεν”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kempten”
- Hebrew: “קאמפטן”
- Hebrew: “קמפטן”
- Hungarian: “Kempten”
- Indonesian: “Kempten”
- Interlingue: “Kempten”
- Irish: “Kempten”
- Italian: “Kempten”
- Japanese: “ケンプテン (アルゴイ)”
- Japanese: “ケンプテン (バイエルン州)”
- Japanese: “ケンプテン・イム・アルゴイ”
- Japanese: “ケンプテン”
- Kazakh: “Кемптен”
- Kirghiz: “Кемптен”
- Korean: “켐프텐”
- Kurdish: “Kempten (Allgäu)”
- Kurdish: “Kempten”
- Ladin: “Kempten”
- Latin: “Cambodunum”
- Latvian: “Kemptene”
- Lithuanian: “Kemptenas”
- Lombard: “Kempten”
- Malay: “Ingolstadt”
- Malay: “Kempten”
- Manx: “Kempten”
- Northern Frisian: “Kempten (Allgäu)”
- Northern Frisian: “Kempten”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kempten”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kempten”
- Norwegian: “Kempten”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kempten”
- Ossetian: “Кемптен”
- Persian: “کمپتن ایم آلتگاو”
- Persian: “کمپتن ایم آلگوی”
- Polish: “Kempten”
- Portuguese: “Kempten”
- Romanian: “Kempten”
- Russian: “Кемптен”
- Scots: “Kempten”
- Serbian: “Кемптен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kempten”
- Slovak: “Kempten”
- Slovenian: “Kempten”
- South Azerbaijani: “کمپتن ایم آلتقاو”
- Spanish: “Kempten (Algovia)”
- Spanish: “Kempten (Allgäu)”
- Spanish: “Kempten”
- Swedish: “Kempten”
- Swiss German: “Kempte im Allgai”
- Tatar: “Кемптен”
- Thai: “เค็มพ์เทิน”
- Tosk Albanian: “Kempten”
- Turkish: “Cambidanum”
- Turkish: “Cambodunum”
- Turkish: “Hauptstadt des Allgäus”
- Turkish: “Illerstadt”
- Turkish: “Kempten (Allgäu)”
- Turkish: “Kempten/Allgäu”
- Turkish: “Kempten”
- Ukrainian: “Кемптен”
- Uzbek: “Kempten”
- Vietnamese: “Kempten”
- Volapük: “Kempten”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kempten”
- Welsh: “Kempten”
- Western Frisian: “Kempten”
- Wu Chinese: “肯普滕”
- Yue Chinese: “肯普滕”
- “Kempten (Allgäu)”
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