Leer
Leer is a town in the district of Leer in the region of East Frisia, in the northwestern part of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Leda, a tributary of the river Ems, near the border with the Netherlands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 34,000 residents
- Description: town in Lower Saxony, Germany
- Also known as: “03457013”, “Leer, Lower Saxony”, “Leer/Ostfriesland”, and “Stadt Leer (Ostfriesland)”
Photo: DerMische, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Leer railway station and Haneburg.
Leer railway station
Railway station
Photo: Bouwe Brouwer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Leer is a railway station in the town of Leer in Lower Saxony, Germany. The railway station is situated on the Emsland Railway between the railway stations of Emden and Papenburg and it is the railway terminus on the Oldenburg–Leer railway after the railway station of Augustfehn.
Haneburg
Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Haneburg is a castle in East Frisia, Germany. It is one of the few buildings remaining of the Renaissance time in north-west Germany, which was much affected by the Netherlands.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Loga and Leerort.
Leer
- Categories: independent community, urban municipality in Germany, city, district capital, Einheitsgemeinde of Lower Saxony, and locality
- Location: Leer, East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.2332° or 53° 13′ 60″ northLongitude
7.4568° or 7° 27′ 24″ eastPopulation
34,000Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)Open location code
9F596FM4+7POpenStreetMap ID
node 240097893OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6557473Wikidata ID
Q15984
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Leer” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Leer”
- Arabic: “لر نيدرزاكسن”
- Arabic: “لير”
- Aragonese: “Leer”
- Arpitan: “Leer”
- Asturian: “Leer”
- Basque: “Leer”
- Bavarian: “Leer”
- Belarusian: “Лер”
- Breton: “Leer”
- Catalan: “Leer”
- Cebuano: “Leer”
- Chechen: “Лер (гӀала)”
- Chechen: “Лер”
- Chinese: “东弗里斯兰地区莱尔”
- Chinese: “莱尔”
- Chinese: “萊爾”
- Corsican: “Leer”
- Croatian: “Leer”
- Czech: “Leer”
- Danish: “Leer”
- Dutch: “Leer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لر نيدرزاكسن”
- Esperanto: “Leer”
- Estonian: “Leer”
- Finnish: “Leer (Ostfriesland)”
- Finnish: “Leer”
- French: “Leer”
- Friulian: “Leer”
- Galician: “Leer”
- German: “Leer (Ostfriesland)”
- German: “Leer”
- German: “Leer/Ostfriesland”
- Greek: “Λιρ”
- Hebrew: “לר”
- Hungarian: “Leer”
- Icelandic: “Leer”
- Ido: “Leer”
- Indonesian: “Leer”
- Interlingua: “Leer”
- Interlingue: “Leer”
- Irish: “Leer”
- Italian: “Leer”
- Japanese: “レーア”
- Kazakh: “Лер”
- Kirghiz: “Лер”
- Kongo: “Leer”
- Korean: “레어”
- Kurdish: “Leer (Ostfriesland)”
- Kurdish: “Leer”
- Ladin: “Leer”
- Latin: “Leri”
- Ligurian: “Leer”
- Limburgan: “Leer”
- Lithuanian: “Lėras”
- Low German: “Leer”
- Luxembourgish: “Leer”
- Macedonian: “Лер”
- Malagasy: “Leer”
- Malay: “Leer”
- Minangkabau: “Leer”
- Narom: “Leer”
- Neapolitan: “Leer”
- Northern Frisian: “Leer (Uastfresklun)”
- Northern Frisian: “Leer”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Leer”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leer”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Leer”
- Persian: “لر، نیدرزاکسن”
- Picard: “Leer”
- Piemontese: “Leer”
- Polish: “Leer”
- Portuguese: “Leer”
- Romanian: “Leer”
- Romansh: “Leer”
- Russian: “Лер”
- Sardinian: “Leer”
- Saterfriesisch: “Lier”
- Scots: “Leer”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Leer”
- Serbian: “Leer”
- Serbian: “Лер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Leer”
- Sicilian: “Leer”
- Slovak: “Leer”
- Slovenian: “Leer”
- South Azerbaijani: “لر، نیدرزاکسن”
- Spanish: “Leer”
- Swahili: “Leer”
- Swedish: “Leer”
- Swiss German: “Leer”
- Tatar: “Лер (шәһәр)”
- Tatar: “Лер”
- Tumbuka: “Leer, Lower Saxony”
- Turkish: “Leer”
- Ukrainian: “Лер”
- Uzbek: “Leer”
- Venetian: “Leer”
- Vietnamese: “Leer”
- Vlaams: “Leer”
- Volapük: “Leer”
- Walloon: “Leer”
- Waray (Philippines): “Leer”
- Welsh: “Leer”
- Western Frisian: “Lier”
- Wolof: “Leer”
- Zulu: “Leer”
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