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Mayen

Mayen is a town in the . Adjacent villages of Kürrenberg, Kottenheim, Kruft and Mendig are also included in this page.
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  • Type: Town with 18,800 residents
  • Description: municipality of Germany
  • Also known as: “07137068” and “Stadt Mayen”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Genovevaburg and Katzenberg Hillfort.

Photo: Blueduck4711, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a castle standing on the southwestern side of Mayen in the German state of . The castle is the symbol of Mayen and has been rebuilt several times since first being destroyed in 1689.

Archaeological site
is a Roman refuge fort near Mayen in dating to the 4th century. The fortification on the Katzenberg hill was built around 300 AD after the Roman limes had been overrun and Germanic tribes had invaded and plundered the Roman Empire.

Park
Photo: Tetris L, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kottenheim and Sankt Johann.

Village
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Mayen is a town in the . Adjacent villages of Kürrenberg, , Kruft and Mendig are also included in this page.

Village
Photo: GFreihalter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the in , western .

Village
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is a municipality in the in , western . The nearby abandoned stone quarry Ettringer Lay serves as a popular climbing area of the German Alpine Club with more than 790 routes set in the basalt walls.

Mayen

Latitude
50.3284° or 50° 19′ 42″ north
Longitude
7.2215° or 7° 13′ 17″ east
Population
18,800
Elevation
256 metres (840 feet)
Open location code
9F2986HC+8J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4020282972
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6555439
Wiki­data ID
Q516611
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Mayen” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ماين (راينلند فالتز)”
  • Arabic: “ماين”
  • Catalan: “Mayen”
  • Cebuano: “Mayen”
  • Chechen: “Майен (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Майен”
  • Chinese: “迈恩”
  • Chinese: “邁恩”
  • Czech: “Mayen”
  • Danish: “Mayen”
  • Dutch: “Mayen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماين”
  • Esperanto: “Mayen”
  • French: “Mayen”
  • German: “Mayen”
  • Hebrew: “מאיין”
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  • Italian: “Mayen”
  • Japanese: “マイエン”
  • Kurdish: “Mayen”
  • Ladin: “Mayen”
  • Lithuanian: “Majenas”
  • Malay: “Mayen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mayen”
  • Persian: “ماین،”
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  • Russian: “Майен”
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  • Serbian: “Мајен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mayen”
  • Slovak: “Mayen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماین،”
  • Spanish: “Mayen”
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  • Swedish: “Mayen”
  • Tatar: “Майен (шәһәр)”
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  • Ukrainian: “Маєн”
  • Ukrainian: “Майєн”
  • Uzbek: “Mayen”
  • Uzbek: “Маен”
  • Vietnamese: “Mayen”
  • Volapük: “Mayen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mayen”
  • Western Frisian: “Mayen”

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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 “Mayen”. Photo: Wolkenkratzer, CC BY-SA 4.0.