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Meißen

Meissen is the oldest town in , . Meißen was also once home to the local bishop and thus has a huge medieval cathedral and adjoining castle.
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  • Type: Town with 29,100 residents
  • Description: town in Saxony, Germany
  • Also known as: “Meissen” and “Stadt Meißen”
  • Postal code: 01662

Places of Interest

Highlights include Albrechtsburg and Meissen Cathedral.

Castle
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The is a Late Gothic castle erected from 1471 till about 1495. It is located in the town centre of Meissen in the state of . It is situated on a hill above the river , adjacent to the .

Church
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
or the Church of St John and St Donatus is a Gothic church in Meissen in . It is situated on the castle hill of Meissen, adjacent to the castle and forms a critical centrepiece of the iconic Meissen skyline overlooking the River Elbe in the valley below.

Town hall
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is a town hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Siebeneichen and Proschwitz.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
is a small village, part of the municipality of Meißen in , . The nearby Castle is a property of Prince Georg of Lippe-Weissenfeld and is a winery.

Suburb
Photo: Z thomas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb.

Meißen

Latitude
51.1631° or 51° 9′ 47″ north
Longitude
13.4705° or 13° 28′ 14″ east
Population
29,100
Elevation
109 metres (358 feet)
United Nations Location Code
DE MEI
Open location code
9F3M5F7C+65
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240045631
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2872155
Wiki­data ID
Q8738
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Meißen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Meissen”
  • Arabic: “مايسن”
  • Aragonese: “Meißen”
  • Armenian: “Մայսեն”
  • Arpitan: “Meißen”
  • Asturian: “Meißen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Maysen”
  • Bashkir: “Мейсен”
  • Basque: “Meissen”
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  • Belarusian: “Meißen”
  • Belarusian: “Майсен”
  • Belarusian: “Майсэн”
  • Bosnian: “Meißen”
  • Breton: “Meißen”
  • Bulgarian: “Майсен”
  • Catalan: “Meissen”
  • Cebuano: “Meißen”
  • Chechen: “Мейсен”
  • Chinese: “迈森”
  • Chinese: “邁森”
  • Corsican: “Meißen”
  • Croatian: “Meißen”
  • Czech: “Meißen”
  • Czech: “Míšeň”
  • Danish: “Meißen”
  • Dutch: “Meißen”
  • Esperanto: “Meissen”
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  • Friulian: “Meißen”
  • Galician: “Meißen”
  • Georgian: “მაისენი”
  • German: “Große Kreisstadt Meißen”
  • German: “Meissen”
  • German: “Meißen”
  • Greek: “Μάισσεν”
  • Hebrew: “מייסן”
  • Hungarian: “Meissen”
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  • Ido: “Meissen”
  • Indonesian: “Meißen”
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  • Irish: “Meißen”
  • Italian: “Meißen”
  • Italian: “Misnia”
  • Japanese: “マイセン”
  • Kazakh: “Мейсен”
  • Kongo: “Meißen”
  • Korean: “마이센”
  • Kurdish: “Meißen”
  • Ladin: “Meissen”
  • Ladin: “Meißen”
  • Latin: “Misnia”
  • Latvian: “Meisene”
  • Ligurian: “Meißen”
  • Limburgan: “Meißen”
  • Lithuanian: “Meisenas”
  • Low German: “Meißen”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Mišnjo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Meissen”
  • Macedonian: “Мајсен”
  • Malagasy: “Meißen”
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  • Moksha: “Майсэн”
  • Narom: “Meißen”
  • Neapolitan: “Meißen”
  • Northern Frisian: “Meißen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Meissen”
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  • Norwegian: “Meissen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Meissen”
  • Persian: “مایسن”
  • Picard: “Meißen”
  • Piemontese: “Meißen”
  • Polish: “Miśnia”
  • Portuguese: “Meissen”
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  • Russian: “Майсен”
  • Russian: “Мейсен”
  • Sardinian: “Meißen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Meißen”
  • Serbian: “Meißen”
  • Serbian: “Мајсен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Meissen”
  • Sicilian: “Meißen”
  • Silesian: “Meißen”
  • Slovak: “Meißen”
  • Slovenian: “Große Kreisstadt Meißen”
  • Slovenian: “Meissen”
  • Slovenian: “Meißen”
  • Slovenian: “Veliko okrožno mesto Meissen”
  • Slovenian: “Veliko okrožno mesto Meißen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مایسن”
  • Spanish: “Meissen”
  • Spanish: “Meißen”
  • Spanish: “Misnia”
  • Swahili: “Meißen”
  • Swedish: “Meissen”
  • Swedish: “Meißen”
  • Swiss German: “Meißen”
  • Tatar: “Мейсен”
  • Thai: “ไมเซน”
  • Thai: “ไมเซิน”
  • Tumbuka: “Meissen”
  • Turkish: “Meissen”
  • Turkish: “Meißen”
  • Ukrainian: “Майсен”
  • Ukrainian: “Майссен”
  • Ukrainian: “Мейсен”
  • Ukrainian: “Мейссен”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Mišno”
  • Urdu: “مایسن”
  • Uzbek: “Meißen”
  • Venetian: “Meißen”
  • Vietnamese: “Meissen”
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  • Waray (Philippines): “Meissen”
  • Welsh: “Meißen”
  • Western Frisian: “Meissen”
  • Western Panjabi: “مائیسن”
  • Wolof: “Meißen”
  • Wu Chinese: “迈森”
  • Zulu: “Meißen”

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