Lower Austria
Wachau
Melk District

Melk

Melk is a small riverside town on south bank of the Danube River in the Valley of . Melk marks the western terminus of the Wachau and lies upstream from .
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  • Type: Town with 5,300 residents
  • Description: capital of Melk District, Lower Austria, Austria
  • Also known as: “31524” and “Melk/Donau”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Melk Abbey and Landesklinikum Melk.

Monastery
Photo: Thomas Ledl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a Benedictine abbey above the town of Melk, , on a rocky outcrop overlooking the river, adjoining the valley, that belongs to the Austrian Congregation.

Hospital
Photo: Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a hospital.

Community center
Photo: Grubernst, CC0.
is a community center.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Emmersdorf.

Photo: Karl Gruber, CC BY-SA 3.0 at.
an der Donau is a town in the district of Melk in the state of .

Melk

Latitude
48.2272° or 48° 13′ 38″ north
Longitude
15.337° or 15° 20′ 13″ east
Population
5,300
Elevation
281 metres (922 feet)
Open location code
8FWQ68GP+VQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29752440
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
7872946
Wiki­data ID
Q489806
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Melk” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلدة ميلك”
  • Aragonese: “Melk”
  • Armenian: “Մելկ”
  • Basque: “Melk”
  • Bavarian: “Möck”
  • Belarusian: “Мельк”
  • Bosnian: “Melk”
  • Bulgarian: “Мелк”
  • Catalan: “Melk”
  • Cebuano: “Melk”
  • Chechen: “Мельк”
  • Chinese: “梅尔克”
  • Chinese: “梅爾克”
  • Czech: “Medlík”
  • Czech: “Melk”
  • Danish: “Melk”
  • Dutch: “Melk”
  • Dutch: “Rosenfeld”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميلك”
  • Esperanto: “Melk”
  • Estonian: “Melk”
  • Finnish: “Melk”
  • French: “Melk”
  • Galician: “Melk”
  • German: “Melk an der Donau”
  • German: “Melk”
  • Greek: “Μελκ αν ντερ Ντόναου”
  • Greek: “Μελκ”
  • Hebrew: “מלק”
  • Hungarian: “Melk”
  • Indonesian: “Melk”
  • Irish: “Melk”
  • Italian: “Melk”
  • Japanese: “メルク”
  • Kazakh: “Melʹk”
  • Kazakh: “Мельк”
  • Kazakh: “مەلك”
  • Korean: “멜크”
  • Ladin: “Melk”
  • Latin: “Medilica”
  • Latin: “Mellicum”
  • Lombard: “Melk”
  • Macedonian: “Мелк”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Melk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melk i Niederösterreich”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melk”
  • Norwegian: “Melk”
  • Persian: “ملک”
  • Polish: “Melk”
  • Portuguese: “Melk”
  • Romanian: “Melk”
  • Russian: “Коллаприль”
  • Russian: “Мельк”
  • Russian: “Пефердинг”
  • Russian: “Пёфердинг”
  • Russian: “Пилах”
  • Russian: “Пилахберг”
  • Russian: “Розенфельд”
  • Russian: “Шпильберг”
  • Russian: “Шраттенбрук”
  • Serbian: “Melk”
  • Serbian: “Мелк”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Melk”
  • Slovak: “Melk”
  • Slovenian: “Melk”
  • Spanish: “Melk”
  • Swedish: “Melk”
  • Tatar: “Мельк”
  • Turkish: “Melk”
  • Ukrainian: “Мельк”
  • Uzbek: “Melk”
  • Uzbek: “Мелк”
  • Venetian: “Melk”
  • Vietnamese: “Melk”
  • Volapük: “Melk”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Melk”

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