Melk
Melk is a small riverside town on south bank of the Danube River in the Wachau Valley of Lower Austria. Melk marks the western terminus of the Wachau and lies upstream from Krems.
- Type: Town with 5,300 residents
- Description: capital of Melk District, Lower Austria, Austria
- Also known as: “31524”, “Medilica”, “Melk an der Donau”, “Melk/Donau”, “Rosenfeld”, “Μελκ αν ντερ Ντόναου”, “Коллаприль”, “Пефердинг”, “Пёфердинг”, “Пилах”, “Пилахберг”, “Розенфельд”, “Шпильберг”, and “Шраттенбрук”
- Neighbors: Emmersdorf
Places of Interest
Highlights: Melk Abbey and Landesklinikum Melk.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Emmersdorf.
Emmersdorf
Melk
- Categories: municipality of Austria, place with town rights and privileges, and locality
- Location: Melk District, Wachau, Lower Austria, Austria, Central Europe, Europe
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميلك”
- Esperanto: “Melk”
- Estonian: “Melk”
- Finnish: “Melk”
- French: “Melk”
- Galician: “Melk”
- German: “Melk”
- 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: “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: “Мельк”
- Serbian: “Melk”
- Serbian: “Мелк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Melk”
- Slovak: “Melk”
- Slovenian: “Melk”
- Spanish: “Melk”
- Swedish: “Melk”
- Tatar: “Мельк”
- Turkish: “Melk”
- Ukrainian: “Мельк”
- Uzbek: “Melk”
- Venetian: “Melk”
- Vietnamese: “Melk”
- Volapük: “Melk”
- Waray (Philippines): “Melk”
- “Melk”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Postbreiten and Mitterbreiten.
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Worth a closer look: Krems and Dürnstein.
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