Merseburg
Merseburg is a more than thousand-year-old town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Although the historic centre was largely destroyed in World War II, the town has several notable buildings, including the Merseburg Cathedral of St John the Baptist and the episcopal palace.
- Type: Town with 36,400 residents
- Description: town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
- Also known as: “Merseburk” and “ハレ＝メルゼベルク”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Merseburg Cathedral and Merseburg Hauptbahnhof.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Schkopau and Leuna.
Schkopau
Town
Leuna
Town
Leuna is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, eastern Germany, south of Merseburg and Halle, on the river Saale. Leuna is situated 4 km southeast of Merseburg.
Merseburg
- Categories: urban municipality in Germany, Hanseatic city, district capital, and locality
- Location: Saalekreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
51.3564° or 51° 21′ 23″ north
Longitude
11.9961° or 11° 59′ 46″ east
Population
36,400
Elevation
101 metres (331 feet)
UN/LOCODE
DE MEG
Open location code
9F3H9X4W+HF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Merseburg” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Merseburg”
- Arabic: “مرزيبورغ”
- Arabic: “مرسيبورغ”
- Aragonese: “Merseburg”
- Armenian: “Մերզեբուրգ”
- Arpitan: “Merseburg”
- Asturian: “Merseburg”
- Azerbaijani: “Merzeburq”
- Bashkir: “Мерзебург”
- Basque: “Merseburg”
- Bavarian: “Merseburg”
- Belarusian: “Мерзебург”
- Belarusian: “Мэрзэбург”
- Bengali: “মার্সেবার্গ”
- Breton: “Merseburg”
- Bulgarian: “Мерзебург”
- Catalan: “Merseburg”
- Cebuano: “Merseburg (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Merseburg”
- Chechen: “Мерзебург”
- Chinese: “梅泽堡”
- Chinese: “梅澤堡”
- Corsican: “Merseburg”
- Croatian: “Merseburg”
- Czech: “Merseburg”
- Danish: “Merseburg”
- Dutch: “Merseburg”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مرسيبورج”
- Esperanto: “Merseburg”
- Estonian: “Merseburg”
- Finnish: “Merseburg”
- French: “Mersebourg”
- Friulian: “Merseburg”
- Galician: “Merseburg”
- German: “Merseburg”
- Greek: “Μέρζεμπουργκ”
- Hebrew: “מרזבורג”
- Hindi: “मेर्ज़ेबर्ग”
- Hungarian: “Merseburg”
- Icelandic: “Merseburg”
- Ido: “Merseburg”
- Indonesian: “Merseburg”
- Interlingua: “Merseburg”
- Interlingue: “Merseburg”
- Irish: “Merseburg”
- Italian: “Merseburg”
- Japanese: “メルゼブルク”
- Jèrriais: “Merseburg”
- Kongo: “Merseburg”
- Korean: “메르제부르크”
- Kurdish: “Merseburg”
- Ladin: “Merseburg”
- Latin: “Merseburga”
- Ligurian: “Merseburg”
- Limburgan: “Merseburg”
- Low German: “Merseburg”
- Lower Sorbian: “Merseburg”
- Luxembourgish: “Merseburg”
- Macedonian: “Мерзебург”
- Malagasy: “Merseburg”
- Malay: “Merseburg”
- Minangkabau: “Merseburg”
- Neapolitan: “Merseburg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Merseburg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Merseburg”
- Norwegian: “Merseburg”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Merseburg”
- Persian: “مرزبورگ”
- Picard: “Merseburg”
- Piemontese: “Merseburg”
- Polish: “Merseburg”
- Portuguese: “Merseburg”
- Romanian: “Merseburg”
- Romansh: “Merseburg”
- Russian: “Мерзебург”
- Sardinian: “Merseburg”
- Saterfriesisch: “Mersebuurich”
- Scots: “Merseburg”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Merseburg”
- Serbian: “Merseburg”
- Serbian: “Мерзебург”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Merseburg”
- Sicilian: “Merseburg”
- Silesian: “Merseburg”
- Slovak: “Merseburg”
- Slovenian: “Merseburg”
- Spanish: “Merseburg”
- Spanish: “Merseburgo”
- Swahili: “Merseburg”
- Swedish: “Merseburg”
- Swiss German: “Merseburg”
- Tatar: “Мерзебург”
- Tumbuka: “Merseburg”
- Turkish: “Merseburg”
- Ukrainian: “Мерзебург”
- Ukrainian: “Мерзебурґ”
- Upper Sorbian: “Mjezybor”
- Urdu: “مرسیبرگ”
- Uzbek: “Merseburg”
- Venetian: “Merseburg”
- Vietnamese: “Merseburg”
- Vlaams: “Merseburg”
- Volapük: “Merseburg”
- Walloon: “Merseburg”
- Waray (Philippines): “Merseburg”
- Welsh: “Merseburg”
- Wolof: “Merseburg”
- Zulu: “Merseburg”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Altenburg (Vorstadt) and Neumarkt.
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Worth a closer look: Magdeburg and Halle.
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