Monschau
Monschau, sometimes called the "Pearl of the Eifel", is a small, historic town in the German Eifel. Largely unchanged for over 300 years, the narrow, cobblestoned streets and traditional half-timbered houses have made this charming place one of the main tourist attractions of the region.
- Type: Town with 12,600 residents
- Description: city in the district of Aachen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Also known as: “Mondjôye”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Rotes Haus and Monschau Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mützenich and Höfen.
Monschau
- Categories: urban municipality in Germany and locality
- Location: Aachen, Cologne District, Eifel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.5545° or 50° 33′ 16″ north
Longitude
6.2408° or 6° 14′ 27″ east
Population
12,600
Elevation
418 metres (1,371 feet)
UN/LOCODE
DE MOU
Open location code
9F28H63R+Q8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Monschau” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Monschau”
- Arabic: “مونشاو”
- Aragonese: “Monschau”
- Arpitan: “Monschau”
- Asturian: “Monschau”
- Basque: “Monschau”
- Bavarian: “Monschau”
- Belarusian: “Моншау”
- Breton: “Monschau”
- Bulgarian: “Моншау”
- Catalan: “Monschau”
- Cebuano: “Monschau”
- Chechen: “Моншау”
- Chinese: “孟紹”
- Chinese: “蒙绍”
- Corsican: “Monschau”
- Croatian: “Monschau”
- Czech: “Monschau”
- Danish: “Monschau”
- Dutch: “Monschau”
- Esperanto: “Monschau”
- Estonian: “Monschau”
- Finnish: “Monschau”
- French: “Montjoie”
- Friulian: “Monschau”
- Galician: “Monschau”
- German: “Monschau”
- German: “Montjoie” (historical)
- Greek: “Μόνσαου”
- Hebrew: “מונשאו”
- Hungarian: “Monschau”
- Icelandic: “Monschau”
- Ido: “Monschau”
- Indonesian: “Monschau”
- Interlingua: “Monschau”
- Interlingue: “Monschau”
- Irish: “Monschau”
- Italian: “Monschau”
- Japanese: “モンシャウ”
- Jèrriais: “Monschau”
- Kazakh: “Моншау”
- Kirghiz: “Моншау”
- Kölsch: “Monschau”
- Kongo: “Monschau”
- Kurdish: “Monschau”
- Ladin: “Monschau”
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- Limburgan: “Monschau”
- Low German: “Monschau”
- Luxembourgish: “Monschau”
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- Malay: “Monschau”
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- Neapolitan: “Monschau”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Monschau”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Monschau”
- Norwegian: “Monschau”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Monschau”
- Persian: “منشاو”
- Picard: “Monschau”
- Piemontese: “Monschau”
- Polish: “Monschau”
- Portuguese: “Monschau”
- Romanian: “Monschau”
- Romansh: “Monschau”
- Russian: “Моншау”
- Sardinian: “Monschau”
- Scots: “Monschau”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Monschau”
- Serbian: “Monschau”
- Serbian: “Моншау”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Monschau”
- Sicilian: “Monschau”
- Slovak: “Monschau”
- Slovenian: “Monschau”
- South Azerbaijani: “منشاو”
- Spanish: “Monschau”
- Swahili: “Monschau”
- Swedish: “Monschau”
- Swiss German: “Monschau”
- Tatar: “Моншау”
- Tumbuka: “Monschau”
- Turkish: “Monschau”
- Ukrainian: “Моншау”
- Urdu: “مونشاؤ”
- Uzbek: “Monschau”
- Venetian: “Monschau”
- Vietnamese: “Monschau”
- Vlaams: “Monschau”
- Volapük: “Monschau”
- Walloon: “Mondjoye”
- Waray (Philippines): “Monschau”
- Welsh: “Monschau”
- Wolof: “Monschau”
- Zulu: “Monschau”
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