Oberammergau

Oberammergau is in the state of . It is famous for its Passion Play staged every 10 years, and for the "Luftmalerei".
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  • Type: Town with 5,380 residents
  • Description: municipality and village in Germany
  • Also known as: “Ober-Ammergau”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kofel and NATO School.

Peak
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The is a 1,342-metre mountain in the of . With its distinctive white head it is the signature mountain of the town of Oberammergau, from which the summit is only about one km away.

Military installation
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The Oberammergau in southern is NATO's key training facility on the operational level. The School started with two courses in 1953 and now offers over 100 different courses to Alliance members and partners on subjects related to NATO's policies, strategies, missions and operations.

Theater building
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is a theater building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Unterammergau and Rahm.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 3½ km northwest of Oberammergau.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet.

Oberammergau

Latitude
47.5973° or 47° 35′ 50″ north
Longitude
11.0641° or 11° 3′ 51″ east
Population
5,380
Elevation
840 metres (2,756 feet)
IATA airport code
ZOX
United Nations Location Code
DE OBA
Open location code
8FVHH3W7+WJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31925454
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2861422
Wiki­data ID
Q503757
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Oberammergau” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أوبرأميرغاو”
  • Aragonese: “Oberammergau”
  • Armenian: “Օբերամերգաու”
  • Basque: “Oberammergau”
  • Bavarian: “Obaammagau”
  • Bavarian: “Oberammergau”
  • Belarusian: “Оберамергау”
  • Bulgarian: “Оберамергау”
  • Catalan: “Oberammergau”
  • Cebuano: “Oberammergau (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Oberammergau”
  • Chechen: “Обераммергау”
  • Chinese: “Oberammergau”
  • Chinese: “上阿玛高”
  • Chinese: “上阿瑪高”
  • Chinese: “上阿默高”
  • Croatian: “Oberammergau”
  • Czech: “Oberammergau”
  • Danish: “Oberammergau”
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  • Esperanto: “Oberammergau”
  • Finnish: “Oberammergau”
  • French: “Oberammergau”
  • German: “Oberammergau”
  • Hebrew: “אובראמרגאו”
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  • Indonesian: “Oberammergau”
  • Interlingue: “Oberammergau”
  • Irish: “Oberammergau”
  • Italian: “Oberammergau”
  • Japanese: “オーバーアマーガウ”
  • Japanese: “オーバーアマガウ”
  • Japanese: “オーベルアマガウ”
  • Kazakh: “Oberammergaw”
  • Kazakh: “Обераммергау”
  • Kazakh: “وبەراممەرگاۋ”
  • Kirghiz: “Обераммергау”
  • Kurdish: “Oberammergau”
  • Ladin: “Oberammergau”
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  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oberammergau”
  • Norwegian: “Oberammergau”
  • Persian: “اوبر آمرگاو”
  • Persian: “اوبرآمرگاو”
  • Polish: “Oberammergau”
  • Portuguese: “Oberammergau”
  • Romanian: “Oberammergau”
  • Russian: “Обераммергау”
  • Serbian: “Oberamergau”
  • Serbian: “Oberammergau”
  • Serbian: “Оберамергау”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Oberammergau”
  • Slovak: “Oberammergau”
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  • Spanish: “Oberammergau”
  • Swedish: “Oberammergau”
  • Swiss German: “Oberammergau”
  • Tatar: “Обераммергау”
  • Thai: “โอเบอร์อัมเมอร์เกา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Oberammergau”
  • Turkish: “Oberammergau”
  • Ukrainian: “Обераммергау”
  • Urdu: “اوبر امرگاؤ”
  • Uzbek: “Oberammergau”
  • Uzbek: “Обераммергау”
  • Vietnamese: “Oberammergau”
  • Volapük: “Oberammergau”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Oberammergau”
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