Oberwiesenthal
Oberwiesenthal is a winter sports resort in the Ore Mountains in Saxony, Germany. With an altitude of 914 m above sea level, Oberwiesenthal is the highest "city" in Germany.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 1,930 residents
- Description: municipality of Germany
- Also known as: “14521440”, “Oberwiesenthal, Kurort”, and “Stadt Oberwiesenthal, Kurort”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fichtelberg and Eisenberg.
Fichtelberg
Peak
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The Fichtelberg is a mountain with two main peaks in the middle of the Ore Mountains in the east German state of Saxony, near the Czech border. At 1,214.6 m above sea level, the Fichtelberg is the highest mountain in Saxony, the second highest in the Ore Mountains and was formerly the highest mountain in East Germany.
Station 15 Fichtelberg
Historic site
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Station 15 Fichtelberg is a historic site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Loučná pod Klínovcem and Boží Dar.
Loučná pod Klínovcem
Village
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Loučná pod Klínovcem is a town in Chomutov District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants, which makes it the second least populated town in the country.
Boží Dar
Village
Photo: Ondřej Žváček, CC BY 2.5.
Boží Dar is a town in Karlovy Vary District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants. Situated in the Ore Mountains at 1,028 m above sea level, it is considered the highest town in the Czech Republic.
Oberwiesenthal
- Categories: urban municipality in Germany, mining community, and border city
- Location: Erzgebirgskreis, Saxon Ore Mountains, Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Oberwiesenthal” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوبرفيزنتال”
- Bashkir: “Обервизенталь”
- Basque: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Catalan: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Cebuano: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Chechen: “Обервизенталь”
- Chinese: “上维森塔尔”
- Czech: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Danish: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Dutch: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Esperanto: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Estonian: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Finnish: “Oberwiesenthal”
- French: “Oberwiesenthal”
- German: “Kurort Oberwiesenthal”
- German: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Hebrew: “אוברוויזנטאל”
- Hungarian: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Ido: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Interlingue: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Irish: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Italian: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Japanese: “オーバー・ヴィーゼンタール”
- Kazakh: “Обервизенталь”
- Kirghiz: “Обервизенталь”
- Kurdish: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Ladin: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Latvian: “Obervīzentāle”
- Macedonian: “Обервизентал”
- Malay: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Norwegian: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Oberwiesenthal”
- Persian: “اوبرویزنتال”
- Polish: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Portuguese: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Romanian: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Russian: “Обервизенталь”
- Serbian: “Обервизентал”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Slovak: “Oberwiesenthal”
- South Azerbaijani: “اوبرویزنتال”
- Spanish: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Swedish: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Tatar: “Обервизенталь”
- Tumbuka: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Ukrainian: “Обервізенталь”
- Upper Sorbian: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Uzbek: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Volapük: “Oberwiesenthal”
- Waray (Philippines): “Oberwiesenthal”
- Welsh: “Oberwiesenthal”
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