Pforzheim

Pforzheim is known as the "Gateway to the Black Forest" or "Goldstadt" due to its jewellery and watch-making industries. Located on the northern edge of the Black Forest between and , it sits at the confluence of three rivers: the Enz, Nagold, and Würm.
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  • Type: City with 118,000 residents
  • Description: city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  • Also known as: “Goldstadt”, “PF”, “Pforte zum Schwarzwald”, and “Stadtkreis Pforzheim”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Pforzheim Hauptbahnhof and Stadttheater Pforzheim.

Railway station
Photo: qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0.
is the main station in the city…

Theater building
Photo: TheaterPforzheim, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a theatre in , .

University
Pforzheim University is a public university of applied science in .

Pforzheim

Latitude
48.8909° or 48° 53′ 27″ north
Longitude
8.7026° or 8° 42′ 9″ east
Population
118,000
Elevation
256 metres (840 feet)
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Open location code
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Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
2853969
Wiki­data ID
Q3046
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Pforzheim” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Pforzheim”
  • Arabic: “بفورتسهايم”
  • Arabic: “فورتسهايم”
  • Aragonese: “Pforzheim”
  • Armenian: “Պֆորցհայմ”
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  • Azerbaijani: “Pforshaym”
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  • Belarusian: “Пфорцгайм”
  • Belarusian: “Пфорцхайм”
  • Bengali: “ফোৎসায়েম”
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  • Central Kurdish: “فۆرتسھایم”
  • Chechen: “Пфорцхайм”
  • Chinese: “佛茨海姆”
  • Chinese: “普福尔茨海姆”
  • Corsican: “Pforzheim”
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  • Egyptian Arabic: “بفورتسهايم”
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  • Georgian: “პფორცჰაიმი”
  • German: “Pforzheim”
  • Greek: “Πφορτζχάιμ”
  • Greek: “Πφόρτσχαϊμ”
  • Gujarati: “ફોર્ઝહેમ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pforzheim”
  • Hebrew: “פפורצהיים”
  • Hindi: “फ़ोर्ज़ाएम”
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  • Japanese: “プフォルツハイム”
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  • Kannada: “ಪೋಫಾರ್ಹೀಮ್”
  • Kazakh: “Пфорцгейм”
  • Kongo: “Pforzheim”
  • Korean: “포르츠하임”
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  • Latin: “Phorca”
  • Latin: “Porta Hercyneae”
  • Latvian: “Pforcheima”
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  • Lithuanian: “Pforcheimas”
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  • Macedonian: “Пфорцхајм”
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  • Malayalam: “പ്ഫോർസ്ഹൈം”
  • Marathi: “फॉर्झिहॅम”
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  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pforzheim”
  • Ossetian: “Пфорцхайм”
  • Persian: “فورتسهایم”
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  • Russian: “Пфорцхайм”
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  • Serbian: “Pforzheim”
  • Serbian: “Пфорцхајм”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pforzheim”
  • Sicilian: “Pforzheim”
  • Sinhala: “ෆෝර්ස්හයිම්”
  • Slovak: “Pforzheim”
  • Slovenian: “Pforzheim”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فورتسهایم”
  • Spanish: “Pforzheim”
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  • Swedish: “Pforzheim”
  • Swiss German: “Pforze”
  • Swiss German: “Pforzheim”
  • Tagalog: “Pforzheim”
  • Tamil: “பிபோர்ஷெயிம்”
  • Tatar: “Пфорцһайм”
  • Telugu: “ప్రొఫాజ్హెయిమ్”
  • Thai: “ฟอทซ์ไฮม์”
  • Tumbuka: “Pforzheim”
  • Turkish: “Pforzheim”
  • Ukrainian: “Пфорцгайм”
  • Ukrainian: “Пфорцхайм”
  • Urdu: “فورزہائم”
  • Urdu: “فورزہیم”
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  • Western Frisian: “Pforzheim”
  • Western Panjabi: “فورزہائم”
  • Wolof: “Pforzheim”
  • Wu Chinese: “普福尔茨海姆”
  • Yakut: “Пфорцхайм”
  • Yue Chinese: “佛茨海姆”
  • Zeeuws: “Pforzheim”
  • Zulu: “Pforzheim”

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