Baden-Württemberg
Black Forest
Karlsruhe Region

Pforzheim

Pforzheim is known as the "Gateway to Black Forest" or "Goldstadt" for its jewellery and watch-making industries. It is one of the main cities in and lies on the north edge of the between and .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Pforzheim Hauptbahnhof and Stadttheater Pforzheim.

Railway station
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is the main station in the city of Pforzheim in the German state of .

Theater building
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is a theatre in , . It is home to the city of Pforzheim's ballet, theatre, and opera companies, as well as the Badische Philharmonie Pforzheim orchestra.

Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Muck50, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a scenic viewpoint.

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)
United Nations Location Code
DE PFO
Open location code
8FWCVPR3+92
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240046032
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
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”
  • Arpitan: “Pforzheim”
  • Asturian: “Pforzheim”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pforshaym”
  • Balinese: “Pforzheim”
  • Basque: “Pforzheim”
  • Bavarian: “Pforzheim”
  • Belarusian: “Пфорцгайм”
  • Belarusian: “Пфорцхайм”
  • Bengali: “ফোৎসায়েম”
  • Breton: “Pforzheim”
  • Bulgarian: “Пфорцхайм”
  • Catalan: “Pforzheim”
  • Cebuano: “Pforzheim”
  • Cebuano: “Stadtkreis Pforzheim”
  • Central Kurdish: “فۆرتسھایم”
  • Chechen: “Пфорцхайм”
  • Chinese: “Pforzheim”
  • Chinese: “佛茨海姆”
  • Chinese: “普福尔茨海姆”
  • Corsican: “Pforzheim”
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  • Czech: “Pforzheim”
  • Danish: “Pforzheim”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Pforzheim”
  • Dutch: “Pforzheim”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بفورتسهايم”
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  • Finnish: “Pforzheim”
  • French: “Pforzheim”
  • Friulian: “Pforzheim”
  • Galician: “Pforzheim”
  • Georgian: “პფორცჰაიმი”
  • German: “Goldstadt”
  • German: “PF”
  • German: “Pforte zum Schwarzwald”
  • German: “Pforzheim”
  • German: “Stadtkreis Pforzheim”
  • Greek: “Πφορτζχάιμ”
  • Greek: “Πφόρτσχαϊμ”
  • Gujarati: “ફોર્ઝહેમ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pforzheim”
  • Hebrew: “פפורצהיים”
  • Hindi: “फ़ोर्ज़ाएम”
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  • Irish: “Pforzheim”
  • Italian: “Pforzheim”
  • Japanese: “プフォルツハイム”
  • Kannada: “ಪೋಫಾರ್ಹೀಮ್”
  • Kazakh: “Пфорцгейм”
  • Kongo: “Pforzheim”
  • Korean: “포르츠하임”
  • Kurdish: “Pforzheim”
  • Ladin: “Pforzheim”
  • Latin: “Phorca”
  • Latin: “Porta Hercyneae”
  • Latvian: “Pforcheima”
  • Ligurian: “Pforzheim”
  • Limburgan: “Pforzheim”
  • Lithuanian: “Pforcheimas”
  • Lombard: “Pforzheim”
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  • Macedo-Romanian: “Pforzheim”
  • Macedonian: “Пфорцхајм”
  • Malagasy: “Pforzheim”
  • Malay: “Pforzheim”
  • Malayalam: “പ്ഫോർസ്ഹൈം”
  • Marathi: “फॉर्झिहॅम”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pforzheim”
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  • Narom: “Pforzheim”
  • Neapolitan: “Pforzheim”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pforzheim”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pforzheim”
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  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pforzheim”
  • Ossetian: “Пфорцхайм”
  • Persian: “فورتسهایم”
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  • Russian: “Пфорцхайм”
  • Sardinian: “Pforzheim”
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  • Scots: “Pforzheim”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Pforzheim”
  • Serbian: “Pforzheim”
  • Serbian: “Пфорцхајм”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pforzheim”
  • Sicilian: “Pforzheim”
  • Sinhala: “ෆෝර්ස්හයිම්”
  • Slovak: “Pforzheim”
  • Slovenian: “Pforzheim”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فورتسهایم”
  • Spanish: “Pforzheim”
  • Swahili: “Pforzheim”
  • Swedish: “Pforzheim”
  • Swiss German: “Pforze”
  • Swiss German: “Pforzheim”
  • Tagalog: “Pforzheim”
  • Tamil: “பிபோர்ஷெயிம்”
  • Tatar: “Пфорцһайм”
  • Telugu: “ప్రొఫాజ్హెయిమ్”
  • Thai: “ฟอทซ์ไฮม์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Pforzheim”
  • Tumbuka: “Pforzheim”
  • Turkish: “Goldstadt”
  • Turkish: “PF”
  • Turkish: “Pforte zum Schwarzwald”
  • Turkish: “Pforzheim”
  • Ukrainian: “Пфорцгайм”
  • Ukrainian: “Пфорцхайм”
  • Urdu: “فورزہائم”
  • Uzbek: “Pforzheim”
  • Venetian: “Pforzheim”
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  • Waray (Philippines): “Pforzheim”
  • Welsh: “Pforzheim”
  • 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Pforzheim”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.