Pirmasens
Pirmasens is an independent town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, near the border with France. It was famous for the manufacture of shoes. The surrounding rural district was called Landkreis Pirmasens from 1818 until 1997, when it was renamed to Südwestpfalz.Places of Interest
Highlights include Pirmasens Hauptbahnhof and Dynamikum.
Pirmasens Hauptbahnhof
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rodalben and Lemberg.
Rodalben
Village
Rodalben is a municipality in the Südwestpfalz district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated in the Palatinate forest, approx. 5 km northeast of Pirmasens. Rodalben is situated 5 km northeast of Pirmasens.
Lemberg
Village
Lemberg is a municipality in Südwestpfalz district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany and belongs to the municipal association Pirmasens-Land, where it is the largest local municipality in terms of both the area and the number of inhabitants. Lemberg is situated 4½ km southeast of Pirmasens.
Obersimten
Village
Obersimten is a municipality in Südwestpfalz district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany and belongs to the municipal association Pirmasens-Land. Obersimten is situated 4 km southwest of Pirmasens.
Pirmasens
- Type: Town with 40,100 residents
- Description: town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
- Categories: urban municipality in Germany, urban district of Rhineland-Palatinate, district capital, and locality
- Location: Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
49.1997° or 49° 11′ 59″ north
Longitude
7.6088° or 7° 36′ 32″ east
Population
40,100
Elevation
400 metres (1,312 feet)
IATA airport code
ZPI
United Nations Location Code
DE PIR
Open location code
8FX95JX5+VG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Pirmasens” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيرمازنز”
- Aragonese: “Pirmasens”
- Armenian: “Պիրմազենս”
- Asturian: “Pirmasens”
- Basque: “Pirmasens”
- Belarusian: “Пірмазенс”
- Belarusian: “Пірмазэнс”
- Bulgarian: “Пирмазенс”
- Catalan: “Pirmasens”
- Cebuano: “Kreisfreie Stadt Pirmasens”
- Cebuano: “Pirmasens (munisipyo)”
- Chechen: “Пирмазенс”
- Chinese: “皮尔马森斯”
- Chinese: “皮爾馬森斯”
- Czech: “Pirmasens”
- Danish: “Pirmasens”
- Dutch: “Pirmasens”
- Esperanto: “Pirmasens”
- Estonian: “Pirmasens”
- Finnish: “Pirmasens”
- French: “Pirmasens”
- German: “Pirmasens”
- Hebrew: “פירמזנס”
- Hungarian: “Pirmasens”
- Indonesian: “Pirmasens”
- Interlingua: “Pirmasens”
- Interlingue: “Pirmasens”
- Irish: “Pirmasens”
- Italian: “Pirmasens”
- Japanese: “ピルマゼンス”
- Korean: “피르마젠스”
- Kurdish: “Pirmasens”
- Ladin: “Pirmasens”
- Latin: “Pirminisensna”
- Latin: “Sancti Pirminii sedes”
- Low German: “Pirmasens”
- Northern Frisian: “Pirmasens”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pirmasens”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pirmasens”
- Norwegian: “Pirmasens”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Pirmasens”
- Persian: “پیرمازنز”
- Pfaelzisch: “Bärmesens”
- Pfaelzisch: “Pirmasens”
- Polish: “Pirmasens”
- Portuguese: “Pirmasens”
- Romanian: “Pirmasens”
- Russian: “Пирмазенс”
- Sardinian: “Pirmasens”
- Serbian: “Пирмазенс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pirmasens”
- Slovak: “Pirmasens”
- Slovenian: “Pirmasens”
- South Azerbaijani: “پیرمازنز”
- Spanish: “Pirmasens”
- Swahili: “Pirmasens”
- Swedish: “Pirmasens”
- Tatar: “Пирмасенс”
- Tumbuka: “Pirmasens”
- Turkish: “Pirmasens”
- Ukrainian: “Пірмазенс”
- Urdu: “پیرمازنز”
- Uzbek: “Pirmasens”
- Vietnamese: “Pirmasens”
- Volapük: “Pirmasens”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pirmasens”
- Welsh: “Pirmasens”
- Western Frisian: “Pirmasens”
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