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Palatinate

Pirmasens

Pirmasens is an independent town in , , near the border with . 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 .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Pirmasens Hauptbahnhof and Dynamikum.

Railway station
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is a terminal station in the town of Pirmasens, in the German state of , about one kilometre from the city centre.

Museum
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is a museum.

Theater building
Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a theater building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rodalben and Lemberg.

Village
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is a municipality in the district, in , . It is situated in the Palatinate forest, approx. 5 km northeast of Pirmasens. is situated 5 km northeast of Pirmasens.

Village
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is a municipality in district, in , western and belongs to the municipal association Pirmasens-Land. is situated 4½ km southeast of Pirmasens.

Village
is a municipality in district, in , western and belongs to the municipal association Pirmasens-Land. is situated 4 km southwest of Pirmasens.

Pirmasens

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
node 1701700293
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2853574
Wiki­data ID
Q14849
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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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