Schleswig-Holstein
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Plön

Plön

Plön is the district seat of the Plön district in , , and has about 8,700 inhabitants. It lies right on the shores of Schleswig-Holstein's biggest lake, the Great Plön Lake, as well as on several smaller lakes, touching the town on virtually all sides.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Plön Castle and Widow’s Palace.

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in Plön is one of the largest castles in the north German state of and the only one located on a hill. The former Residenz of the Dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Plön was built in the 17th century during the Thirty Years War and has had a colourful history in which it has, for example, been a school for military cadets and also a boarding school.

Historic building
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The ducal Widow's Palace in Plön in the north German state of was the widow's seat of the Duchess Dorothea Christina. During its history the building has also served as an orphanage and was modified several times.

Museum
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rathjensdorf and Dörnick.

Village
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is a municipality in the , in , .

Village
is a municipality in the , in , . is situated 4 km west of Plön.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Plön

Latitude
54.1581° or 54° 9′ 29″ north
Longitude
10.4177° or 10° 25′ 4″ east
Population
13,100
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
United Nations Location Code
DE PLN
Open location code
9F6G5C59+63
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240100817
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2853162
Wiki­data ID
Q497060
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Plön” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Plön”
  • Arabic: “بلون”
  • Aragonese: “Plön”
  • Arpitan: “Plön”
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  • Bavarian: “Plön”
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  • Bulgarian: “Пльон”
  • Catalan: “Plön”
  • Cebuano: “Plön”
  • Central Kurdish: “پلێڤێن”
  • Chechen: “Плоьн”
  • Chinese: “普伦”
  • Chinese: “普倫”
  • Corsican: “Plön”
  • Croatian: “Plön”
  • Czech: “Plön”
  • Danish: “Pløen”
  • Danish: “Plön”
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  • Dutch: “Plön”
  • Esperanto: “Ploen”
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  • Estonian: “Plön”
  • Finnish: “Plön”
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  • Galician: “Plön”
  • German: “Plön”
  • Greek: “Πλεν”
  • Hebrew: “פלן”
  • Hungarian: “Plön”
  • Icelandic: “Plön”
  • Ido: “Plön”
  • Indonesian: “Plön”
  • Interlingua: “Plön”
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  • Irish: “Plön”
  • Italian: “Plon”
  • Italian: “Plön”
  • Japanese: “プレーン (ドイツの地名)”
  • Japanese: “プレーン”
  • Japanese: “プレン (ドイツ)”
  • Kazakh: “Plyon”
  • Kazakh: “Плён”
  • Kazakh: “پليون”
  • Kirghiz: “Плөн”
  • Kongo: “Plön”
  • Korean: “플뢴”
  • Kurdish: “Plön”
  • Ladin: “Plön”
  • Latin: “Ploena”
  • Ligurian: “Plön”
  • Limburgan: “Plön”
  • Low German: “Plön”
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  • Luxembourgish: “Plön”
  • Macedonian: “Плен”
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  • Narom: “Plön”
  • Neapolitan: “Plön”
  • Northern Frisian: “Plöön”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Plön”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pløn”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Plön”
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  • Occitan (post 1500): “Plön”
  • Persian: “پلون”
  • Picard: “Plön”
  • Piemontese: “Plön”
  • Polish: “Ploen”
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  • Portuguese: “Plön”
  • Romanian: “Plon”
  • Romanian: “Plön”
  • Romansh: “Plön”
  • Russian: “Плён”
  • Sardinian: “Plön”
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  • Scots: “Plön”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Plön”
  • Serbian: “Plen”
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  • Slovak: “Plön”
  • Slovenian: “Plön”
  • Spanish: “Plön”
  • Swahili: “Plön”
  • Swedish: “Ploen”
  • Swedish: “Plön”
  • Swedish: “Pløn”
  • Swiss German: “Plön”
  • Tatar: “Плён”
  • Tatar: “Плөн”
  • Tumbuka: “Plön”
  • Turkish: “Plön”
  • Ukrainian: “Плен”
  • Uzbek: “Plon”
  • Uzbek: “Plön”
  • Uzbek: “Plyon”
  • Uzbek: “Плöн”
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  • Venetian: “Plön”
  • Vietnamese: “Plön”
  • Vlaams: “Plön”
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  • Walloon: “Plön”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Plön”
  • Welsh: “Plön”
  • Western Frisian: “Plön”
  • Wolof: “Plön”
  • Zulu: “Plön”

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