Plauen
Plauen is the biggest city of the Vogtland in the federal-state of Saxony. It is famous for its lace industry.
- Type: Town with 65,700 residents
- Description: Greater district town and district capital, Vogtland Rural District, Saxony, Germany
- Also known as: “Plauen (Vogtland)”, “Plauen im Vogtland”, and “Plauen/Vogtland”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Plauen and Bärenstein Tower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thiergarten and Straßberg.
Stöckigt
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Plauen
- Categories: Greater district town, major regional center, urban municipality in Germany, district capital, and locality
- Location: Vogtlandkreis, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.4951° or 50° 29′ 42″ north
Longitude
12.1347° or 12° 8′ 5″ east
Population
65,700
Elevation
361 metres (1,184 feet)
UN/LOCODE
DE PLU
Open location code
9F2JF4WM+2V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Plauen” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Plauen”
- Arabic: “بلاوين”
- Aragonese: “Plauen”
- Armenian: “Պլաուեն”
- Arpitan: “Plauen”
- Asturian: “Plauen”
- Bashkir: “Плауэн”
- Basque: “Plauen”
- Bavarian: “Plauen”
- Belarusian: “Плаўэн”
- Breton: “Plauen”
- Bulgarian: “Плауен”
- Catalan: “Plauen”
- Cebuano: “Plauen”
- Chechen: “Плауэн”
- Chinese: “普劳恩”
- Chinese: “普勞恩”
- Corsican: “Plauen”
- Croatian: “Plauen”
- Czech: “Plavno”
- Danish: “Plauen”
- Dutch: “Plauen”
- Esperanto: “Plauen”
- Estonian: “Plauen”
- Finnish: “Plauen”
- French: “Plauen”
- Friulian: “Plauen”
- Galician: “Plauen”
- German: “Plauen”
- Greek: “Πλάουεν”
- Hakka Chinese: “Plauen”
- Hebrew: “פלאואן”
- Hindi: “प्लावन”
- Hungarian: “Plauen”
- Icelandic: “Plauen”
- Ido: “Plauen”
- Indonesian: “Plauen”
- Interlingua: “Plauen”
- Interlingue: “Plauen”
- Irish: “Plauen”
- Italian: “Plauen”
- Japanese: “プラウエン”
- Jèrriais: “Plauen”
- Kazakh: “Плауэн”
- Kirghiz: “Плауэн”
- Kongo: “Plauen”
- Korean: “플라우엔”
- Kotava: “Plauen”
- Kurdish: “Plauen”
- Ladin: “Plauen”
- Latin: “Plavia Variscorum”
- Latvian: “Plauene”
- Ligurian: “Plauen”
- Limburgan: “Plauen”
- Lithuanian: “Plauenas”
- Lombard: “Plauen”
- Low German: “Plauen”
- Luxembourgish: “Plauen”
- Macedonian: “Плауен”
- Malagasy: “Plauen”
- Malay: “Plauen”
- Minangkabau: “Plauen”
- Moksha: “Плауэн”
- Neapolitan: “Plauen”
- Northern Frisian: “Plauen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Plauen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Plauen”
- Norwegian: “Plauen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Plauen”
- Ossetian: “Плауэн”
- Persian: “پلاوئن”
- Persian: “پلاون”
- Picard: “Plauen”
- Piemontese: “Plauen”
- Polish: “Plauen”
- Portuguese: “Plauen”
- Romanian: “Plauen”
- Romansh: “Plauen”
- Russian: “Плауэн”
- Sardinian: “Plauen”
- Scots: “Plauen”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Plauen”
- Serbian: “Plauen”
- Serbian: “Плауен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Plauen”
- Sicilian: “Plauen”
- Silesian: “Plauen”
- Slovak: “Plauen”
- Slovak: “Plavno”
- Slovenian: “Plauen”
- South Azerbaijani: “پلاوئن”
- Spanish: “Plauen”
- Swahili: “Plauen”
- Swedish: “Plauen”
- Swiss German: “Plauen”
- Tatar: “Плавен”
- Thai: “เพลาเอิน”
- Tumbuka: “Plauen”
- Turkish: “Plauen”
- Ukrainian: “Плауен/Плавно”
- Ukrainian: “Плауен”
- Upper Sorbian: “Pławno”
- Urdu: “پلاوین”
- Uzbek: “Plauen”
- Venetian: “Plauen”
- Vietnamese: “Plauen”
- Vlaams: “Plauen”
- Volapük: “Plauen”
- Walloon: “Plauen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Plauen”
- Welsh: “Plauen”
- Wolof: “Plauen”
- Wu Chinese: “普劳恩”
- Yue Chinese: “普勞恩”
- Zulu: “Plauen”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Altstadt and Dobenau.
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Worth a closer look: Dresden and Leipzig.
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