Pottenstein
Pottenstein is a town in Franconian Switzerland, in the district of Upper Franconia. Pottenstein is in the steep rocky gorge carved by the River Püttlach, with many interesting rock formations, overlooked by Pottenstein Castle since the 11th century.
- Town with about 5,180 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 370 metres (1,210 feet)
- Description: town in Landkreis Bayreuth in Germany
- Also known as“09472179”“Pottenstein, Bavaria”“Stadt Pottenstein”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pottenstein Castle and Devil’s Cave.
Himmelsleiter Pottenstein
Scenic viewpoint
Himmelsleiter Pottenstein is a scenic viewpoint.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Schüttersmühle and Weidenloh.
Pottenstein
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Latitude
49.7711° or 49° 46′ 16″ north
Longitude
11.4093° or 11° 24′ 33″ east
Open location code
8FXHQCC5+CP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Pottenstein” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Pottenstein”
- Arabic: “بوتينشتاين”
- Aragonese: “Pottenstein”
- Armenian: “Պոթենշտայն”
- Arpitan: “Pottenstein”
- Asturian: “Pottenstein”
- Basque: “Pottenstein”
- Bavarian: “Pottenstein”
- Breton: “Pottenstein”
- Catalan: “Pottenstein”
- Chechen: “Поттенштайн (Лакха Франкони)”
- Chechen: “Поттенштайн”
- Chinese: “波滕施泰因”
- Corsican: “Pottenstein”
- Croatian: “Pottenstein”
- Czech: “Pottenstein”
- Danish: “Pottenstein”
- Dutch: “Pottenstein”
- Esperanto: “Pottenstein”
- Estonian: “Pottenstein”
- Finnish: “Pottenstein”
- French: “Pottenstein”
- Friulian: “Pottenstein”
- Galician: “Pottenstein”
- German: “Pottenstein”
- Hungarian: “Pottenstein”
- Icelandic: “Pottenstein”
- Ido: “Pottenstein”
- Indonesian: “Pottenstein”
- Interlingua: “Pottenstein”
- Interlingue: “Pottenstein”
- Irish: “Pottenstein”
- Italian: “Pottenstein”
- Japanese: “ポッテンシュタイン”
- Jèrriais: “Pottenstein”
- Kazakh: “Поттенштайн”
- Kirghiz: “Поттенштайн”
- Kongo: “Pottenstein”
- Kurdish: “Pottenstein, Bavyera”
- Kurdish: “Pottenstein”
- Ladin: “Pottenstein”
- Ligurian: “Pottenstein”
- Limburgan: “Pottenstein”
- Lombard: “Pottenstein”
- Low German: “Pottenstein”
- Luxembourgish: “Pottenstein”
- Malagasy: “Pottenstein”
- Malay: “Pottenstein, Bavaria”
- Malay: “Pottenstein”
- Minangkabau: “Pottenstein”
- Neapolitan: “Pottenstein”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pottenstein”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pottenstein”
- Norwegian: “Pottenstein”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Pottenstein”
- Persian: “پتناشتاین”
- Picard: “Pottenstein”
- Piemontese: “Pottenstein”
- Polish: “Pottenstein”
- Portuguese: “Pottenstein”
- Romanian: “Pottenstein (Oberfranken)”
- Romanian: “Pottenstein, Bavaria”
- Romanian: “Pottenstein”
- Romansh: “Pottenstein”
- Russian: “Поттенштайн”
- Sardinian: “Pottenstein”
- Scots: “Pottenstein”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Pottenstein”
- Serbian: “Potenštajn”
- Serbian: “Pottenstein”
- Serbian: “Потенштајн”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pottenstein”
- Sicilian: “Pottenstein”
- Slovak: “Pottenstein”
- Slovenian: “Pottenstein”
- Spanish: “Pottenstein”
- Swahili: “Pottenstein”
- Swedish: “Pottenstein, Tyskland”
- Swedish: “Pottenstein”
- Swiss German: “Pottenstein”
- Tatar: “Поттенштайн”
- Turkish: “Pottenstein, Bavyera”
- Turkish: “Pottenstein”
- Ukrainian: “Поттенштайн”
- Uzbek: “Pottenstein”
- Uzbek: “Поттенстеин”
- Venetian: “Pottenstein”
- Vietnamese: “Pottenstein, Bayreuth”
- Vietnamese: “Pottenstein”
- Vlaams: “Pottenstein”
- Volapük: “Pottenstein”
- Walloon: “Pottenstein”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pottenstein, Bavaria”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pottenstein”
- Welsh: “Pottenstein”
- Wolof: “Pottenstein”
- Zulu: “Pottenstein”
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