Solingen

Solingen is a city in , . Solingen is world famous for its century old tradition of making knives and swords and you can still get a high quality blade here, but expect to pay good money for good quality.
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  • Type: City with 164,000 residents
  • Description: city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Also known as: “Solich”, “Solich, NRW”, “Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia”, and “Solingen, NRW”
  • Postal code: 42645
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Museum Plagiarius and Solingen Mitte station.

Museum
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Railway station
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is in the city of Solingen in the German state of . It is on the Wuppertal-Oberbarmen–Solingen railway. The line through the site of was opened on 2 December 1890 as part of the Solingen–Wuppertal-Vohwinkel line, known as the Korkenzieherbahn, to .

Library
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is a library.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Solingen-Zentral and Krahenhöhe.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet.

Solingen

Latitude
51.1722° or 51° 10′ 20″ north
Longitude
7.0846° or 7° 5′ 5″ east
Population
164,000
Elevation
229 metres (751 feet)
IATA airport code
ZIO
United Nations Location Code
DE SOL
Open location code
9F3953CM+VR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240072888
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2831580
Wiki­data ID
Q2942
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Solingen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Solingen”
  • Arabic: “زولينغن”
  • Aragonese: “Solingen”
  • Armenian: “Զոլինգեն”
  • Arpitan: “Solingen”
  • Asturian: “Solingen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Zolingen”
  • Balinese: “Solingen”
  • Basque: “Solingen”
  • Bavarian: “Solingen”
  • Belarusian: “Золінген”
  • Bengali: “জোলিংএন”
  • Bosnian: “Solingen”
  • Breton: “Solingen”
  • Bulgarian: “Золинген”
  • Catalan: “Solingen”
  • Cebuano: “Kreisfreie Stadt Solingen”
  • Cebuano: “Solingen (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Solingen”
  • Central Kurdish: “سۆلینگن”
  • Chinese: “Solingen”
  • Chinese: “索林根”
  • Corsican: “Solingen”
  • Croatian: “Solingen”
  • Czech: “Solingen”
  • Danish: “Solingen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Solingen”
  • Dutch: “Solingen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “زولينجن”
  • Esperanto: “Solingen”
  • Estonian: “Solingen”
  • Finnish: “Solingen”
  • French: “Solingen”
  • Friulian: “Solingen”
  • Galician: “Solingen”
  • Georgian: “ზოლინგენი”
  • German: “Klingenstadt”
  • German: “Solingen”
  • Greek: “Ζόλινγκεν”
  • Gujarati: “સોલિન્ગન”
  • Hebrew: “זולינגן”
  • Hindi: “ज़ोलिंगन”
  • Hungarian: “Solingen”
  • Icelandic: “Solingen”
  • Ido: “Solingen”
  • Indonesian: “Solingen”
  • Interlingua: “Solingen”
  • Interlingue: “Solingen”
  • Irish: “Solingen”
  • Italian: “Solingen”
  • Japanese: “ゾーリンゲン”
  • Kannada: “ಸೋಲಿಂಜೆನ್ ,”
  • Kazakh: “Золинген”
  • Kirghiz: “Золинген”
  • Kongo: “Solingen”
  • Korean: “졸링겐”
  • Kotava: “Solingen”
  • Kurdish: “Solingen”
  • Kurdish: “Zolîngin”
  • Ladin: “Solingen”
  • Latin: “Salingiacum”
  • Latvian: “Zolingene”
  • Ligurian: “Solingen”
  • Limburgan: “Solich (Noordrien-Wesfale)”
  • Limburgan: “Solich”
  • Lithuanian: “Zolingenas”
  • Low German: “Solingen”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Solingen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Solingen”
  • Macedonian: “Золинген”
  • Malagasy: “Solingen”
  • Malay: “Solingen”
  • Marathi: “सोलिन्गेन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Solingen”
  • Minangkabau: “Solingen”
  • Narom: “Solingen”
  • Neapolitan: “Solingen”
  • Northern Frisian: “Solingen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Solingen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Solingen”
  • Norwegian: “Solingen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Solingen”
  • Ossetian: “Золинген”
  • Persian: “زولینگن”
  • Picard: “Solingen”
  • Piemontese: “Solingen”
  • Polish: “Solingen”
  • Portuguese: “Solingen”
  • Romanian: “Solingen”
  • Romansh: “Solingen”
  • Russian: “Золинген”
  • Sardinian: “Solingen”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Solingen”
  • Scots: “Solingen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Solingen”
  • Serbian: “Solingen”
  • Serbian: “Золинген”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Solingen”
  • Sicilian: “Solingen”
  • Silesian: “Solingen”
  • Sinhala: “සොලින්ජෙන්”
  • Slovak: “Solingen”
  • Slovenian: “Solingen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “زولینقن”
  • Spanish: “Solingen”
  • Swahili: “Solingen”
  • Swedish: “Solingen”
  • Swiss German: “Solingen”
  • Tajik: “Зулинген”
  • Tamil: “சொலின்ஜென்”
  • Tatar: “Золинген”
  • Telugu: “సోలింగెన్”
  • Thai: “โซลิงเงิน”
  • Turkish: “Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia”
  • Turkish: “Solingen, NRW”
  • Turkish: “Solingen”
  • Ukrainian: “Золінген”
  • Ukrainian: “Золінґен”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Solingen”
  • Urdu: “سولنگن”
  • Urdu: “سولینجین”
  • Venetian: “Solingen”
  • Vietnamese: “Solingen”
  • Vlaams: “Solingen”
  • Volapük: “Solingen”
  • Walloon: “Solingen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Solingen”
  • Welsh: “Solingen”
  • Western Frisian: “Solingen”
  • Western Panjabi: “سولنگن”
  • Wolof: “Solingen”
  • Wu Chinese: “索林根”
  • Yue Chinese: “索林根”
  • Zulu: “Solingen”

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