Torgau
Torgau is a town on the banks of the Elbe in northwestern Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district Nordsachsen. Outside Germany, the town is best known as where on 25 April 1945, the United States and Soviet Armies first met near the end of World War II.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wolkenkratzer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Spalatinhaus Torgau and Town hall Torgau.
Katharinenstraße 11 Torgau
Museum
Photo: Lutzto, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Katharinenstraße 11 Torgau is a museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zinna and Pflückuff.
Zinna
Village
Photo: Lutzto, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Zinna is a village and a former municipality in the district Nordsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. Since 1 January 2013, it is part of the town Torgau. Zinna is situated 3½ km west of Torgau.
Pflückuff
Hamlet
Pflückuff is a former municipality in the district Nordsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. It was formed in 1994 by the merger of the former municipalities Beckwitz, Loßwig, Mehderitzsch, Staupitz and Weßnig.
Torgau
- Type: Town with 20,100 residents
- Description: town in Saxony, Germany
- Categories: Greater district town, Lutherstadt, urban municipality in Germany, district capital, and locality
- Location: Nordsachsen, Leipzig Lowlands-Central Hills, Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.5581° or 51° 33′ 29″ northLongitude
13.0047° or 13° 0′ 17″ eastPopulation
20,100Elevation
89 metres (292 feet)United Nations Location Code
DE TOUOpen location code
9F3MH253+7VOpenStreetMap ID
node 1601760971OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Torgau” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Torgau”
- Arabic: “تورجاو”
- Aragonese: “Torgau”
- Armenian: “Տորգաու”
- Arpitan: “Torgau”
- Asturian: “Torgau”
- Bashkir: “Торгау”
- Basque: “Torgau”
- Bavarian: “Torgau”
- Belarusian: “Таргау”
- Belarusian: “Таргаў”
- Belarusian: “Торгау”
- Belarusian: “Торгаў”
- Bosnian: “Torgau”
- Breton: “Torgau”
- Bulgarian: “Торгау”
- Catalan: “Torgau”
- Cebuano: “Torgau (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Torgau”
- Chechen: “Торгау”
- Chinese: “托尔高”
- Chinese: “托爾高”
- Corsican: “Torgau”
- Croatian: “Torgau”
- Czech: “Torgau”
- Czech: “Torgava”
- Danish: “Torgau”
- Dutch: “Torgau”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تورجاو”
- Esperanto: “Torgau”
- Estonian: “Torgau”
- Finnish: “Torgau”
- French: “Torgau”
- Friulian: “Torgau”
- Galician: “Torgau”
- German: “Große Kreisstadt Torgau”
- German: “Torgau”
- Greek: “Τόργκαου”
- Hebrew: “טורגאו”
- Hungarian: “Torgau”
- Icelandic: “Torgau”
- Ido: “Torgau”
- Indonesian: “Torgau”
- Interlingua: “Torgau”
- Interlingue: “Torgau”
- Irish: “Torgau”
- Italian: “Torgau”
- Japanese: “トルガウ”
- Kazakh: “Торгау”
- Kongo: “Torgau”
- Korean: “토르가우”
- Kurdish: “Torgau”
- Ladin: “Torgau”
- Latin: “Argelia”
- Latvian: “Torgava”
- Ligurian: “Torgau”
- Limburgan: “Torgau”
- Low German: “Torgau”
- Lower Sorbian: “Torgawa”
- Luxembourgish: “Torgau”
- Macedonian: “Торгау”
- Malagasy: “Torgau”
- Malay: “Torgau”
- Minangkabau: “Torgau”
- Narom: “Torgau”
- Neapolitan: “Torgau”
- Northern Frisian: “Torgau”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Torgau”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Torgau”
- Norwegian: “Torgau”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Torgau”
- Persian: “تورگاو”
- Picard: “Torgau”
- Piemontese: “Torgau”
- Polish: “Torgau”
- Portuguese: “Torgau”
- Romanian: “Torgau”
- Romansh: “Torgau”
- Russian: “Торгау”
- Sardinian: “Torgau”
- Scots: “Torgau”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Torgau”
- Serbian: “Torgau”
- Serbian: “Торгау”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Torgau”
- Sicilian: “Torgau”
- Slovak: “Torgau”
- Slovenian: “Torgau”
- South Azerbaijani: “تورقاو”
- Spanish: “Torgau”
- Swahili: “Torgau”
- Swedish: “Torgau”
- Swiss German: “Torgau”
- Tatar: “Торгау”
- Tumbuka: “Torgau”
- Turkish: “Torgau”
- Ukrainian: “Торгау”
- Upper Sorbian: “Torhow”
- Uzbek: “Torgau”
- Venetian: “Torgau”
- Vietnamese: “Torgau”
- Vlaams: “Torgau”
- Volapük: “Torgau”
- Walloon: “Torgau”
- Waray (Philippines): “Torgau”
- Welsh: “Torgau”
- Western Frisian: “Torgau”
- Wolof: “Torgau”
- Zulu: “Torgau”
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