Lower Saxony
East Frisia
Friesland

Varel

Varel is a small town in , near the Jade River, and south of Wilhelmshaven and Oldenburg. There is a well-known church dating back to 1144, although nowadays the town had a population of 24,000 in 2020, and the church is Lutheran.
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  • Type: Town with 23,600 residents
  • Description: town in the district of Friesland, in Lower Saxony, Germany
  • Also known as: “03455026”
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Varel station and Waisenhaus.

Railway station
Photo: JoachimKohlerBremen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Varel is a railway station located in Varel, . The station is located on the Oldenburg–Wilhelmshaven railway. The train services are operated by NordWestBahn.

Heritage site
Photo: Dickelbers, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a heritage site.

Photo: Barghaan, CC BY 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Moorhausen.

Neighborhood
Photo: Berliner Kartenspieler, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a neighborhood.

Varel

Latitude
53.3958° or 53° 23′ 45″ north
Longitude
8.1372° or 8° 8′ 14″ east
Population
23,600
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
Open location code
9F5C94WP+8V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1599283046
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2817876
Wiki­data ID
Q496056
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Varel” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فارل”
  • Aragonese: “Varel”
  • Armenian: “Ֆարել”
  • Asturian: “Varel”
  • Basque: “Varel”
  • Catalan: “Varel”
  • Cebuano: “Varel”
  • Chechen: “Фарель”
  • Chinese: “法勒尔”
  • Chinese: “法雷尔”
  • Chinese: “法雷爾”
  • Chinese: “瓦勒尔鎮”
  • Chinese: “瓦勒爾鎮”
  • Czech: “Varel”
  • Danish: “Varel”
  • Dutch: “Varel”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فارل”
  • Esperanto: “Varel”
  • Estonian: “Varel”
  • Finnish: “Varel”
  • French: “Varel”
  • German: “Almsee”
  • German: “Altjührden”
  • German: “Bramloge”
  • German: “Dangastermoor”
  • German: “Hohelucht”
  • German: “Hohenberge”
  • German: “Jethausen”
  • German: “Logemoor”
  • German: “Moorhausen”
  • German: “Plaggenkrug”
  • German: “Rahling”
  • German: “Rallenbüschen”
  • German: “Rosenberg”
  • German: “Tange”
  • German: “Varel”
  • German: “Vareler Schleuse”
  • Hungarian: “Varel”
  • Irish: “Varel”
  • Italian: “Altjührden”
  • Italian: “Borgstede”
  • Italian: “Büppel”
  • Italian: “Dangast”
  • Italian: “Dangastermoor”
  • Italian: “Grünenkamp”
  • Italian: “Hohelucht”
  • Italian: “Hohenberge”
  • Italian: “Jethausen”
  • Italian: “Langendamm”
  • Italian: “Moorhausen”
  • Italian: “Neuenwege”
  • Italian: “Rallenbüschen”
  • Italian: “Seghorn”
  • Italian: “Streek”
  • Italian: “Varel”
  • Italian: “Winkelsheide”
  • Japanese: “ファーレル”
  • Kazakh: “Farelʹ”
  • Kazakh: “Фарель”
  • Kazakh: “فارەل”
  • Kirghiz: “Фарель”
  • Korean: “파렐”
  • Kurdish: “Varel”
  • Ladin: “Varel”
  • Latin: “Varel”
  • Lithuanian: “Varelis”
  • Low German: “Varel”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Altjührden”
  • Macedonian: “Фарел”
  • Malay: “Varel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Varel”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Varel”
  • Norwegian: “Varel”
  • Persian: “فارل”
  • Polish: “Varel”
  • Portuguese: “Varel”
  • Romanian: “Varel”
  • Russian: “Фарель”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Foarel”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Varel”
  • Serbian: “Farel”
  • Serbian: “Varel”
  • Serbian: “Фарел”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Varel”
  • Slovak: “Varel”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فارل”
  • Spanish: “Varel”
  • Swedish: “Varel”
  • Tatar: “Фарель”
  • Tumbuka: “Varel”
  • Turkish: “Varel”
  • Ukrainian: “Фарель”
  • Uzbek: “Farel”
  • Uzbek: “Varel”
  • Uzbek: “Варел”
  • Uzbek: “Фарел”
  • Vietnamese: “Varel”
  • Volapük: “Varel”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Varel”
  • Welsh: “Varel”
  • Western Frisian: “Varel”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Varel”. Photo: Dickelbers, CC BY-SA 3.0.