Vils in Tirol
Vils is a small town in Northwest Tyrol. It is close to Füssen in Germany and makes for a more sedate alternative base for trips to the castles of Hohenschwangau.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dark Avenger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Gras-Ober, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Municipality with 1,540 residents
- Description: municipality in Reutte District, Tyrol, Austria
- Also known as: “Vils” and “Vils, Tyrol”
- Neighbors: Füssen and Pinswang
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vilsegg Castle and Alatsee.
Vilsegg Castle
Castle
Photo: Johannes Robalotoff, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vilsegg Castle is a former fortification in the Austrian state of Tyrol that stands about a kilometre northwest of the little town of Vils, between Pfronten and Füssen, a few hundred metres away from the Austro-German border.
Alatsee
Lake
Photo: Molgreen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Alatsee is a meromictic lake in Ostallgäu, Bavaria, Germany. At an elevation of 868 metres, its surface area is 12 hectares. Many divers have died or disappeared mysteriously in the lake due to the toxicity of the organisms living in the lake.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vils and Weißensee.
Vils in Tirol
- Categories: municipality of Austria, place with town rights and privileges, and locality
- Location: Reutte District, Tyrol, Austria, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.5449° or 47° 32′ 42″ northLongitude
10.6278° or 10° 37′ 40″ eastPopulation
1,540Elevation
816 metres (2,677 feet)Open location code
8FVGGJVH+W4OpenStreetMap ID
node 12306698332OpenStreetMap feature
place=municipalityGeoNames ID
2762358Wikidata ID
Q26340
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Vils in Tirol” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Vils”
- Arabic: “فيلس”
- Aragonese: “Vils (Austria)”
- Aragonese: “Vils”
- Basque: “Vils”
- Bulgarian: “Филс”
- Catalan: “Vils”
- Cebuano: “Vils (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Vils”
- Chechen: “Фильс (гӀала)”
- Chechen: “Фильс”
- Chinese: “菲尔斯”
- Czech: “Vils”
- Dutch: “Vils”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فيلس”
- Estonian: “Vils”
- French: “Vils”
- German: “Vils”
- Hungarian: “Vils”
- Irish: “Vils”
- Italian: “Vils”
- Kazakh: “Фильс”
- Ladin: “Vils”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vils”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vils”
- Norwegian: “Vils”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Vils”
- Persian: “فیلس تیرول”
- Persian: “فیلس”
- Persian: “ویلس”
- Polish: “Vils”
- Portuguese: “Vils”
- Russian: “Фильс”
- Slovak: “Vils”
- Spanish: “Vils”
- Swedish: “Vils, Tyrolen”
- Swedish: “Vils”
- Swiss German: “Vils”
- Tatar: “Фильс (шәһәр)”
- Tatar: “Фильс”
- Tosk Albanian: “Vils”
- Turkish: “Vils”
- Ukrainian: “Фільс”
- Uzbek: “Vils”
- Venetian: “Vils (Austria)”
- Venetian: “Vils”
- Volapük: “Vils”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vils, Austria”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vils”
- Western Panjabi: “فلز”
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