Viscri
Viscri or Deutsch Weisskirch is a village in Brasov County. It is a UNESCO world heritage site. Viscri has about 412 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include The Fortified Church of Viscri.
The Fortified Church of Viscri
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Viscri fortified church is a Lutheran fortified church in Viscri, Brașov County, in the Transylvania region of Romania. It was built by the ethnic German Transylvanian Saxon community at a time when the area belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fișer.
Fișer
Village
Photo: Cerghizan Radu, Public domain.
Fișer is a village, which is situated 4½ km northeast of Viscri.
Viscri
- Type: Village with 412 residents
- Description: village in Brașov County, Romania
- Category: locality
- Location: Bunești, Brașov County, Transylvania, Romania, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
46.0567° or 46° 3′ 24″ northLongitude
25.0974° or 25° 5′ 51″ eastPopulation
412Elevation
532 metres (1,745 feet)Open location code
8GR7334W+MWOpenStreetMap ID
node 441167528OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
662704Wikidata ID
Q935538
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Ukrainian—“Viscri” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Deutsch-Weißkirch”
- Bulgarian: “Szászfehéregyháza”
- Bulgarian: “Вискри (рум. Viscri)”
- Bulgarian: “Вискри”
- Catalan: “Viscri”
- Chechen: “Вискри”
- Dutch: “Viscri”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ڤيسكرى”
- Esperanto: “Deutsch-Weisskirch”
- Esperanto: “Szászfehéregyháza”
- Esperanto: “Viscri”
- French: “Viscri”
- German: “Deutsch-Weisskirch”
- German: “Deutsch-Weißkirch”
- German: “Szászfehéregyháza”
- German: “Viscri”
- Hungarian: “Szászfehéregyháza”
- Japanese: “ヴィスクリ”
- Japanese: “サースフェヘールエジハーザ”
- Polish: “Viscri”
- Romanian: “Viscri, Brașov”
- Romanian: “Viscri”
- Russian: “Вискри”
- Tatar: “Вискри”
- Ukrainian: “Віскрі”
- Ukrainian: “Німецька-Білацерква”
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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 “Viscri”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.