Erlangen
Erlangen is a city of 120,000 people in Franconia, Germany. It is home to most of the Friedrich-Alexander University and the Siemens company. It grew as a result of settlement of Huguenot refugees from France, and because it was the secondary residence of the margraves of Ansbach Bayreuth.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Erlangen and Markgrafentheater Erlangen.
Erlangen
Railway station
Erlangen station is located on the Nuremberg–Bamberg railway in the German state of Bavaria. It is the oldest railway station of the city of Erlangen and it is the only station in the city served by long-distance trains.
Markgrafentheater Erlangen
Theater building
Photo: TheaterErlangen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Markgrafentheater Erlangen is a theater in Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany. It was opened in 1719, and celebrated its 300-year anniversary in 2019.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Büchenbach and Möhrendorf.
Möhrendorf
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Möhrendorf is a town in the district of Erlangen-Höchstadt, in Bavaria, Germany. It lies on the river Regnitz and the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal.
Tennenlohe
Village
Photo: Janericloebe, CC BY 3.0.
The village of Tennenlohe, is a local subdistrict and a statistical district in the southeast part of the independent city of Erlangen in the Bavarian administrative district of Middle Franconia.
Erlangen
Latitude
49.5929° or 49° 35′ 34″ northLongitude
11.0056° or 11° 0′ 20″ eastPopulation
120,000Elevation
290 metres (951 feet)IATA airport code
ZCZUnited Nations Location Code
DE ERLOpen location code
8FXHH2V4+46OpenStreetMap ID
node 17193023OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2929567Wikidata ID
Q3126
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Erlangen” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Erlangen”
- Arabic: “إرلنغن”
- Arabic: “ارلنجن”
- Aragonese: “Erlangen”
- Armenian: “Էռլանգեն”
- Arpitan: “Erlangen”
- Asturian: “Erlangen”
- Azerbaijani: “Erlangen”
- Balinese: “Erlangen”
- Basque: “Erlangen”
- Bavarian: “Erlanga”
- Belarusian: “Эрланген”
- Belarusian: “Эрлянген”
- Bengali: “আরলেনজেন”
- Breton: “Erlangen”
- Bulgarian: “Ерланген”
- Catalan: “Erlangen”
- Cebuano: “Erlangen”
- Central Kurdish: “ئێرلانگن”
- Chinese: “Erlangen”
- Chinese: “埃尔兰根”
- Chinese: “埃尔朗根”
- Chinese: “埃朗根”
- Chinese: “埃爾蘭根”
- Chinese: “愛爾朗根”
- Chinese: “爱尔朗根”
- Chuvash: “Эрланген”
- Corsican: “Erlangen”
- Croatian: “Erlangen”
- Czech: “Erlangen”
- Danish: “Erlangen”
- Dimli (individual language): “Erlangen”
- Dutch: “Erlangen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ارلنجن”
- Esperanto: “Erlangen”
- Estonian: “Erlangen”
- Ewe: “Erlangen”
- Finnish: “Erlangen”
- French: “Erlangen”
- Friulian: “Erlangen”
- Galician: “Erlangen”
- Georgian: “ერლანგენი”
- German: “Erlangen, St”
- German: “Erlangen”
- Greek: “Έρλαγκεν”
- Greek: “Έρλανγκεν”
- Gujarati: “એર્લાંગન”
- Hakka Chinese: “Erlangen”
- Hebrew: “ארלנגן”
- Hindi: “एर्लान्गें”
- Hungarian: “Erlangen”
- Icelandic: “Erlangen”
- Ido: “Erlangen”
- Indonesian: “Erlangen”
- Interlingua: “Erlangen”
- Interlingue: “Erlangen”
- Irish: “Erlangen”
- Italian: “Erlangen”
- Japanese: “エアランゲン”
- Kannada: “ಎರ್ಲಾಂಗೆನ್”
- Kazakh: “Эрланген”
- Kirghiz: “Эрланген”
- Kongo: “Erlangen”
- Korean: “에를랑겐”
- Kotava: “Erlangen”
- Kurdish: “Erlangen”
- Ladin: “Erlangen”
- Latin: “Erlanga”
- Latvian: “Erlangene”
- Ligurian: “Erlangen”
- Limburgan: “Erlangen”
- Lithuanian: “Erlangenas”
- Lombard: “Erlangen”
- Low German: “Erlangen”
- Luxembourgish: “Erlangen”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Erlangen”
- Macedonian: “Ерланген”
- Malagasy: “Erlangen”
- Malay: “Erlangen”
- Malayalam: “എർലാൻഗെൻ”
- Maltese: “Erlangen”
- Marathi: “एर्लानगन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Erlangen”
- Minangkabau: “Erlangen”
- Narom: “Erlangen”
- Neapolitan: “Erlangen”
- Northern Frisian: “Erlangen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Erlangen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Erlangen”
- Norwegian: “Erlangen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Erlangen”
- Persian: “ارلانگن”
- Picard: “Erlangen”
- Piemontese: “Erlangen”
- Polish: “Erlangen”
- Portuguese: “Erlangen”
- Romanian: “Erlangen”
- Romansh: “Erlangen”
- Russian: “Эрланген”
- Sardinian: “Erlangen”
- Saterfriesisch: “Erlangen”
- Scots: “Erlangen”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Erlangen”
- Serbian: “Erlangen”
- Serbian: “Ерланген”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Erlangen”
- Sicilian: “Erlangen”
- Silesian: “Erlangen”
- Sinhala: “අර්ලැන්ගන්”
- Slovak: “Erlangen”
- Slovenian: “Erlangen”
- South Azerbaijani: “ارلانقن”
- Spanish: “Erlangen”
- Swahili: “Erlangen”
- Swedish: “Erlangen”
- Swiss German: “Erlangen”
- Tamil: “எர்லாங்கன்”
- Tatar: “Эрланген”
- Telugu: “ఏర్లాంగన్”
- Thai: “เออลานเจน”
- Thai: “แอร์ลังเงิน”
- Tumbuka: “Erlangen”
- Turkish: “Erlangen, St”
- Turkish: “Erlangen”
- Ukrainian: “Ерланген”
- Ukrainian: “Ерланґен”
- Ukrainian: “Ерлянґен”
- Upper Sorbian: “Erlangen”
- Urdu: “ایرلینگن”
- Uzbek: “Erlangen”
- Venetian: “Erlangen”
- Vietnamese: “Erlangen”
- Vlaams: “Erlangen”
- Volapük: “Erlangen”
- Walloon: “Erlangen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Erlangen”
- Welsh: “Erlangen”
- Western Frisian: “Erlangen”
- Western Panjabi: “ارلینجن”
- Wolof: “Erlangen”
- Wu Chinese: “埃朗根”
- Xhosa: “Erlangen”
- Yue Chinese: “埃朗根”
- Zulu: “Erlangen”
- “Erlangen”
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