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Weißenburg

Weißenburg is in . in the Altmühltal Nature Park between the Brombachsee and the Altmühl valley in the Franconian Lake District. Today, the historic townscape with the largely preserved city wall, the Gothic town hall, the town church and the Ellinger Gate bear witness to its time as a trading town and its proximity to wealthy Nuremberg.
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  • Type: Town with 18,600 residents
  • Description: city in Bavaria, Germany
  • Also known as: “Weißenburg i.Bay.”, “Weißenburg in Bayern”, and “Weißenburg/Bayern”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Biriciana and Roman Museum Weißenburg.

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Roman fort at Weissenburg, called in ancient times, is a former Roman ala castellum, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located near the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes.

Museum
Photo: Pimpinellus, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Town hall
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ellingen and Hattenhof.

Town
Photo: Mef.ellingen, CC BY 3.0.
is a town in the district, in , . is situated 3½ km north of Weißenburg.

Village
Photo: Mef.ellingen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village.

Hamlet
Photo: Esper, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a hamlet.

Weißenburg

Latitude
49.0306° or 49° 1′ 50″ north
Longitude
10.9719° or 10° 58′ 19″ east
Population
18,600
Elevation
428 metres (1,404 feet)
United Nations Location Codes
DE WBU and DE WNG
Open location code
8FXG2XJC+6Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240052604
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2811909
Wiki­data ID
Q44500
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Weißenburg” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Arabic: “فايسنبورغ إن بايرن”
  • Aragonese: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Armenian: “Վայսենբուրգ”
  • Arpitan: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Asturian: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Basque: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Bavarian: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Belarusian: “Вайсенбург-ін-Баерн”
  • Breton: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Catalan: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Cebuano: “Weißenburg i.Bay.”
  • Cebuano: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Chechen: “Вайсенбург-ин-Байерн”
  • Chinese: “巴伐利亚州魏森堡”
  • Chinese: “拜恩州魏森堡”
  • Corsican: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Croatian: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Czech: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Danish: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Dutch: “Weissenburg in Bayern”
  • Dutch: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فايسنبورج ان بايرن”
  • Esperanto: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Esperanto: “Weißenburg”
  • Estonian: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Finnish: “Weissenburg in Bayern”
  • Finnish: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • French: “Weissenburg in Bayern”
  • French: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Friulian: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Galician: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • German: “Große Kreisstadt Weißenburg i.Bay.”
  • German: “Reichsstadt Weißenburg”
  • German: “Weißenburg (Bayern)”
  • German: “Weißenburg am Sand”
  • German: “Weißenburg i. Bay.”
  • German: “Weißenburg i.Bay.,GKSt”
  • German: “Weißenburg i.Bay.”
  • German: “Weißenburg im Nordgau”
  • German: “Weissenburg in Bayern”
  • German: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • German: “Weißenburg”
  • German: “Weißenburg/Bayern”
  • Greek: “Βάισενμπουργκ ιν Μπάγιερν”
  • Greek: “Βάισενμπουργκ ιν Μπάιερν”
  • Hebrew: “וייסנבורג”
  • Hungarian: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Icelandic: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Ido: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Indonesian: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Interlingua: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Interlingue: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Irish: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Italian: “Weißenburg i.Bay.”
  • Italian: “Weissenburg in Bayern”
  • Italian: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Japanese: “ヴァイセンブルク・イン・バイエルン”
  • Japanese: “ヴァイセンブルク”
  • Kirghiz: “Вайсенбург-ин-Байерн”
  • Kongo: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Kurdish: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Ladin: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Latin: “Weissenburgum Noricorum”
  • Ligurian: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Limburgan: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Lithuanian: “Veisenburgas Bavarijoje”
  • Lombard: “Weissenburg in Bayern”
  • Lombard: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Low German: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Luxembourgish: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Malagasy: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Malay: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Minangkabau: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Moksha: “Вайсэнбург-ин-Байерн”
  • Narom: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Neapolitan: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Persian: “وایسنبورگ در بایرن”
  • Picard: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Piemontese: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Polish: “Weissenburg in Bayern”
  • Polish: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Portuguese: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Romanian: “Weissenburg in Bayern”
  • Romanian: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Romansh: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Russian: “Вайсенбург-ин-Байерн”
  • Russian: “Вайсенбург”
  • Russian: “Вайссенбург”
  • Sardinian: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Scots: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Serbian: “Weißenburg i.Bay.”
  • Serbian: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Serbian: “Вајсенбург ин Бајерн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Sicilian: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Slovak: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Slovenian: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • South Azerbaijani: “وایسنبورق در بایرن”
  • Spanish: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Spanish: “Weissenburg”
  • Swahili: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Swedish: “Weissenburg in Bayern”
  • Swiss German: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Tatar: “Вайсенбург-ин-Байерн”
  • Tumbuka: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Turkish: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Turkish: “Weißenburg”
  • Ukrainian: “Вайсенбург-ін-Баєрн”
  • Ukrainian: “Вайссенбург-у-Баварії”
  • Uzbek: “Weissenburg in Bavariya”
  • Uzbek: “Weißenburg in Bavariya”
  • Uzbek: “Weißenburg”
  • Venetian: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Vietnamese: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Vlaams: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Volapük: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Walloon: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Welsh: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Wolof: “Weißenburg in Bayern”
  • Zulu: “Weißenburg in Bayern”

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