North Hesse
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Lahn-Dill-Kreis

Wetzlar

Wetzlar is a university city of 55,000 people in . Tourists know the city for its ancient town and its medieval Catholic/Protestant shared cathedral of St.
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  • Type: Town with 52,700 residents
  • Description: seat of Lahn-Dill-Kreis and city in Hesse, Germany
  • Postal codes: 35537 and 35578

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mittelhessen-Arena and Forum Wetzlar.

Sports venue
Photo: Arena Wetzlar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Buderus Arena Wetzlar is a multipurpose indoor event facility located in Wetzlar, Germany. It hosts sports matches, concerts and exhibitions and is the home venue of the HSG Wetzlar handball team.

Shopping center
Photo: KarlUdo, CC BY 3.0.
is a shopping center.

Photo: Dontworry, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a museum in Wetzlar, . It was the birthplace of Charlotte Buff, who lived there for the first 20 years of her life until she got married.

Wetzlar

Latitude
50.5525° or 50° 33′ 9″ north
Longitude
8.5074° or 8° 30′ 27″ east
Population
52,700
Elevation
169 metres (554 feet)
IATA airport code
ZQQ
United Nations Location Code
DE WET
Open location code
9F2CHG34+2X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 246974873
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2809889
Wiki­data ID
Q4178
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Wetzlar” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Wetzlar”
  • Albanian: “Vetclar”
  • Albanian: “Vetclari”
  • Arabic: “فتسلار”
  • Aragonese: “Wetzlar”
  • Armenian: “Վեցլար”
  • Armenian: “Վէցլառ”
  • Arpitan: “Wetzlar”
  • Asturian: “Wetzlar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vetslar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vetzlar”
  • Basque: “Wetzlar”
  • Bavarian: “Wetzlar”
  • Belarusian: “Вецлар”
  • Belarusian: “Вэцляр”
  • Bosnian: “Wetzlar”
  • Breton: “Wetzlar”
  • Bulgarian: “Вецлар”
  • Catalan: “Wetzlar”
  • Cebuano: “Wetzlar (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Wetzlar”
  • Chechen: “Вецлар”
  • Chinese: “威茲拉爾”
  • Chinese: “韋茨拉爾”
  • Chinese: “韦茨拉尔”
  • Corsican: “Wetzlar”
  • Croatian: “Wetzlar”
  • Czech: “Wetzlar”
  • Danish: “Wetzlar”
  • Dutch: “Wetzlar”
  • Esperanto: “Veclaro”
  • Esperanto: “Wetzlar”
  • Estonian: “Wetzlar”
  • Finnish: “Wetzlar”
  • French: “Wetzlar”
  • Friulian: “Wetzlar”
  • Galician: “Wetzlar”
  • Georgian: “ვეცლარი”
  • German: “Wetzlar”
  • Greek: “Wetzlar”
  • Greek: “Βετσλαρ”
  • Greek: “Βέτσλαρ”
  • Hebrew: “וצלר”
  • Hungarian: “Wetzlar”
  • Icelandic: “Wetzlar”
  • Ido: “Wetzlar”
  • Indonesian: “Wetzlar”
  • Interlingua: “Wetzlar”
  • Interlingue: “Wetzlar”
  • Irish: “Wetzlar”
  • Italian: “Wetzlar”
  • Japanese: “ヴェッツラー”
  • Kazakh: “Вецлар”
  • Kirghiz: “Вецлар”
  • Kongo: “Wetzlar”
  • Korean: “베츨라어”
  • Kurdish: “Wetzlar”
  • Ladin: “Wetzlar”
  • Latin: “Wetzlaria”
  • Latvian: “Veclāra”
  • Ligurian: “Wetzlar”
  • Limburgan: “Wetzlar”
  • Lithuanian: “Veclaras”
  • Low German: “Wetzlar”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wetzlar”
  • Macedonian: “Вецлар”
  • Malagasy: “Wetzlar”
  • Malay: “Wetzlar”
  • Minangkabau: “Wetzlar”
  • Moksha: “Вэцлар”
  • Narom: “Wetzlar”
  • Neapolitan: “Wetzlar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wetzlar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wetzlar”
  • Norwegian: “Wetzlar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Wetzlar”
  • Ossetian: “Вецлар”
  • Persian: “وتسلار”
  • Picard: “Wetzlar”
  • Piemontese: “Wetzlar”
  • Polish: “Wetzlar”
  • Portuguese: “Wetzlar”
  • Romanian: “Wetzlar”
  • Romansh: “Wetzlar”
  • Russian: “Вецлар”
  • Sardinian: “Wetzlar”
  • Scots: “Wetzlar”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Wetzlar”
  • Serbian: “Wetzlar”
  • Serbian: “Вецлар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wetzlar”
  • Sicilian: “Wetzlar”
  • Silesian: “Wetzlar”
  • Slovak: “Wetzlar”
  • Slovenian: “Wetzlar”
  • South Azerbaijani: “وتسلار”
  • Spanish: “Wetzlar”
  • Swahili: “Wetzlar”
  • Swedish: “Wetzlar”
  • Swiss German: “Wetzlar”
  • Tagalog: “Wetzlar”
  • Tatar: “Вецлар”
  • Thai: “เวทซลาร์”
  • Thai: “เว็ทซ์ลาร์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Wetzlar”
  • Tumbuka: “Wetzlar”
  • Turkish: “Wetzlar”
  • Ukrainian: “Ветцлар”
  • Ukrainian: “Вецлар”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Wetzlar”
  • Uzbek: “Wetzlar”
  • Venetian: “Wetzlar”
  • Vietnamese: “Wetzlar”
  • Vlaams: “Wetzlar”
  • Volapük: “Wetzlar”
  • Walloon: “Weslår”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wetzlar”
  • Welsh: “Wetzlar”
  • Western Frisian: “Wetzlar”
  • Wolof: “Wetzlar”
  • Wu Chinese: “韦茨拉尔”
  • Yue Chinese: “威茲拉爾”
  • Zulu: “Wetzlar”

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