Witten

Witten is a city of 96,000 in the area of , in western Germany. Witten has about 98,000 residents.
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  • Type: Town with 98,000 residents
  • Description: town in the district of Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Witten Central Station and Witten Public Library.

Railway station
Photo: Platte, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Witten Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the town of Witten in western . It is situated southwest of the town. In 1849 the station was opened as Witten West by the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft.

Library
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Hospital
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Witten-Annen and Heven.

Suburb
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Since 1929, Annen has been a part of the City of Witten. As one of the eight boroughs of Witten, it is now called . Before the incorporation with Witten in 1929, Annen was part of the administrative district Landkreis Hoerde.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
Photo: Raenmaen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb.

Witten

Latitude
51.437° or 51° 26′ 13″ north
Longitude
7.3351° or 7° 20′ 6″ east
Population
98,000
Elevation
119 metres (390 feet)
Inception
1214
IATA airport code
ZQR
United Nations Location Code
DE WTT
Open location code
9F39C8PP+R2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 258398514
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2807363
Wiki­data ID
Q3764
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Witten” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Witten”
  • Arabic: “فيتن”
  • Aragonese: “Witten”
  • Armenian: “Վիտտեն”
  • Arpitan: “Witten”
  • Asturian: “Witten”
  • Basque: “Witten”
  • Bavarian: “Witten”
  • Belarusian: “Вітэн”
  • Breton: “Witten”
  • Bulgarian: “Витен”
  • Catalan: “Witten”
  • Cebuano: “Witten”
  • Chechen: “Виттен”
  • Chinese: “Witten”
  • Chinese: “維滕”
  • Chinese: “维滕”
  • Corsican: “Witten”
  • Croatian: “Witten”
  • Czech: “Witten”
  • Danish: “Witten”
  • Dutch: “Witten”
  • Esperanto: “Witten”
  • Estonian: “Witten”
  • Finnish: “Witten”
  • French: “Witten”
  • Friulian: “Witten”
  • Galician: “Witten”
  • German: “Witten”
  • Greek: “Βίτεν”
  • Hebrew: “וויטן”
  • Hebrew: “ויטן”
  • Hungarian: “Witten”
  • Icelandic: “Witten”
  • Ido: “Witten”
  • Indonesian: “Witten”
  • Interlingua: “Witten”
  • Interlingue: “Witten”
  • Irish: “Witten”
  • Italian: “Witten”
  • Japanese: “Witten”
  • Japanese: “ヴィッテン”
  • Kazakh: “Виттен”
  • Kirghiz: “Виттен”
  • Kongo: “Witten”
  • Korean: “Witten”
  • Korean: “비텐”
  • Kotava: “Witten”
  • Kurdish: “Witten”
  • Ladin: “Witten”
  • Latvian: “Vitene”
  • Ligurian: “Witten”
  • Limburgan: “Witten”
  • Lithuanian: “Vitenas”
  • Lithuanian: “Witten”
  • Low German: “Witten”
  • Luxembourgish: “Witten”
  • Macedonian: “Витен”
  • Malagasy: “Witten”
  • Malay: “Witten”
  • Minangkabau: “Witten”
  • Moksha: “Виттэн”
  • Narom: “Witten”
  • Neapolitan: “Witten”
  • Northern Frisian: “Witten”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Witten”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Witten”
  • Norwegian: “Witten”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Witten”
  • Persian: “ویتن”
  • Picard: “Witten”
  • Piemontese: “Witten”
  • Polish: “Witten”
  • Portuguese: “Witten”
  • Romanian: “Witten”
  • Romansh: “Witten”
  • Russian: “Witten”
  • Russian: “Виттен”
  • Sardinian: “Witten”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Witten”
  • Scots: “Witten”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Witten”
  • Serbian: “Witten”
  • Serbian: “Витен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Witten”
  • Sicilian: “Witten”
  • Silesian: “Witten”
  • Slovak: “Witten”
  • Slovenian: “Witten”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ویتن”
  • Spanish: “Witten”
  • Swahili: “Witten”
  • Swedish: “Witten”
  • Swiss German: “Witten”
  • Tatar: “Виттен”
  • Tumbuka: “Witten”
  • Turkish: “Witten”
  • Ukrainian: “Witten”
  • Ukrainian: “Віттен”
  • Urdu: “ویٹن”
  • Uzbek: “Witten”
  • Venetian: “Witten”
  • Vietnamese: “Witten”
  • Vlaams: “Witten”
  • Volapük: “Witten”
  • Walloon: “Witten”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Witten”
  • Welsh: “Witten”
  • Western Frisian: “Witten”
  • Western Panjabi: “ویٹن”
  • Wolof: “Witten”
  • Wu Chinese: “维滕”
  • Zulu: “Witten”
  • “Witten”

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