Witten
Witten is a city of 96,000 in the Ruhr area of North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany. Witten has about 98,000 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Raenmaen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Witten Central Station and Witten Public Library.
Witten Central Station
Railway station
Photo: Alexostrov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Witten Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the town of Witten in western Germany. It is situated southwest of the town. In 1849 the station was opened as Witten West by the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Witten-Annen and Heven.
Witten-Annen
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Since 1929, Annen has been a part of the City of Witten. As one of the eight boroughs of Witten, it is now called Witten-Annen. Before the incorporation with Witten in 1929, Annen was part of the administrative district Landkreis Hoerde.
Witten
- Categories: urban municipality in Germany, college town, large district town, big city, and locality
- Location: Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis, Arnsberg, Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
51.437° or 51° 26′ 13″ northLongitude
7.3351° or 7° 20′ 6″ eastPopulation
98,000Elevation
119 metres (390 feet)Inception
1214IATA airport code
ZQRUnited Nations Location Code
DE WTTOpen location code
9F39C8PP+R2OpenStreetMap ID
node 258398514OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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”
- 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”
- 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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