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General information - Location

Country	Germany
Location in country	Center
Location in Europe	Central Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: 10.2238,Lat: 50.6043
Elevation	525 meter above sea level
Local time	20:49:31pm
Name province/region	Thüringen
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Schmalkalden-Meiningen
Name	Hohe Rhön
Name	Oberkatz

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Aschenhausen	1.7 km	WestSouthWest
2 Unterkatz	2.8 km	NorthEast
3 Rhönblick:Wohlmuthausen	3.4 km	SouthSouthWest
4 Rhönblick:Geba	3.6 km	SouthEast
5 Oepfershausen	4.2 km	NorthNorthEast

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Praha	Czech-republic	304 km	East
2 Berlin	Germany	307 km	NorthEast
3 Luxembourg	Luxembourg	313 km	WestSouthWest

Characteristics - Physical Geography

The North Sea is the nearest seacoast with a distance of around 339 km (direction NorthNorthWest).The place is situated in the rivercatchment named Weser main Upper - Fulda, Werra, part of the larger catchment area Weser. The nearest bigger lake is Rückhaltebecken Grimmelshausen (0.9 km² at a distance of 32.7 km in EastSouthEastern direction).

The nearest mountain is Wasserkuppe with a height of 950 meter (at a distance of 23.6 km and direction WestSouthWest). The most nearby international border is the German-Czech border with a straight distance of 137 km in EastSouthEastern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 192 km.
Elevation around place: hill: 45%, low mountains: 55%, The hills are mainly eastern orientated. The surroundings of the place have a rural character (very sparsely urbanised). The most common land use in the area is agriculture.

Name area (subregions, nature area, hills, mountains, landscape)

Name
Vorderrhön
Vorderrhön

Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport Frankfurt am Main Airport (at a distance of 134 km and direction WestSouthWest).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

20.3 km2

25.9%

Agriculture

56.4 km2

72%

Urban area

1.7 km2

2.1%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Oberkatz in country Germany

Oberkatz at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Wartburg Castle	Germany	41 km	North
2 Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau	Germany	88 km	EastNorthEast
3 Classical Weimar	Germany	88 km	EastNorthEast

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Werra bis Treffurt mit Zuflüssen	DE	0.2 km	NorthEast

Social media - Maps

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Filming Location	IMDB Oberkatz
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Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Oberkatz

Type of weather in Oberkatz	broken clouds
Current temperature:	12 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	1.4 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 1)
Wind direction:	East South East
Air pressure:	1009 mb
Humidity:	76 %
Daylength at 27 April 2024:	14 hour and 32 minutes
Sunrise :	06:00 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	20:32 Europe/Amsterdam