
Breitscheid
Germany
Breitscheid: facts
At a glance
- Country: Germany
- Region: Hesse
- Administrative status: seat of a fourth-order administrative division (GeoNames code PPLA4)
- Population: approximately 5,000
- Coordinates: 50.6851° N, 8.1912° E
- Time zone: Europe/Berlin (UTC+01:00 standard, UTC+02:00 daylight saving time)
- Currency: Euro (EUR)
- Distance to the capital, Berlin: 414 km (257 mi), straight line
Getting there
- Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN): 76 km (47 mi), straight line
- Frankfurt Main Airport (FRA): 78 km (48 mi), straight line
- Dortmund Airport (DTM): 101 km (63 mi), straight line
Nearby
- Driedorf: 5.8 km (3.6 mi)
- Haiger: 6.4 km (4.0 mi)
- Liebenscheid: 6.7 km (4.2 mi)
- Willingen: 7.5 km (4.7 mi)
- Homberg: 7.6 km (4.7 mi)
- Nearest place with over 100,000 inhabitants: Siegen, 24 km (15 mi)
Coming up in Breitscheid
- 11 Nov 2026: St. Martin's Day
- 15 Nov 2026: National Day of Mourning
- 18 Nov 2026: Repentance Day (Saxony)
- 22 Nov 2026: Sunday of the Dead
- 29 Nov 2026: First Advent Sunday
- 6 Dec 2026: Saint Nicholas Day
- 6 Dec 2026: Second Advent Sunday
- 13 Dec 2026: Third Advent Sunday
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