Altenberg Explained

Altenberg (German for "old mountain" or "mountain of the old") may refer to:

Places

Austria

• Altenberg, a town in Sankt Andrä-Wördern, Tulln District
• Altenberg bei Linz, in Upper Austria
• Altenberg an der Rax, in Styria

Germany

• Altenberg (Bergisches Land), an area in Odenthal, North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Altenberg Abbey, Cistercian monastery in Altenberg (Bergisches Land)
    • Altenberger Dom, sometimes called Altenberg Cathedral, the former church of this Cistercian monastery
• Altenberg (Hohenahr), hill in Hesse
• Altenberg (Limpurg Hills), highest summit in the Limpurg Hills
• Altenberg, Saxony, a town
• Altenberga, a municipality in the Saale-Holzfeld district, Thuringia
• Altenberg Abbey, Solms, a former Premonstratensian nunnery near Wetzlar in Hesse
• Zinkfabrik Altenberg, a former zinc factory, now a branch of the LVR Industrial Museum, Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia
• Grube Altenberg, a show mine near Kreuztal, North Rhine-Westphalia

Other places

• Altenberg, the German name for Vieille Montagne (old mountain in French), a former zinc mine in Kelmis, Moresnet, Belgium
• Altenberg, a district in the city of Bern, Switzerland

Other uses

• Altenberg Lieder (Five Orchestral Songs), composed by Alban Berg in 1911/12
• Altenberg Publishing (1880–1934), a former Polish publishing house
• Altenberg Trio, a Viennese piano trio

People with the surname

• Alfred Altenberg (1878–1924), Polish bookseller and publisher
• Jakob Altenberg (1875–1944), Austrian businessman
• Lee Altenberg, theoretical biologist
• Peter Altenberg (1859–1919), nom de plume of Austrian writer and poet Richard Engländer

See also

• • Altenburg (disambiguation)