Kempten
district-free city in Allgäu, Swabia, Bavaria, Germany
Facts
36 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- major regional center, urban district of Bavaria, urban municipality in Germany[7][8]
- Official website
- www.kempten.de
- Native label
- Kempten
- Official name
- Kempten
Location
- Country
- Germany, Kingdom of Bavaria[3][4]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 47.733°, 10.317°
- Located in or next to body of water
- Iller
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Swabia, Illerkreis[2]
- Located in/on physical feature
- Allgäu
- Shares border with
- Oberallgäu, Kempten, Lauben, Altusried, Wiggensbach, Buchenberg, Waltenhofen, Durach, Betzigau, Haldenwang[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]
Population and size
- Area
- 63.3 (0.25–63.3, n=3)
- Elevation above sea level
- +674, +699
- Female population
- +34766
- Highest point
- Mariaberg
- Population
- 68k (2.7k–71k, n=18)
Codes
- Local dialing code
- 0831
- Postal code
- 87k (87k–87k, n=3)
More facts +19
- Capital of
- Illerkreis
- Short name
- Ke, Kpt
- Archives at
- Stadtarchiv Kempten
- Coat of arms
- Coats of arms from Kempten
- Contains the administrative territorial entity
- Adelharz, Ajen, Aschen, Bachen, Bachtelmühle, Bachtelsteig, Binzenried, Birken, Bockarten, Breiten (Kempten), Bühl, Dolders, Eich, Felben, Greinats, Grub, Hafenthal, Halden, Härtnagel, Hasenbühl, Haßberg, Heiligkreuz, Hinterholz, Hirschdorf, Hochstraß, Höflings, Hub, Johannisried, Kargen, Klingen, Lenzfried, Letten, Leubas, Leupolz, Leupratsried, Lotterberg, Mariaberg, Moos, Motzen, Neuhausen, Oberbühl, Oberried, Rappenscheuchen, Reinharts, Riederau, Rockhöflings, Rößlings, Rothkreuz, Sankt Mang, Schatten, Schnattern, Schwabelsberg, Sommers, Stadtweiher (Kempten), Steig, Sterklings, Steufzgen, Stiftallmey, Stiftsbleiche, Tannen, Thingers, Unterbühl, Unterwies, Ursulasried, Voglsang, Vorderwaldmanns, Weidachsmühle, Wettmannsberg[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]
- Described by source
- Regesta Imperii, Topographia Sueviae, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Has part(s) of the class
- Zentrale Umsteigestelle
- Hashtag
- KemptenAllgäu
- Head of government
- Ulrich Netzer, Thomas Kiechle, Wolfgang Rossmann, Josef Höß, August Fischer, Christian Schoch[5][6]
- List of monuments
- list of natural monuments in Kempten (Allgäu), list of architectural heritage monuments in Kempten (Allgäu)
- Member of
- Climate Alliance, International Lake Constance conference, Bayerischer Städtetag, Working Group of Bicycle-Friendly Municipalities in Bavaria
- Number of viewers/listeners
- +270381
- Owner of
- Kemptener Verkehrsbetriebe
- Twinned administrative body
- Sligo, Bad Dürkheim, Quiberon, Sopron, Trento
- Vehicle registration plate code
- KE
🏷️ Also known as
en Kempten/Allgäu
en Kempten
en Kempten (Allgäu)
ar كمبتن
cs Kempten (Allgäu)
de Hauptstadt des Allgäus
de Illerstadt
de Kempten (Allgäu)
de Kempten im Allgäu
de Cambidanum
de Allgäu-Metropole
de Cambodunum
el Κέμπτεν
es Kempten (Algovia)
es Kempten (Allgäu)
fa کمپتن ایم آلتگاو
fr Kempten (Allgäu)
he קמפטן
ja ケンプテン
ja ケンプテン (アルゴイ)
🔖 Identifiers · 60
- ISNI
- 0000000405820665
- VIAF cluster ID
- 154784279
- Library of Congress Authorities ID
- n81133727
- GND ID
- 4030234-9
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Sicht auf Kempten Altstadt Neustadt.jpg ↗
- ArchINFORM location ID
- 247
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Online
- kempten
- BHCL UUID
- ab8666a1-468e-4742-9d1b-ef95b631f110
- Bavarikon ID
- ODB_A00000547
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
- 122027486
- Biblissima authority ID
- Wikidata item
- Dewey Decimal Classification
- 2--433715
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- EU Knowledge Graph item ID
- Astaenomoechus luniferus
- Early Modern Letters Online location ID
- 536e69a9-981e-4b07-8c09-8b7e5fb56d69
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- place/Kempten
- FAST ID
- 1216600
- Facebook username
- Kempten.Allgaeu
- FactGrid item ID
- Wörschweiler
- Freebase ID
- /m/055wyt
- GADM ID
- DEU.2.45_1
- GeoNames ID
- 3220884
- German district key
- 09763
- German municipality key
- 09763000
- German regional key
- 097630000000
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- kempten-0
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0265663
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- Kempten
- HASC
- DE.BY.KM
- Historical Gazetteer (GOV) ID
- adm_139763
- INaturalist place ID
- 98416
- IdRef ID
- 179250809
- Instagram location ID
- 236427814
- Instagram username
- kempten_rathaus
- J9U entity ID
- 987007564571305171
- KSW place ID
- 87767
- Klimadashboard.de region ID
- e73bc2a6-11fe-4c7b-ba8d-447f43f7d943
- Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID
- 9240
- Mindat locality ID
- 335801
- Museum-digital place ID
- 1122
- MusicBrainz area ID
- 1f612a01-605c-498f-90b6-edfa7160e1de
- NL CR AUT ID
- ge320409
- NUTS code
- DE273
- National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
- geo/48e003e7-c425-41a0-b0fa-fc5d6c4e3a4c
- National Library of Israel ID (old)
- 000988840
- Nomisma ID
- kempten
- Numista ruling authority ID
- 5494
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
- 3921690
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 62701
- Provenio UUID
- ff0cf6a4-326d-4798-a123-e9208ff4bdb1
- Quora topic ID
- Kempten
- SBN place ID
- BVEL001614
- Topic's main category
- Category:Kempten
- UN/LOCODE
- DEKEN
- VerbaAlpina ID
- A65649
- Who's on First ID
- 101748467, 1125417313
- Wolfram Language entity code
- Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"KemptenUrban", "Bavaria", "Germany"}]
- WorldCat Entities ID
- E39PBJfrM8b4Xb4JvBxTgJf8YP
- Yale LUX ID
- place/a8f95046-28d7-4d78-9562-951f4f59e793
- YouTube channel ID
- UChrZTKm0RQril1V5aYhtLRg
- YouTube handle
- KemptenAllgaeu
📚 Sources · 1
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2026-09-26
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- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
- Bronze
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🔗 Connections
People born here 30
Contained subdivisions 17
People who died here 12
Shares border with 9
← Shares border with 9
← Headquarters location 6
Twinned administrative body 5
← Twinned administrative body 5
← Category combines topics 3
Country 2
Described by source 2
← Work location 2
Category for people born here 1
Category for people who died here 1
Category of associated people 1
Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
EU Knowledge Graph item ID 1
Instance of 1
Located in or next to body of water 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Located in this place 1
Located in/on physical feature 1
Member of 1
Residents 1
Topic's main category 1
← Category's main topic 1
← Conferred by 1
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
← DataTrek identifier 1
← Location of formation 1
← Narrative location 1
← SNARC ID 1
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Summary
Kempten is a major regional center[1].