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District of Timișoara in Romania

Freidorf

Freidorf was one of the first German settlements in Temes County in the Banat, Kingdom of Hungary.

Freidorf
Freidorf · Dietmar Rabich
The place

Freidorf was one of the first German settlements in Temes County in the Banat, Kingdom of Hungary. In 1920, it became part of Romania; since 1950 it is a district of the city of Timișoara, located on the southwest outskirts of the city. Freidorf maintains historic architecture, old Banat Swabian houses, and many green spaces.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Freidorf

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Iosefin Synagogue

    The Iosefin Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 55 Iuliu Maniu Boulevard, in the Iosefin district of Timișoara, Romania. The synagogue was completed in 1895 in an eclectic architectural style, and it is one of the three large synagogues in the city, and the last still functioning.

    2.6 km · synagogue · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Notre Dame Church, Timișoara

    Notre Dame Church is a Roman Catholic church in the Iosefin district of Timișoara, Romania. It is part of a former monastery complex built for the School Sisters of Notre Dame, established in Timișoara in 1864, then Kingdom of Hungary.

    3 km · church · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Cigarette factory, Timișoara

    The Timișoara Tobacco Factory, also known as the Iosefin Tobacco Factory, was a factory for the production of tobacco products, in the western Romanian city of Timișoara. The factory building, now a listed building, is located at 2 Gheorghe Pop de Băsești Street in the Iosefin district on the right bank of the Bega River, over which the Iuliu Maniu Bridge crosses in the immediate vicinity of the factory.

    2.8 km · heritage site in Timișoara, Romania · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Central Park "Anton Scudier", Timișoara

    Anton Scudier Central Park, formerly known as Stalin Park and Scudier Park, is an urban park in Timișoara. It was founded in 1870 by General Anton Scudier and carried his name until the partition of Banat in 1919.

    4 km · park in Timișoara, Romania · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St. Mary Square, Timișoara

    St. Mary Square is a small square in Timișoara, located in the Iosefin district, at the intersection of 16 December 1989 Boulevard and Gheorghe Doja Street.

    3.7 km · square in Timișoara, Romania · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Roman Catholic Church in Elisabetin

    The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a Roman Catholic church in the Elisabetin district of Timișoara. Located in Nicolae Bălcescu Square, the neo-Gothic church was built between 1912 and 1919 after a project by architect Károly Salkovits.

    3.8 km · Catholic church in Elisabetin, Timișoara · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    The Monument of Virgin Mary in Mary's Square

    Virgin Mary Monument is located in Timișoara's St. Mary Square and it has been there since 1906, when it was built on an older statue of Virgin Mary.

    3.7 km · Part of a national heritage site in Timișoara, Romania · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Maria Bridge, Timișoara

    Mary Bridge, formerly Trajan Bridge and Hunyadi Bridge, is a bridge in the western Romanian city of Timișoara, crossing the Bega River. It connects the Cetate district with the Iosefin district.

    3.9 km · bridge in Timișoara, Romania · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Water Palace of Timișoara

    The Water Palace is a historical monument in Timișoara, Romania. It is located at the entrance from the city center to the Iosefin district.

    3.8 km · Water Palace, in Timișoara · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Biserica din Fratelia

    The St. Joseph Church is a Roman Catholic church in the Fratelia district of Timișoara in western Romania.

    2.2 km · Catholic church in Fratella, Romania · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Freidorf

Airports
Timișoara Traian Vuia (TSR), 15 km · Belgrade Nikola Tesla (BEG), 122 km · Oradea (OMR), 154 km
Stations
Timișoara Nord, 3.3 km · Timișoara Vest, 800 m · Timișoara Sud, 2.2 km
  • Oradea → Freidorf
    153 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · lei38–50
  • Sibiu → Freidorf
    227 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · lei60–85
  • Cluj-Napoca → Freidorf
    214 km · quickest by road, 3h 57m · lei70–95
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