Weiler (disambiguation)

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The word "weiler" translates from German into the English language as "hamlet".

[edit] Places

• Weiler, a town in Luxembourg
• Weiler, Austria, a town in Vorarlberg in Austria
• in Germany:
  • Weiler, Cochem-Zell, in the district Cochem-Zell, Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Weiler, Mayen-Koblenz, in the district Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Weiler bei Bingen, in the district Mainz-Bingen, Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Weiler bei Monzingen, in the district of Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Weiler (Rottenburg), a suburb of Rottenburg am Neckar in the district of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg

There are also numerous cities in Germany that include "weiler" as part of their name such as Auweiler and Dudweiler.

[edit] People

Weiler is also a family surname frequently found in Germany, in the United States and in the south of Brazil. For instance, one of the pioneers who traveled west in the United States in 1847 with Brigham Young, prophet and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and settled in Utah was Jacob Weiler.