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I have a layer of Brandenburg (Germany) in EPSG 25833 which I want to tranfrom to EPSG 4326. Similar to this answer to Transforming shapefile to WGS:84 (EPSG: 4326) in QGIS?, I set the CRS to EPSG 4326 and go to export / save as to save this layer in 4326.

Now once I try to overlay this layer with a point shapefile of hospitals in Brandenburg taken from OSM (which is in EPSG 4326 by default) they do not match at all.

What am I missing?

Brandenburg Layer in EPSG 25833 Brandenburg Layer in EPSG 4326

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    The currect suggestion of being a duplicate is invalid, at least for the suggested other question. That one is an answer to a problem that probably led to this, but not to this actual question. :) – bugmenot123 Aug 01 '19 at 11:07
  • Which steps exactly did you do to to the Brandenburg layer? – bugmenot123 Aug 01 '19 at 11:08
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  • Rather reproject the OSM-data to 25833 than the other way round, since the BB-layer should be official data. 2. Do not "set" the CRS to something different, only save the data using a different CRS. Seems like QGIS thinks your BB-layer has degree-values in the range of 300k and above. 3. Rather enable on the fly reprojection for simple visual overlaying.
    • – Erik Aug 01 '19 at 11:18
  • Also possible duplicate of https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/191332/shapefile-disappeared-after-changing-crs – AndreJ Aug 05 '19 at 09:43