"city's heraldic symbol, the lily. The blazon is: ""Azure, two and one fleurs-de-lys Or"". Notable people born in Wiesbaden include: Others who have resided in Wiesbaden include: Mainz, on the opposite side of the Rhine, is Wiesbaden's archrival – the two cities are the capitals of their respective Bundesländer, and citizens of both cities jokingly refer to those on the other one as ""living on the wrong side of the river"". Wiesbaden Wiesbaden () is a city in central western Germany and the capital of the federal state of Hesse. In January 2018, it had 289,544 inhabitants, plus approximately 19,000"
"Rhineland-Palatinate and the adjacent parts of the French regions of Alsace and Lorraine (bailiwick of Seltz from 1418 to 1766) to the opposite territory on the east bank of the Rhine in present-day Hesse and Baden-Württemberg up to the Odenwald range and the southern Kraichgau region, containing the capital cities of Heidelberg and Mannheim. The Counts Palatine of the Rhine held the office of imperial vicars in the territories under Frankish law (in Franconia, Swabia and the Rhineland) and ranked among the most significant secular Princes of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1541 elector Otto Henry converted to Lutheranism. Their"
"German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The city centre is about from the river, as measured from the Marktplatz (Market Square). Two tributaries of the Rhine, the Alb and the Pfinz, flow through the city from the Kraichgau to eventually join the Rhine. The city lies at an altitude between 100 and 322 m (near the communications tower in the suburb of Grünwettersbach). Its geographical coordinates are ; the 49th parallel runs through the city centre, which puts it at the same latitude as much of the Canada–United States border, the cities Vancouver (Canada), Paris (France), Regensburg (Germany), and Hulunbuir (China). Its"
"Climate/Oceanic climate). Zweibrücken Zweibrücken (, , Palatinate German: ""Zweebrigge"" ) is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Schwarzbach river. The name ""Zweibrücken"" means 'two bridges'. Older forms of the name include Middle High German ""Zweinbrücken"", Latin ""Geminus Pons"" and ""Bipontum"", and French ""Deux-Ponts"", all with the same meaning. The town was the capital of the former Imperial State of Palatinate-Zweibrücken owned by the House of Wittelsbach. The ducal castle is now occupied by the high court of the Palatinate (""Oberlandesgericht""). There is a fine Gothic Protestant church, Alexander's church, founded in 1493 and rebuilt in 1955. From the end"
"ranges protect it from cold winds, wine and fruit production is practised on a large scale. The region comprises the cities of Mainz – the Rhineland-Palatinate capital – and Worms, surrounded by the administrative districts of Mainz-Bingen and Alzey-Worms. Other towns include Bingen, Alzey, Nieder-Olm, Ingelheim, Nierstein, Oppenheim, and Osthofen. Many inhabitants commute to work in Mainz or Wiesbaden and Frankfurt in the neighbouring state of Hesse. The importance of the Rhenish-Hessian lands increased when they were allotted to King Louis the German by the 843 Treaty of Verdun. The region was part of the core territory of Rhenish Franconia."
"and the associated workers lived From 1920 to 1935 and from 1947 to 1956, Saarland was economically affiliated with France. In 1957, 65,000 persons were employed in 18 coal mines, by 2006 only 6,300 in one mine remained. A comparable process happened with the steelworks. Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 Bundesländer (federal states) of Germany. It has an area of 19,846 km² and about 4.048 million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz. The federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate was established on 30 August 1946. The main axis of the state is the Rhine river that forms the border with Baden-Württemberg and"
"Zweibrücken Zweibrücken (, , Palatinate German: ""Zweebrigge"" ) is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Schwarzbach river. The name ""Zweibrücken"" means 'two bridges'. Older forms of the name include Middle High German ""Zweinbrücken"", Latin ""Geminus Pons"" and ""Bipontum"", and French ""Deux-Ponts"", all with the same meaning. The town was the capital of the former Imperial State of Palatinate-Zweibrücken owned by the House of Wittelsbach. The ducal castle is now occupied by the high court of the Palatinate (""Oberlandesgericht""). There is a fine Gothic Protestant church, Alexander's church, founded in 1493 and rebuilt in 1955. From the end of the"
"Neustadt an der Weinstraße Neustadt an der Weinstraße (formerly known as ""Neustadt an der Haardt"") is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. With 54,000 inhabitants , it is the largest town called ""Neustadt"". The town itself lies in the western park of the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region between the Haardt mountains, the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest, and the western edge of the Upper Rhine Plain in the middle of the Palatinate wine region, an area that is around 10 km wide and 85 km long. The Speyerbach river flows through the town from west to east as does the Rehbach,"
"major Palatinate towns (Ludwigshafen, Speyer, Landau, Frankenthal, Neustadt) lie in the lower eastern part of the Upper Rhine Plain down to the River Rhine. Here the German Wine Route (""Deutsche Weinstraße"") passes through the Palatinate wine region. It is one of the greatest wine-producing regions in Germany, and in the last two decades has become well known for its numerous prizewinning white and reds of highest quality produced by a number of talented young winemakers. Major rivers include the Upper Rhine tributaries Lauter, Queich and Speyerbach, as well as Schwarzbach and Glan in the west. Historically the Electoral Palatinate and"
"Remagen Remagen is a town in Germany in the Land Rhineland-Palatinate, in the district of Ahrweiler. It is about a one-hour drive from Cologne, just south of Bonn, the former West German capital. It is situated on the left (western) bank of the river Rhine. There is a ferry across the Rhine from Remagen every 10–15 minutes in the summer. Remagen has many beautiful and well-maintained buildings, churches, castles and monuments. It also has a sizeable pedestrian zone with plenty of shops. Overlooking the west bank of the Rhine just north of the city centre is the Apollinariskirche. It has"
"Regensburg Regensburg (; ; ; ; ; older English: ""Ratisbon""; Bavarian: ""Rengschburg"" or ""Rengschburch"") is a city in south-east Germany, at the confluence of the Danube, Naab and Regen rivers. With more than 150,000 inhabitants, Regensburg is the fourth-largest city in the State of Bavaria after Munich, Nuremberg and Augsburg. The city is the political, economic and cultural centre and capital of the Upper Palatinate. The medieval centre of the city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 2014, Regensburg was among the top sights and travel attractions in Germany. The first settlements in Regensburg date from the Stone Age."
"Bavaria in 1815. It was a rural district centre in the ""Rheinkreis"" which was renamed ""Pfalz"" (Palatinate) in 1835. Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg, an ancestor of both Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and his brother Prince Harry, was born in Kirchheimbolanden on 22 April 1780. Kirchheimbolanden Kirchheimbolanden, the capital of Donnersbergkreis, is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, south-western Germany. It is situated approximately 25 km west of Worms, and 30 km north-east of Kaiserslautern. The first part of the name, ""Kirchheim"", dates back to 774. It became a town in 1368, and the Sponheim family improved its security with many towers"
"of new names for the administrative districts of Bavaria by a system of historical allusion. As such, the Rheinkreis officially became the Pfalz (Palatinate). The historic Electorate of the Palatinate was on both sides of the Rhine with Heidelberg and Mannheim as its capitals on the eastern side, whereas the new ""Palatinate"" established in 1815/16 was solely on the left bank of the Rhine. It included territories that were never part of the historical Palatinate (e.g., territories of the former Bishopric of Speyer, the imperial city of Speyer or Kirchheimbolanden, which had formerly belonged to the Weilburg branch of Nassau)."
"Rhine. Further northwest rises a tributary of the Merzalbe, whose waters flow via the Rodalb, Schwarzbach, Blies, Saar and Moselle into the Rhine. Hortenkopf The Hortenkopf is a hill, 606 metres above sea level (NN), in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, which lies in the middle of the Palatine Forest between Hofstätten and Leimen. The Hortenkopf is recognisable from a long way off thanks to the transmission tower that has been erected on its summit. The hill is part of the Frankenweide, a centrally-located massif within this range of low mountains. The Palatine Watershed runs over its summit. The Hortenkopf"
"Kaiserslautern Kaiserslautern () is a city in southwest Germany, located in the ""Bundesland"" (State) of Rhineland-Palatinate (""Rheinland-Pfalz"") at the edge of the Palatinate Forest (""Pfälzerwald""). The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is from Paris, from Frankfurt am Main, and from Luxembourg. Kaiserslautern is home to 100,569 people (December 2016). Additionally, approximately 45,000 NATO military personnel inhabit the city and its surrounding district (""Landkreis Kaiserslautern""), and contribute approximately US$1 billion annually to the local economy. The city is also home to football club 1. FC Kaiserslautern that has won the German championship four times. Prehistoric settlement in the"
"Rettbergsaue The Rettbergsaue (translated from German as “Rettberg Island”) is a natural island in the Rhine River at Wiesbaden, Germany. It is situated between the main channel of the Rhine to the north and a smaller channel, the ""Wachsbleicharm"", in the south. The ""Wachsbleicharm"" forms the border between the federal states of Hesse (of which Wiesbaden is the capital) and Rhineland-Palatinate. The island is about long and up to wide. Covering about , it is one of the largest islands on the Rhine in which the river flows unhindered on both sides. The island is for the most part covered"
"Linz am Rhein Linz am Rhein (in English ""Linz on the Rhine"") is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the river Rhine near Remagen, approx. 25 km southeast of Bonn and has about 6,000 inhabitants. It is the sister city of Marietta, Georgia in the United States, Linz in Austria and Pornic in France. Linz is the seat of the ""Verbandsgemeinde"" (""collective municipality"") Linz am Rhein. The town is also a destination for tourists thanks to its location next to the Rhine river and its colorful half-timbered houses."
"Lambrecht, Rhineland-Palatinate Lambrecht is a town in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany lying roughly 6 km northwest of Neustadt an der Weinstraße. It is the seat of the like-named ""Verbandsgemeinde"". The municipality lies in the Palatinate, and indeed in the middle of the Palatinate Forest. It is crossed by the river Speyerbach. The municipality’s highest mountain is the Kaisergarten at 519 m above sea level. Lambrecht’s 8.32 km² is distributed as follows: In 977, Lambrecht had its first documentary mention. Duke Otto of Worms (Otto I, Duke of Carinthia) endowed the Benedictine Convent of Saint Lambrecht for the"
"the city of Weiden and Waldsassen Abbey including the Kappl Trinity church nearby. Scenic attractions include the river Danube and the Upper Palatine Forest. A sight is also the town of Neumarkt and the pilgrim church of Maria Hilf in Freystadt nearby. Upper Palatinate The Upper Palatinate (, ) is one of the seven administrative districts of Bavaria, Germany, located in the east of Bavaria. The Upper Palatinate is a landscape with low mountains and numerous ponds and lakes in its lowland regions. By contrast with other regions of Germany it is more rural in character and more sparsely settled."
"Pulaski Barracks along with Air Force facilities located at Ramstein Air Base, Vogelweh, and Kapaun Air Station. Kaiserslautern is twinned with: Kaiserslautern Kaiserslautern () is a city in southwest Germany, located in the ""Bundesland"" (State) of Rhineland-Palatinate (""Rheinland-Pfalz"") at the edge of the Palatinate Forest (""Pfälzerwald""). The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is from Paris, from Frankfurt am Main, and from Luxembourg. Kaiserslautern is home to 100,569 people (December 2016). Additionally, approximately 45,000 NATO military personnel inhabit the city and its surrounding district (""Landkreis Kaiserslautern""), and contribute approximately US$1 billion annually to the local economy. The city"
"Außer Hans Fell ist deshalb vorrangig auch Dr. Ernst Collofong zu nennen. Lambrecht, Rhineland-Palatinate Lambrecht is a town in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany lying roughly 6 km northwest of Neustadt an der Weinstraße. It is the seat of the like-named ""Verbandsgemeinde"". The municipality lies in the Palatinate, and indeed in the middle of the Palatinate Forest. It is crossed by the river Speyerbach. The municipality’s highest mountain is the Kaisergarten at 519 m above sea level. Lambrecht’s 8.32 km² is distributed as follows: In 977, Lambrecht had its first documentary mention. Duke Otto of Worms (Otto I,"
"German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The dominant economic sectors in the Middle Rhine area are viniculture and tourism. The Rhine Gorge between Rüdesheim am Rhein and Koblenz is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Near Sankt Goarshausen, the Rhine flows around the famous rock Lorelei. With its outstanding architectural monuments, the slopes full of vines, settlements crowded on the narrow river banks and scores of castles lined up along the top of the steep slopes, the Middle Rhine Valley can be considered the epitome of the Rhine romanticism. In Bonn, where the Sieg flows into the Rhine, the Rhine enters"
"empty into the Michelsbach. The Michelsbach consists of several former Old Rhine loops and discharges into the Rhine itself at Sondernheim after running parallel to the Rhine for 10 km. Erlenbach (Michelsbach) The Erlenbach is a 34.2 km long, left tributary of the Michelsbach in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The Erlenbach rises in the South Palatine Wasgau region, the southern part of the Palatine Forest, in the municipality of Birkenhördt. It flows eastwards and leaves the Palatine Forest near Bad Bergzabern, where it breaks through the Forest's its eastern perimeter, the Haardt. Next it flows through Kapellen-Drusweiler, Oberhausen, Barbelroth"
"Palatine Watershed The Palatine Watershed () forms the main drainage divide in the Palatinate between the Upper Rhine and the Middle Rhine, the two successive sections of the river Rhine that flow through the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In the southern and central Palatine Forest the effect of the Palatine Watershed is especially clear. There it separates the catchment areas of its four major drainage systems into an eastern and a western region: The Lauter, referred to in its upper reaches as the ""Wieslauter"", the Queich and the Speyerbach flow eastwards, directly into the Upper Rhine; the Schwarzbach collects the"
"Kelkheim Kelkheim, is a town in the Main-Taunus district in Hesse, Germany. Located on the southwestern slopes of the Taunus mountains, Kelkheim is noted for its attractive scenery. Kelkheim is located approximately 10 km to the west of Frankfurt. Wiesbaden, the state capital of Hesse, is about 25 km away, while the Mainz, the state capital of Rhineland-Palatinate, is about 30 km away. Kelkheim is subdivided into six boroughs Kelkheim-Mitte, Münster, Hornau, Fischbach, Ruppertshain and Eppenhain. Kelkheim is twinned to the following towns: Kelkheim station is connected to both Frankfurt and Königstein by rail, while bus connections exist to Eppstein,"
"World War, Linz became a part of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946. In the 1970s the city expanded with the new residential area ""Roniger Hof"". In 1979 the local hospital was put into service. Linz am Rhein Linz am Rhein (in English ""Linz on the Rhine"") is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the river Rhine near Remagen, approx. 25 km southeast of Bonn and has about 6,000 inhabitants. It is the sister city of Marietta, Georgia in the United States, Linz in Austria and Pornic in France. Linz is"
"Neuleiningen Neuleiningen is an ""Ortsgemeinde"" – a municipality belonging to a ""Verbandsgemeinde"", a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. On a foothill near the northern end of the Haardt, Neuleiningen gathers round the like-named castle at an elevation of some 300 m above sea level. To the west and southwest stretches the Palatinate Forest, to the northwest the North Palatine Highland, and to the east spreads the Upper Rhine Plain behind the ""Leiningerland’s"" vineyard-covered hills. Neuleiningen belongs to the ""Verbandsgemeinde"" of Leiningerland, whose seat is in Grünstadt, although that town is itself not"
"""Erdekaut"" adventure area lies some 2 km away. Ebertsheim Ebertsheim is an ""Ortsgemeinde"" – a municipality belonging to a ""Verbandsgemeinde"", a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The municipality lies in the northwest of the Rhine-Neckar urban agglomeration. It belongs to the ""Verbandsgemeinde"" of Leiningerland, whose seat is in Grünstadt, although that town is itself not in the ""Verbandsgemeinde"". Ebertsheim, with its ""Ortsbezirk"" of Rodenbach lies in the historic ""Leiningerland"" on the river Eisbach in the eastern Eis valley, just short of where this opens out at the eastern edge of the Palatinate"
"108 m above sea level on the Upper Rhine Plain in the northeast Palatinate. Twelve kilometres to the east (as the crow flies) flows the Rhine, while 9 km to the west begins the Palatinate Forest and 2 km to the north runs the boundary with the neighbouring region, Rhenish Hesse. Clockwise from the north, these are Offstein and Worms-Heppenheim (both in Rhenish Hesse) to the north, Heuchelheim (""Verbandsgemeinde"" of Heßheim) in the east and Gerolsheim, Laumersheim and Obersülzen (all in the ""Verbandsgemeinde"" of Leiningerland) in the south, southwest and west. Heppenheim lies 5 km away, Offstein 4 km and"
"the Wiesbaden city council abandoned these plans. However, another election in 2011 has changed the balance in the council and plans for a Stadtbahn have been revived, although the proposed initial stage would not connect to the Aar Valley Railway. Aar Valley Railway The Aar Valley Railway () is a 53.7 km long line between Wiesbaden, the capital of the German state of Hesse, and Diez in Rhineland-Palatinate. From 1985 to 2007, the southern end was operated as a heritage railway with historic trains. The Hessian part of the line is heritage-listed. Currently, two bridges are unusable and several sets"
"between Cologne and Koblenz. It is also served by ""Rhein-Ahr-Bahn"" services on the Ahr Valley Railway to Ahrbrück at hourly intervals. Remagen Remagen is a town in Germany in the Land Rhineland-Palatinate, in the district of Ahrweiler. It is about a one-hour drive from Cologne, just south of Bonn, the former West German capital. It is situated on the left (western) bank of the river Rhine. There is a ferry across the Rhine from Remagen every 10–15 minutes in the summer. Remagen has many beautiful and well-maintained buildings, churches, castles and monuments. It also has a sizeable pedestrian zone with"
"in Mainz-Kastel. Mainz-Kastel was founded about 11 BC. At that time, the Romans built a wooden bridge across the Rhine connecting Moguntiacum (Mainz) with a castle on the right bank of the river. The wooden construction was replaced by a stone bridge in 71, which lasted until about 406. From this time the remains of a Roman triumphal arch were found in Mainz-Kastel, built around 19 A.D. In the cause of the bombing of Mainz in World War II Mainz-Kastel was subject to air raids. Mainz-Kastel Mainz-Kastel is a district of the city Wiesbaden, which is the capital of the"
"founded states of Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate. Rhine Province The Rhine Province (), also known as Rhenish Prussia (""Rheinpreußen"") or synonymous with the Rhineland (""Rheinland""), was the westernmost province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia, within the German Reich, from 1822 to 1946. It was created from the provinces of the Lower Rhine and Jülich-Cleves-Berg. Its capital was Koblenz and in 1939 it had 8 million inhabitants. The Province of Hohenzollern was militarily associated with the Oberpräsident of the Rhine Province. The Rhine Province bounded on the north by the Netherlands, on the east"