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3 unusual facts about Bad Kreuznach


Duffy Cobbs

Robert Stephen "Duffy" Cobbs (born January 17, 1964, in Bad Kreuznach, Germany) is a former professional American football player.

Michael Senft

Michael Senft (born 28 September 1972 in Bad Kreuznach) is a German slalom canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s (decade).

Petra Begerow

Petra Begerow (born 14 April 1975 in Bad Kreuznach) is a German professional tennis player.


Johannes Trithemius

Travelling from university to his home town in 1482, he was surprised by a snowstorm and took refuge in the Benedictine abbey of Sponheim near Bad Kreuznach.

Kümbdchen

Kümbdchen belonged to the old mother church in Simmern and later passed along with Simmern to the Raugraves at the Altenbaumburg (castle, now in ruins, in today’s Ortsgemeinde of Altenbamberg near Bad Kreuznach), in whose ownership it remained until they sold the town of Simmern to the Counts Palatine in 1359.

Rheinwiesenlager

Only a camp at Bretzenheim near Bad Kreuznach remained open until 1948 serving as a transit camp for German prisoners released from France.

Staudernheim station

Staudernheim station is a through station, located 35.3 km from Bingen on the Nahe Valley Railway (Bingen–Saarbrücken), in Staudernheim in the district of Bad Kreuznach in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Villy-le-Bouveret

Since 1984, there has been an official partnership between Villy-le-Bouveret and Gutenberg in the Bad Kreuznach district.

Wiesweiler

The road running through the valley, Aschbacher Weg, links with the Roman road running over the Königsberg and into the Landstuhler Niederung (a depression) and may once further have been a link by way of Wiesweiler to the Roman road between Tholey and Bad Kreuznach.


see also

Alsenz Valley Railway

On Sundays and public holidays in the summer, the Rheintalexpress runs on the Bingen–Enkenbach section to Karlsruhe and the Weinstraßen-Express runs to Wissembourg, each stopping in Enkenbach, Rockhausen, Bad Münster and Bad Kreuznach and each consisting of push–pull trains hauled by class 218 locomotives or class 628 diesel multiple units.

Auen

Auen, Germany, in the Bad Kreuznach district, Rhineland-Palatinate

Hindenburg Bridge

On the south (left side) of the Rhine, the line continued south from Büdesheim to Sarmsheim on the Bingerbrück–Bad Kreuznach line.