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13 unusual facts about Hunsrück


10254 Hunsrück

The asteroid was discovered on September 29, 1973 and named after the Hunsrück, a mountain range in Germany.

Belg

It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kirchberg, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Castle Kastellaun

A reconstruction of the wagon burial discovered in Bell in 1938, remains of Celtic pottery, fibulæ and jewellery, and a model of a Roman legionary's helmet convey an impression of how our ancestors once lived.

Hasselbach, Rhein-Hunsrück

It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kastellaun, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Hunsrück

Notable towns located within the Hunsrück include Simmern, Kirchberg, and Idar-Oberstein, Kastellaun, and Morbach.

Maitzborn Airfield

Maitzborn Airfield is a former military airfield, located 1.7 km east-southeast of Kirchberg in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Military Counseling Network

Through trainings in cooperation with the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO), the network expanded and included counselors in Berlin, Frankfurt, Mutlangen, Heilbronn, Tübingen, and Hunsrück.

Ohlweiler

Ohlweiler lies roughly 3 km southwest of Simmern and 7 km northeast of Kirchberg.

Ravengiersburg

The municipality lies in the central Hunsrück in the Simmerbach valley, roughly 5 km east of Kirchberg and 6 km southwest of Simmern.

Reich, Germany

The rural residential community lies roughly 6 km north-northeast of Kirchberg and 7 km west-northwest of Simmern.

Roth, Rhein-Hunsrück

The municipality lies in the Hunsrück roughly 2 km northeast of Kastellaun and 14 km southeast of the Moselle at Treis-Karden.

Schönborn, Rhein-Hunsrück

To the east lies Simmern, some 4 km away, and to the west, Kirchberg, also some 4 km away.

Simon II, Count of Sponheim-Kreuznach

The dividing line was Soonwald Forest; Simon II ruled the part north of the forest, including Kirchberg and Kastellaun.


Boppard Hauptbahnhof

In addition, Rhenus Veniro operates the Hunsrück Railway between Emmelshausen and Boppard Hbf or Boppard Süd.

Briedern

In 1595, Briedern was attacked by Anton Langhaar (“Anthony Longhair”), who wrought his evil deeds from his home base in Kastellaun in the Hunsrück.

Felke Möbelwerke

The Felke-Möbelwerke company was a German furniture factory with its headquarters in Sohren in the Hunsrück region and branches all over the country.

Halsenbach

A good kilometre northeast of Emmelshausen, where the bypass road meets the old alignment of the Hunsrückhöhenstraße (“Hunsrück Heights Road”, a scenic road across the Hunsrück built originally as a military road on Hermann Göring’s orders), District Road K108 branches off to the northwest, leading to Halsenbach, Ney and Dieler.

Hans Michael Elias von Obentraut

Hans Michael Elias of Obentraut (also known as Johann Michel Elias von Obentraut; 1574 at the Stromburg near Stromberg – 25 October 1625 in Seelze) was a German cavalry general, who fought on the side of the Protestant Union during the Thirty Years' War.

Hollnich

Gammelshausen formerly belonged to the municipality of Roth, but ecclesiastically to Kastellaun.

Jakob Maria Mierscheid

According to his official biography, he was born in Morbach/Hunsrück, a very rural constituency in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Keidelheim

The municipality lies in the middle of the Hunsrück between Simmern and Kastellaun, right on the Schinderhannes-Radweg (cycle path) at a mean elevation of 320 m above sea level.

Neuerkirch

The municipality lies in the central Hunsrück between Simmern and Kastellaun, right on the Schinderhannes-Radweg (cycle path) at a mean elevation of 360 m above sea level.

Niederweiler

The municipality is residential and characterized by agriculture and lies in the Hunsrück roughly 1 km south of Büchenbeuren.

Norath

The municipality lies in the eastern Hunsrück nestled within a greenbelt of woodland and meadowland, roughly 3 km southeast of Emmelshausen, right on Schinderhannes-Radweg (cycle path).

Riegenroth

Not much farther away are Kastellaun, which lies on Bundesstraße 327 and the Hunsrückhöhenstraße (“Hunsrück Heights Road”, a scenic road across the Hunsrück built originally as a military road on Hermann Göring’s orders), and Simmern, through which runs Bundesstraße 50, where there are indoor and outdoor swimming pools along with shopping and entertainment facilities.

The municipality lies in the Hunsrück roughly 9 km northeast of Simmern and 8 km northwest of Rheinböllen, above the Grundbach just upstream from where it empties into the Simmerbach near Kisselbach.

Schnorbach

Count Palatine Rudolf I (1294–1319), who had given his bride as a wedding present 10,000 Marks at Castle Fürstenberg and Castle Stahlberg near Steeg (today an outlying centre of Bacharach), Kaub and a few other Palatine holdings, ended up at odds with the Count of Kessel over the holdings on the Middle Rhine and in the Hunsrück.

Werner of Oberwesel

Werner of Oberwesel (also known as Werner of Bacharach or Werner of Womrath; b. 1271 in Womrath, Hunsrück; d. 1287) was a 16-year-old boy whose unexplained death was blamed on Jews, leading to revenge killings of Jews across Europe.