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98 unusual facts about Rhineland


Alfons Heck

Heck was born in the Rhineland, he was raised by his grandmother at her farm in the crossroads wine country community of Wittlich, Germany.

Ammeldingen an der Our

Ammeldingen an der Our is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Ammeldingen bei Neuerburg

Ammeldingen bei Neuerburg is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Anton Raaff

Anton Raaff (6 May 1714 – 28 May 1797) was a German tenor from Gelsdorf near Bonn.

August Weismann

He returned to Frankfurt as personal physician to the banished Archduke Stephen of Austria at Schaumburg Castle from 1861 to 1863.

Becherbach

Becherbach refers to two villages in the district of Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Bellingen

Bellingen, Rhineland-Palatinate, a municipality in the district Westerwaldkreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Berghausen

Berghausen, Rhineland-Palatinate - a municipality in the Verbandsgemeinde Katzenelnbogen, district Rhein-Lahn, Germany

Berod bei Hachenburg

Berod bei Hachenburg is a municipality in the district of Altenkirchen, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Birken-Honigsessen

Birken-Honigsessen is a municipality in the district of Altenkirchen, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

C. R. M. F. Cruttwell

As a historian, Cruttwell was an accepted authority on the political and military history of the Rhineland.

Caudron G.4

The Caudron G.4 was used to carry out bombing raids deep behind the front line, being used to attack targets as far away as the Rhineland.

CERH Women's Euro 2011

The CERH Women's Euro 2011 or 2011 CERH Women's Championship was the 11th edition of the CERH European Women's Roller Hockey Championship, held between 25 and 29 October, in Cronenberg, Germany as a single round-robin stage.

Cisnădie

The layout of the church, composed of a small basilica with three naves, as well as the decoration of the carved western entrance portal, dating from 1260, attest to the strong influence of Rhineland architecture.

Elkenroth

Elkenroth is a municipality that lies on the boundary of the Westerwald region in the district of Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Eßlingen

Eßlingen, in English-language works sometimes spelt Esslingen is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Evangelical Church in Germany

#Evangelical Church in the Rhineland (Evangelische Kirche im Rheinland), a united church body in the Rhineland

Ezzonids

According to the Brauweiler chronicle, he failed to succeed to the monarchy after the death of emperor Otto III (983–1002) in a rivalry with duke Henry II of Bavaria (1002–1024).

Ferdinand Gatzweiler

Ferdinand "Ferdi" Gatzweiler (born 2 June 1955) is the mayor of the city of Stolberg, in the Rhineland, and a member of the SPD.

Fischbach-Oberraden

Fischbach-Oberraden is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Frankelbach

Frankelbach is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Gerard II of Isenburg-Kempenich

In 1330 Simon made himself the sole ruler of Kempenich, sparking a succession war in which Gerard brought in his allies, the Counts and Lords of Landskron, Rheineck, Schönberg, Eich, Ölbruck and the Archbishop, forming the "Red Sleeves".

German settlements in the Riverina

The Albury region had long been a settlement area for Catholic Germans, particularly farmers and wine growers from the Rhineland, who had begun to melt in with the Anglo-Celtic population.

Gladbach

Gladbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, a municipality in the district Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Hans Hauck

Rhineland Bastards, the children of French colonial troops occupying the Rhineland and German women.

Hans-Peter Briegel

Hans-Peter Briegel (born 11 October 1955 in Rodenbach, West Germany) is a former German footballer and manager.

Heiligenmoschel

Heiligenmoschel is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Herborn

Herborn, Rhineland-Palatinate, a German village in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate

Heuchelheim bei Frankenthal

Heuchelheim bei Frankenthal is a municipality in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Hirschhorn, Rhineland-Palatinate

Hirschhorn is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Hüttingen an der Kyll

Hüttingen an der Kyll is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Hüttingen bei Lahr

Hüttingen bei Lahr is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Isenburg

Isenburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, municipality in the district of Neuwied, Germany

Jacob Best

He was born in Hesse-Darmstadt where he learned the trade and ran a small brewery in Mettenheim, Rhenish Hesse, until immigrating to Milwaukee in 1844 to join his sons.

Jo Niemeyer

Jo Niemeyer (born in 1946 in Alf, Germany) is a concrete artist and designer.

Kasbach-Ohlenberg

Kasbach-Ohlenberg is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Katzweiler

Katzweiler is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Katzwinkel, Vulkaneifel

Until 1970, the municipality belonged to the Verbandsgemeinde of Daun, when it, along with Beinhausen, Boxberg, Brück, Hörschhausen and Neichen, was annexed to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kelberg.

Kirchweiler

The “mount” is described in the German blazon as a Dreiberg, but it does not have the shape that this charge usually takes in German heraldry (for examples within this same district, see Kerpen’s and Birgel’s coats of arms).

Kleinmaischeid

Kleinmaischeid is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany and was the centre point of the European Union from 1 May 2004 until 31 December 2006.

Krośnice, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Count Adalbert von der Recke had established an Samaritan psychiatric hospital for children here in 1860, modeled after his orphanage in Düsseltal, Rhineland.

Langenfeld

Langenfeld, Rhineland, in the Mettmann district of North Rhine-Westphalia

Lauro Müller

Born in Itajaí, Santa Catarina, he was the son of the German immigrants Peter Müller and Anna Michels, originally from the Rhineland.

Lenus

He was an important god of the Treveri tribe, who had large sanctuaries at medicinal springs at Trier and the Martberg by Pommern in what is now Germany.

London-Brabant Massif

The London-Brabant Massif or London-Brabant Platform is in the tectonic structure of Europe a structural high or massif that stretches from the Rhineland in western Germany across northern Belgium (in the province of Brabant) and the North Sea to the sites of East Anglia and the middle Thames in southern England.

Lothar von Metternich

Lothar von Metternich was born in Schloss Vettelhoven in Grafschaft on August 31, 1551, the son of Johann von Metternich (1500-1562), Lord of Vettelhoven and bailiff of Saffenberg, and his fourth wife, Katharina von der Leyen zu Adendorf (1528-1567).

Mehlbach

Mehlbach is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Nehren

Nehren, Rhineland-Palatinate, a village in the district Cochem-Zell, Rhineland-Palatinate

Niederbreitbach

Niederbreitbach is a municipality and officially recognised climatic health-resort in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Niederkirchen

Niederkirchen is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Niedersteinebach

Niedersteinebach is a municipality in the district of Altenkirchen, in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

No. 41 Wing RAF

The Burbach iron foundry was hit, as were other buildings and railway lines.

Oberhonnefeld-Gierend

Oberhonnefeld-Gierend is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Obernheim-Kirchenarnbach

Obernheim-Kirchenarnbach is a municipality in Südwestpfalz district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Otterbach

Otterbach is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Ottersheim bei Landau

Ottersheim bei Landau is a municipality in the district of Germersheim, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Otto von Kerpen

Otto came from a poor Rhenish knightly family residing in the castle of Kerpen in Kerpen, Rhineland-Palatinate.

Palatine, New York

The named is derived from the Palatinate in the Rhineland, the homeland of the Germans who were the earliest European settlers of this region.

Peter Melander Graf von Holzappel

Peter Melander left a fortune that allowed his widow Agnes to purchase the Lordship and Castle of Schaumburg in 1656, and merge it with Holzappel, thus forming the County of Holzappel-Schaumburg.

Postel Abbey

The abbey church was built in the Rhineland Romanesque style and dates supposedly from the end of the 12th century (1190).

Ramon S. Subejano

Ramon S. Subejano served with Company A, 358th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division and saw combat at Normandy Beach, Ardennes, Northern France, the Netherlands, and the Rhineland.

Rhein-Wupper-Bahn

The section of the line in Rhineland-Palatinate that was formerly served regularly, has been served since 2003 by only one service operated to Remagen in the evening and returning next morning.

In December 2003 it was shortened to terminate at Bonn-Mehlem because Rhineland-Palatinate would not provide sufficient funds for operations in its section.

Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 2006

Kurt Beck (SPD) remained Minister-President, winning an outright majority.

The SPD was expected to profit from the personality of Kurt Beck, while the CDU ran again with their leader Christoph Böhr, who had already lost the 2001 election.

Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 2011

In the 2006 election, Minister-President Kurt Beck and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) won an outright majority.

Rodenbach bei Puderbach

Rodenbach bei Puderbach is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Sarmersbach

The French administration made Sarmersbach the administrative seat of the like-named mairie (“mayoralty”), to which belonged not only Sarmersbach but also Beinhausen, Boxberg, Kradenbach, Gefell, Hörschhausen, Katzwinkel, Neichen, Nerdlen, Schönbach and Utzerath.

Schloßböckelheim

Schloßböckelheim is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Schmittweiler

Schmittweiler is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Schneppenbach

Schneppenbach is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Schöneberg, Bad Kreuznach

Schöneberg is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Schwarzerden

Schwarzerden is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Schweinschied

Schweinschied is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Schweppenhausen

Schweppenhausen is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Seesbach

Seesbach is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Seibersbach

Seibersbach is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Sevenig bei Neuerburg

Sevenig bei Neuerburg is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Simon I of Isenburg-Kempenich

In 1330, Simon made himself the sole ruler of Kempenich, sparking a succession war in which Gerard II brought in his allies, the Counts and Lords of Landskron, Rheineck, Schönberg, Eich, Ölbruck and the Archbishop.

Solomon bar Simson Chronicle

Like the Eliezer bar Nathan Chronicle and the Mainz Anonymous, it is concerned with the persecutions of Jewish communities in the Rhineland area, notably Speyer, Worms, Mainz and Trier, during the First Crusade (1095-1099).

Spabrücken

Spabrücken is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Spall, Germany

Spall is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Staudernheim

Staudernheim is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Steinbach am Donnersberg

Steinbach am Donnersberg is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Steinen

Steinen, Rhineland-Palatinate, a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate

Sunken lane

One of the largest networks of such routes in Germany is to be found in the municipalities of Alsheim and Mettenheim in Rhineland-Palatinate, where there they make up over 30 km of hiking trails.

Traisen, Germany

Traisen is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Üxheim

The parish of Niederehe is made up of the centres of Kerpen with Loogh, Heyroth and Niederehe.

Waldlaubersheim

Waldlaubersheim is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Wallhausen, Rhineland-Palatinate

Wallhausen is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Warmsroth

Warmsroth is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Wartenberg-Rohrbach

Wartenberg-Rohrbach is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Weiler bei Monzingen

Weiler bei Monzingen is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Weitersborn

Weitersborn is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Windesheim, Germany

Windesheim is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Winterburg

Winterburg is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Yigdal

In the German use of Bavaria and the Rhineland the old tradition has preserved a contrasting "Yigdal" for New-Year and Atonement that is of equally antique character, but built on a diatonic scale and reminiscent of the morning service of the day.

Zellertal

See Rhineland-Palatinate for a further description of the local viticulture.


Abraham Kuhn

Abraham Kuhn (August 28, 1838 – September 15, 1900) was an Alsatian otolarynologist born in Bissersheim, Rhineland-Palatinate.

Aull

Aull, Germany, municipality in the district of Rhein-Lahn, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Beuren

Beuren, Trier-Saarburg, a municipality in the district Trier-Saarburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Beuren, Cochem-Zell, a municipality in the district Cochem-Zell, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Bockenheim

Stein-Bockenheim, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate (Alzey-Worms)

Consulate General of the United States, Frankfurt

The Frankfurt Consular district covers the German states of Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, and Saarland.

Duchy of Cleves

The Hohenzollern margraves thereby got a first foothold in the Rhineland, however, large parts of the Duchy of Cleves were occupied by the United Provinces until the Franco-Dutch War in 1672.

Einloft

1800 and two brothers of the Rhineland branch migrated to Brazil in the 19th century.

Flörsheim-Dalsheim

Flörsheim-Dalsheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Gert Heinrich Wollheim

At the end of 1919 Wollheim and Pankok went to Düsseldorf and became founding members of the "Young Rhineland" group, which also included Max Ernst, Otto Dix, and Ulrich Leman.

Heimburg in Niederheimbach

The Heimburg (also known as Burg Hohneck or Burg Hoheneck) is a castle in the village of Niederheimbach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Herschbach

Herschbach, Wallmerod, a municipality in the Verbandsgemeinde Wallmerod, Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Herxheim

Herxheim am Berg, a town in the district Bad Dürkheim, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Horst Siebert

A native of Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Siebert studied economics at the University of Cologne (1959–1963), while also studying, and undertaking research in, economics at Wesleyan University (1960–1961).

Kerschenbach

Furthermore, they came not from Rome, but rather from the Kannenbäckerland (“Jug Bakers’ Land”, a small region still known for its ceramics industry) in the Westerwaldkreis, also in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Kirchsahr

Kirchsahr consists of the districts Kirchsahr, Binzenbach, Burgsahr, Hürnig and Winnen, and lies near the state border of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia.

Langenberg

Langenberg (Rhineland), an independent town until 1975, now a borough of Velbert, Germany.

Ludwigswinkel

Ludwigswinkel is a municipality in the district of Südwestpfalz of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, very close to the French border.

Münchweiler

Münchweiler an der Alsenz, municipality in the Donnersbergkreis district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Münchweiler an der Rodalb, municipality in Südwestpfalz district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany

Petra Hammesfahr

Petra Hammesfahr (born 10 May 1951 in Titz, North Rhine-Westphalia) is an acclaimed German crime writer, winner of several awards including the Crime Prize of Wiesbaden and Rhineland Literary Prize.

Richard Wetz

: (Recording: Rhineland-Palatinate State Philharmonic and State Youth Choir, Werner Andreas Albert, 2001)

SV Roßbach/Verscheid

SV Roßbach/Verscheid is a German association football club based in Roßbach/Wied, Rhineland-Palatinate that currently plays in the Oberliga Südwest (IV).

Tamara Bach

Tamara Bach was born in 1976 in Limburg an der Lahn and grew up in Ludwigshöhe, Rhineland-Palatinate.

Tiefenthal, Bad Kreuznach

Tiefenthal is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Vierwinden

Vierwinden is a locality in the municipality Windhagen in the district of Neuwied in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Werner von Orseln

Von Orseln hailed from a noble family of vogts (reeves) of the Counts of Falkenstein in Oberursel near Frankfurt.