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unusual facts about River Rhine



Geliebte Clara

Robert tries in vain to take his own life, by jumping into the River Rhine, but accepts the offer of Dr. Richartz to be a patient at his sanatorium at Endenich in Bonn.

Imperial helmet

Like several other helmets, the original was found in the River Rhine at Mainz, including one with the inscription of a soldier named L. Lucretius Celeris of Legio I Adiutrix (a legion which was stationed at Mainz from 71 to 86 AD, dating the helmet to this period).

Operation Plunder

Beginning on the night of 23 March 1945, Operation Plunder was the crossing of the River Rhine at Rees, Wesel, and south of the Lippe River by the British 2nd Army, under Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey (Operations Turnscrew, Widgeon, and Torchlight), and the U.S. Ninth Army (Operation Flashpoint), under Lieutenant General William Simpson.

Tobias' caddisfly

Tobias' caddisfly (Hydropsyche tobiasi) was a caddisfly which lived on the River Rhine between Mainz and Cologne.


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Alfred Vierling

He is co-founder of the Foundation Reinwater (to protect the river Rhine), the European Environmental Bureau in Brussels and was president of the Ecological Movement in the Netherlands.

Arthur Pan

General Sir Miles Dempsey DSO MC, The Commander of the British Second Army and the first British Army commander to cross the River Rhine.

Basel-Stadt

Basel is located at the so-called 'knee' of the River Rhine, at the point where from the west the little Birsig River joins the Rhine from the left, and where the Rhine itself switches from flowing in a westerly direction to a northerly flow.

Dornier Rs.III

Delivery of the Rs.III was planned to follow the river Rhine after crossing the Black Forest, with a fighter escort between Rottweil and Duisburg due to the proximity of Allied forces, as well as a guide aircraft to prevent it inadvertently crossing the Dutch border.

Kingdom of Holland

In 1807 Prussian East Frisia and Jever were added to the kingdom but in 1809, after a British invasion, Holland had to give over all territories south of the river Rhine to France.

New Offenburg, Missouri

The community was named after the German city called Offenburg between the Black Forest and the River Rhine, the place where its early settlers originated from.

Sankt Goar line

The line runs from east to west and crosses the river Rhine at the town of Sankt Goar.

Schimper

Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (1808–1880), German-French botanist, born in Dossenheim-sur-Zinsel, a town near the River Rhine

Sir Francis Evans, 1st Baronet

He was educated at the Moravian School in Neuwied in the Rhineland-Palatinate on the banks of the River Rhine and then at Manchester New College, London.

Teskey

In 2004 Hank Jones, a leading researcher into Irish Palatine family history, put forward a strong argument that before 1709 the family lived in a village called Osthofen, one mile from the west bank of the River Rhine and five miles north of the city of Worms.