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Bingen am Rhein (German pronunciation: ⓘ) is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The settlement's original name was Bingium, a Celtic word that may have meant "hole in the rock", [ 3 ] [ citation needed ] a description of the shoal behind the Mäuseturm , known as the Binger Loch .
The Ohio Rhineland (German: Ohio Rheinland) is a German cultural region of Ohio. It was named by Rhinelanders and other Germans who settled the area in the mid-19th century. [ 1 ] They named the canal "the Rhine" in reference to the river Rhine in Germany , and the newly settled area north of the canal as " Over the Rhine ".
Köln-Düsseldorfer (KD) is a river cruise operator based in Cologne, Germany. The company operates a total of 14 cruise ships on the Rhine, Main and Moselle rivers. The famous KD steamer line operated on the Rhine with steamers and tourist boats. The Lorelei rock was a famed day outing for pleasure seekers.
Map of the Middle Rhine St. Goarshausen, Burg Katz, with Lorelei rock in Rhineland-Palatinate View from the Loreley. Middle Rhine (German: Mittelrhein, pronounced [ˈmɪtl̩ˌʁaɪn] ⓘ; kilometres [a] 529 to 660 of the Rhine) [2] is the section of the Rhine between Bingen and Bonn in Germany.
Map of the Middle Rhine Valley. The Rhine Gorge is a popular name for the Upper Middle Rhine Valley, a 65 km (40 mi) section of the Rhine between Koblenz and Rüdesheim in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse in Germany.
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The Reichsbahndirektion Mainz rented the ship from November 1944 and used it as a residential ship in Gernsheim. On February 23, 1945, the Mainz was transferred to the Altrhein near Erfelden. At the end of the war, the Mainz was the only one of the shipping company's 22 ships that had survived the war in running order. [ 6 ]
The freight ferry was put into operation on 1 September 1862. A passenger ferry opened on 5 November 1861 on the Bingerbrück–Bingen–Rüdesheim route. Originally it was operated with two paddle steamers (Bingerbrück and Rüdesheim) attached alongside coupled pontoons carrying the freight wagons over the Rhine. The freight wagons were ...