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Pages in category "Tourist attractions in Hesse" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
It lies in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis district in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt, Hessen. Known as Rüdesheim, it is officially Rüdesheim am Rhein, to distinguish it from Rüdesheim an der Nahe. It is a major tourist attraction, especially for foreign visitors.
Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe is a landscape park in Kassel, Germany.The area of the park is 2.4 square kilometres (590 acres), making it the largest European hillside park, [1] and second largest park on a hill slope in the world.
Hesse (Jewish Encyclopedia) Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Homburg-vor-der-Höhe" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 625. Official tourist website of the town of Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe; There is literature about Bad Homburg in the Hessian Bibliography; Cultural monuments in Bad Homburg (512 data entries)
Heppenheim borders in the north on the town of Bensheim, in the northeast on the community of Lautertal and the town of Lindenfels, in the east on the communities of Fürth, Rimbach, Mörlenbach and Birkenau, in the south on the community of Laudenbach (Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg), in the southwest on the towns of Viernheim and Lampertheim and in the west on the town of Lorsch.
Numerous castles (Burgen) and palaces (Schlösser) are found in the German state of Hesse.These buildings, some of which have a history of over 1000 years, were the setting of historical events, domains of famous personalities and are still imposing buildings to this day.
Hesse [a] or Hessen [b] (German: Hessen ⓘ), officially the State of Hesse (German: Land Hessen), is a state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt, which is also the country's principal financial centre. Two other major historic cities are Darmstadt and Kassel. With an area of 21,114.73 square ...
The Odenwald is located between the Upper Rhine Plain with the Bergstraße and the Hessisches Ried (the northeastern section of the Rhine rift) to the west, the Main and the Bauland (a mostly unwooded area with good soils) to the east, the Hanau-Seligenstadt Basin – a subbasin of the Upper Rhine Rift Valley in the Rhine-Main Lowlands – to the north and the Kraichgau to the south.