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Boppard's town forest is the second biggest in Rhineland-Palatinate with an area of 43.6 square kilometres (16.8 sq mi). Since 1969, the town of Boppard has belonged to the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, and is the district's northernmost municipality. Boppard is a middle centre; the nearest upper centre is Koblenz, some 22 kilometres (14 mi) away.
Boppard Hauptbahnhof is a station in the town of Boppard in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.It is located on the outskirts of the town near the Rhine.It is at a railway junction on the West Rhine Railway (German: Linke Rheinstrecke) between Köln Hauptbahnhof and Mainz Hauptbahnhof, and it is the starting point of the Hunsrück Railway (Hunsrückbahn) to Emmelshausen.
Boppard fought battles for the freedom of the city in 1327 and 1497. The grave stone in the popular "wide-track bully" type in the Carmelite church of Boppard of the knight Sifrid of Schwalbach, who fell in 1497, is a testimony to this struggle for local liberties which erupted for the last time in the Palatine Peasants' War of 1525. The City ...
The sixteen constituent states of Germany are divided into a total of 401 administrative Kreis or Landkreis; these consist of 294 rural districts [1] (German: Landkreise or Kreise – the latter in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein only), and 107 urban districts (Kreisfreie Städte or, in Baden-Württemberg only, Stadtkreise – cities that constitute districts in ...
These maps are now deprecated: Image:BlankMap-World.png – World map, Robinson projection centered on the meridian circa 11°15' to east from the Greenwich Prime Meridian . Microstates and island nations are generally represented by single or few pixels approximate to the capital; all territories indicated in the UN listing of territories and ...
Named after William Seaborn Bamberg, whose grandfather was an immigrant from Germany. [8] Bavaria: Kansas: Named after the region of Bavaria in Germany. [9] Bavaria: Wisconsin: Named after the region of Bavaria in Germany. Bern: Wisconsin: Named after the region of Bavaria in Germany, with German Bayern adjusted to English spelling. Biron ...
Signpost of twin towns in Celle Map of Germany. This is a list of municipalities in Germany which have standing links to local communities in other countries, or in other parts of Germany (mostly across the former inner German border), known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
The section of the Hunsrück Railway from Boppard to Emmelshausen is the steepest adhesion railway in western Germany. On the six-kilometre section from Boppard to Boppard-Buchholz it climbs 336 metres. The grade is 6.09% or 1 in 16.4. The section of the Hunsrück Railway between Boppard and Emmelshausen is protected as a monument as a result. [9]