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Many walked to work across bridges over the Miami and Erie Canal, which separated the area from downtown Cincinnati. The canal was nicknamed "the Rhine" in reference to the river Rhine in Germany, and the newly settled area north of the canal as "Over the Rhine". [5] [6] In German, the district was called über den Rhein. [citation needed]
Many communities within the Cincinnati – Northern Kentucky metropolitan area are considered by local residents to be neighborhoods or suburbs of Cincinnati, but do not fall within the actual city limits, Hamilton county boundaries, or even within Ohio state borders.
On April 7, 2001, at approximately 2 a.m. a white Cincinnati police officer chased a wanted 19-year-old African-American into an "extremely dark" breezeway near Republic and 13th Streets. [ 112 ] [ 113 ] The officer thought the man had reached for a weapon so he shot him in the chest, killing him, although no weapon was found. [ 113 ]
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The former name of Otoe, Nebraska, anti-German sentiment extended to a town that bore the name of Germany's capital. A 1918 series of fires that destroyed a block of the town's main street was attributed to anti-German crusaders. In October 1918, less than a month before the war's end, the town's name was changed to its current Otoe. [12]
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". [2] [3]
St. Bernard along with Norwood and Elmwood Place, is an enclave surrounded by the city of Cincinnati. According to the United States Census Bureau , the village has a total area of 1.56 square miles (4.04 km 2 ), of which 1.55 square miles (4.01 km 2 ) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2 ) is water.
Cincinnati Country Day School (coed) Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy (coed) Lakota Christian School (coed) Liberty Bible Academy; Mars Hill Academy (coed) Miami Valley Christian Academy; Purcell Marian High School (coed) Royalmont Academy (beginning 2014) St. Edmund Campion Academy(coed) Oakley, Cincinnati, Ohio; St. Rita School for the Deaf