Bacharach, view from Castle Stahleck

Bacharach whith Castle Stahleck

Bacharach is a small German town, in Rhineland-Palatinate (Mainz-Bingen district), situated on the west bank of the Rhine, 48km (30 miles) south of Koblenz. Traditionally, the town is said to have been founded in pre-Roman times, possibly by the Celts. Its original name is said to have been Baccaracum. However, the first documentary evidence of its existence is in 923. Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 1508 KB)Bacharach, taken from Castle Stahleck, depicting a portion of the town, the Rhine and a passenger boat Image created by Philip Hibbs on May 29th, 2004 and released into the public domain This image has been released into the public domain by the... Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 1508 KB)Bacharach, taken from Castle Stahleck, depicting a portion of the town, the Rhine and a passenger boat Image created by Philip Hibbs on May 29th, 2004 and released into the public domain This image has been released into the public domain by the... Castle Stahleck Burg Stahleck is a 12th century castle, built on the orders of the archbishop of Cologne occupying a commanding view of the Rhine in the Lorelei valley. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 1643 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Bacharach Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 1643 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Bacharach Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1280x960, 342 KB) Summary Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Bacharach Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1280x960, 342 KB) Summary Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Bacharach Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used... The Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz, sometimes Lower Palatinate or Niederpfalz) occupies rather more than a quarter of the German Bundesland (federal state) of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) and contains the towns of Ludwigshafen, Kaiserslautern, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Pirmasens, Landau and Speyer. ... Mainz-Bingen is a district (Kreis) in the east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. ... The Rhine (Dutch: ; French: ; German: ; Italian: ; Romansh: ) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe at 1,320 kilometres (820 miles), with an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second. ... Map of the Koblenz region Koblenz (also Coblenz in pre-1926 German spellings; French Coblence) is a city situated on both banks of the Rhine at its confluence with the Moselle, where the Deutsches Eck (German Corner) and its monument ( Emperor William I on horseback) are situated. ... This article is about the European people. ... Events June 15 - Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed, King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy. ...

There is a basilica, dating from the beginning of the 13th century. There are also ruins of a Gothic church of the 13th and 15th centuries. The renovated castle of Stahleck (now a youth hostel), crowning the heights above the town, is celebrated in history as the scene of the marriage between Henry, eldest son of Henry the Lion (shortly before the latter’s death in 1195), and Agnes of Hohenstaufen, which effected a temporary reconciliation between the houses of Welf and Hohenstaufen. Other ruined castles are those of Fürstenberg and Stahlberg. All three belonged to the Counts Palatine. The wines of Bacharach were once held in the greatest esteem, and it is still one of the chief markets of the Rhenish wine trade. St. ... (12th century - 13th century - 14th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 13th century was that century which lasted from 1201 to 1300. ... Interior of Cologne Cathedral Gothic architecture is a style of architecture, particularly associated with cathedrals and other churches, which flourished in Europe during the high and late medieval period. ... St. ... Castle Stahleck Burg Stahleck is a 12th century castle, built on the orders of the archbishop of Cologne occupying a commanding view of the Rhine in the Lorelei valley. ... Coronation of Henry the Lion and Matilda of England (1188) Henry the Lion (face of statue on his tomb in Brunswick Cathedral) Henry the Lion (1129 - August 6, 1195; in German, Heinrich der Löwe) was a member of the Welf dynasty and Duke of Saxony as Henry III since... Events Priory of St Marys, Bushmead, founded. ... Fürstenberg is the name of a noble house in Germany, primarily based in southern Baden-Württemberg). ...

The town is the setting for Heinrich Heine's novel-fragment The Rabbi of Bacharach (1824/1840). Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (born Chaim Harry Heine, December 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was a journalist, an essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets. ...

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This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. Encyclopædia Britannica, the 11th edition The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911) is perhaps the most famous edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...

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