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Coordinates: 49°51′N 7°52′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which is aligned with the spin axis of the Earth. ...

Bad Kreuznach
Coat of arms of Bad Kreuznach
 
Federal state Rhineland-Palatinate
Administrative region
District Bad Kreuznach
Population 43,757 (2005)
Area 46.1 km²
Population density 949/km²
Elevation 104-321 m
Coordinates 49°51′ N 7°52′ E
Postal code 55517-55545
Area code 0671, 06727
Licence plate code KH
Mayor Andreas Ludwig (CDU)
Website stadt-bad-kreuznach.de

Bad Kreuznach is the capital of Bad Kreuznach (district), Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. It is located on the Nahe River, a tributary of the Rhine. Image File history File links Sin_escudo. ... Germany is a Federal Republic made up of 16 States, known in German as Länder (transliterated as Laender in English, singular Land). ... 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. ... A Regierungsbezirk is an government region of Germany, a subdivision of certain federal states (Bundesländer). ... There are 439 German districts (Kreise), administrative units in Germany. ... Categories: Districts of Rhineland-Palatinate ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... See Cartesian coordinate system or Coordinates (elementary mathematics) for a more elementary introduction to this topic. ... German Postleitzahl map of the first two digits Postal codes in Germany, known as Postleitzahl (pl. ... see also Telephone numbering plan of Germany for further codes including service numbers, cell phones etc. ... German car number plates show the place where the car carrying them is registered. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... This article needs cleanup. ... This page as shown in the aol 9. ... Categories: Districts of Rhineland-Palatinate ... Rhineland-Palatinate (German Rheinland-Pfalz) is one of 16 Bundesländer of Germany. ... The Nahe is a river in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, a tributary to the Rhine. ... Loreley At 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second, the Rhine (Dutch Rijn, French Rhin, German Rhein, Italian: Reno, Romansch: Rein, ) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe. ...


As of 2005, the current mayor of Bad Kreuznach is Andreas Ludwig from the CDU (Christian Democratic Union), who won the municipal election of March 30, 2003. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article needs cleanup. ... March 30 is the 89th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (90th in leap years). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Tourist attractions

The town of Bad Kreuznach is the home of the following tourist attractions:

  • The Pauluskirche, or St. Paul's Church, where Karl Marx was married (to Jenny von Westphalen) in 1843.
  • The Kurhaus (built 1913) is a hotel and bath house. The baths which give the town its name contain radium, with supposedly curative properties.
  • The Dr-Faust-Haus (built 1507) was the home of Johann Georg Faust, the alchemist on whom the Faust tale is said to be based.
  • Kreuznacher wine is well known.
  • For 50 years was home to a United States Army base, including headquarters of the U.S. 8th Infantry Division, which closed down in May 2001

The villas of rich citizens built during the German Empire (1871-1918) are very typical for the town. Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818, Trier, Germany – March 14, 1883, London) was an immensely influential German philosopher, political economist, and socialist revolutionary. ... 1843 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Children bathing in a small metal bathtub Bathing is the immersion of the body in fluid, usually water, or an aqueous solution, such as the asses milk favored by Cleopatra VII of Egypt[citation needed]. Some spa facilities provide bathing in various other liquids such as chocolate or mud, and... General Name, Symbol, Number radium, Ra, 88 Chemical series alkaline earth metals Group, Period, Block 2, 7, s Appearance silvery white metallic Atomic mass (226) g/mol Electron configuration [Rn] 7s2 Electrons per shell 2, 8, 18, 32, 18, 8, 2 Physical properties Phase solid Density (near r. ... Dr. Johann Georg Faust (approx. ... Faust (Latin Faustus) is the protagonist of a popular German tale of a pact with the Devil, assumed to be based on the figure of the German magician and alchemist Dr. Johann Georg Faust (approximately 1480–1540). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The 8th Infantry Division was a unit of the United States Army in World War I and World War II and later. ... Flag of the German Empire, 1871–1918: black-white-red The German Empire is the name conventionally given in English to the German state from the time of the proclamation of Wilhelm I of Prussia as German Emperor (January 18, 1871) to the abdication of Wilhelm II (November 9, 1918). ...


See also

Tourist Attraction: The Bridge Houses that are built on the bridge that crosses the Nahe River in downtown Bad Kreuznach along the walkplatz. Categories: Districts of Rhineland-Palatinate ... The German Verbandsgemeinde of Bad Kreuznach_Land includes the villages of Volxheim, Hackenheim, Tiefenthal, Pleitersheim, Pfaffen-Schwabenheim, Biebelsheim, Neu-Bamberg, Frei-Laubersheim and Fürfeld. ... A Verbandsgemeinde (plural Verbandsgemeinden) is an administrative unit unique to the German Bundesland (federal state) of Rhineland-Palatinate. ...


  Results from FactBites:
 
Bad Kreuznach (district) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (271 words)
Bad Kreuznach is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
In 1932 it was merged with the district of Meisenheim.
A flickr-group with fotos of Bad Kreuznach (district)
Bad Kreuznach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (236 words)
Bad Kreuznach is the capital of Bad Kreuznach (district), Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.
As of 2005, the current mayor of Bad Kreuznach is Andreas Ludwig from the CDU (Christian Democratic Union), who won the municipal election of March 30, 2003.
Tourist Attraction: The Bridge Houses that are built on the bridge that crosses the Nahe River in downtown Bad Kreuznach along the walkplatz.
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