Geisenheim is a town in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis district, in Hesse, Germany. It has around 12,000 inhabitants (2005). It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, 3 km east of Rüdesheim, and 21 km west of Mainz. Rheingau-Taunus is a Kreis (district) in the west of Hesse, Germany. ... Hesse (German: Hessen) is one of Germanys sixteen federal states (Bundesländer) . It has an area of 21,110 km² and just over six million inhabitants. ... 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. ... Rüdesheim is a German town located in the heart of the Rhine river area at the southern entrance to the Lorelei valley. ... Mainz is a city in Germany and the capital of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. ...
Coordinates: 49°59′N 7°58′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...