This article is about the Swiss town Koblenz. For other places with the same name see Koblenz (disambiguation).
Koblenz (or Coblenz) is a municipality in district Zurzach in the canton of Aargau, in the north of Switzerland.
The name derives from the Latin Confluentia. Koblenz lies opposite Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg where the river Aar joins the Rhein. In the year 2003, it had about 1600 inhabitants, in an area of 4.1 km². Its postcode is 5322.
In Roman times at this place a goods yard and watchtowers existed along the Rhein. The town has been settled since the Middle Ages.
The Koblenz boatmen had a monopoly over transport of goods from the then important market town of Zurzach downstream along dangerous currents of the Rhein towards Basel. With the arrival of the railway in the 19th century Koblenz and Zurzach lost this important source of income.
The Koblenz village is known locally as the "5 Brücken-Dorf" (literally: five bridges village). Next to the Aar crossing there is also a road bridge and a railway bridge over thge Rhein.
The like-named town Koblenz also lies on a confluence of the Rhein, with the river Mosel in Germany.
External link
http://www.koblenz.ch (official municipality website in German)
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.
Koblenz lies in the Rhineland, 92 kilometers (57 miles) southeast of Cologne by rail, the population grew from 31,669 (1885) and 53,902 (1905) to 107,064 (2005),
Later, Koblenz was frequently the residence of the Frankish kings, and in 860 and 922 was the scene of ecclesiastical synods.
As Koblenz (Latin (ad) Confluentes, "confluence" or "(at the) merging (rivers)", Covelenz, Cobelenz; local dialect "Kowwelenz") was one of the military posts established by Drusus about 8 B.C., the town celebrated its 2000th anniversary in 1992.
Koblenz is a principal seat of the Mosel and Rhenish wine trade, and also does a large business in the export of mineral waters.
In 1688 Koblenz was besieged by the French under Marshal de Boufflers, but they only succeeded in bombarding the Altstadt into ruins, destroying among other buildings the old merchants' hall (Kaufhaus), which was restored in its present form in 1725.
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