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	653-jagd 4-star castle hotel Rheingau hotel Germany Hesse hotels castle Rudesheim World Heritage Site hunting ...
		The middle Rhine river valley between Rudesheim / Bingen on the Rhine river and Koblenz / Coblence at the meeting of the Rhine river and Mosel / Moselle river has been registered as a special guarded culture landscape from the Unesco-World-Heritage-committee in Budapest.
		A hiking over the hiking trail directly at the edge of the Rhine river slopes (about 1.5 km Rhine river upstream), which offers impressive panorama views towards the Rhine river valley, is especially charming.
		One room on the Bromserburg with Rhine river view, the so-called Rhinegau / Rheingau room, can also be used as a marriage room for marriages in a registry office.
	www.653-jagd.german-castles.biz (1444 words)

	Rhine River
		The Rhine River is one of the most important waterways in Germany and is linked by canals to other major rivers in Western Europe.
		All Germany is rich in castles but the romantic Rhine Valley - the heartland of the old Holy Roman Empire - has a particularly high density of important important medieval military buildings.
		Goethe's journey down the Rhine in 1774 was the start of the Age of romanticism.
	www.castles.org /castles/Europe/Central_Europe/Germany/germany1.htm (532 words)

	Rhine. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		At Basel the Rhine becomes the Upper Rhine of the Germans and turns sharply N to Mainz across the broad-floored Rhine rift valley, a large graben, or down-faulted block, between the Black Forest and the Vosges Mts.
		A third distributary, known as the Crooked Rhine, leads to Utrecht and continues west to the sea as the Old Rhine; it is linked with Amsterdam by the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal and thence by the North Sea Canal to the North Sea.
		The Rhine was declared free to international navigation in 1868, and in 1919 navigation of the river between Basel and Krimpen, on the Lek, and Gorinchem, on the Waal, was placed under the authority of the Central Rhine Commission, with headquarters at Strasbourg.
	www.bartleby.com /65/rh/Rhine.html (682 words)

	Rhine - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Rhine rises in the mountains of the Swiss canton of the Grisons, and flows for 233 m.
		The upper Rhenish valley is evidently the bed of an ancient lake, the shores of which were formed by the gneiss and granite of the Black Forest on the one side and the granite and sandstone of the Vosges on the other.
		The whole valley seems to have been originally occupied by Celtic tribes, who have left traces of their presence on the contents of tombs and in the forms of names (Moguntiacum or Mainz, Borbetomagus or Worms); but at the beginning of the historical period we find the Celts everywhere in retreat before the advancing Teutons.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Rhine (3334 words)

	National Geographic Traveler Article: Rhine Journey
		The Rhine is indeed there, but so remote is it from the historic center of the Alsatian capital that it doesn't even make it onto many tourist maps.
		The 50-mile cruise through the Rhine gorge, where the river passes between dark, enclosing hills liberally sprinkled with castles, is the high point of the trip, and it was evident that many of my fellow passengers had over-imbibed and were not feeling their best.
		The hills of the Rhine gorge are not especially large, but they have a certain muscular darkness that enhances their grandeur.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /traveler/articles/1049rhine_journey.html (3912 words)

	Travel for Kids: Rhineland, Germany
		Middle Ages the Moselle and Rhine river valleys were controlled by feudal lords who built castles at strategic intervals along the rivers, establishing dozens of "tollbooths." Wherever you travel with your kids, you'll keep bumping into castles and medieval towns.
		is a Rhine tributary: the rivers meet in Koblenz at "Deutsches Eck" (The German Corner).
		Like the Rhine Valley, the Moselle is a land of romantic hillside vineyards, little villages, and cliff hanging castles.
	www.travelforkids.com /Funtodo/Germany/rhineland.htm (252 words)

	Middle Rhine Valley \| Rudesheim/Rhine \| Tourist Information \| Portrait
		The particular attraction is, aside from the captivating views of the narrow valley and the mighty river contained by the towering mountains, its 21 castles and historic ruins.
		The settlement of the Rhine Valley had its roots in the river’s central role as the most important means of transportation from the sea to the Alps.
		Not only is the Rhine Valley an international thoroughfare as a waterway but also as a rail- and road-way with significant passenger and freight train and automotive traffic wending their way on both sides of the river.
	www.ruedesheim.de /en/portrait_weltkulturerbe.html (1586 words)

	Germany Cologne Rhine river Frankfurt bed breakfast Hotel map of Black Forest hotels pictures castle Dusseldorf ...
		Oberheimbach near Bacharach on the Rhine river, 1.3 km away from the Rhine river and the route B 9, close to the vineyard “Sonne (sun)”.
		Boppard, Rhine river, quiet location in the center of Boppard, at the entree of the pedestrian precinct, traditional german cooking, bikers and motorcycle drivers welcome (shelter possibilities for bikes and motorcycles), wine from private cultivation, winetastings can be arranged, train station transfer.
		Bacharach on the Rhine river, in the heart of the Rhine and wine town, close to the castle Stahleck, Werner chapel, and historical Posthof.
	www.rhine-hotel-hotels.com (1689 words)

	Rhine: Rhine Valley
		The whole valley seems to have been originally occupied by Celtic tribes, who have left traces of their presence on the contents of tombs and in the forms of names (Moguntiacum or Mainz, Borbetomagus or Worms); but at the beginning of the historical period we find the Celts everywhere in retreat before the advancing Teutons.
		The Rhine connects the highest Alps with the mud banks of Holland, and touches in its course the most varied geological periods; but the river valley itself is, geologically speaking, of comparatively recent formation.
		The upper Rhenish valley is evidently the bed of an ancient lake, the shores of which were formed by the gneiss and granite of the Black Forest on the one side and the granite and sandstone of the Vosges on the other.
	www.lycos.com /info/rhine--rhine-valley.html (770 words)

	Gasthaus hotel winery Stahl Oberwesel Rhine river valley Lorelei rock Germany Frankfurt Mainz Rudesheim Bingen ...
		Oberwesel on Rhine river, valley of the Lorelei rock, Germany, between Frankfurt, Mainz, Rudesheim, Bingen, Bacharach, St. Goar, castle Rheinfels, Boppard, Koblenz / Coblence, Koln / Cologne,
		Water castle Pfalz in the middle of the Rhine river.
		From the viewpoint "Tempelchen" (little temple) between Oberwesel and Dellhofen you have a wonderful view to the Rhine river valley with Pfalz, Kaub and castle Gutenfels.
	www.hotel-germany-rhine.com (296 words)

	View from the Lorelei Rock into the Rhine Valley by St.Goar on Rhine. Rhine Hotel Restaurant Zum Rebstock, St. ...
		View from the Lorelei Rock into the Rhine Valley by St.Goar on Rhine.
		View from the Lorelei Rock into the Rhine river valley by St. Goar on Rhine.
		Middle Rhine valley between Frankfurt, Mainz, Rudesheim, Bingen, Bacharach, Boppard, Coblence and Cologne.
	www.hotel-rebstock.com /germany/lorelei-view (140 words)

	Natur, Aktiv, Erholung: Urlaub am Wasser - Deutschlands Flusslandschaften - Rhein und Nebenflüsse
		At the confluence of the Main and the Rhine, before the actual Middle Rhine Valley, lies Mainz, the city of Gutenberg and a centre of the media.
		Bingen, on the left bank of the Rhine, is the gateway to the Middle Rhine Valley.
		Be enchanted by former knights' castles perched on the steep cliffs along the Rhine: the valley between Bingen and Koblenz is characterised by 28 castles.
	www.germany-tourism.de /ENG/nature_active_recreation/river_scenery_rhine_middle_rhine_mainz_bonn.htm (739 words)

	Rick Steves' Europe: Rhine Valley
		In the Rhine town of Kaub, there was a boarding school for the children of the Rhine merchant marine — but today it’s closed, since most captains are Dutch, Belgian, or Swiss.
		The French — who feared a strong Germany and felt the Rhine was the logical border between them and Germany — destroyed most of the castles prophylactically (Louis XIV in the 1680s, the revolutionary army in the 1790s, and Napoleon in 1806).
		The Rhine wine is particularly good because the slate absorbs the heat of the sun and stays warm all night, resulting in sweeter grapes.
	www.ricksteves.com /tvr/pledge/castles/chap_rhine.htm (6187 words)

	Rhine River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Rhine River begins in the Rheinwaldhorn Glacier of Switzerland and flows north and east approximately 820 miles (1,320 km).
		North of Mainz, the Rhine meets the mass of the Taunus mountains and is forced west a long a short stretch between Weisbaden and Assmannshausen, this area is called the
		North of Bingen is a beautiful stretch of the Rhine valley, complete with fairy tale castles and vineyards snuggling into the overhanging rock face, known as the Mittelrhein.
	www.public.asu.edu /~goutam/gcu325/rhine.htm (1846 words)

	Rhine River History and Maps
		The Rhine begins as a tumultuous Alpine stream churning through deep gorges, and although the river's flow is moderated somewhat as it passes through the Lake of Constance (Bodensee), the river remains a torrent westward to Basel.
		At Basel the river turns north and enters the Rhine Graben, a flat-floored rift valley lying between the Vosges Mountains on the west and the Black Forest (Schwarzwald) on the east.
		The Alsace region of France that borders the Rhine is a long strip of land centered south of Strasbourg and around the town of Colmar.
	www.rollintl.com /roll/rhine.htm (1910 words)

	Germany - Upper Middle Rhine Valley
		The 65km-stretch of the Middle Rhine Valley, with its castles, historic towns and vineyards, graphically illustrates the long history of human involvement with a dramatic and varied natural landscape.
		The Middle Rhine Valley is an outstanding organic cultural landscape, the present-day character of which is determined both by its geomorphological and geological setting and by the human interventions, such as settlements, transport infrastructure, and land-use, that it has undergone over two thousand years.
		The Middle Rhine Valley is an outstanding example of an evolving traditional way of life and means of communication in a narrow river valley.
	worldheritage.heindorffhus.dk /frame-GermanyRhineValley.htm (628 words)

	Map of Germany Travel German Agency Frankfurt Rhine River Tourism Dusseldorf Castle road Train maps bus Pictures air ...
		Lorelei rock between Castle Gutenfels, Castle Schonburg and Castle Liebenstein in the Rhine River Valley near St.
		Rhine River Hotel Info - Loreley Valley - Price list of hotel rooms near the Rhine River castles in 40 different hotels, bed and breakfasts, inns, guesthouses.
		Rhine Cruise Lines, Half Day and Day Castle Line Cruises on the german Rhine River between Rudesheim, Bingen, Assmannshausen, Trechtingshausen, Bacharach, Kaub, Oberwesel, St. Goar, Kamp-Bornhofen, Boppard and 30 medieval Rhine castles near the Lorelei rock.
	www.germany-travel.net (585 words)

	Rhine Valley Hotels: Cheap hotels in Rhine Valley, Germany - lastminute.com
		Stretching from Koblenz to Rüdesheim, the UNESCO-listed Middle Rhine Valley is one of Germany's most beautiful regions.
		Stand in the shadow of the impressive Kaiser Wilhelm momument and watch the water, or opt for a cold beer in one of the many beer gardens.
		The medieval Marksburg castle in Braubach, located on the bank of the River Rhine, is one of just a few in the area that have never been destroyed, giving a stunning insight into the life in the Middle Ages.
	www.lastminute.com /site/find/World/Europe/Germany/Rhine-Valley/Rhine-Valley--Hotel.html (610 words)

	Landscape, Rhine Valley
		The Upper Rhine plain, a rift valley some 30-40 km/20-25 mi wide, is bounded on the east by the Black Forest, the Kraichgau and the Odenwald, on the west by the Vosges, the Haardt and the uplands of the northern Palatinate.
		In this resistant rock it is confined to a narrow gorge-like valley.
		Shortly before the river enters the Lower Rhine plain it passes on the right an outlier of the Westerwald, the distinctively shaped Siebengebirge (Seven Hills), forming a striking landmark at the lower end of the Middle Rhine.
	www.planetware.com /rhine-valley/landscape-d-rh-rhil.htm (478 words)

	Welterbe Oberes Mittelrheintal > The Rhine Valley Castle Trail
		One of the most beautiful tours is the Rhine Valley Castle Trail.
		Partly at the level of the peaks bordering the Rhine and partly in the valley, the hiker walks through the picturesque and varied countryside.
		The frequent crossing of the Rhine’s side valleys makes the trail relatively challenging with respect to hikers’ physical fitness.
	www.welterbe-mittelrheintal.de /index.php?id=213&L=3 (139 words)

	Rhine Valley, Rhine River - Lorelei - Region Rhine Valley, Germany
		Lorelei, the intriguing Rhine temptress, is probably the most famous figure of German folklore.
		Heinrich Heine's poem is just one of the many fictional narratives inspired by the myth of the Rhine's siren whose singing guided sailors into shipwreck and death.
		The festival "Rhine in flames", a combination of music and fireworks, presents the Rhine Valley's beauty in a contemporary context.
	www.about-germany.org /regions/rhine.php (141 words)

	Rhine Valley :FREE Travel Magazine E-zine: Dream or Plan your week-end trips or international travel adventures here
		Rhine Valley on a Whim and a Prayer
		It survived unscathed, unpenetrated and the most formidable fortress in the Middle Rhine Valley until the late 1790s when it was captured and blown up by the French.
		Hours of fun and exploration can be had by imaginative children as they run through the labyrinthine tunnels and embattled embankments, climbing stairwells to views of the entire valley area or playing "Capture the King" who is then placed in the stockade in the middle of the compound.
	www.realtraveladventures.com /January2006/the_middle_rhine_valley_on_a_whim_and_a_prayer.htm (1855 words)

	Rick Steves' Europe: Rick's Favorite Sleeps & Eats: Rhine River Valley
		When the riverbank was higher, cranes on this tower loaded barrels of wine onto Rhine boats.
		Open to travelers of any age, this is a newly redone gem with eight beds and a private modern shower and WC in most rooms.
		As the president of the local vintner’s club, Fritz is on a mission to give travelers an understanding of the subtle differences among the Rhine wines.
	www.ricksteves.com /tvr/pledge/castles/eatsleep_rhine.htm (1708 words)

	The Rhine Valley and the Black Forest
		This tour follows the course of the Rhine through its most beautiful stretch, staying on both outward and return journeys in the Bellevue Rheinhotel, in Boppard.
		There are short half day trips to explore ‘Schwarzwald’ and plenty of time to relax and enjoy both the hotel facilities and the beautiful town.
		Situated on the banks of the Rhine in the attractive town of Boppard.
	www.translink.co.uk /resources/luxuryTours2005/t06_rhine_valley.htm (496 words)

	Castles Along the Rhine: Basel to Amsterdam
		Gracing the shores of the Rhine are more Medieval castles than in any river valley in the world.
		And even today, the Rhine continues to inspire those who visit, especially Germany’s upper Middle Rhine Valley, approximately 40 miles between Koblenz and Rüdesheim, as it is part of the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.
		As you travel along the Rhine, each bend and twist affords new surprises that are certain to inspire you the way countless others have been inspired for centuries.
	www.rivercruisetours.com /europe/Rhine&Moselle/castlesalongrhine.htm (1188 words)

	GfÖ Annual conference 2004 - Northern Upper Rhine Valley
		After a continuous decline during the past 30 years the preservation und restoration of these semi-natural habitats as a part of the traditional cultural landscape is presently a major challenge for nature conservation in the region.
		North of the reserve a restoration project aiming at the re-establishment of species-rich flood-meadows on 46 ha of former arable land has been conducted during the past four years.
		One major approach of this project was to assess the effectiveness of diaspore transfer with plant material as a method of target species enrichment.
	www.uni-giessen.de /gfoe2004/northern_upper_rhine_valley.html (369 words)

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