Rhein-Hunsrück

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Rhein-Hunsrück
Map of Rhineland-Palatinate highlighting the district Rhein-Hunsrück
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
County seat	Simmern
Area	963.10 km²
Population	105,173 (2000)
pop. density	109 inh./km²
Car identification	SIM
Web page	landkreis-rheinhunsrueck.de

Rhein-Hunsrück is a district (Kreis) in the middle of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The neighbouring districts are (from north clockwise) Mayen-Koblenz, Rhein-Lahn, Mainz-Bingen, Bad Kreuznach, Birkenfeld, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Cochem-Zell.

1 History
2 Geography
3 Partnerships
4 Coat of arms
5 Towns and municipalities
6 External links

[edit] History

The district was created in 1969, when the districts of St. Goar and Simmern were merged.

[edit] Geography

The name of the district already mentions the two main geographic features of the district - the river Rhine which forms the boundary to the north-east and the hills of the Hunsrück cover most of the area of the district.

The Frankfurt-Hahn Airport is located in the district.

[edit] Partnerships

In 1962, Simmern began a friendship pact with the French region Bourgogne, which was continued after the merging with the St. Goar. In 1985 a partnership was started with the district Nyaruguru (at that time called the municipality Rwamiko) in Rwanda, as part of the partnership of the Rhineland-Palatinate region with Rwanda. In 1999, a partnership with the Hungarian Komitat Zala began.

[edit] Coat of arms

The chequered bar in the top is taken from the coat of arms of the district Simmern, and stands for the Counts of Sponheim, who owned several estates in the district. The imperial eagle to the right was taken from the coat of arms of the St. Goar district, and represents the imperial cities Boppard and Oberwesel. To the left is the lion of the Palatinate.

[edit] Towns and municipalities

Towns	Verbandsgemeinden
Boppard	Emmelshausen Kastellaun¹ Kirchberg¹ Rheinböllen Sankt Goar-Oberwesel (incl. towns Sankt Goar and Oberwesel) Simmern¹ ¹includes town of the same name

Towns

Verbandsgemeinden

Boppard

Emmelshausen
Kastellaun¹
Kirchberg¹
Rheinböllen
Sankt Goar-Oberwesel (incl. towns Sankt Goar and Oberwesel)
Simmern¹

¹includes town of the same name

[edit] External links

Official website (German)

	Urban and rural districts in the Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany
Urban districts	Frankenthal \| Kaiserslautern \| Koblenz \| Landau \| Ludwigshafen \| Mainz \| Neustadt (Weinstraße) Pirmasens \| Speyer \| Trier \| Worms \| Zweibrücken
Rural districts	Ahrweiler \| Altenkirchen \| Alzey-Worms \| Bad Dürkheim \| Bad Kreuznach \| Bernkastel-Wittlich \| Birkenfeld \| Bitburg-Prüm Cochem-Zell \| Daun \| Donnersbergkreis \| Germersheim \| Kaiserslautern \| Kusel \| Mainz-Bingen Mayen-Koblenz \| Neuwied \| Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis \| Rhein-Lahn-Kreis \| Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis Südliche Weinstraße \| Südwestpfalz \| Trier-Saarburg \| Westerwaldkreis