Bernkastel-Wittlich

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Bernkastel-Wittlich
Map of Rhineland-Palatinate highlighting the district Bernkastel-Wittlich
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
County seat	Wittlich
Area	1178 km²
Population	113,800 (1999)
Pop. density	97 inh./km²
Car identification	WIL
Web page	bernkastel-wittlich.de

Bernkastel-Wittlich is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Daun, Cochem-Zell, Rhein-Hunsrück, Birkenfeld, Trier-Saarburg and Bitburg-Prüm.

1 History
2 Geography
3 Coat of arms
4 Towns and municipalities
5 partner region
6 External links
7 References

[edit] History

The district was established in 1969 by merging the former districts of Bernkastel and Wittlich.

[edit] Geography

The district is situated on both banks of the Moselle River, which crosses the territory from southwest to northeast. On either sides the country is rising to the mountain chains of the Eifel in the north and the Hunsrück in the south. A great number of affluents come from the Eifel mountains and join the Moselle River. In the very south of the district there is the Erbeskopf (818 m), the highest peak of the Hunsrück and of Rhineland-Palatinate.

[edit] Coat of arms

The coat of arms displays:

The cross symbolising the bishopric of Trier
The crayfish from the arms of Bernkastel-Kues
The keys from the arms of Wittlich
The red and white pattern of the tiny county of Sponheim, which ruled this part of the Moselle valley in medieval times

[edit] Towns and municipalities

Towns	Verbandsgemeinden	free municipalities
Wittlich	Bernkastel-Kues¹ Kröv-Bausendorf Manderscheid Neumagen-Dhron Thalfang Traben-Trarbach¹ Wittlich-Land ¹includes town of the same name	Morbach

Towns

Verbandsgemeinden

free municipalities

Wittlich

¹includes town of the same name

Morbach

[edit] partner region

At one time, the Borough of Milton Keynes was the partner region of the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich^{[ 1 ]}.

[edit] External links

Official website (German)

[edit] References

^ Kreis Bernkastel-Wittlich, Jahrbuch 1982 (page 23ff.), 1982

	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 \| Donnersbergkreis \| Germersheim \| Kaiserslautern \| Kusel \| Mainz-Bingen Mayen-Koblenz \| Neuwied \| Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis \| Rhein-Lahn-Kreis \| Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis Südliche Weinstraße \| Südwestpfalz \| Trier-Saarburg \| Vulkaneifel \| Westerwaldkreis