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Rhine Gorge, the Glossary

The Rhine Gorge is a popular name for the Upper Middle Rhine Valley, a 65 km section of the Rhine between Koblenz and Rüdesheim in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse in Germany.^[1]

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Cultural landscapes of Germany
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Assmannshausen

Assmannshausen is, since its incorporation in 1977, a quarter of Rüdesheim am Rhein in the Rheingau, located on the Rhine in the state of Hesse, Germany.

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Bacharach

Bacharach (also known as Bacharach am Rhein) is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Basilica of St. Castor

The Basilica of St.

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Bingen am Rhein

Bingen am Rhein is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Boppard, formerly also spelled Boppart, is a town and municipality (since the 1976 inclusion of 9 neighbouring villages, Ortsbezirken) in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, lying in the Rhine Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Braubach

Braubach is a municipality in the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Carboniferous

The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, Ma.

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Castle

A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders.

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Cultural landscape

Cultural landscape is a term used in the fields of geography, ecology, and heritage studies, to describe a symbiosis of human activity and environment.

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Deutsches Eck

The Deutsches Eck ("German Corner") is the name of a promontory in Koblenz, Germany, where the Mosel river joins the Rhine. Rhine Gorge and Deutsches Eck are Rhine.

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Devonian

The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era during the Phanerozoic eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian period at million years ago (Ma), to the beginning of the succeeding Carboniferous period at Ma.

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Ehrenbreitstein Fortress

Ehrenbreitstein Fortress (Festung Ehrenbreitstein) is a fortress in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on the east bank of the Rhine where it is joined by the Moselle, overlooking the town of Koblenz. Rhine Gorge and Ehrenbreitstein Fortress are tourist attractions in Rhineland-Palatinate.

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Ehrenfels Castle (Hesse)

Ehrenfels Castle (Burg Ehrenfels) is a ruined hillside castle above the Rhine Gorge near the town of Rüdesheim am Rhein in Hesse, Germany.

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Facies

In geology, a facies (same pronunciation and spelling in the plural) is a body of rock with distinctive characteristics.

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Folklore

Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Götterdämmerung

(Twilight of the Gods), WWV 86D, is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four epic music dramas titled Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung, or The Ring Cycle or The Ring for short).

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Germania (personification)

Germania is the personification of the German nation or the Germans as a whole.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Gutenfels Castle

Gutenfels Castle (Burg Gutenfels), also known as Caub Castle, is a castle 110m above the town of Kaub in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Hesse

Hesse or Hessia (Hessen), officially the State of Hesse (Land Hessen), is a state in Germany.

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Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor.

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Katz Castle

Katz Castle (Burg Katz) is a castle above the German town of Sankt Goarshausen in Rhineland-Palatinate.

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Kaub

Kaub (old spelling: Caub) is a town in Germany, state Rhineland-Palatinate, district Rhein-Lahn-Kreis.

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Köln-Düsseldorfer

Köln-Düsseldorfer (KD) is a river cruise operator based in Cologne, Germany. Rhine Gorge and Köln-Düsseldorfer are Rhine.

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Koblenz

Koblenz is a German city on the banks of the Rhine (Middle Rhine) and the Moselle, a multinational tributary.

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Lahnstein

Lahnstein is a ''verband''-free town of Rhein-Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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List of canyons

This list of canyons and gorges includes both land and submarine canyons with the land canyons being sorted by continent and then by country.

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Lorch am Rhein

Lorch am Rhein is a small town in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany. Rhine Gorge and Lorch am Rhein are world Heritage Sites in Germany.

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Lorelei

The Lorelei (Loreley or Lorelei, or; also found as Loreleï, Lore Lay, Lore-Ley, Lurley, Lurelei and Lurlei throughout history) is a, steep slate rock on the right bank of the River Rhine in the Rhine Gorge (or Middle Rhine) at Sankt Goarshausen in Germany, part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Marksburg

The Marksburg is a castle above the town of Braubach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Microclimate

A microclimate (or micro-climate) is a local set of atmospheric conditions that differ from those in the surrounding areas, often slightly but sometimes substantially.

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Middle Rhine

Middle Rhine (Mittelrhein,; kilometres 529 to 660 of the Rhine) is the section of the Rhine between Bingen and Bonn in Germany. Rhine Gorge and Middle Rhine are Rhine and Water gaps.

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Mittelrhein (wine region)

Mittelrhein (or Middle Rhine) is a region (Anbaugebiet) for quality wine in Germany,, read on January 2, 2008 and is located along a 120 km stretch of river Rhine in the tourist portions of the Rhine region known as Middle Rhine.

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Mouse Tower

The Mouse Tower (Mäuseturm) is a stone tower on a small island in the Rhine, outside Bingen am Rhein, Germany.

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Nahe (wine region)

Nahe is a region (Anbaugebiet) for quality wine in Germany,, read on January 2, 2008 along the River Nahe in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

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Niederwald monument

The Niederwald monument (Niederwalddenkmal) is a monument located in the Niederwald, near Rüdesheim am Rhein in Hesse, Germany, built between 1871 and 1883 to commemorate the Unification of Germany.

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Oberwesel

Oberwesel is a town on the Middle Rhine in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Pfalzgrafenstein Castle

Pfalzgrafenstein Castle (Burg Pfalzgrafenstein) is a toll castle located on Falkenau island in the Rhine River, near the bank close to Kaub, Germany.

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Prussia

Prussia (Preußen; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions.

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Rüdesheim am Rhein

Rüdesheim am Rhein is a German winemaking town in the Rhine Gorge, and part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site in this region. Rhine Gorge and Rüdesheim am Rhein are world Heritage Sites in Germany.

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Rhein in Flammen

Rhein in Flammen (English: "Rhine in Flames") is the name of five different firework displays along the river Rhine in Germany. Rhine Gorge and Rhein in Flammen are Rhine.

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Rheingau (wine region)

Rheingau is one of 13 designated German wine regions (Weinbaugebiete) producing quality wines (''QbA'' and ''Prädikatswein'').

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Rheinstein Castle

Rheinstein Castle (Burg Rheinstein) is a castle near the town of Trechtingshausen in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Rhens

Rhens is a municipality in the district Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Rhine

--> The Rhine is one of the major European rivers.

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Rhine romanticism

Burg Rheinstein in Trechtingshausen was the first castle to be rebuilt in the 19th century Stolzenfels Castle in Koblenz, an example of the Rhine romanticism Werner Chapel in Bacharach The Rhine romanticism was the interpretation of the landscape conditions and history of the Rhine Valley in the cultural-historical period of the romanticism, by the end of the 18th century until the late 19th century and was continued in all forms of art expression.

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Rhineland-Palatinate

Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz; Rheinland-Pfalz; Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany.

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Ruins

Ruins are the remains of a civilization's architecture.

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Sankt Goar

Sankt Goar is a town on the west bank of the Middle Rhine in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Sankt Goarshausen

Sankt Goarshausen (abbreviated St. Goarshausen) is a town located in the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis in Nassau on the eastern shore of the Rhine, in the section known as the Rhine Gorge, directly across the river from Sankt Goar, in the German state Rhineland-Palatinate.

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Sedimentary rock

Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation.

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Slate

Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade, regional metamorphism.

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Stahleck Castle

Stahleck Castle is a 12th-century fortified castle in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley at Bacharach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Stolzenfels Castle

Stolzenfels Castle (Schloss Stolzenfels) is a former medieval fortress castle ("Burg") turned into a palace, near Koblenz on the left bank of the Rhine, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Thirty Years' War

The Thirty Years' War, from 1618 to 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history.

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Trechtingshausen

Trechtingshausen (formerly also Trechtlingshausen) is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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Viticulture

Viticulture (vitis cultura, "vine-growing"), viniculture (vinis cultura, "wine-growing"), or winegrowing is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes.

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World Heritage Site

World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine_Gorge

Also known as Upper Middle Rhine Valley.

, Sankt Goarshausen, Sedimentary rock, Slate, Stahleck Castle, Stolzenfels Castle, Thirty Years' War, Trechtingshausen, UNESCO, Viticulture, World Heritage Site.

Rhine Gorge, the Glossary

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See also

Cultural landscapes of Germany

Rhine

Tourist attractions in Rhineland-Palatinate

Valleys of Hesse

Water gaps

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