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Romantic Hesse - towns and Rhine

by elgin99 - last update: Oct 7, 2006

Some Facts about Hesse

Eberbach monastery
Hesse, this is the Rheingau, the Lahntal, Taunus, Odenwald, Spessart, Westerwald and Vogelsberg. Rivers like the Rhine, Lahn and the Main. Towns like Frankfurt, Kassel, Wetzlar, Wiesbaden, Limburg and more.

Wiesbaden is the country capital. Lying in the middle of Germany the German national member state Hesse borders to the states Northrhine-Westphalia, lower Saxony, Thuringia, Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. While the current Rhine in the south west of the country forms the boundary to Rhineland-Palatinate, the Neckar is form southern boundary river to Baden-Württemberg and the Werra and/or the Weser in the East and/or in north Hesse partially the boundary to Thuringia and lower Saxony.
With Frankfurt/main lies one of the most important German cities in Hesse. The actual city has are 655,000 inhabitants, with the narrower surrounding countryside are 2 millions. In the entire population center Rhine-Main lives over the half of the Hessian population. The largest city of the remaining province is Kassel, the historic capital of north Hesse, with ca. 200,000 inhabitants today the third largest city of the country. The Rhine-Main-zone in south Hesse possesses the largest industry density in Germany to the Ruhr Valley.
Braunfels
Hesse - this is romanticism, wine, more than 100 castles and palaces, monasteries, half-timbered houses, nature. These are names like Eltville, Ruedesheim, Eberbach or Limburg...

With more than 300 museums Hesse is very attractive. UNESCO World Heritage are the Roman Limes, the Königshalle (king hall) in Lorsch, the mine Messel and the Middle Rhine Valley. Another secret tip are the numerous caves and mine museums and visitor mines in Hesse. Over 100 communes of Hesse are member of the German half-timbering street throughout Germany.

On this picture the entrance to castle Braunfels in romantic town Braunfels.
Limburg

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On that picture you see Limburg at Lahn river and the romanic St.-Georg-Cathedral. There the view from the old Lahn bridge.
Limburg is now 1000 years old. To visit that town means to get a deep inside in the Middle Age.

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Pros:"romance, wonderful lifestyle, vineyards, Rhine river and more"
Cons:"during summer less accomodations at Rhine"
In A Nutshell:"Pure romance"
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Comments for elgin99 about Land Hessen
mvtouring Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:47 UTC
 Researching next holiday. Thanks for the lovely tips ;-)
Trekki Sat Sep 23, 2006 16:37 UTC
 Ahh, so many inspirations here Hildruth ! I will go and see Kloster Eberbach tomorrow :-))
pepples46 Mon Sep 26, 2005 08:28 UTC
 Braunfels by Wetzlar...wir sind schon was rumgekommen, gelle. Hessen is ein schoenes deutsches Laendle, good stuff here
Nemorino Sun Sep 18, 2005 21:14 UTC
 Good start on your Land Hessen page. I used to go to Braunfels with my children when they were smaller.
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