The Lorelei is a 132-metre-high, steep slate rock on the right bank of the River Rhine in the Rhine Gorge at Sankt Goarshausen in Germany, part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Ochsenturm

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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Urbar and Oberwesel.

Urbar

Village

Urbar is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Oberwesel

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Oberwesel is a small town in the scenic Rhine Gorge or Middle Rhine Valley. With a population in 2018 of 2813, it's on the left bank of the Rhine 3 km upstream from the Lorelei rock outcrop. There are many historic buildings and sections of the old town walls.

Bornich

Village

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Bornich is a municipality in the district of Rhein-Lahn, in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Urbach

Type: Stream
Category: body of water
Location: Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude

50.12176° or 50° 7′ 18″ north

Longitude

7.73419° or 7° 44′ 3″ east

Elevation

89 metres (292 feet)

Open location code

9F294PCM+PM

GeoNames ID

2818238

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