Unkel

Unkel is a town in the , in , . It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, near , about 20 km southeast of . Unkel is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Unkel.
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  • Type: Village with 5,080 residents
  • Description: town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
  • Also known as: “07138073” and “Stadt Unkel”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Apollinariskirche and Schloss Marienfels.

Church
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The is a church on the site of a Roman temple on the Apollinarisberg, a hill above the German town of . That hill was known as the Martinsberg in the 5th and 6th centuries, presumably after a Frankish chapel there dedicated to Saint Martin, patron of the Franks.

Castle
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is a castle.

Museum
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is a museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Remagen and Bad Honnef.

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is a small town in Rhineland Palatinate which was propelled to world fame during World War II when a railway bridge the Wehrmacht had only managed to partially destroy fell into American hands and allowed the Western Allies to cross the Rhine into the German heartland.

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is a spa town in the end of the in state between and Linz an Rhein. To the north it lies on the slopes of the Drachenfels mountain, part of the Siebengebirge.

Village
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is a municipality in the , in north of , bordering in . Administratively it belongs to the municipality of Unkel. The town is an officially recognized Fremdenverkehrsort.

Unkel

Latitude
50.5996° or 50° 35′ 59″ north
Longitude
7.2157° or 7° 12′ 57″ east
Population
5,080
Elevation
198 metres (650 feet)
Open location code
9F29H6X8+R7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27590679
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6557876
Wiki­data ID
Q498589
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Unkel” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Unkel”
  • Arabic: “أونكل”
  • Aragonese: “Unkel”
  • Armenian: “Ունկել”
  • Arpitan: “Unkel”
  • Asturian: “Unkel”
  • Basque: “Unkel”
  • Bavarian: “Unkel”
  • Belarusian: “Ункель”
  • Breton: “Unkel”
  • Catalan: “Unkel”
  • Cebuano: “Unkel (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Unkel”
  • Chechen: “Ункель”
  • Chinese: “温克尔”
  • Chinese: “翁克尔”
  • Chinese: “翁克爾”
  • Corsican: “Unkel”
  • Croatian: “Unkel”
  • Czech: “Unkel”
  • Danish: “Unkel”
  • Dutch: “Unkel”
  • Esperanto: “Unkel”
  • Estonian: “Unkel”
  • Finnish: “Unkel”
  • French: “Unkel”
  • Friulian: “Unkel”
  • Galician: “Unkel”
  • German: “Unkel am Rhein”
  • German: “Unkel”
  • Hebrew: “אונקל”
  • Hungarian: “Unkel”
  • Icelandic: “Unkel”
  • Ido: “Unkel”
  • Indonesian: “Unkel”
  • Interlingua: “Unkel”
  • Interlingue: “Unkel”
  • Irish: “Unkel”
  • Italian: “Unkel”
  • Japanese: “ウンケル”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Unkel”
  • Kongo: “Unkel”
  • Kurdish: “Unkel”
  • Ladin: “Unkel”
  • Ligurian: “Unkel”
  • Limburgan: “Unkel”
  • Lithuanian: “Unkelis”
  • Low German: “Unkel”
  • Luxembourgish: “Unkel”
  • Macedonian: “Ункел”
  • Malagasy: “Unkel”
  • Malay: “Unkel”
  • Minangkabau: “Unkel”
  • Narom: “Unkel”
  • Neapolitan: “Unkel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Unkel”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Unkel”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Unkel”
  • Persian: “اونکل”
  • Picard: “Unkel”
  • Piemontese: “Unkel”
  • Polish: “Unkel”
  • Portuguese: “Unkel”
  • Romanian: “Unkel”
  • Romansh: “Unkel”
  • Russian: “Ункель”
  • Sardinian: “Unkel”
  • Scots: “Unkel”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Unkel”
  • Serbian: “Unkel”
  • Serbian: “Ункел”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Unkel”
  • Sicilian: “Unkel”
  • Silesian: “Unkel”
  • Slovak: “Unkel”
  • Slovenian: “Unkel”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اونکل”
  • Spanish: “Unkel”
  • Swahili: “Unkel”
  • Swedish: “Unkel”
  • Swiss German: “Unkel”
  • Tatar: “Ункель”
  • Tumbuka: “Unkel”
  • Turkish: “Unkel”
  • Ukrainian: “Ункель”
  • Uzbek: “Unkel”
  • Uzbek: “Ункел”
  • Venetian: “Unkel”
  • Vietnamese: “Unkel”
  • Vlaams: “Unkel”
  • Volapük: “Unkel”
  • Walloon: “Unkel”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Unkel”
  • Welsh: “Unkel”
  • Western Frisian: “Unkel”
  • Wolof: “Unkel”
  • Zulu: “Unkel”

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