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Bingen

Bingen am Rhein is a town in the region of at the junction of the Rhine and the Nahe, across the river from . It came into being as a strategically important location for the Romans.
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  • Type: Town with 25,700 residents
  • Description: German town on the Rhine, home of the Mäuseturm
  • Also known as: “07339005”, “Bingen (Rhine)”, “Bingen am Rhein”, “Bingen/Rhein”, and “Stadt Bingen am Rhein”
  • Neighbors: , , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Niederwald monument and Mouse Tower.

Photo: Wolfgang Pehlemann, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
The is a monument located in the Niederwald, near in , , built between 1871 and 1883 to commemorate the Unification of Germany.

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The is a stone on a small island in the Rhine, outside Bingen am Rhein, .

Castle
Photo: Peter Weller, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a castle in the town of Bingen am Rhein in the in , Germany. In the nineteenth century, the bergfried from the original medieval fortified castle was restored and a new building added which houses the town's administration.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rüdesheim and Assmannshausen.

Photo: Pedelecs, CC BY-SA 3.0.
am Rhein is a city in the in , at the southern end of the Rhine Valley, across the river from Bingen. The village within the city is a small picturesque place at the Rhine, one very typical example of Rheinromantik…

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is a town of about 1000 people in the in , , at the southern end of the Rhine Valley. The village is incorporated into the town of .

Village
Photo: Ulma-Todd, Public domain.
is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the district in , .

Bingen

Latitude
49.9675° or 49° 58′ 3″ north
Longitude
7.8944° or 7° 53′ 40″ east
Population
25,700
Elevation
169 metres (554 feet)
Open location code
8FX9XV9V+2Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240043967
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6557927
Wiki­data ID
Q285879
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Bingen” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بنغن أم راين”
  • Arabic: “بنغن أم رين”
  • Armenian: “Բինգեն ամ Ռայն”
  • Bashkir: “Рейндағы Бинген”
  • Basque: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Belarusian: “Бінген-ам-Райн”
  • Belarusian: “Бінген-на-Рэйне”
  • Bulgarian: “Бинген ам Рейн”
  • Catalan: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Cebuano: “Bingen am Rhein (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Chechen: “Бинген (Рейнланд-Пфальц)”
  • Chechen: “Бинген”
  • Chinese: “莱茵河畔宾根”
  • Chinese: “萊茵河畔賓根”
  • Croatian: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Czech: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Czech: “Bingen nad Rýnem”
  • Danish: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Dutch: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Esperanto: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Estonian: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Finnish: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • French: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Georgian: “ბინგენი/რაინი”
  • Georgian: “რაინის ბინგენი”
  • German: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • German: “Bingen”
  • German: “Bingen/Rhein”
  • Greek: “Μπίγκεν αμ Ράιν”
  • Hebrew: “בינגן על הריין”
  • Hungarian: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Icelandic: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Irish: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Italian: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Japanese: “ビンゲン・アム・ライン”
  • Kazakh: “Бинген-на-Рейне”
  • Korean: “빙겐암라인”
  • Kurdish: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Ladin: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Latin: “Bingium”
  • Macedonian: “Бинген на Рајна”
  • Malagasy: “Bingen”
  • Malay: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Norwegian: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Persian: “بینگن آن در راین”
  • Piemontese: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Polish: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Portuguese: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Romanian: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Russian: “Бинген-на-Рейне”
  • Russian: “Бинген”
  • Russian: “Би́нген”
  • Serbian: “Бинген на Рајни”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Slovak: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Slovenian: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بینقن آن در راین”
  • Spanish: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Spanish: “Bingen del Rin”
  • Spanish: “Bingen”
  • Spanish: “Bingen/Rhein”
  • Swahili: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Swedish: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Tatar: “Бинген (Рейнланд-Пфальц)”
  • Tatar: “Бинген”
  • Tumbuka: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Turkish: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Ukrainian: “Бінген-ам-Райн”
  • Ukrainian: “Бінген-на-Рейні”
  • Ukrainian: “Бінґен”
  • Uzbek: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Vietnamese: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Volapük: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Welsh: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Western Frisian: “Bingen am Rhein”
  • Western Frisian: “Bingen-am-Rhein”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Bingen”. Photo: Pedelecs, CC BY-SA 3.0.