Middle Rhine Valley
The Rhine Valley or Middle Rhine is the most famous section of the Rhine, running between the cities of Bingen and Bonn in Germany and spanning the states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Koblenz and Neuwied.
Koblenz
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Koblenz is a city in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in the Middle Rhine Valley in the Federal Republic of Germany. Koblenz has about 114,000 inhabitants; the surrounding area accounts for about 400,000 people in total.
Neuwied
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Neuwied is a town in the north of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, capital of the District of Neuwied. Neuwied lies on the east bank of the Rhine, 12 km northwest of Koblenz, on the railway from Frankfurt am Main to Cologne.
Boppard
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Boppard is in the Middle Rhine Valley in the Rhineland-Palatinate of Germany. It's on the west bank of the Rhine, at a point where the deep river gorge slaloms sharply before continuing north towards Koblenz.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Bacharach and Sankt Goarshausen.
Bacharach
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Bacharach is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rhein-Nahe, whose seat is in Bingen am Rhein, although that town is not within its bounds.
Sankt Goarshausen
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Sankt 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.
Braubach
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Braubach is a municipality in the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, approx. 10 km southeast of Koblenz.
Vallendar
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Vallendar is a town in the district Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, approx. 4 km north-east of Koblenz. Vallendar is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Vallendar.
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.
Kaub
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Kaub is a town in Germany, state Rhineland-Palatinate, district Rhein-Lahn-Kreis. It is part of the municipality Loreley. It is located on the right bank of the Rhine, approx.
Sankt Goar
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Sankt Goar is a small quaint town in the Middle Rhine Valley near the Loreley in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany, with a lovely atmosphere and pretty scenery.
Bendorf
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Bendorf is a small town in Rhineland-Palatinate. The town consists of the neighbourhoods of Bendorf, Sayn, Mülhofen, Stromberg.
Trechtingshausen
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Trechtingshausen is a village in the Middle Rhine Valley in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany.
Middle Rhine Valley
- Type: valley
- Description: landscape of Rhine valley between Nahe mouth and Bonn
- Also known as: “Middle Rhine”
- Categories: geotope and section of watercourse
- Location: Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
50.357° or 50° 21′ 25″ northLongitude of center
7.594° or 7° 35′ 38″ eastWikidata ID
Q571607
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Western Frisian—“Middle Rhine Valley” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “中萊茵”
- Czech: “Střední Rýn”
- Dutch: “Mittelrhein”
- Esperanto: “Regiono Meza Rejno”
- Finnish: “Reininlaakson keskiosa”
- French: “Rhin moyen”
- French: “Rhin romantique”
- French: “Vallee du Haut-Rhin moyen”
- French: “vallée du Haut-Rhin moyen”
- Georgian: “რაინის ხეობა”
- German: “Mittelrhein”
- German: “Mittelrheintal”
- Hebrew: “עמק הריין המרכזי העילי”
- Hungarian: “Közép-Rajna”
- Italian: “Gola del Reno”
- Japanese: “ミッテルライン地方”
- Japanese: “ライン渓谷中流上部”
- Luxembourgish: “Mëttelrhäin”
- Persian: “دره میانی راین”
- Polish: “Dolina środkowego Renu”
- Portuguese: “Vale do Alto Médio Reno”
- Romanian: “Cursul mijlociu al Rinului”
- Romanian: “Mittelrhein”
- Russian: “Средний Рейн”
- Slovenian: “Srednji Ren”
- Spanish: “Paisaje cultural del Valle Superior del Medio Rin”
- Spanish: “Rin medio”
- Spanish: “Rin romantico”
- Spanish: “Rin romántico”
- Spanish: “Valle Superior del Medio Rin”
- Swedish: “Medelrhen”
- Swedish: “Mittelrhein”
- Western Frisian: “Middenryn”
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