Rhineland-Palatinate
Middle Rhine Valley
Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis

Oberwesel

Oberwesel is a small town in the scenic Rhine Gorge or . 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.
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  • Type: Town with 3,510 residents
  • Description: municipality of Germany
  • Also known as: “07140112” and “Stadt Oberwesel”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Schönburg and Oberwesel station.

Castle
Photo: Dysmachus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a castle above the medieval town of Oberwesel in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley, , .

Railway station
Photo: Oberwesel, CC BY 3.0.
is on the West Rhine Railway between and in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the in the German state of .

Photo: HOWI, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kaub and Dörscheid.

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is a town in , state , district . It is part of the municipality Loreley. It is located on the right bank of the Rhine, approx.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Rhein-Lahn, in , in western . West of the village is the protected monument of the Schwedenschanze.

Village
Photo: RomkeHoekstra, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the in , .

Oberwesel

Latitude
50.1075° or 50° 6′ 27″ north
Longitude
7.7266° or 7° 43′ 36″ east
Population
3,510
Elevation
189 metres (620 feet)
Open location code
9F294P5G+2J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240107606
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6557878
Wiki­data ID
Q668327
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Oberwesel” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أوبرفيزل”
  • Cebuano: “Oberwesel”
  • Chechen: “Обервезель”
  • Chinese: “上韋瑟爾”
  • Chinese: “上韦瑟尔”
  • Czech: “Oberwesel”
  • Danish: “Oberwesel”
  • Dutch: “Oberwesel”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوبرفيزل”
  • Esperanto: “Oberwesel”
  • French: “Oberwesel”
  • German: “Oberwesel”
  • German: “Vesavia”
  • Hebrew: “אוברוזל”
  • Hungarian: “Oberwesel”
  • Ido: “Oberwesel”
  • Irish: “Oberwesel”
  • Italian: “Oberwesel”
  • Japanese: “オーバーヴェセル”
  • Japanese: “オーファーヴェゼル”
  • Kurdish: “Oberwesel”
  • Ladin: “Oberwesel”
  • Malay: “Oberwesel”
  • Persian: “اوبروزل”
  • Piemontese: “Oberwesel”
  • Polish: “Oberwesel”
  • Portuguese: “Oberwesel”
  • Romanian: “Oberwesel”
  • Russian: “Обервезель”
  • Serbian: “Obervezel”
  • Serbian: “Oberwesel”
  • Serbian: “Обервезел”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Oberwesel”
  • Slovak: “Oberwesel”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوبروزل”
  • Spanish: “Oberwesel”
  • Swedish: “Oberwesel”
  • Tatar: “Обервезель”
  • Tumbuka: “Oberwesel”
  • Turkish: “Oberwesel”
  • Ukrainian: “Обервезель”
  • Uzbek: “Obervezel”
  • Uzbek: “Oberwesel”
  • Uzbek: “Оберwесел”
  • Uzbek: “Обервезел”
  • Vietnamese: “Oberwesel”
  • Volapük: “Oberwesel”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Oberwesel”
  • Western Frisian: “Oberwesel”

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