Rhine Gorge
Upper Middle Rhine Valley is the 65 km southern section of the Middle Rhine between Koblenz and Rüdesheim in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse in Germany.Photo: King, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Dysmachus, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: Protected area
- Description: cultural landscape in the Middle Rhine, part of the World Heritage of UNESCO
- Also known as: “UNESCO Welterbe Kulturlandschaft Oberes Mittelrheintal” and “UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Katz Castle and Häuser Kran.
Katz Castle
Castle
Photo: Johannes Robalotoff, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Katz Castle is a castle above the German town of Sankt Goarshausen in Rhineland-Palatinate. The castle stands on a ledge looking downstream from the riverside at Sankt Goar. Katz Castle is situated 1 km southwest of Rhine Gorge.
Evangelische Kirche
Church
Photo: Rudolph Buch, Public domain.
Evangelische Kirche is a church, which is situated 1 km southwest of Rhine Gorge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sankt Goarshausen and Sankt Goar.
Sankt Goarshausen
Photo: Traveler100, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Sankt Goar
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Lierschied
Village
Photo: KaminskyPeter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lierschied is a municipality in the district of Rhein-Lahn, in Rhineland-Palatinate, of western Germany. On the minicipality edge there is a spring called Die Wäsch.
Rhine Gorge
- Category: cultural landscape
- Location: Patersberg, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.15876° or 50° 9′ 32″ northLongitude
7.73187° or 7° 43′ 55″ eastOpen location code
9F295P5J+GPOpenStreetMap ID
way 246602883Wikidata ID
Q1780249
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Western Frisian—“Rhine Gorge” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Rhin Garaiko harana”
- Catalan: “Alta vall del Rin Mitjà”
- Chinese: “萊茵峽谷”
- Czech: “Údolí horního Středního Rýnu”
- Danish: “Oberes Mittelrheintal”
- Dutch: “Rhine Gorge”
- Esperanto: “Meza Rejna Valo”
- Finnish: “Keski-Reinin laakson yläosa”
- French: “vallée du Haut-Rhin moyen”
- French: “Vallée du Haut-Rhin moyen”
- Galician: “Val Superior do Medio Rin”
- Georgian: “რაინის ხეობა”
- German: “Kulturlandschaft Oberes Mittelrheintal”
- German: “Oberes Mittelrheintal”
- German: “Obermittelrheintal”
- Greek: “Κοιλάδα του κεντρικού Ρήνου”
- Hebrew: “עמק הריין המרכזי העילי”
- Hindi: “राइन जॉर्ज”
- Hungarian: “Rajna-völgy”
- Indonesian: “Ngarai Rhein”
- Italian: “Gola del Reno”
- Japanese: “ライン渓谷中流上部”
- Lithuanian: “Reino tarpeklis”
- Macedonian: “Рајнска Клисура”
- Maltese: “Wied Superjuri tar-Renu Nofsani”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Øvre mellomrhindal”
- Norwegian: “Øvre mellomrhindal”
- Portuguese: “Vale do Alto Médio Reno”
- Russian: “Долина Среднего Рейна”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gornja dolina srednje Rajne”
- Slovenian: “Zgornja srednja dolina Rena”
- Spanish: “Valle Superior del Medio Rin”
- Turkish: “Ren Vadisi”
- Ukrainian: “Долина Верхнього Середнього Рейну”
- Vietnamese: “Thung lũng trung lưu thượng sông Rhein”
- Vietnamese: “Thượng Thung lũng Trung lưu sông Rhein”
- Western Frisian: “Boppe-Middenryndelling”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Freiwillige Feuerwehr Patersberg and Gemeindehaus Patersberg.
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