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Mendig Station
Mendig is a station in the town of Mendig in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was called ''Niedermendig'' until 1877. It is located on the Cross Eifel Railway (''Eifelquerbahn''), which has two tracks from Andernach station and continues as a single track to Gerolstein station. The only set of points at the station is located west of the platform just before the Bahnstraße level crossing and has the points number of 23. Services The Cross Eifel Railway is served by Regionalbahn line '' Lahn-Eifel-Bahn'': RB 23 (Mayen Ost – Koblenz Hbf – Limburg) and RB 38 (Kaisersesch – Mayen Ost – Andernach). Emperor station The station building was built in 1877 to a design of the Cologne architect Gustav Päffgen. The so-called ''Kaiserbahnhof'' (Emperor station) got its name because Emperor Wilhelm II used the station as a starting point for visits to the Eifel. It has been shown that he took a carriage from the station to visit the Maria Laach Abbey. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mendig
Mendig () is a small town in the district Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated approximately 6 km north-east of Mayen, and 25 km west of Koblenz. Mendig is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") Mendig. The popular rockfestival Rock am Ring was held in Mendig in 2015 and 2016. Personalities * Rosemarie Nitribitt (1933-1957), spent her childhood in foster care in the Mendig Kaplan-slip road * Andrea Nahles Andrea Maria Nahles (born 20 June 1970) is a former German politician who has been the director of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) since 2022. Nahles is best known for having served as leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from April ... (born 1970), politician, Member of Bundestag (SPD) and a former Minister for Labour and Social Affairs, was born in Mendig References External linksOfficial website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Koblenz, Trier, Kaiserslautern, Worms and Neuwied. It is bordered by North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland, Baden-Württemberg and Hesse and by the countries France, Luxembourg and Belgium. Rhineland-Palatinate was established in 1946 after World War II, from parts of the former states of Prussia (part of its Rhineland and Nassau provinces), Hesse (Rhenish Hesse) and Bavaria (its former outlying Palatinate kreis or district), by the French military administration in Allied-occupied Germany. Rhineland-Palatinate became part of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 and shared the country's only border with the Saar Protectorate until the latter wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross Eifel Railway
The Cross Eifel Railway (German: ''Eifelquerbahn'') is a non-electrified railway line between Andernach and Gerolstein in the Eifel in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. From Andernach to Mayen Ost (East), it is classified as main line and it has two tracks as far as Mendig. Services on the Cross Eifel Railway currently operate about every 30 minutes between Andernach and Mayen Ost and continue to Kaisersesch hourly as part of the Lahn-Eifel-Bahn service. The rail service between Andernach and Kaisersesch operated for a long time under the name of ''Pellenz-Eifel-Bahn'' (the Pellenz is a hilly area between Andernach and Mayen) and the section between Kaisersesch and Gerolstein was for a time operated as the ''Vulkan Eifel-Bahn''. This service was discontinued in 2013. History The Cross Eifel Railway was opened in several stages, with the first section opening from Andernach to Niedermendig on 1 April 1878. The second section opened from Niedermendig to Mayen Ost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel
A transit district or transit authority is a government agency or a public-benefit corporation created for the purpose of providing public transportation within a specific region. A transit district may operate bus, rail or other types of transport including ferry service, or may operate other facilities. In some cases, the transit district may be part of a larger organization such as a state Department of Transportation. Australia * The TransLink Transit Authority which manages buses, trains and ferries in South East Queensland, Australia; Austria With seven transport associations responsible for the nine federal states of Austria, it is the only country in the world that has transport associations for each federal state except for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland which are organised in one association (Verkehrsverbund Ost-Region). Canada In Canada, transit (or transport or transportation) is mostly of the domain of local government, with some coordination by the prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gothic Revival Architecture
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly serious and learned admirers of the neo-Gothic styles sought to revive medieval Gothic architecture, intending to complement or even supersede the neoclassical styles prevalent at the time. Gothic Revival draws upon features of medieval examples, including decorative patterns, finials, lancet windows, and hood moulds. By the middle of the 19th century, Gothic had become the preeminent architectural style in the Western world, only to fall out of fashion in the 1880s and early 1890s. The Gothic Revival movement's roots are intertwined with philosophical movements associated with Catholicism and a re-awakening of high church or Anglo-Catholic belief concerned by the growth of religious nonconformism. Ultimately, the "Anglo-Catholicism" t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andernach Station
Andernach station is the transportation hub of the city of Andernach in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is a mid-sized station with thousands of passengers each day. It is currently classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station. It has four passenger platforms (tracks 1, 2, 3 and 24), three with a length of more than 280 m, and sidings and freight tracks. It is on the Left Rhine line (german: Linke Rheinstrecke) and is the terminus of the Cross Eifel Railway (''Eifelquerbahn''). In addition to passenger operations, the station has container and freight operations to the east of the station, particularly serving the tin plate manufacturer, Rasselstein. In the station forecourt, there is a bus station, served by all city buses and regional bus services to Mayen, Neuwied and Ochtendung. The regional bus service to Maria Laach stops 50 metres from the bus station. The station is currently being modernised. It is planned to increase the height of the central ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerolstein Station
Gerolstein station is a station on the Eifel Railway in Gerolstein in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Its former function as an important junction station, however, has been lost with the closure of the Cross Eifel Railway (''Eifelquerbahn'') and the West Eifel Railway (''Westeifelbahn''). It is the only remaining station in the town. History Due to the difficult topography and the low population density of the Eifel, railways reached it quite late. At that time it was easier to run railway lines exclusively through river valleys, where bridges and tunnels were rarely necessary. In addition, hardly any profits were expected from railway lines in the Eifel. Planning only began when metalworking became common in the Eifel, which was fairly late. Early Prussian considerations concerned a route from Cologne and Düren to Schleiden, which, however, was rejected for financial reasons. However, when it was proposed that the line would later be extended to Trier, the Rhenish R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lahn-Eifel-Bahn
The Lahn-Eifel-Bahn is a rail passenger service in the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse that runs as the ''RB 23'' from Limburg an der Lahn via Koblenz and Andernach to Mayen, as ''RE 25'' from Gießen via Limburg to Koblenz and as ''RB 38'' from Andernach via Mayen to Kaisersesch. It runs over the Lahntal railway, the West Rhine railway and the Cross Eifel Railway. It was created with the introduction of the Rhineland-Palatinate integrated timetable of 2015 at the timetable change in December 2014 by linking the ''Lahntalbahn'' (a service that ran on the Lahntal railway) with the ''Pellenz-Eifel-Bahn'' (a service that ran mainly on the Cross Eifel Railway) services. The main advantage of this concept is that, for the places along the Pellenz-Eifel route to Mayen, it made possible a connection to central Koblenz without changing trains and at the same time the trains on the Lahntal railway could reach Koblenz-Stadtmitte. The contract to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm II, German Emperor
Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 18594 June 1941) was the last German Emperor (german: Kaiser) and King of Prussia, reigning from 15 June 1888 until his abdication on 9 November 1918. Despite strengthening the German Empire's position as a great power by building a powerful navy, his tactless public statements and erratic foreign policy greatly antagonized the international community and are considered by many to be one of the underlying causes of World War I. When the German war effort collapsed after a series of crushing defeats on the Western Front in 1918, he was forced to abdicate, thereby marking the end of the German Empire and the House of Hohenzollern's 300-year reign in Prussia and 500-year reign in Brandenburg. Wilhelm II was the son of Prince Frederick William of Prussia and Victoria, German Empress Consort. His father was the son of Wilhelm I, German Emperor, and his mother was the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eifel
The Eifel (; lb, Äifel, ) is a low mountain range in western Germany and eastern Belgium. It occupies parts of southwestern North Rhine-Westphalia, northwestern Rhineland-Palatinate and the southern area of the German-speaking Community of Belgium. The Eifel is part of the Rhenish Massif; within its northern portions lies the Eifel National Park. Geography Location The Eifel lies between the cities of Aachen to the north, Trier to the south and Koblenz to the east. It descends in the northeast along a line from Aachen via Düren to Bonn into the Lower Rhine Bay. In the east and south it is bounded by the valleys of the Rhine and the Moselle. To the west it transitions in Belgium and Luxembourg into the geologically related Ardennes and the Luxembourg Ösling. In the north it is limited by the Jülich-Zülpicher Börde. Within Germany it lies within the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia; in the Benelux the area of Eupen, St. Vith and Luxemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Laach Abbey
Maria Laach Abbey (in German: ''Abtei Maria Laach'', in Latin: ''Abbatia Maria Lacensis'' or ''Abbatia Maria ad Lacum'') is a Benedictine abbey situated on the southwestern shore of the Laacher See (Lake Laach), near Andernach, in the Eifel region of the Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. It is a member of the Beuronese Congregation within the Benedictine Confederation. The abbey was built in the 11th-12th centuries and was originally known as "Abtei Laach" ("Abbatia Lacensis" or "Laach Abbey", meaning the "Lake Abbey") until 1862 when the Jesuits added the name "Maria". First Benedictine foundation Founded in 1093 as a priory of Affligem Abbey (in modern Belgium) by the first Count Palatine of the Rhine Heinrich II von Laach and his wife Adelaide of Weimar-Orlamünde, widow of Hermann II of Lotharingia, Laach became an independent house in 1127, under its first abbot, Gilbert. Affligem itself had been founded by Hermann. Although the abbey was founded by a prominent (althoug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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