Bad Hönningen
Bad Hönningen () is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, approx. 15 km (10 mi) northwest of Neuwied, and 30 km (20 mi) southeast of Bonn. Bad Hönningen is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") Bad Hönningen. The town contains three other districts called ''Ariendorf'', ''Girgenrath'' and ''Reidenbruch''. History Archeological findings suggest that the first settlers lived here over 1800 years ago when the Romans occupied the Rhineland. The limes ran between Bad Hönningen and Rheinbrohl, opposite the Vinxtbach, the border between Germania Inferior and Superior. At this point the limes crossed the Rhine and continued on the eastern bank. On this site a small castellum was built. In 1972 a Roman watchtower was reconstructed from archeological finds. In 1019, the town was documentary mentioned as "Besitztum Hohingen" for the first time. Dur ...
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Vinxtbach
The Vinxtbach is a stream of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is around long, rises south-southwest of Schalkenbach-Obervinxt and east of the ''Adert'' and discharges into the River Rhine near Rheineck Castle between Bad Breisig and Brohl-Lützing. The name ''Vinxt'' is derived from the Latin term ''finis'', which means "border". In ancient Rome, the Vinxtbach marked the border between the provinces Germania Inferior and Germania Superior. In times of the Middle Ages, it was the border between the duchies of Lower Lorraine and Upper Lorraine. Today the Vinxtbach forms a dialect boundary, the "Vinxtbach line" (''Vinxtbachlinie''): north of the Vinxtbach the Ripuarian dialects are spoken, south of it, the Moselle Franconian dialects.