The Burg Fürstenberg is a

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in the

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Oberdiebach Oberdiebach is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location Oberdiebach lies between Koblenz a ...

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. When the castle was built, in 1219, this part of the small (2000 acres) Oberdiebach was the village of Rheindiebach.

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Furstenberg (Rheindiebach) Buildings and structures in Mainz-Bingen Electoral Palatinate {{RhinelandPalatinate-struct-stub