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Country
  
Germany

District
  
Altenkirchen

Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Area
  
11 km²

Population
  
6,042 (31 Dec 2008)

State
  
Rhineland-Palatinate

Municipal assoc.
  
Altenkirchen

Postal codes
  
57601–57610

Local time
  
Monday 6:30 AM

Dialling code
  
02681

Altenkirchen

Weather
  
9°C, Wind S at 16 km/h, 75% Humidity

Altenkirchen eine stadt im n rdlichen westerwald


Altenkirchen (  ) is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, capital of the district of Altenkirchen. It is located approximately 40 km east of Bonn and 40 km north of Koblenz. Altenkirchen is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Altenkirchen.

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Map of 57610 Altenkirchen, Germany

Parkour in altenkirchen


Sons and daughters of the town

  • Dirk Adorf (born 1969), racing driver
  • Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler (born 1975), politician (SPD)
  • Dittmar Hahn (born 1943), former judge of the Federal Administrative Court
  • Claus Koch (born 1953), jazz musician
  • Ernst Lindemann (1894–1941), an officer of the Imperial Navy and later the Navy commander of the battleship Bismarck
  • Hermann Heinrich Traut (born 1866), librarian

    • Other personalities

    The following figures are not native Altenkirchen people, but have worked or lived in the city:

  • Wilhelm Boden (1890–1961), former Prime Ministers of Rheinland-Pfalz
  • Ludwig Julius Budge (1811–1888), physician
  • Bernhard Grzimek (1909–1987), zoologist, cooperated in 1938 with the District Veterinary Office in AK to combat bovine Tb
  • François Séverin Marceau (1769–1796), French general
  • Krzysztof Meyer (born 1943), composer
  • Hans Nüsslein (1910–1991), German tennis player, professional world champion in 1933, 1936, 1937
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818–1888), social reformer

    • References

    Altenkirchen Wikipedia
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