Altenkirchen

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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

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.

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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