Idar-Oberstein station [SEP] date of official opening
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Idar-Oberstein station


Idar-Oberstein station serves the town of Idar-Oberstein in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is on the Nahe Valley Railway () and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station. It is regularly served by Regional-Express and Regionalbahn services and in the past it was served by freight traffic. The station is located in the centre of Idar-Oberstein. Idar-Oberstein station was opened on 15 December 1859 as Oberstein station. At that time the only line ran to Bingen am Rhein
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starting point of the Idar-Oberstein tramway (1900 to 1956) and the Idar-Oberstein trolleybus service (1956 to 1969). Idar-Oberstein station has an entrance building. In the course of renovation of the station, the platforms were renovated and made accessible for the handicapped by lift. In addition, the platforms were equipped with tactile paving. In November 2008, the building was completely repainted and decorated with pictures of the city's attractions. Idar-Oberstein station is served by the following regional rail services:
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There are stops at Rhaunen Markt, the church, the "Verbandsgemeinde" administration building and the outdoor swimming pool. Route 345 runs from Idar-Oberstein railway station by way of Tiefenstein (a constituent community of Idar-Oberstein), Asbach and Stipshausen to Rhaunen Markt. Routes 351 and 352 run as links to Frankfurt-Hahn Airport, with 351 coming from Idar-Oberstein station and 352 from Kirn station. Idar-Oberstein's railway station, as a Regional-Express and Regionalbahn stop, is linked by way of
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gemstone mines, the only gemstone mine in Europe open to visitors, and at the "Historische Weiherschleife" – a gemstone-grinding mill – one can learn a few things about gemstone processing and Idar-Oberstein's history. Jasper is also featured there, for Idar-Oberstein is also an important centre for that semiprecious stone. The town's best known sport club is SC 07 Idar-Oberstein. Idar-Oberstein has an indoor swimming pool and, since September 2005 an outdoor swimming pool fed by natural water. On
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) is held each year. Since the early 1960s tourism has grown in importance for Idar-Oberstein. Today it boasts a number of modern facilities such as the Steinkaulenberg, a gemstone mine open to visitors, and the German Gemstone Museum, as well as several recreational resorts. Nationally known is the "Deutsches Edelsteinmuseum" (German Gemstone Museum) in the constituent community of Idar, which boasts many gemstone exhibits. The "Museum Idar-Oberstein" in the constituent community of Oberstein right below the famous "Felsenkirche" devotes
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being considered. The "Idar-Obersteiner Wirtschaftstage" (“Economy Days”), initiated by the Idar-Oberstein Economic Promotional Association, are regarded in and around Idar-Oberstein as a regional fair. Gemstones from throughout the world are to be found in Idar-Oberstein, but the whole industry was begun by finds in the local area. These include agate, jasper and rock crystal. Since 1938, Idar-Oberstein has been a garrison town. During the 19th and 20th centuries, French and German soldiers in
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is why this highway's planned alignment is the subject of much controversy. Bus route 346 (Idar-Oberstein - Herrstein - Wickenrodt) run by "Omnibusverkehr Rhein-Nahe" (ORN) links the municipality with the middle centre of Idar-Oberstein. Special buses are used to ferry children to and from school or kindergarten in Niederwörresbach. The nearest railway stations are at Idar-Oberstein and Kirn, from which run hourly trains to Mainz/Frankfurt or Saarbrücken on the Nahe Valley Railway. Frankfurt-Hahn Airport lies 19
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with a stop at Frankfurt Airport. Formerly, fast trains on the Frankfurt-Paris route had a stop at Idar-Oberstein. Local transport in Idar-Oberstein was run from 1900 to 1956 by trams, and from 1932 to 1969 by trolleybuses. Today's network is made up of six bus routes run by the "Verkehrsgesellschaft Idar-Oberstein GmbH", which belongs to the Rhenus Veniro Group. Furthermore, Idar-Oberstein is the starting point for Regio bus routes to Baumholder and Birkenfeld. There is also a direct
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Neubrücke (Nahe) station


the southeast of Neubrücke. Its address is "Saarstraße 19". The entrance building is heritage-listed. Neubrücke (Nahe) station was officially opened during the extension of the Nahe Valley Railway from Idar-Oberstein via Heimbach, Neubrücke, Türkismühle and St. Wendel to Neunkirchen (Saar) on 26 May 1860. A branch line was opened on 15 October 1880 from Neubrücke to Birkenfeld, which made a connection from the district seat to the Nahe Valley Railway and thus to the national railway network. This route was built by
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SC Idar-Oberstein


SC Idar-Oberstein is a German association football club from the town of Idar-Oberstein, Rhineland-Palatinate. The club was created in 1971 out of the merger of "1. FC Idar", established 1 January 1907 as "SC Alemannia Idar", and "Sportvereinigung Idar", formed in 1908. The club currently has departments for football, athletics, and women's gymnastics, as well as youth football and recreational sport. The first football club organized in the Nahe region, "1. FC Idar
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”. South of the village runs "Bundesstraße" 422, and to the north runs "Bundesstraße" 327, known as the "Hunsrückhöhenstraße" (“Hunsrück Heights Road”, a scenic road across the Hunsrück built originally as a military road on Hermann Göring’s orders). The nearest railway stations are in Kirn and Idar-Oberstein. Idar-Oberstein’s station, as a Regional-Express and Regionalbahn stop, is linked by way of the Nahe Valley Railway (Bingen–Saarbrücken) to the Saarland and the
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was decided that the town would not go to the trouble of installing such signs after all. In 2006, the officer cadet battalion was disbanded. Idar-Oberstein station, as a Regional-Express and Regionalbahn stop, is linked by way of the Nahe Valley Railway (Bingen–Saarbrücken) to the Saarland and the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region. The "Rhein-Nahe-Express" running the Mainz-Saarbrücken route serves the station hourly. Every other one of these trains goes through to the main railway station in Frankfurt
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the constituent community of Idar. It was built in 1925 as a wooden church for the then town of Idar. Since the 17th century, the town's Catholics had had to make do with ecclesiastical services from Oberstein. By 1951, the church had fallen into such disrepair that it was extensively converted and expanded with stone. Besides the Town Theater in the constituent community of Oberstein, there is also a cabaret stage. With Schloss Oberstein as the backdrop, the "Theatersommer Schloss Oberstein" (“Schloss Oberstein Theater Summer”
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, which, aside from the somewhat more urban character encountered in Idar and Oberstein, tend to hearken back to each centre's history as a rural village. Idar-Oberstein is known as a gemstone town, and also as a garrison town. It is also the largest town in the Hunsrück and has a population of 32,001 (December 31, 2015). The town lies on the southern edge of the Hunsrück on both sides of the river Nahe. The following are the divisions within the town of Idar-Oberstein as
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of Birkenfeld, an exclave of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, most of whose territory was in what is now northwest Germany, with a coastline on the North Sea. The towns of Idar and Oberstein belonged to the Barons of Daun-Oberstein (who later became the Counts of Falkenstein) until 1670. In 1865, both Idar and Oberstein were granted town rights, and finally in 1933, they were forcibly united (along with the municipalities of Algenrodt and Tiefenstein) by the Nazis to form the modern town of Idar-
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exhibition at the Idar-Oberstein "Stadthaus" (civic centre) with photo galleries about the planning, building and completion of the project. For its efforts, Idar-Oberstein won an award in 1988 in a contest staged by German town planners: First Prize for Most Consequential Blighting of an Historic Townscape. Idar-Oberstein/Göttschied Airfield lies north of the town between the constituent community of Göttschied and the municipalities of Gerach and Hintertiefenbach at an elevation of 480 m above sea level (1,575 feet). Its ICAO location
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itself to the specialized theme of “minerals”, and accordingly shows not only local places where gems were discovered, but also worldwide discovery places. The Idar-Oberstein jewellery industry and gemstone processing, too, and especially the agate-cutting operation, are presented in an impressive way. Insights into the production of Art Deco jewellery as it was done about the turn of the 20th century are offered by the "Industriemuseum Jakob Bengel" in the constituent community of Oberstein. It is open the year round. At the Steinkaulenberg
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outlying centres and in the town of Idar-Oberstein itself, all further initiatives either got nowhere or were shelved. Idar-Oberstein has its connections with the notorious outlaw Johannes Bückler (1777–1803), commonly known as Schinderhannes. His parents lived in Idar around 1790, and Oberstein was the scene of one of his earliest misdeeds in 1796. He spent a whole Louis d'or on drinks at an inn. He had stolen it from an innkeeper named Koch from Veitsrodt who had meant to use it to buy brandy. Schinderhannes's
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Bad Münster am Stein station


, with only a few exceptions, to Türkismühle until 2014. Electrification of the rest of the route was not considered to be financially justified because of the difficult topography of the line, particularly the need to enlarge tunnels. With the electrification of the line between Türkismühle and Neubrücke in 2014 and the reactivation of the Heimbach (Nahe)–Baumholder railway with services between Baumholder and Idar-Oberstein via Neubrücke, the Regionalbahn services now stop at Idar-Oberstein. Bad Münster am Stein station is served by the following regional rail services: Due to
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both Idar and Oberstein before the two towns were merged in 1933. The current arms were approved by the Oldenburg Ministry of State for the Interior. The arms have been borne since 10 July 1934. Idar-Oberstein is twinned with: The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: The famous "Felsenkirche" (“Crag Church”) is the town's defining landmark. It came to be through efforts by Wirich IV of Daun-Oberstein (about 1415–1501), who in
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boarding school buildings and teaching rooms were dedicated so that today's artillery school has at its disposal both up-to-date lodging capacity and a training centre with all the modern equipment. Included among the teaching methods are audio, video and simulation techniques. Stationed at the "Klotzbergkaserne" until 31 March 2003 was the "Beobachtungspanzerartillerielehrbataillon" (“Observational Armoured Artillery Teaching Battalion”) 51, after whose dissolution in the course of Bundeswehr reform, the language training centre for officer cadets moved in. For businesses in Idar-
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Many left to try their luck abroad. Some went as far as Brazil, where they found that gemstones could be recovered from open-pit mines or even found in rivers and streams. The locally common tradition of preparing meat over an open fire, churrasco, was also adopted by the newcomers and even found its way back to their homeland by way of gemstone shipping. Agate nodules were shipped back as ballast on empty vessels that had offloaded cargo in Brazil. The cheap agates were then transported to Idar-Oberstein. In
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"Mohrrüben", or dialectally in Idar-Oberstein as "Murde") and pickled or smoked pork. This is beetroots with roast blood sausage. This is made by roasting "Kartoffelmasse" (potatoes, bacon, eggs, flour, salt and pepper) in a "Dibbe" (cast-iron roasting pan). This is "Kartoffelmasse" (the same as for "Dibbelabbes") baked in a "Dibbe" in the oven with dried meat. All together, Idar-Oberstein has roughly 219.3 ha
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"Oberleutnant" Johannes Engels over Idar-Oberstein. Three of the four crewmen died in the wreck, but Pestridge managed to save himself by bailing out. He came down near Nahbollenbach (now an outlying centre of Idar-Oberstein) and was later captured at Birkenfeld railway station. Vollmersbach's population grew from the end of the Thirty Years' War to the onset of the Third Reich thus (all figures but the first are rough estimates): The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected by
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at 31 December 2015: Total population: 20,066 Total population: 11,935 Yearly precipitation in Idar-Oberstein amounts to 774 mm, falling into the middle third of the precipitation chart for all Germany. At 57% of the German Weather Service's weather stations, lower figures are recorded. The driest month is April. The most rainfall comes in December. In that month, precipitation is 1.6 times what it is in April. Precipitation hardly varies at all and is evenly spread throughout the year. At only 13% of the
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Türkismühle station


Türkismühle station is a station in the municipality of Nohfelden in the German state of the Saarland. The station is located on the Nahe Valley Railway ("Nahetalbahn") and is the terminus of the Hochwald Railway (), which formerly ran as far as Trier and the former Westrich Railway to Kusel. It was opened on 26 May 1860 during the extension of the Nahe Valley Railway from Idar-Oberstein to Neunkirchen. After its opening in 1860 the station was busy with freight traffic, but it was also used extensively by
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made up of 40 honorary council members, who were elected by proportional representation at the municipal election held on 25 May 2014, and the full-time mayor ("Oberbürgermeister") as chairman. The municipal election held on 25 May 2014 yielded the following results: Ever since the state government declared the town of Idar-Oberstein a "Große kreisangehörige Stadt" (large town belonging to a district) on 1 April 1960, the town's mayor has borne the official title of "Oberbürgermeister". The German blazon reads
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weather stations are lower seasonal recorded. The territorial history of Idar-Oberstein's individual centres is marked by a considerable splintering of lordly domains in the local area. Only in Napoleonic times, beginning in 1794, with its reorganization and merging of various territorial units, was some order brought to the traditional mishmash of local lordships. However, shortly thereafter, the Congress of Vienna brought the future town division once again, as the river Nahe became a border, and the centres on its north bank were thereby grouped into the Principality
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Idar-Oberstein


Idar-Oberstein is a town in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. As a "Große kreisangehörige Stadt" (large town belonging to a district), it assumes some of the responsibilities that for smaller municipalities in the district are assumed by the district administration. Today's town of Idar-Oberstein is the product of two rounds of administrative reform, one in 1933 and the other in 1969, which saw many municipalities amalgamated into one. The various "Stadtteile" have, however, retained their original identities
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Baden became the owners of the Lordship after the “Hinder” County of Sponheim was partitioned. It is known from archaeological finds that human settlement in what is now Idar goes back to the very earliest times. The constituent community of Idar on the Nahe's right bank belonged, as did the villages of Enzweiler, Algenrodt, Mackenrodt, Hettenrodt, Hettstein, Obertiefenbach and Kirschweiler, to the Idarbann. This area belonged mostly to the Lords of Oberstein, and it therefore shares a history with Oberstein; however, in some centres
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the late 20th century) and Dickesbach, returned a vote of roughly 95% in favour of keeping the "Amt" of Weierbach. With this expansion of the town, the centres of gravity in the Birkenfeld district had been shifted considerably. Idar-Oberstein could further grow as a middle centre: the educational facilities were expanded (Realschule, Heinzenwies-Gymnasium), new building developments could be opened up (especially in Göttschied, Regulshausen and Weierbach), land was available for a new hospital building and there was room,
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for the "Landesteil" of Birkenfeld. Through this new law, 18 formerly self-administering municipalities were amalgamated; this included the self-administering towns (having been granted town rights in 1865) of Idar and Oberstein, which were amalgamated with each other and also with the municipalities of Algenrodt and Tiefenstein to form the new town of Idar-Oberstein. The law foreshadowed what was to come: It would be applied within a few weeks, without further discussion or participation, to the exclusion of the public and against the
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Restkreis St. Wendel-Baumholder” to the Prussian district of Birkenfeld, a deed which put all of what are today Idar-Oberstein's constituent communities in the same district. After the Second World War, along with the whole district, the town's whole municipal area passed to the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate. On 1 April 1960, the town of Idar-Oberstein was declared a "Große kreisangehörige Stadt" (large town belonging to a district) by the state government, after the town itself had
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applied for the status. In the course of administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate, nine surrounding municipalities were amalgamated with Idar-Oberstein. On 7 June 1969, the municipalities of Enzweiler, Göttschied, Hammerstein and Regulshausen were amalgamated, and on 7 November 1970 they were followed by Georg-Weierbach, Kirchenbollenbach, Mittelbollenbach, Nahbollenbach and Weierbach. Before the administrative restructuring, there were extensive, sometimes behind-closed-doors talks by the then mayor of Idar-Oberstein, Dr. Wittmann, with offers of negotiation to all together
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Obersteiner Spießbraten". The former is a kind of "Schwenkbraten", whereas the latter is a kind of rolled roast. "Spießbraten" is rooted fast among Idar-Oberstein's and the surrounding region's culinary and cultural customs. When making the more often consumed "Idarer Spießbraten", the meat – originally prime rib, today often also roast beef or pork neck – is laid the day before cooking in raw onions, salt and pepper. The onions are good to eat while cooking at the fire with a beer
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22 municipalities in the surrounding area. One of the reasons for this was a tendency that had been noted for people from Idar-Oberstein to move out of town to the surrounding municipalities, which were opening up extensive new building areas – among others Göttschied, Rötsweiler-Nockenthal and Kirschweiler – whereas within the town itself, given the problematic lie of the land, there were hardly any. The same problem saw to it that there was a dearth of land for industrial location. Surprising was the desire expressed by Weierbach, which
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way of Grumbach was built, replacing an old road over the heights coming from Idar-Oberstein. Today, Lauterecken lies at the junction of "Bundesstraßen" 420 (Oppenheim—Neunkirchen, Saarland) and 270 (Idar-Oberstein—Kaiserslautern—Pirmasens). Distances to other places are as follows: Kusel 22 km, Meisenheim 6 km, Wolfstein 8 km, Kaiserslautern 32 km, Bad Kreuznach 42 km, Idar-Oberstein 31 km. Soon after the road network was expanded in the 19th century, Lauterecken was also
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Saarbrücken, some 35 km northwest of Kaiserslautern and some 50 km southeast of Trier. Baumholder has a railway link in the Heimbach (Nahe)–Baumholder line, a 9 km-long spur. The line was closed to passenger traffic on 31 May 1981, but remained open for military traffic. The line was reopened in 2015. Trains run hourly to and from Idar-Oberstein or Kirn, where connecting trains to Mainz, Frankfurt/Main and Saarbrücken can be reached. There is also a bus link to Idar-Oberstein and Birkenfeld
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Neubrücke (Nahe) station


Neubrücke (Nahe) station is a station in the town of Neubrücke (Nahe) in the municipality of Hoppstädten-Weiersbach in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is on the Nahe Valley Railway ("Nahetalbahn") and was the terminus of the Birkenfeld District Railway ("Birkenfelder Kreisbahn") to the district seat of Birkenfeld from 1880 to 1991. It was opened with the extension of the Nahe Valley Railway from Idar-Oberstein to Neunkirchen (Saar) on 26 May 1860. Neubrücke station is located in
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liberty pole in the Napoleonic tradition, to an end using military force, after Coburg had called on Prussia for help in the matter. Idar, Oberstein, Tiefenstein, Algenrodt, Enzweiler, Georg-Weierbach, Göttschied, Enzweiler and Regulshausen became on 16 April 1817 part of the newly created Principality of Birkenfeld. They also became the "Amt" of Oberstein, which comprised the "Bürgermeistereien" (“Mayoralties”) of Herrstein, Oberstein and Fischbach. French law was allowed to stand. The Duke did, however,
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the early 19th century, many people were driven out of the local area by hunger and also went to South America. In 1827, emigrants from Idar-Oberstein discovered the world's most important agate deposit in Brazil's state of Rio Grande do Sul. As early as 1834, the first delivery of agate from Rio Grande do Sul had been made to Idar-Oberstein. The Brazilian agate exhibited very even layers, much evener that those seen in the local agates. This made them especially good for making engraved gems.
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St. Wendel station


St. Wendel station is the most important station in the town of St. Wendel in the German state of Saarland. The station is located at line-kilometer 106.3 of the Nahe Valley Railway ("Nahetalbahn") and was the beginning of the now dismantled St. Wendel–Tholey railway. It was opened during the extension of the Nahe Valley Railway from Idar-Oberstein via Türkismühle to Neunkirchen (Saar) on 26 May 1860. The station is located in the centre of the town of St. Wendel. A large bus station with
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St. Wendel station


16 bus platforms is located in front of the station building from which city buses and regional buses run to the surrounding towns and municipalities. St. Wendel station was opened with the Idar-Oberstein–Türkismühle–St. Wendel–Neunkirchen (Saar) section of the Nahe Valley Railway from Bingen am Rhein to Saarbrücken on 26 May 1860. A single-track local railway was opened from St. Wendel station to Tholey on 3 August 1915, but its planned continuation to Lebach was not built. Passenger services were stopped on this route
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located on the southern outskirts of Monzingen. The halt of Martinstein is located on the southern outskirts of Martinstein. The halt of Hochstetten (Nahe) is located on the southeast edge of Hochstetten. Kirn station is located on the southern outskirts of Kirn. The halt of Kirnsulzbach is located in the south of Kirn-Sulzbach. The halt of Fischbach-Weierbach is located in the southeast of Fischbach; Weierbach is further south-west. Originally Idar-Oberstein station was called only "Oberstein". It was commissioned in December
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the town's outskirts, a Friends of Nature house has been established, offering cyclists, hikers and tourists meals and lodging. Also, in nearby Kirschweiler is a golf course. The "Schleiferweg" ("Schleifer" is German for “grinder” or “polisher”, a reference to the town's fame as a gem-processing centre; "Weg" simply means “way”) is a 22 km-long signposted hiking trail round Idar. The path leads around the constituent communities of Idar, Oberstein,
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Oberstein and environs, the Bundeswehr is a major economic factor as both an employer and a client. Since 1988, there has been a “sponsorship” between the town of Idar-Oberstein and the artillery school, and to highlight the relationship, town council decided in 1988 to put up a second roadsign that read “"Hauptstadt der deutschen Artillerie"” (“German Artillery Capital”). After objections from local business, among others the local chamber of commerce, and from some of the townsfolk, too, it
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came without one of Idar-Oberstein's initiatives, to join the new greater town, for at the time, Weierbach did not even border on the town, and Weierbach itself was then foreseen as the future nucleus of its own greater municipality, or perhaps even town, together with the municipalities of Fischbach, Georg-Weierbach and Bollenbach, which would have been amalgamated with this municipality had the original plan come about. With the exception of Georg-Weierbach, the proposal to amalgamate these villages with the town of Idar-
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Oberstein e. V.", that was founded shortly thereafter, in 1963, has been worrying ever since about maintaining the acutely endangered building materials that make up this former four-tower complex. In 1998, the town of Idar-Oberstein became the castle's owner. Today there is once again a small inn, the Wyrich-Stube, and there are also now a few rooms restored by the castle club, which can be hired for festive occasions or cultural events. "St. Peter und Paul" is the Catholic in
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1859 as the terminus of the section opened from Kreuznach. Already half a year later it became a through station when the line was extended to Neunkirchen. It is located in the south of the town of Idar-Oberstein. The halt of Kronweiler is located in the centre of Kronweiler. The halt of Nohen is located in the centre of Nohen. Heimbach (Nahe) station is located about three kilometres west of the municipality of Heimbach, which despite its name lies outside the Nahe valley. It is in the territory of
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. In 1860, the Nahe Valley Railway was completed to the Saarland, making train travel possible to Neunkirchen, where there was a connection to the Palatine Ludwig Railway ("Pfälzische Ludwigsbahn"). Later links were also opened from the Nahe Valley Railway to the Glan Valley Railway ("Glantalbahn"), to Baumholder and the current district of Birkenfeld via the Birkenfeld Railway. Today, the Nahe Valley Railway is one of the main axes of passenger services in Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition, the station was formerly the
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favoured farmers and the economy. A well regulated school system – in 1830, a public school was built in Oberstein – and the temporary suspension of military conscription only helped to support this positive picture. Roads were expanded and a postal coach service (for persons, bulk mailings and bulky goods) was set up. A further economic upswing was brought by the building of the Nahe Valley Railway, especially when the stretch from Bad Kreuznach to Oberstein opened on 15 December 1859. When the First World War ended, Grand Duke Friedrich
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Vollmersbach


Vollmersbach is an "Ortsgemeinde" – a municipality belonging to a "Verbandsgemeinde", a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the "Verbandsgemeinde" of Herrstein, whose seat is in the like-named municipality. The municipality lies in the Hunsrück just north of Idar-Oberstein. Vollmersbach borders in the north on the municipality of Veitsrodt and in the east, south and west on the town of Idar-Oberstein. Vollmersbach also meets the municipality of Niederwörresbach at
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Marut. Marut, whose date and place of birth are unknown, performed on stage in Idar (today Idar-Oberstein), Ansbach, Suhl, Crimmitschau, Berlin, Danzig and Düsseldorf before the First World War. From time to time, he also directed plays and wrote articles on theatre subjects. After the outbreak of the war, in 1915, he declared to the German authorities that he was an American citizen. Marut also became politically engaged when, in 1917, he launched the periodical "Der Ziegelbrenner" (
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Kirschweiler


Kirschweiler is an "Ortsgemeinde" – a municipality belonging to a "Verbandsgemeinde", a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the "Verbandsgemeinde" of Herrstein, whose seat is in the like-named municipality. The municipality lies a few kilometres northwest of Idar-Oberstein in the Hunsrück. The municipal area is 56% wooded. Kirschweiler's neighbours besides Idar-Oberstein are Hettenrodt and Kempfeld with its outlying centre of Katzenloch. Also belonging to Kirschweiler are the
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handball in a combined effort with the gymnastic club in Idar in the Rhineland Handball League. In the 2010/2011 season, the men's team was playing in the State League. Running through Vollmersbach are bus routes 346 and 351 run by ORN ("Omnibusverkehr Rhein-Nahe") within the RNN ("Rhein-Nahe-Nahverkehrsverbund"), which runs at least every two hours to Idar-Oberstein's railway station, which as a Regional-Express and Regionalbahn stop, is linked by way of the Nahe Valley Railway
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Veitsrodt


the municipality of Niederwörresbach, in the south on the municipality of Vollmersbach, in the west on the town of Idar-Oberstein and the municipality of Kirschweiler and in the northwest on the municipality of Kempfeld. Veitsrodt also meets the town of Idar-Oberstein elsewhere, at a single point in the southeast. Also belonging to Veitsrodt are the outlying homesteads of Lindenhof, Strudthof and Ziegelhütte. Veitsrodt most likely arose in Frankish times, in the 9th or 10th century. In the early 13th century, Veitsrodt had its first documentary mention
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, Zaubach, Mittelreidenbach, Oberreidenbach, Schmidthachenbach, Sienhachenbach, Sien, Hintertiefenbach and Vollmersbach. The municipalities of Rötsweiler-Nockenthal, Siesbach, Gerach, Veitsrodt, Kirschweiler, Hettenrodt and Mackenrodt were each to receive an offer of amalgamation. The district administration in Birkenfeld then got involved, and it was decided by the district assembly ("Kreistag") that Idar-Oberstein's amalgamation policy, which was deemed to be reckless, should be censured. Since a certain disenchantment with all these amalgamations had meanwhile set in both in the
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, notably Tiefenbach and Kirschweiler, some estates and rights were held by other lords, such as the Waldgraves and Rhinegraves and Tholey Abbey. The constituent community of Tiefenstein arose from the merger of the villages of Tiefenbach and Hettstein in 1909. This Idarbann community's territorial history is the same as Idar's and Oberstein's. Tiefenbach was mentioned as an estate in a 1283 document; a further documentary mention from 1051 cannot be related to the village with any certainty. Hettstein was mentioned as "Henzestein" or "Hezerten"
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in Rhineland-Palatinate was in parts unconstitutional. The right to self-administration of the "Amt" of Weierbach, it furthermore ruled, was being infringed, and the municipal league's vitality was being jeopardized. Thus, Weierbach, Georg-Weierbach, Nahbollenbach, Mittelbollenbach and Kirchenbollenbach were, with immediate effect, demerged from the town and reinstated as self-administering municipalities. After bitter arguments between the town of Idar-Oberstein together with the amalgamation supporters on the one side and the "Amt" of Weierbach together with
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Trier University of Applied Sciences


The Trier University of Applied Sciences (German: Hochschule Trier) is a University of Applied Sciences (German: "Fachhochschule") located in Trier, Birkenfeld and Idar-Oberstein (Germany). With 7,000 students the Trier University of Applied Sciences is divided into three campuses in Trier (main campus Schneidershof), Birkenfeld (Environmental Campus Birkenfeld), and Idar-Oberstein (jewellery design). The Trier University of Applied Sciences must not be confused with the University of Trier (German: "Universität Trier").
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. Locals favour beechwood for the fire, to give the roast its traditional flavour. The variations on the "Spießbraten" recipe are also the subject of the town's slogan, which bears witness to a patronizing cosmopolitanism: "Rossbeff fa die Irader, Kamm fa die Uwersteener und Brot für die Welt" – dialectal German for “Roast beef for the Idarers, pork neck for the Obersteiners and bread for the world.” This is toast, minced meat, diced bacon, leek, eggs, salt and pepper. This
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German Gemmological Association


The German Gemmological Association (DGemG) is a nonprofit, technical-scientific association in the field of gemmology, located in the European gemstone center Idar-Oberstein. The two most important points of the statutes are the promotion of gemmology as science and technique and the development of information and education in the field of gemmology. The DGemG was founded by the gemstone dealer and gemmologist Georg Otto Wild from Idar-Oberstein in 1932. Therefore the DGemG is one of the three oldest gemmological institutes worldwide. Gemmological courses have been offered since
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Kirn


stretches eastwards all the way to the town limit. Kirn's municipal area measures 16.53 km², and by percentages, the uses of this land break down thus: Clockwise from the north, Kirn's neighbours are the municipalities of Oberhausen bei Kirn, Hochstetten-Dhaun, Meckenbach, Heimweiler and Bärenbach, the town of Idar-Oberstein and the municipalities of Fischbach, Bergen and Hahnenbach. Idar-Oberstein, Fischbach and Bergen all lie in the neighbouring Birkenfeld district, whereas all the others likewise lie within the Bad Kreuznach district.
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or even bodhisattvas. Because of this, dzi beads are always treated with respect. It has been reported that modern era dzi style beads were made in Idar Oberstein, Germany at least as early as the 19th C. The German agate-cutters at Idar-Oberstein plied their trade since the Roman Period. They brought the coloring of agates to a science and the cutting and drilling to the mechanical level of perfection for which Germans are known. Due to the questionable origin of most hand made dzi beads and the high demand for
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sweetheart, Juliana Blasius (1781–1851), known as “Julchen”, came from Idar-Oberstein's outlying centre of Weierbach. She spent her childhood with her father and elder sister Margarethe as a “bench singer” and a fiddler at markets and church fêtes. At Easter 1800, Schinderhannes saw “Julchen” for the first time at the Wickenhof, a now vanished hamlet near Kirn, where the 19-year-old danced. Their relationship yielded a daughter and a son, Franz Wilhelm. After Schinderhannes was beheaded for his
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lord dead on its steps. Wyrich was later placed in the same tomb with his brother. Idar-Oberstein is known as a gemstone centre. Until the 18th century, the area was a source for agate and jasper. A combination of low-cost labour and energy helped the gemstone-working industry flourish. The river Nahe provided free water power for the cutting and polishing machines at the mills. In the 18th century, though, gemstone finds in the Hunsrück were dwindling, making life harder for the local people.
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psychiatry and psychotherapy, paediatrics with neonatology, radiation therapy, trauma surgery and urology as well as wards for ophthalmology and otorhinolaryngology. Excluded from this is a geriatric rehabilitation clinic in Baumholder. There is also no nursing school. Idar-Oberstein is home to every kind of educational institution, and since 1986, it has been a "Hochschule" location. The internationally renowned programme of Gemstone and Jewellery Design of the Faculty of Design at the University of Applied Sciences Trier is the only place in Europe where artistically-scientifically oriented studies
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Mackenrodt


smaller communities around Idar-Oberstein’s periphery. The marked growth seen in, for instance, Göttschied, Kirschweiler or Rötsweiler-Nockenthal, where ample building development areas have attracted people from Idar-Oberstein who could not find property in their own town, simply is not replicated in Mackenrodt. Another factor that may explain the weak growth in Mackenrodt is the village’s lack of a main road running through it. There are only six businesses in the village, all dealing with gemstones, but each one employs only one or two
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and origin. Idar-Oberstein was one of the centers which made use of agate on an industrial scale. Where in the beginning locally found agates were used to make all types of objects for the European market, this became a globalized business around the turn of the 20th century: Idar-Oberstein imported large quantities of agate from Brazil, as ship's ballast. Making use of a variety of proprietary chemical processes, they produced colored beads that were sold around the globe. Agates have long been used in arts and crafts
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became part of the new Regionalliga Südwest. The club lasted for only one season at this level before being relegated back to the Oberliga, now the Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar. After two seasons at Oberliga level the club suffered another relegation in 2015, now to the Verbandsliga. The club's honours: Recent managers of the club: The recent season-by-season performance of the club: Since 1990 "SC Idar-Oberstein" has played at the Sportgelände Im Haag (capacity 6,000, 400 seats)
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issue a "Staatsgrundgesetz" (“Basic State Law”) with which the people were not in agreement, because they would rather have stayed with Prussia. This continued work on the patchwork quilt of little states covering Germany was judged very critically in Idar and Oberstein, whereas Birkenfeld, which had as a result of the new political arrangement been raised to residence town, found little to complain about. The jewellery industry there, which even by this time had become national, perhaps international in scope, and indeed the jewel dealers
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too, for industrial and commercial operations to locate. Since Idar-Oberstein had not only a good general infrastructure but also, after the Steinbach Reservoir was brought into service, a more than adequate water supply, the option of amalgamating themselves with the town became attractive to many further municipalities. On the initiative of Mayor Wittmann, who had a survey done by an Osnabrück planning bureau on the town's relationship with 25 other neighbouring municipalities, town council decided to promote the “unconditional amalgamation” of the municipalities of Fischbach, Dickesbach
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of land given over to commerce. Three other areas in town, Dickesbacher Straße, Finkenberg Nord and Am Kreuz, hold a further 28 ha in reserve for economic expansion. The town also has at its disposal the rezoning area "Gewerbepark Nahetal" in the outlying centre of Nahbollenbach, comprising 23 ha. The "Bundesverband der Diamant- und Edelsteinindustrie e. V." (“Federal Association of the Diamond and Gemstone Industry”) has its seat in Idar-Oberstein. It represents the industry's interests in dealings with lawmakers as well
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It is one of the 25 exchanges in the World Federation of Diamond Bourses. The firm Klein & Quenzer was among the best known producers of costume jewellery before it rose to become the biggest manufacturer of German medals and decorations during the two world wars. The "Wirtschaftsjunioren Idar-Oberstein" were founded in 1972. Entrepreneurs and senior management join in this organization for economic, cultural and social purposes in the region. The cookware manufacturer Fissler has its headquarters in town. The company became well known for its invention of the mobile
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field kitchen in 1892. Giloy und Söhne, one of Europe's biggest diamond jewellery manufacturers, has its headquarters here, too. For more than 20 years now, the International Trade Fair for Gemstones, Gemstone Jewellery and Gemstone Objects (“Intergem”) has been held in Idar-Oberstein. The fair takes place at the "Jahnhaus" in the constituent community of Algenrodt, although as of 2008, a move to the planned exhibition hall in the new Nahetal commercial park (former US Army storage depot Nahbollenbach) was
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Idar-Oberstein


Oberstein. The constituent community of Oberstein grew out of the Imperially immediate Lordship of Oberstein. The "Herren vom Stein" (“Lords of the Stone”) had their first documentary mention in 1075, and their seat was at Castle Bosselstein, which is now known as the "Altes Schloss" (“Old Palatial Castle”), and which was above where later would be built the "Felsenkirche" (“Crag Church”) which itself was mentioned as early as the 12th century. The core of the area
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Idar Forest


The Idar Forest (German: "Idarwald", Celtic: ""id ar"" - hill forest above the land) is part of the Hunsrück low mountain range in the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The Idar Forest lies in the districts of Bernkastel-Wittlich and Birkenfeld in the northeast of the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park. It lies more or less in the triangle formed by the villages of Morbach (in the northwest), Rhaunen (northeast) and Idar-Oberstein (southeast
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world's largest chalcedony processing center, working mostly on agates. Most of these agates were from Latin America, in particular Brazil. Originally the agate carving industry around Idar and Oberstein was driven by local deposits that were mined in the 15th century. Several factors contributed to the re-emergence of Idar-Oberstein as agate center of the world: ships brought agate nodules back as ballast, thus providing extremely cheap transport. In addition, cheap labor and a superior knowledge of chemistry allowed them to dye the agates in any color
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Kingsley Onuegbu


Kingsley Ugochuwu (born 5 March 1986) is a Nigerian footballer, who plays for Nea Salamis Famagusta. He played only street soccer in Nigeria, before his football career began in Germany in the summer of 2005 with SC Idar-Oberstein. In his first professional season for Idar-Oberstein in 2007–08, Onuegbu scored twelve goals in 26 games. In the summer of 2008 he joined Eintracht Braunschweig. On 11 May 2010, he left Braunschweig to sign with SpVgg Greuther Fürth. He signed with MSV Duisburg in 2013. On
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Idar-Oberstein


In 1432, the Dukes of Lorraine were enfeoffed with Nahbollenbach and Mittelbollenbach, which in the wake of the death of the last Lord of Oberstein led to bitter arguments over the complicated inheritance arrangements. Only in 1778 did Lorraine finally relinquish its claims in Electoral Trier's favour. Until 1667, Nahbollenbach and Mittelbollenbach shared the same history. Then, Nahbollenbach was acknowledged by Lorraine as an allodial holding of Oberstein, although beginning in 1682 it was an Electoral-Trier fief held by Oberstein. The “abbey village” of Regulshausen belonged
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Rio Grande do Sul


Brazilian economy: 7% (2005). One of the most prosperous Brazilian states, Rio Grande do Sul is known especially for its grain production, viticulture, ranching, and for its considerable industrial output. In 1827, emigrants from Idar-Oberstein discovered the world's most important agate deposit in Rio Grande do Sul. As early as 1834, the first delivery of agate from Rio Grande do Sul had been made to Idar-Oberstein. The Brazilian agate exhibited very even layers, much more even than those seen in
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locomotives. North of Türkismühle class VT 95 (795) and VT 98 (798) railbuses were often used. Express trains running between Saarbrücken, Idar-Oberstein, Bad Kreuznach, Bingen, Mainz and Frankfurt am Main were also mostly formed of Silberling carriages hauled by class 01 steam locomotives and later by class V200 and 218 diesel locomotives. Already in 1960 there were long-distance trains between Paris Gare de l'Est and Frankfurt, which stopped only at Saarbrücken, Neunkirchen, St Wendel, Neubrücke, Heimbach, Idar-Oberstein
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Mackenrodt


colour rather than the metal can be seen at "Heraldry of the World". To the south runs "Bundesstraße" 41. Serving Idar-Oberstein is a railway station that, as a Regional-Express and Regionalbahn stop, is linked by way of the Nahe Valley Railway (Bingen–Saarbrücken) to the Saarland and the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region. The "Rhein-Nahe-Express" running the Mainz-Saarbrücken route serves the station hourly. Every other train goes through to the main railway station in Frankfurt with
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Oberbrombach


: Running through the village is "Bundesstraße" 41. In nearby Idar-Oberstein, the railway station, as a Regional-Express and Regionalbahn stop, is linked by way of the Nahe Valley Railway (Bingen–Saarbrücken) to the Saarland and the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region. The "Rhein-Nahe-Express" running the Mainz-Saarbrücken route serves the station hourly. Every other train goes through to the main railway station in Frankfurt with a stop at Frankfurt Airport. Formerly, fast trains on the Frankfurt-
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Rhaunen


the Nahe Valley Railway (Bingen–Saarbrücken) to the Saarland and the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region. The "Rhein-Nahe-Express" running the Mainz-Saarbrücken route serves the station hourly. Every other one of these trains goes through to the main railway station in Frankfurt with a stop at Frankfurt Airport. Formerly, fast trains on the Frankfurt-Paris route had a stop at Idar-Oberstein. Kirn station, too, is on the Nahe Valley Railway. Rhaunen is seat of the "Verbandsgemeinde" administration and
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, in this case for a lane) – Oberstein could develop the characteristics of a town, without, however, ever earning itself the legal status of a market town ("Flecken"). In 1682, the Counts of Leiningen-Heidesheim, and in 1766 the Counts of Limburg-Styrum, became the owners of the Lordship of Oberstein, which largely shrank back to the above-mentioned lordly core after the Idarbann was ceded to the “Hinder” County of Sponheim in 1771. In 1776, the Margraves of
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Hottenbach


points of interest of all kinds. Serving nearby Idar-Oberstein is a railway station, which as a Regional-Express and Regionalbahn stop, is linked by way of the Nahe Valley Railway (Bingen–Saarbrücken) to the Saarland and the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region. The "Rhein-Nahe-Express" running the Mainz-Saarbrücken route serves the station hourly. Every other train goes through to the main railway station in Frankfurt with a stop at Frankfurt Airport. Formerly, fast trains on the Frankfurt-Paris route had
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Vollmersbach


(Bingen–Saarbrücken) to the Saarland and the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region. The "Rhein-Nahe-Express" running the Mainz-Saarbrücken route serves the station hourly. Every other train goes through to the main railway station in Frankfurt with a stop at Frankfurt Airport. Formerly, fast trains on the Frankfurt-Paris route had a stop at Idar-Oberstein. The bus trip to the station takes 12 minutes. Outbound buses go into the Hunsrück, to Rhaunen, Herrstein and Wickenrodt, although some go through to
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one primary school. It also has a seniors’ nursing home and a village community centre. The railway station in nearby Idar-Oberstein, as a Regional-Express and Regionalbahn stop, is linked by way of the Nahe Valley Railway (Bingen–Saarbrücken) to the Saarland and the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region. The "Rhein-Nahe-Express" running the Mainz-Saarbrücken route serves the station hourly. Every other one of these trains goes through to the main railway station in Frankfurt with a stop at Frankfurt Airport
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Schauren


Frankfurt Rhine Main Region. The "Rhein-Nahe-Express" running the Mainz-Saarbrücken route serves the station hourly. Every other one of these trains goes through to the main railway station in Frankfurt with a stop at Frankfurt Airport. Formerly, fast trains on the Frankfurt-Paris route had a stop at Idar-Oberstein. Kirn station, too, is on the Nahe Valley Railway. Furthermore, Frankfurt-Hahn Airport lies 23 km to the north. Of Schauren’s once many gemstone businesses, only a very
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Rüsselsheim station


Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof. Rüsselsheim station is served by Regional-Express trains running between Koblenz Hauptbahnhof and Frankfurt (the "Mittelrhein-Main-Express", RE 2) and between Saarbrücken Hauptbahnhof and Frankfurt ("Rhein-Nahe-Express", RE 3), each running every two hours, resulting in an approximately hourly service as far as Mainz. In the peak hours there are a few Regionalbahn services to Idar-Oberstein and to Bingen Hauptbahnhof. Mário, Natanael, Bea and Cat catch the train in this station to
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Siesbach


-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: Siesbach is also home to a Gallo-Roman barrow in the “Kipp” forest district. Running to the northeast of the municipality is "Bundesstraße" 422. In nearby Idar-Oberstein, the railway station, as a Regional-Express and Regionalbahn stop, is linked by way of the Nahe Valley Railway (Bingen–Saarbrücken) to the Saarland and the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region. The "Rhein-Nahe-Express" running the Mainz-Saarbrücken route serves the station hourly
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Mittelreidenbach


In 1321 the "Herren" [Lords] von Reidenbach zu Dune und Stein (Oberstein, now Idar-Oberstein) were given the properties of Weiersbach and Nahbollenbach. One of the first earliest mentions of Mittelreidenbach is found in a deed of sale in 1340, when the "Edelknecht" (the lowest rank of medieval German nobility) Johann von Oberstein sold the tithes in Reidenbach to the Archbishop of Trier, Baldwin of Luxembourg. After the extinction of the family of the "Ritter" von Reidenbach, the properties fell to
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to be reckoned with, with its two crescent moats and its two baileys. Somewhat farther up, not far from Castle Bosselstein, the third castle arose about 1325, the one now known as Schloss Oberstein. Until 1624, it was the residence of the Counts of Daun-Oberstein. In 1855 it burnt down. In the years 1926 to 1956, the castle was used as a youth hostel, and thereafter as an inn. In 1961, part of the east wall fell in. The castle club, "Schloss
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Heimbach (Nahe)


interchanges are Birkenfeld (Exit 4, 7 km to the west) and Freisen (Exit 5, 10 km to the east). "Bundesstraße" 41 runs to the northwest of Heimbach and there is access at Idar-Oberstein and near Birkenfeld. The following highways run through Heimbach: At the railway station in Heimbach itself, there were no passenger service between 1981 and 2014. For that, the station Heimbach (Nahe), lying 2 km west of the main centre on the river Nahe, on the Nahe Valley
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in 1321 and had among its inhabitants Waldgravial subjects. The village of Algenrodt had its first certain documentary mention as "Alekenrod" in a 1321 Oberstein enfeoffment document. In 1324, the Lords of Oberstein pledged it to the Waldgraves and Rhinegraves of Kyrburg. But for this, Algenrodt shares a history with the other Idarbann communities. Enzweiler boasts traces of human habitation going back to Roman times. In 1276, Tholey Abbey owned a mill near Enzweiler. The village itself might have arisen in the 14th century, and it was always
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SC Idar-Oberstein


being sent down in 1954. "SpVgg Idar" remained a lower tier local club during this time. Despite the 1971 merger, newly formed "SC" performed poorly through the rest of the decade and on into the late 80s. An effort by a group of former players revitalized the club and a series of division championships led "Idar" out of the Bezirksliga Nahe (VII), through the Landesliga Südwest-West (VI) and Verbandsliga Südwest (V), and on to the Oberliga Südwest (IV)
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turn were stationed here. With the coming of the Wehrmacht, new barracks were built. After the Second World War, the "Straßburgkaserne" (“Strasbourg Barracks”) were at first used by the United States Army. French troops were stationed at the "Klotzbergkaserne", and then as of 1956, the Bundeswehr artillery school. This moved in the late 1960s to the newly built "Rilchenbergkaserne". Since that time, thousands of artillerymen have undergone their basic and advanced military training here. In September 2003, new
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Morbach


Bus route 300 of the "Rhein-Mosel-Verkehrsgesellschaft" links the municipality every two hours with the main railway station in Wittlich on the Koblenz-Trier railway line. Bus route 343 from "Omnibusverkehr Rhein-Nahe" runs a service on weekdays to the Idar-Oberstein railway station on the Saarbrücken-Mainz railway line. Through Morbach run "Bundesstraßen" 269 and 327, as does the "Hunsrückquerbahn" (“Cross-Hunsrück Railway”), a railway line between Langenlonsheim and Hermeskeil, which at the moment
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Horbruch


’s name (“horn” is also "Horn" in German, as can be noted in the German blazon), but this is unclear. The “chequy” pattern on the sinister (armsbearer’s left, viewer’s right) side is a reference to the village’s former allegiance to the “Hinder” County of Sponheim. The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: Horbruch has a kindergarten and a village community centre. Serving Idar-Oberstein is a railway station
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