Bernkastel-Wittlich

Bernkastel-Wittlich
Statistics
State:	Rhineland-Palatinate
Capital:	Wittlich
Area:	1178 km²
Inhabitants:	113,800 (1999)
pop. density:	97 inh./km²
Car identification:	WIL
Homepage:	bernkastel-wittlich.de
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Bernkastel-Wittlich is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Daun, Cochem-Zell, Rhein-Hunsrück, Birkenfeld, Trier-Saarburg and Bitburg-Prüm.

1 History
2 Geography
3 Coat of arms
4 Towns and municipalities
5 External links

History

The district was established in 1969 by merging the former districts of Bernkastel and Wittlich.

Geography

The district is situated on both banks of the Moselle River, which crosses the territory from southwest to northeast. On either sides the country is rising to the mountain chains of the Eifel in the north and the Hunsrück in the south. A great number of affluents come from the Eifel mountains and join the Moselle River. In the very south of the district there is the Erbeskopf (818 m), the highest peak of the Hunsrück and of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms displays:

The cross symbolising the bishopric of Trier
The lobster from the arms of Bernkastel-Kues
The keys from the arms of Wittlich
The red and white pattern of the tiny county of Sponheim, which ruled this part of the Moselle valley in medieval times

Towns and municipalities

Towns	Verbandsgemeinden	free municipalities
Bernkastel-Kues Traben-Trarbach Wittlich	Bernkastel-Kues Kröv-Bausendorf Manderscheid Neumagen-Dhron Thalfang Traben-Trarbach Wittlich-Land	Morbach

External links

Official website (German)

Rural and urban districts in the Rhineland-Palatinate

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Categories: Districts of Rhineland-Palatinate