Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg
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Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg is a municipality in Germany in the state of Rheinland-Pfalz, district of Bad Kreuznach. The town has about 4000 inhabitants as of 2004 and covers an area of 9.53 square km and lies on the Nahe.
The town is first mentioned around the year 1200. It grew up beside the Rheingrafenstein, a castle built in 1050 that was the seat of the count palatine of the Rhine, which was destroyed in 1689 by the French, but the ruins remain. Ebernburg Castle was residence of famous German knight Franz von Sickingen.
Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg is also the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg, which consists of the following Ortsgemeinden ("local municipalities"):
- Altenbamberg
- Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg
- Duchroth
- Feilbingert
- Hallgarten
- Hochstätten
- Niederhausen
- Norheim
- Oberhausen an der Nahe
- Traisen
[edit] Notable residents
- Rudolf Eickemeyer, (1831-1895), born in Altenbamberg, noted inventor with several innovations to hat manufacturing, patent for first symmetrical drum armature and iron clad dynamo, and first employer of Charles Proteus Steinmetz [1]
[edit] References
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
[edit] Notes
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- ^ (1963) Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who.
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