Rheinbach
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Rheinbach is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approx. 15 km south-east of Bonn, a few kilometres away from the Eifel and has got a population of approx. 26 500 citizens (2005). It belongs to the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis district (Landkreis), which belongs again to the adminsitrave discrict (Regierungsbezirk) of Cologne (Köln).
Rheinbach is a centre for education and has one of the few boarding and private schools in Germany: Vinzenz-Pallotti-Kolleg.
It is also famous for its glasscraft, as after the War many Eastern European glass workers fled here. It now has a Glass Working Technical School and its own glass-works museum.
The footballer Markus Pröll was born in Rheinbach.
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