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Coblentz (in German: of Koblenz , in Latin: Confluent the ) is a city and a district of Germany, located at the north of the Land of the the Rhineland-Palatinat.

The closest cities are Bonn, with nearly 60 km downstream from the the Rhine, Mainz, to 90 km upstream of the the Rhine, and Ludwigshafen. Coblentz is the third city of the the Rhineland-Palatinat and the seat of conurbation Mayen-Coblentz. It is also a university town.

The name Coblentz comes from Latin Confluentes who means confluent. Since 2002, part of Coblentz was registered with the World heritage of UNESCO.

Coblentz is in an area called Deutsches Eck , literally the German corner , with the Confluent of the the Moselle and the Rhine. The city is bordered by part of the Hunsrück in the South and by the slightly undulating landscape of the Maifeld (left the solid mass of the Eiffel) in the West.

The districts of the city located on Right Bank of the the Rhine are with the edge of the forest of the the Westerwald, which plunges partly to the river. The districts located between the the Rhine and the the Moselle are partly planted of a mixed forest which constitutes the green lung of the city and its close suburbs.

Districts of the city

The city is divided in 28 districts: Altstadt, Arenberg, Arzheim, Asterstein, Bubenheim, Ehrenbreitstein, Goldgrube, Güls put Bisholder, Horchheim, Horchheimer Höhe, Immendorf, Karthause, Kesselheim, Lay, Lützel, Metternich, Mitte, Moselweiß, Neuendorf, Niederberg, Oberwerth, Pfaffendorf, Pfaffendorfer Höhe, Rauental, Rübenach, Stolzenfels, South and Wallersheim.

Fastenings

Evolution of the population

Deduct of local population at the dates indicated. Result of the censuses (¹) or given extrapolated by the qualified statistical institutes or the city itself.

The population is distributed on a surface of 105 km ². The population density thus reaches 1026 people with the km ².

Climate

Coblentz is in a zone known as moderate, with a cold climate and a wind of West dominating. These winds come from the Atlantic and the the North Sea bring each year nearly 700 mm of Précipitations in the low country of the Western Germany like in the Rhenish valley. With an average temperature of 10,8°C and 674 mm of annual precipitations, Coblentz is a wet city throughout the year. The month, coldest is that of January, with a temperature of 2,7°C. The hottest month is that of July with 19,5°C. Coblentz holds the record of heat of Germany for June, with 39,4°C raised on June 18th, 2002.

Religion

Because of its membership of the archbishop's palace of Trier, the city was managed during centuries by the catholic archbishops . During the Reform, there were only some Protestant parishioners in the surrounding communes. In 1784, under the prince voter Clement Wenceslas of Saxony, through an edict of tolerance, the Protestant rich person are officially accepted and their officialized installation. In 1802, they receive the old cloister of S^t Görgen like place of worship. In 1815, whereas Coblentz becomes the capital of the Prussian province of the Rhine, the number of Protestant practitioners strongly increases. In 1902 sets up finally a Church of Christ. Today, the evangelic practitioners who are not members of a free church belong to the diocese of Coblentz of the evangelic church of the Rhine.

The catholic parishioners belong to the deanery of Coblentz, within the area of Coblentz of the Diocèse of Trier. In the district of Arenberg the cloister éponyme is, where live the Dominican sisters of co. Catherine of His. In Pfaffendorf is the Bethlehem cloister of the sisters of the community of the Clarisses Capucines of the perpetual worship. Founded in 1904 by the Mother Mr. Ignatia von Herling, it was destroyed to two thirds in 1944 and was inhabited again by the sisters as from 1953.

History

The site fertile and favourable with the exchanges located at the confluence of the the Moselle and the the Rhine was inhabited in a continuous way since the Stone Age (Towards 9000 before J.C.).

Roman time

Archaeological excavations and the rebuilding partial of a body of farm, in Remstecken on the archeological site of the municipal forest, near the current site of the place of the trade, attest of a Roman colonization in 20 av. J.C. Coblentz thus forms part of the oldest German cities. In the year 9 av. J.C., a strengthened camp is built to make safe the waterway Mainz-Cologne-Xanten. The Romans call this camp " AD confluentes" , which means " with the confluent". At this same time the future inhabitants of Trier settle, who controlled all the area of the Moselle. The strengthened camp then belonged to the Roman province " Germania Superior" , founded in 85 after J.C.

Towards 45 after J.C, a bridge on long pile 350 meters made up of more than 600 trunks of oak provided with iron points (51 of them was preserved) is built between current the Ehrenbreitstein and other bank of the Rhine. The Europabrücke ( bridge of Europe ) distant from 50 meters of the Balduinbrücke ( bridge Balduin ) belonged to the road of the Rhine. A strengthened camp intended for the troops of reinforcement is built at the 2nd century. with Koblenz-Niederlberg in the aim of protection the Files Roman having already been destroyed in year 259 by the Francs.

A temple dedicated to Mercury and Romersta gallo-Celt is in the north of Coblentz in the forest currently belonging to the city, not far from the Roman way. The coins Roman discovered on the spot show that the places would have been used until the 5th century. One finds the vestiges of an old Roman farm ( villa rustica ) partly rebuilt with Remstecken.

Bridges of the Rhine and the Moselle are destroyed at the time of the withdrawal of the Roman troops at the 5th century. Vestiges of walls and roads testify still today in the Coblentz old man to the fortifications to time to the Roman colony.

The Frank Kings

Mérovingiens

With the fall of the Roman Empire of occident at the 5th century, Coblentz is conquered by the Francs which establish a kingdom there.

Carolingian

In February 806, Charlemagne, in its edict Divisio Regnorum, distributes by advance the empire between its sons. Coblentz is allotted to his/her Charles son. This one dies however little of time afterwards. Coblentz thus, in died of Charlemagne, in 814, divided between wire of Louis the Piles.

In 830, following the conflict opposing wire of Louis the Piles (Lothaire Ier, Charles the Bald person and Louis Germanic the) between them and against their father, the empire is again burst and Charles the bald person inherits Coblentz in 837. After a new period of disorder in the empire, of the negotiations are carried out in 842 between three small wire of Charlemagne in the basilica St Kastor of Coblentz, devoted in 836. Finally, the frank empire is shared with the treaty of Verdun in 843. Coblentz is then integrated in the Lotharingie (Called later on Lorraine), kingdom of Lothaire Ier. Into 855, the kingdom of Lothaire Ier east divides between its three sons, at the time of the division of Prüm. Coblentz then fails Lothaire II. With its death, the kingdom is again divided, at the time of the Traité of Mersen in 870, between the brothers of Lothaire Ier (Louis Germanic the and Charles the Bald person). The part Is kingdom, to which belonged Coblentz, by Louis Germanic the is then directed. Coblentz is not saved by plunderings Normands and is destroyed in 882. After a new division of the kingdom, Coblentz and Lotharingie are found in the frank kingdom of the East, which will become later the Saint Empire Romain Germanique.

The Princes voters

In 1018 the emperor Henri II offers the frank kingdom to the Archevêque of Trier Poppo de Babenberg. Coblentz is thus integrated at the princely State of Trier, one of the seven princely States at the origin of the Saint Empire Romain Germanique. The territory under the secular authority of the archbishop of Trier belongs to the Rhenish canton and extends on left bank and right-hand side from the lower courses from the the Moselle and the Lahn. At the 17th century, even if Trier remains the capital, Coblentz became princely residence.

In 1020, new the Château of Ehrenbreitstein falls under the cut from the Archbishops from Trier. It becomes theirs head of bridge on Right Bank of the Rhine, and gains the reputation to be their surest castle. Consequently, when times are animated, the most crowned goods country are preserved there. In particular, the head of Holy Matthieu, the owner of the diocese, remains there of 1380 with 1422 and the Sainte Tunic of 1657 with 1794.

In 1138, Konrad III, dynasty of the Hohenstaufen, is elected king in Coblentz-Lützel. In the drained bed of the Moselle, close to Coblentz, is held in October 1198 a battle between king Philipp de Souabe and the king Otto IV. Didier Prince voter of Trier proposes in 1216 with the knights of the teutonic Ordre to come to settle in Coblentz and part of the territories of the Castor church offers to them. It is at that time that the zone located between the Rhine and the Moselle are named " allemand" place; (Deutscher Ordt) then " German corner (Deutsches Eck). The place always bears this name nowadays.

Of 1252 with 1259, the prince voter of Trier Arnold II of Isenburg builds the castle of Stolzenfels. Joined with the castle of Lahneck, pertaining to the prince voter of Mainz, the castle of Stolzenfels is used as customs city. The Donjon at five sides, which remains still nowadays, is high in 1248. Construction continues 1388 with 1418 on the initiative of princes Kuno and Werner von Falkenstein, with a tower of dwelling and a palate on bank of the Rhine. The castle of Stolzenfels is initially occupied by the Swedes in 1632, then twice two years by the French in 1634 and 1646. It is then destroyed by the French in 1688 at the time of the war of succession of the Palatinat. It remains in ruin during 150 years.

The first mention of a municipal council goes up with 1276, but, after hard battles, Prince Didier de Nassau reaches the capacity in 1304 and forces the inhabitants to give up this political body. In 1338, king Louis of Bavaria holds his court for one day in Coblentz, in the presence of the king Edouard III of England. The project of the Balduin bridge is started under the reign of Prince Balduin of Luxembourg in 1342, but 85 years pass before its inauguration. In 1580 of the monks Jesuits decide to be installed on the spot of an old monastery.

At the time of the War Thirty Year old, the prince voter of Trier Philippe Christophe de Sötern takes the party of the France. French troops occupy the fortification of Ehrenbreitstein on June 5th 1632. Three weeks later, Coblentz capitulates and is occupied by the French. The troops of the emperor make captive Prince Sötern in 1635 and reconquer Trier. They also release Coblentz in May 1636. It takes then more than one year of seat to take again possession of the fortification of Ehrenbreitstein in 1637. Under the reign of the king Louis XIV of France, during the war of succession of Palatinat, the town of Coblentz is again besieged by French in October - November 1688. The French bombardments leave important destruction.

Of 1680 with 1819, a Pont floating ensures the traffic on the Rhine between Coblentz and Ehrenbreitenstein. This bridge is a masterpiece of the technique of then. The bridge is composed of two large boats located on each bank and connected between them by cables and a road. One of these boats is a true masonry, covered with a Charpente of Solive S and boards. One can place eight vehicles and 100 passengers there. The road itself is supported by 9 boats being used as floats.

November 23rd 1786, the prince Clement Wenceslas of Saxony moves in a new castle built on the Rhine. The following year, a new theater is inaugurated. Under its reign, in 1786, the first pipeline water for the population of Coblentz is built. The wells appear still today in the field of the old city. Maternal uncle of Louis XVI and its brothers, the prince-voter accommodates the count d' Artois in emigration. Gradually, Coblentz becomes the general headquarter of the opponents to the French revolution. With the approach of the French revolutionary troops at the time of the first war of the coalitions, Prince Wenceslas is obliged to flee and leave its territory on October 7th 1794. Two weeks later, the town of Coblentz east taken by French. The fortress of Ehrenbreitstein manages to hold until January 27th 1799 before capitulating in its turn. This event marks the end of the reign of the princes voters of Trier.

The French mode

With the Treated of Lunéville signed on February 9th 1801, Coblentz is incorporated in the French Republic and becomes chief town of the French department of the Rhine-and-Moselle. But, being forced to leave Right Bank of the Rhine, French demolishes initially the old fortress of Ehrenbreitstein of the princes voters of Trier. Adrien de Lezay-Marnesia is named first Préfet new department. The city receives the visit of Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife Joséphine de Beauharnais from September 17th to 19th 1804. In 1806, a university of right settles in 1806 court Metternich, at the place where the Austrian statesman had been born.

After the sudden and unexpected change of the Lezay-Marnesia prefect towards Strasbourg on March 1st 1810, its successor Jules Doazan built in Coblentz, in front of the church Beaver, a monument without similar: a neo-classic well of style out of basalt. It carries there, with some spelling errors, a French inscription to celebrate the success of the forwarding of Napoleon towards Russia. However, in the evening of New Year's Eve 1813, of the Russian battalions cross the Rhine to Coblentz. Little before, the French had left the places and had left the city to the Russian troops without fighting. The Russian commander however shows much humor and gives up destroying the well of Doazan or erasing the inscription there. On the other hand, it made there add a second comment:

“Sight and approved by us, the Russian commander of the Town of Coblentz” .

It is at the time of the membership in France that is born the expression " Schängel" , which nominates still today the persons born in Coblentz.

The Prussian mode

According to the agreements of the Congrès of Vienna in 1814/1815 the Rhenish grounds of the princely State of Trier are integrated into the province of the Rhine of the kingdom of Prussia. March 11th 1815, king Frederic Guillaume III gives the order of " to build a new fortification for the town of Coblentz and the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein". In the following years, a new fortification is high around Coblentz. It one of is extended from Europe and takes account of the last scientific evolutions. Its technique of construction is known as " néo-prussienne" or " néo-allemande". The city gains a new enclosure and the hills neighborhood are strewn with solids casemates. Instead of the old castle-extremely of Ehrenbreitstein, military engineers Gustave von Rauch and Ernst Ludwig von Aster raise a vast citadel, which dominates the city still today. It represents the military bastion most important and one of most solid of the Rhine.

Thereafter, other fortifications are built, like strong Asterstein in Coblentz, the fortification of the François emperor in Lützel, or that of the Alexandre emperor preceded by his strong Constantin on Karthause.

With the construction of the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein and its forts on left bank of the the Rhine, the old floating bridge, only and single means of crossing the Rhine, becomes insufficient. A new floating bridge is thus built in 1819 between Coblentz and Ehrenbreitstein. On 36 wood boats, this bridge crosses the Rhine over a 325 meters length. Spans are arranged in order to allow the passage of the ships. Of 1841 until its destruction in 1945 during the Second world war, a floating bridge continued to span the the Rhine.

The ruins of the Château of Stolzenfels are offered in 1815 by the city to the royal prince, future Frederic Guillaume IV. That of which is accepted by this one only in 1823. Three years later it charges the architect Jean-Claude de Lassaulx with setting up a traditional church of style néo-novel. It then makes transform the castle into residence of summer. Completed under its current form in 1842 per Charles Frederic Schinkel, the style of the castle is influenced English and romantic style neogothic of Schinkel. September 14th 1842, Frederic Guillaume IV moves in there finally.

In 1858 the first train crossed the new bridge of Coblentz and the network of railways was systematically arranged as from 1864. Following the development of the armament and military techniques, one renonça in 1890 to increase the fortifications of Coblentz. Several weeks after the death of the emperor Guillaume Ier (1888), the administration started a new project: the construction of a memorial in the honor of the late king and emperor. The work based in the fields of professor Hundrieser and the architect Bruno Schmitz lasted of 1893 to 1897 on the spot of Deutsches Eck, follow-up of the inauguration of the site by the emperor Guillaume II.

The 20th century

At the end of the First World War, in November 1918, a council of the workmen and soldiers was formed in Coblentz, but one month later the American troops conquered the city and reflect with the government of the Soviets. In 1919 following the elections the municipal council of Coblentz accommodated, for the first time, of the women in his center. In 1923 the command of the military troops was transferred by the Americans to the French, who in their turn left the city in 1929. The following year, at the time of the commemoration of the release of the city, the President of Reich Paul von Hindenburg honoured the town of a visit. Following the takeover by the Nazis in 1933 the mayor Dr. Hugo Rosendahl was forced to leave his station. The historical bridge of Balduin remained for a long time the single means of crossing the Moselle, but because of the growth of circulation it is not enough soon any more, and at the beginning the years 1930 it was a question of building a second bridge over the river, inaugurated after two years of work in 1934 under the name of bridge Adolf-Hitler (Adolf-Hitler-Brücke). At the time of the remilitarization of left bank of the Rhine, German troops were again stationed in Coblentz in 1936. On the place in front of the town hall a new site of public interest, Schängelbrünnen, was inaugurated in 1941.

In 1942,870 Jews were off-set by the Nazis starting from the station of Koblenz-Lützel. The historical center of Coblentz was destroyed by a bombardment of the Royal Air Force in 1944, and the city occupied again by American troops in 1945.

In agreement with the decisions taken at the time of the Conference of Potsdam, the authority of occupation was transferred from the Americans to the French and in 1946 the Land of the Rhineland-Palatinat was founded. The first session of the provincial Consultative Assembly ( Beratende Landesversammlung ) took place on November 22nd, 1946 in the theater, that of Landtag as of on June 4th, 1947 in the big room of the town hall of Coblentz, which became, as from this moment, the capital of the new Land. Wilhelm Boden was elected at the post of minister-president of the Rhineland-Palatinat, but hardly one month later Peter Altmeier took his succession. It is during the Conférence of Rittersturz, held in Coblentz in 1948, that the the Federal Republic of Germany was founded, based on the decision of the three occupying forces of the West Germany to cooperate and even if it means to cause a separation, at least temporary, Soviet zone.

In 1950 the regional Parliament decided in favor of a transfer of the seat of the government to Mainz.

In 1953 the president Theodor Heuss stated the site of Deutsches Eck, Mémorial of the German unification. In the place of the statue of the emperor Guillaume Ier, destroyed by artillery fires in 1945, one installed the new German flag. Following the new foundation of a German army, the barracks of Coblentz were again populated and the city became the most important seat of garrison of Germany of the time of the cold war. Nowadays, Coblentz is always the most important city in terms of parking of the German armed forces.

In 1962 the number of inhabitants exceeded the bar of the 100 000. Between 1969 and 1975 the most important project of work of art was carried out: The bridge of the South crossing the Rhine. The last project of this kind, the bridge Kurt Schumacher, on the Moselle, was completed in 1990. Two years later the city celebrated the birthday of its 2.000 years of existence, and after long controversies the restored statue of the emperor Guillaume Ier was inaugurated in 1993. Regularly, at the time of the snow melt, the city is victim of floods.

The 21e century

In 2002 the valley of the High Rhine was declared world heritage by UNESCO. This romantic part of the Rhine with its innumerable Manors house, Castles and vines extends at a distance from 65 km on the edges from the Rhine between Bingen, Rüdesheim and the historical center of Coblentz, the castle of the princely sovereigns, the castle of Stolzenfels, the former Manor house, Deutsche Eck and the old fortifications of the Prussian time. In 2011, will be held in the city, the exposure of horticulture.

Sport

The many green areas invite to the practice of the sports of outdoor. More than 42.000 inhabitants are registered in the few 150 sports associations, which propose more than 50 activities. No German city of a comparable size shows a degree of organization higher in this field. With a capacity of 17 084 seats, the stage of Oberwerth, whose construction was completed in 1936, represents one of the most important sports grounds of the surroundings.

Museums

As a city of the Great Area (gathering the Rhineland-Palatinat, the Saar, Lorraine and Luxembourg), Coblentz takes part in the program of the Européenne year of Luxembourg Capitale of the Culture 2007 .

Museum of the Rhine of the town of Coblentz
House of the mother Beethoven
Museum of the Rhenish Carnival of Coblentz (in the places of the strong Constantin)
Museum of the Land of Coblentz (on the fortification of Ehrenbreitstein)
Museum of the Post office of the Rhine
Museum of the Rhine, Museum of History of Civilization and Navigation
Museum of the castle of Stolzenfels
Collections of Studies on the Techniques of Defense of Coblentz
Louis Museum (in the Deutschherrenhaus house)

Libraries

Rhenish Library of the Land of Coblentz
Public library of Coblentz
College library of Coblentz Pram

Theaters

municipal Théâtre of Coblentz
Théâtre Intimates
Théâtre Kulturfabrik
Maison of Konrad

The carnival of Coblentz

Since the 13th century on the initiative of the Caesarius monk of the carnavalesques demonstrations take place in Deutsches Eck, but this religious habit is lost at the time of the 30 year old war. In spite of the destruction, rationing and many victims the carnavalesque tradition knows a rebirth in 1688, this time of a more modern nature, marked by princely ostentation. With the occupation of the city by the troops of Napoleon, the carnival also takes a more middle-class nature.

Following the defeat of Napoleon and resumption of the territory by the Prussians in 1815, his carnival sees being born in 1823 a new stage from its history, probably most important, that under the influence of the reform of the emanating carnival of Cologne. The reform implies an organization of the demonstrations in Coblentz and involves the foundation of numbers of association. Middle-class obstinacy and the will to establish an independent administration formed a contrast with the Prussian principle of reason of State, phenomenon which was also pointed out by a paralysis of the development of the aforesaid the Fifth Season at the beginning of the 19th century. Even if in 1827 the inhabitants always manage to organize a procession, freedoms of the demonstrations are restricted soon by bureaucratic limits. It is only into 1860 that the relations between the participants and the public authority slacken. In spite of temporary interruptions following political crises and a certain disinterest of the population in its connection with the turning of the century, the tradition re-examined thanks to its stimulating effect on the economy and tourism. After a total suspension of the demonstrations during the Second world war, the interest begins again and increases until our days. Nowadays the principal engine of the demonstrations is an association (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Koblenzer Karneval). The range extends from demonstrations during room and the meetings, with the procession of Fatty Monday crossing the entity of the center town, just as the election of the prince and his Lady Confluentia, the occupation of the town hall and the barracks of Falkenstein by masked under the direction of the Council of the Eleven and the Regents of the Days of Madness.

Regular demonstrations

February: Procession of the Carnival
April at September: Season of the Village of the Wine
April/May: Celebrates Flowering and Wine in Coblentz-Güls
May: May of Karthause
May celebrates: Turn of the Rhineland-Palatinat
May: Masters on Roofed-in Area of the Schools
May/June: Evenings Serenades in the Course of the Flowers
May at September: Village fairs in several Districts
June: Marathon of the Rhine
June: Tal day of the renouncement of the car
June/July: AnimaniA
July: Old downtown area
July celebrates: Celebrates Artists of the Street
August: The Rhine in Flame (each second Saturday)
September: Wine in Coblentz-Lay
October celebrates: Celebrates Graces for Harvest
October: Schängel market of Coblentz
November: Meerdes processions of the Children at the time of the Saint Martin's day
November/December: Market of Christmas

Twin towns

The town of Coblentz maintains the bonds of twinning with seven municipalities distributed out of three continents. The first relation of this kind goes back to 1963 with the city of. In 1969 that with the district of London Haringey followed and in 1978 that with the town of Norwich of the English county Norfolk. A bond of twinning was also established in 1981 with the city of. Ten years later the town of Italy of North Novara became the fifth twin town, follow-up of Austin, capital of the Texas to the the United States, downtown 1992 and first twinned on another continent, then of the Israeli city of Petah Tikva in 2000. Within this framework the principal demonstrations are visits of groups of young people and delegations at the time of the principal festivals of the city (ravelled Fatty Monday, celebrates old downtown area), as well as exchanges between pupils and of the training courses organized by the schools, in order to familiarize the young people with the culture and the habits of the other country.

Economy and infrastructure

Economy

The industry of mechanical and automobile subcontracting, as well as the development of software and the public administration are the principal employers of the city.

To mention particularly:

Corus Aluminum Rolled Products; aluminum components for aeronautics, navigation and the car
TRW Automotive; Security system for cars; sit Principal for the brakes
Stabilus; Manufacturer of Gas Spring, for example for trunk of car
CompuGROUP AG; Leader of Market in Germany for software of invoicing in the medical sector
Brewery Königsbacher
Debeka; Insurance & Saving Housing
Shopping mall of Löhr ( Löhr-Center )

Public administration

Public records
National institute of hydrography
Inspection of Water and Navigation
Inspection of the River Police force of the Rhineland-Palatinat
Office of topography and geodetic elementary information of the Rhineland-Palatinat
Magistrates' court of the Moor of Coblentz
County courts, of the Land, Work and the social Affairs
Prison of Karthause

Army

Until the end of the years' 80, the town of Coblentz was the most important garrison town in Germany. In spite of the closing of several barracks since, the territory of Coblentz counts many military establishments and civilians of the federal Army in these places:

federal Office of the Techniques of Defense and the provisioning
Center of technical tests for the materials of the Genius and the Troops
federal Office of Management of Information and Technique of Information of the Army
Center of Interior
Staff
national Hospital and pharmaceutical Direction of the Army of Coblentz
central Institute of the departments of health of the Army
Battalion for operational information 950
Body of Music of the Army 300
cantonal Office of recruitment and administration of garrison of Coblentz
State Major of the Medical Troops
School superior of the Army of Coblentz
Barracks of Falckenstein, of the Rhine, of Gneisenau and Augusta

Transport

Surrounded by axes highway, such as A61 de Ludwigshafen with Mönchengladbach in the west, A48, junction between A1 from Saarbrucken to Cologne and A3 from Frankfurt to Cologne, north, the town of Coblentz east crossed by the trunk roads B9, B42, B49, B416 and B258. The central station with stop for Express trains is located along the line between Bonn and Mainz, but also of the principal line on Right Bank of the Rhine de Wiesbaden in Cologne. Junction between the line in direction of Sorting, then Luxembourg and Saarbrucken, along the Moselle and that in direction of Limburg and Gießen, along Lahn, Coblentz lost in importance, like rail junction, since the termination of the line express train between Cologne and Frankfurt. At one hour of road of the international airports of Cologne and Frankfurt, relatively near to that of Frankfurt-Hahn, the small airport of Winningen, only a few away minutes, also knows a considerable importance for the business trips at the regional level. Thanks to its strategic direction with the confluence of the Rhine and the Moselle, Coblentz is easily accessible by inland waterway. The next wearing of goods in the industrial park of Port of the Rhine is used like node as transport between the road, railway and river ways. As regards public transport, Coblentz is served by several lines of bus of the electric company of Coblentz, of the public limit company of Transport, as well as other suppliers of public transport. The city belongs to the public grid system the Rhine and the Moselle. With 1899 to 1967 the city was also equipped with a wide area network of trams.

Media

Sit of a studio of the transmitters of broadcasting public of south-west (SWR) and private RPR, like room, such as Antenne of Coblentz, are also present there two local television broadcast stations Canal 10 and Coblentz Channel. On the field of the written press are to be mentioned the Journal daily newspaper of the Rhine (Rhein-Zeitung) and the Schängel weekly magazines of Coblentz and the Municipal Monitor of Coblentz (Koblenzer Stadt-Anzeiger). For information on the diary and the manifestations of the area the virtual magazines konnect and RZ-Online are to be recommended.

Higher education

the university of Coblentz and Landau, founded in 1990 to succeed the University of teaching studies of the Rhineland-Palatinat with institutes on Coblentz and Landau, like its management Committee in Mainz, or was located the direction of the school and the accounts center. Beside the teaching disciplines resulting from the time of the teaching school higher, teaching is centered on data-processing management, mainly for social sciences and management of company, and a single discipline for all Germany Computervisualistik (Visual Data processing).
the professional university of Coblentz, founded in 1971 in relation to the professional establishment higher of the Rhineland-Palatinat, then detached in 1996, the range of the disciplines suggested by the establishment extends from architecture, the urban development, public construction, economic management, electrical engineering, the data-processing technique, the mechanical engineering, as well as social sciences.

Personalities

Citizens of Honor

1868 : Philipp Krementz ; cardinal
1879: Friedrich Gustav von Beyer ; general and ordering fortress
1886: Dr. Moritz von Bardeleben; chair general Province of the Rhineland
1892: August von Reichensberg ; lawyer and politicking
1895: Otto von Bismarck ; chancellor of Reich
1901: Dr. Berthold von Bow net; chair general Province of the Rhineland
1901: Julius Fischel ; to advise in Justice
1904: Julius Wegeler ; to advise commercial and municipal
1910: Dr. Clemens Baron de Schorlemer-Lieser; chair general Province of the Rhineland
1917: Paul von Hindenburg; Feld Marshal
1917: Eduard Müller ; To advise in Justice
1918: Georg Baron de Rheinbaben; chair general Province of the Rhineland
1929: Dr. Johannes Fuchs; chair general Province of the Rhineland
1931: Dr. Karl Russel; Mayor
1952: Dr. Fritz Michel; historian of Art and doctor
1959: Dr. Peter Altmeier; Prime Minister of the Rhineland-Palatinat
1963: Josef Schnorbach ; mayor
1981: Dr. Erich Franke; Regionalistic politician
1995: Willi Hörter ; mayor
2006: Valery Giscard d'Estaing; former president of the French Republic

Its celebrities

1760 : Josef von Hommer, archbishop of Trier of 1824 to 1836
1763: Wilhelm Arnold Günther, canon of Trier of 1836 to 1842
1773: Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman
1776: Joseph Görres, journalist
1778: Clemens Brentano, poet
1791: Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, type-setter
1792: Friedrich von Gärtner, architect
1798: Johann Georg Müller, bishop of Münster of 1847 to 1870
1806: Henriette Sontag, professional singer,
1819: Philipp Kremenz, archbishop of Cologne 1885 to 1899
1879: max von Laue, physicist
1885: Fritz von Unruh, writer and playwright
1903: Joseph Breitbach, patron
1920: Walter Ernsting (Clark Dalton), German author of science fiction
1922: Wilhelm Stöck, journalist, presenter of the tv news (Tagesschau) of 1964 to 1984
1923: Jürgen von To eat (Adolf Tegtmeier), whimsical
1925: Peter Ludwig, tycoon of industry and patron
1926: Valery Giscard d'Estaing, former president of the French Republic
1930: Herbert Gauls, photographer and founder of the advertizing agency “Foto Gauls”
1967: Bodo Illgner, footballer, former goalkeeper of the national team of Germany and world champion (1990).

See too

The castle-extremely of Lahneck to 5 km with the confluence of Lahn and the Rhine with Lahnstein

External bonds

Official site of the town of Coblentz
Webcams: on marktplatz-koblenz.de: View in the hurdy-gurdy city
Webcams: StadtPanoramen Koblenz - Coblentz in panoramic images
Webcams: Deutsches Eck - Sight of Deutsches Eck

Simple: Koblenz

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