Bernkastel-Wittlich

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Bernkastel-Wittlich

Map of Rhineland-Palatinate highlighting the district Bernkastel-Wittlich
State Rhineland-Palatinate
County seat Wittlich
Area 1178 km²
Population 113,800 (1999)
Pop. density 97 inh./km²
Car identification WIL
Web page bernkastel-wittlich.de

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.

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

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 crayfish 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 Verbandsgemeinden free municipalities
  1. Wittlich
  1. Bernkastel-Kues¹
  2. Kröv-Bausendorf
  3. Manderscheid
  4. Neumagen-Dhron
  5. Thalfang
  6. Traben-Trarbach¹
  7. Wittlich-Land

¹includes town of the same name
  1. Morbach

At one time, the Borough of Milton Keynes was the partner region of the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich[ 1 ].

  • ^ Kreis Bernkastel-Wittlich, Jahrbuch 1982 (page 23ff.), 1982



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 Urban and rural districts in the
Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany
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Urban
districts

Frankenthal | Kaiserslautern | Koblenz | Landau | Ludwigshafen | Mainz | Neustadt (Weinstraße)
Pirmasens | Speyer | Trier | Worms | Zweibrücken

Rural
districts

Ahrweiler | Altenkirchen | Alzey-Worms | Bad Dürkheim | Bad Kreuznach | Bernkastel-Wittlich | Birkenfeld | Bitburg-Prüm
Cochem-Zell | Donnersbergkreis | Germersheim | Kaiserslautern | Kusel | Mainz-Bingen
Mayen-Koblenz | Neuwied | Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis | Rhein-Lahn-Kreis | Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis
Südliche Weinstraße | Südwestpfalz | Trier-Saarburg | Vulkaneifel | Westerwaldkreis
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