Bernkastel-Wittlich (German: Landkreis Bernkastel-Wittlich) is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Vulkaneifel, Cochem-Zell, Rhein-Hunsrück, Birkenfeld, Trier-Saarburg and Bitburg-Prüm.
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, which crosses the territory from southwest to northeast. The land rises to the Eifel in the north and the Hunsrück in the south. A great number of tributaries rise in the Eifel and flow into the Moselle. The Erbeskopf (818 m), the highest peak in the Hunsrück and Rhineland-Palatinate, lies in the very south of the district.
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 County of Sponheim, which ruled this part of the Moselle valley in medieval times
Towns and municipalities Verband-free townVerband-free municipality Wittlich Morbach Verbandsgemeinden1. Bernkastel-Kues Bernkastel-Kues1, 2 Brauneberg Burgen Erden Gornhausen Graach an der Mosel Hochscheid Kesten Kleinich Kommen Lieser Lösnich Longkamp Maring-Noviand Minheim Monzelfeld Mülheim Neumagen-Dhron Piesport Ürzig Veldenz Wintrich Zeltingen-Rachtig2. Thalfang am Erbeskopf Berglicht Breit Büdlich Burtscheid Deuselbach Dhronecken Etgert Gielert Gräfendhron Heidenburg Hilscheid Horath Immert Lückenburg Malborn Merschbach Neunkirchen Rorodt Schönberg Talling Thalfang13. Traben-Trarbach Bausendorf Bengel Burg Diefenbach Enkirch Flußbach Hontheim Irmenach Kinderbeuern Kinheim Kröv Lötzbeuren Reil Starkenburg Traben-Trarbach1, 2 Willwerscheid4. Wittlich-Land [seat: Wittlich] Altrich Arenrath Bergweiler Bettenfeld Binsfeld Bruch Dierfeld Dierscheid Dodenburg Dreis Eckfeld Eisenschmitt Esch Gipperath Gladbach Greimerath Großlittgen Hasborn Heckenmünster Heidweiler Hetzerath Hupperath Karl Klausen Landscheid Laufeld Manderscheid Meerfeld Minderlittgen Musweiler Niederöfflingen Niederscheidweiler Niersbach Oberöfflingen Oberscheidweiler Osann-Monzel Pantenburg Platten Plein Rivenich Salmtal Schladt Schwarzenborn Sehlem Wallscheid1seat of the Verbandsgemeinde; 2town
Transport links
The Moselstrecke from Koblenz Hbf to Trier Hbf, in service for passenger and freight transport, lines RE1 and RE11 and the Moselweinbahn from Bullay to Traben-Trarbach, line RB85, in service for passenger transport, are partly located in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district. Also the Wengenrohr - Bernkastel-Kues Railway, the Wengenrohr-Daun Railway and the Cross Hunsrück Railway but those are out of service.
Bernkastel-Wittlich district is located in the area of the transport association Verkehrsverbund Region Trier (VRT), the fare of the transport association Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel (VRM) also applies, if the start or destination of the journey is located in the VRM area.
Twin region At one time, the Borough of Milton Keynes was the twinned region of the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich.
External links Official website (German)
References
^ Kreis Bernkastel-Wittlich, Jahrbuch 1982 (page 23ff.), 1982