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Moselle Hills
The Moselle Hills (german: Moselberge) form a ridge, up to , on the left bank of the river Moselle between Reil, Germany, Reil and Schweich in the Rhineland-Palatinate counties of Landkreis Bernkastel-Wittlich, Bernkastel-Wittlich and Landkreis Trier-Saarburg, Trier-Saarburg. There are vineyards on the southern slopes of the wooded hills. They lie on the southern edge of the Eifel region. Geography Location The Moselle Hills lie between the village Reil, Germany, Reil in the northeast and the town of Schweich in the southwest and run past the wine village of Piesport northwest along the Moselle, the aforementioned settlements all lying on the river itself. Natural regional grouping From a Natural regions of Germany, natural regional perspective, the Moselle Hills belong to the major unit group, the Moselle Valley (''Moseltal'', No. 25) and in the major unit of Middle Moselle Valley (''Mittleres Moseltal'', No. 250). The natural regional sub-unit of the Moselle Hills ('' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reil, Germany
Reil is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Reil is strongly characterized by winegrowing and tourism. It was the second capital of the ''Kröver Reich'', a Carolingian crown estate that existed until the French Revolution. Geography The municipality lies on the Moselle. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Traben-Trarbach. History In 1008, Reil had its first documentary mention. The document in question, from King Heinrich II, is dated 18 May 1008 and documents an exchange agreement under which Archbishop Willigis of Mainz traded to Saint Stephen's Church at Mainz an estate in Reil (then known as Rigula) for another estate in Büchenbach (then known as Buochinbah). During the Middle Ages, an important pilgrimage centre, called Reilkirch, stood across the Moselle from Reil, whose Romanesque tower and Early Gothic nav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
