Altenkirchen () is a town in

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sou ...

, capital of the district of Altenkirchen. It is located approximately 40 km east of

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...

and 50 km north of

Koblenz Koblenz (; Moselle Franconian: ''Kowelenz''), spelled Coblenz before 1926, is a German city on the banks of the Rhine and the Moselle, a multi-nation tributary. Koblenz was established as a Roman military post by Drusus around 8 B.C. Its na ...

. Altenkirchen is the seat of the ''

Verbandsgemeinde A Verbandsgemeinde (; plural Verbandsgemeinden) is a low-level administrative unit in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt. A Verbandsgemeinde is typically composed of a small group of villages or towns. Rhine ...

'' ("collective municipality")

Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld is a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") in the district of Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' is in Altenkirchen. It was formed on 1 January 2020 by the merger o ...

Population development

Geography

* Lahrer Herrlichkeit, a landscape region in the collective municipality of Flammersfeld

Notable people

Bundesarchiv Bild 101II-MN-1361-21A, Schlachtschiff Bismarck, Kapitän Ernst Lindemann

Dirk Adorf Dirk Adorf (born 10 July 1969 in Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a German racing driver. Starting with small cars, he won the Nürburgring VLN German Endurance Trophy in 1992, 1996 and 1997.Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler (born 1975), politician (SPD) * Dittmar Hahn (born 1943), former judge of the Federal Administrative Court * Claus Koch (born 1953), jazz musician * Ernst Lindemann (1894–1941), an officer of the Imperial Navy and later the

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commander of the battleship '' Bismarck '' * Hermann Heinrich Traut (born 1866), librarian * Marie Gülich (born 1994), WNBA player.

Other personalities

The following figures are not native Altenkirchen people, but have worked or lived in the city: FW Raiffeisen

* Wilhelm Boden (1890–1961), former Prime Ministers of Rheinland-Pfalz * Ludwig Julius Budge (1811–1888), physician * Bernhard Grzimek (1909–1987), zoologist, cooperated in 1938 with the District Veterinary Office in Altenkirchen to combat bovine tuberculosis * François Séverin Marceau (1769–1796), French general * Krzysztof Meyer (born 1943), composer * Hans Nüsslein (1910–1991), German tennis player, professional world champion in 1933, 1936, 1937 *

Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (30 March 1818 – 11 March 1888) was a German mayor and cooperative pioneer. Several credit union systems and cooperative banks have been named after Raiffeisen, who pioneered rural credit unions. Life Friedrich Wilh ...

(1818–1888), social reformer * Ewald Schnug (1930–2013), Master Gardener, Bearer of the Federal Cross of Merit, First Alderman of Altenkirchen, Gamekeeper's ring leader, County hunting master * Ewald Schnug (* 1954), agricultural researcher, professor, Honorary-President of the International Scentific Center for Fertilizers

References

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