Bad Breisig () is a town in the district of Ahrweiler, in

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. It is situated on the

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, approx. 15 km south-east of

Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler () is a spa town in the German Bundesland of Rhineland-Palatinate that serves as the capital of the Ahrweiler district. The A61 motorway connects the town with cities like Cologne and Mainz. Formed by the merging of the t ...

. Bad Breisig is the seat of the ''

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'' ("collective municipality")

Bad Breisig Bad Breisig () is a town in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the Rhine, approx. 15 km south-east of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler. Bad Breisig is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective m ...

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

* Beate Berger (1886-1940), director of the Jewish children's home '' Beith Ahawah '' in

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and

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People connected with Bad Breisig

Max Barthel Max Barthel (born 17 November 1893 in Loschwitz, Dresden — died 17 June 1975 in Waldbröl) was a German writer. A factory worker, Barthel was a member of the socialist youth movement; he was a World War I frontline soldier from 1914 to 191 ...

(1893-1975), working poet, lived from 1948 to 1969 in Bad Breisig *

Klaus Badelt Klaus Badelt (born 12 June 1967) is a German composer, producer, and arranger of film scores. He is known for his collaborations with Hans Zimmer, helping to write scores for dozens of critically acclaimed films including '' The Thin Red Line'' ...

(born 1967), a German composer, which specializes in television and soundtrack. *

Kai Krause Kai Krause (born March 14, 1957) is a German software and graphical user interface designer, best known for founding MetaCreations Corp., his Kai's Power Tools series of products, and for his contributions to graphical user interface design. B ...

(born 1957), a German musician and

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- pioneer, lives in . * The religious scholar and sociologist

Oliver Krüger Oliver Krüger (born 1973) is a German professor in Religious studies at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). From 1994 to 1999 he studied sociology, classical archaeology, and comparative religion at the University of Bonn. In 2003, he grad ...

(born 1973) grew up in Bad Breisig.

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Populated places on the Rhine Populated places in Ahrweiler (district) Middle Rhine Spa towns in Germany {{Ahrweiler-geo-stub

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

People connected with Bad Breisig

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