Longuich () is a municipality in the
Trier-Saarburg
Trier-Saarburg (; ) is a district in the west of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from the north and clockwise) Bitburg-PrĂ¼m, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Birkenfeld, Sankt Wendel (Saarland), and Merzig-Wadern (Saarland). To ...
district, in
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; ; ; ) 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 sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are ...
,
Germany
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. It lies on the river
Moselle
The Moselle ( , ; ; ) is a river that rises in the Vosges mountains and flows through north-eastern France and Luxembourg to western Germany. It is a bank (geography), left bank tributary of the Rhine, which it joins at Koblenz. A sm ...
.
A part of Longuich is Kirsch.
It was the birthplace of Theodore Nesser, father of the Nesser Brothers of the National Football League, who played for the now defunct Columbus Panhandles in the 1920s.
References
Municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate
Trier-Saarburg
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