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Bad Breisig

Coordinates: 50°30′33″N 7°17′47″E / 50.50917°N 7.29639°E / 50.50917; 7.29639
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Bad Breisig
Coat of arms of Bad Breisig
Location of Bad Breisig within Ahrweiler district
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Bad Breisig is located in Germany
Bad Breisig
Bad Breisig
Bad Breisig is located in Rhineland-Palatinate
Bad Breisig
Bad Breisig
Coordinates: 50°30′33″N 7°17′47″E / 50.50917°N 7.29639°E / 50.50917; 7.29639
CountryGermany
StateRhineland-Palatinate
DistrictAhrweiler
Municipal assoc.Bad Breisig
Government
 • MayorGabriele Hermann-Lersch
Area
 • Total19.94 km2 (7.70 sq mi)
Elevation
70 m (230 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[1]
 • Total9,740
 • Density490/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
53498
Dialling codes02633; 02642
Vehicle registrationAW
Websitewww.bad-breisig.de
View of Bad Breisig
Castle Rheineck
Saint Charles Borromeo chapel

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 municipality") Bad Breisig.

Personality

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Beate Berger (1886-1940), director of the Jewish children's home Beith Ahawah in Berlin and Haifa

People connected with Bad Breisig

  • Max Barthel (1893-1975), working poet, lived from 1948 to 1969 in Bad Breisig
  • Klaus Badelt (born 1967), a German composer, which specializes in television and soundtrack.
  • Kai Krause (born 1957), a German musician and software - pioneer, lives on Rheineck Castle.
  • The religious scholar and sociologist Oliver Krüger (born 1973) grew up in Bad Breisig.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.