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Landkreis Bad Kreuznach

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Stromberg Old Town and Snake Tower

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Stromberg

Stromberg Old Town and Snake Tower

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Location: Stromberg, Bad Kreuznach, Landkreis Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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1. View of the Nahe Estuary – Rock Hermitage Bretzenheim loop from Unterhub

49.7km

03:23

650m

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2. View of the Niederwalddenkmal – View of the Nahe Estuary loop from Waldalgesheim

47.9km

02:59

410m

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3. Wilhelmsbrücke with Towers – Rock Hermitage Bretzenheim loop from Stromberg

60.6km

03:49

670m

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Wander- und Bike-Region Hunsrück-Nahe

October 4, 2023

The small town of Stromberg is also known as the gateway to the Nahe, Rhine, and Hunsrück rivers, as well as the town of the German Michel. Stromberg offers plenty of variety: a golf course, the Stromberg Flowtrail, hiking and biking trails, and castles await visitors and locals alike.

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Hirschis

April 30, 2020

The city of Stromberg sees itself as the birthplace of the “German Michel”:

“A possible historical role model for the German Michel is, among other people, the equestrian general Hans Michael Elias von Obentraut, who was born on October 2, 1574 at Stromburg and also spent his childhood here. In the Thirty Years' War he fought at the head of the Electoral Palatinate cavalry for the Evangelical Union and rose to the rank of general. His martial art soon earned him the reputation of the feared Miguel Aleman among Marshal Tilly's Spanish mercenaries on the Catholic side. Stromberg celebrates its most famous son every year at Pentecost with a historic town festival.”

Source Wikipedia 2020 de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromberg_(Hunsrück)

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MaestroG

May 27, 2022

On April 4, 1792, French revolutionary troops planted a liberty linden tree on Stromburg, which was destroyed on March 3, 1689.

There was heavy fighting near Stromberg against the Prussians approaching in the north, in which the French General Custine deployed around 12,000 men.

The new laws of the French revolutionary period were also introduced in the Middle East in 1796. Accordingly, all sovereigns were deprived of their rule and all Electoral Palatinates were dissolved, thus ending the small states of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.

Stromberg became the seat of a canton in Rhin-et-Moselle with 27 towns and 7,943 inhabitants. A final contract was concluded regarding the fate of the left bank of the Rhine. According to the Treaty of Lunéville of 1801, the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation had to cede this area completely to France.

From 1805 onwards, the Nahe region was again only used for troops to pass through. Sometimes residents from here were also sent to the front as French citizens. The Mayor of Stromberg sent 97 men between 1800 and 1814.

The Prussian General Yorck set off from Wartenburg to Stromberg on New Year's Eve at 11 a.m., where he set up his quarters until January 4, 1814. General Blücher also stopped in Stromberg in 1814 during the wars of liberation.

Under the Prussians until the end of the First World War

According to the Congress of Vienna, the Near region had now been handed over to the Prussians, who, however, were more interested in ruling over Poland or Saxony. The population was also neither consulted nor taken into account, so that they behaved negatively towards the Prussians and considered everything to be a kind of interim government. The first half of the 19th century was not exactly rosy and brought with it numerous years of hardship.

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Location: Stromberg, Bad Kreuznach, Landkreis Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Stromberg Old Town and Snake Tower

1. View of the Nahe Estuary – Rock Hermitage Bretzenheim loop from Unterhub

2. View of the Niederwalddenkmal – View of the Nahe Estuary loop from Waldalgesheim

3. Wilhelmsbrücke with Towers – Rock Hermitage Bretzenheim loop from Stromberg

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