Idar-Oberstein is a town in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. As a Große kreisangehörige Stadt, it assumes some of the responsibilities that for smaller municipalities in the d
Schloss Oberstein, castle on the hills above Oberstein
The Hunsrück is a long, triangular, pronounced upland in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the valleys of the Moselle-Saar, the Nahe, and the Rhine. It is continued by the Taunus mountai
Idar-Oberstein
…each centre's history as a rural village. Idar-Oberstein is known as a gemstone town, and also as a garrison town. It is also the largest town in the Hunsrück. The town lies on the southern edge of the Hunsrück on both sides of the river Nahe…