Simmern is a town of roughly 7,600 inhabitants (2013) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, the district seat of the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, and the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Simmern-Rheinböllen. In the Rhineland-Palatinate state development plan, it is set out as a middle centre.
Simmern im Hunsrück
Schloss Simmern as depicted by Matthäus Merian in 1648
Remnants of the mediaeval town wall
The New Schloss Simmern, built between 1708 and 1713 as the Palatine Oberamtmann’s seat
The Hunsrück is a long, triangular, pronounced upland in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the valleys of the Moselle-Saar (north-to-west), the Nahe (south), and the Rhine (east). It is continued by the Taunus mountains, past the Rhine and by the Eifel past the Moselle. To the south of the Nahe is a lower, hilly country forming the near bulk of the Palatinate region and all of the, smaller, Saarland. Below its north-east corner is Koblenz.
The Erbeskopf from the northeast
The striking Idarkopf dominates the Hunsrück
The Rösterkopf near Reinsfeld
Barn near Bell