Hesse or Hessia, officially the State of Hesse, is a state of the Federal Republic of Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest metropolitan area is Frankfurt am Main.
Rheingau-Taunus is a Kreis (district) in the west of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Limburg-Weilburg, Hochtaunuskreis, Main-Taunus-Kreis, district-free Wiesbaden, Mainz-Bingen, Rhein-Lahn.
Bad Schwalbach is the district seat of Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany.
Schwalbach can refer to several places in Germany:
Schwalbach am Taunus, a town in the Main-Taunus-Kreis district, in Hesse, Germany, population about 14,000, is a dormitory town to Frankfurt, situated some 11 km east of Schwalbach. There is evidence of human habitation dating back to Neolithic times, and recorded history going back to 781 AD. Until the end of the Second World War, it was a farming village, but in the post-war era it expanded rapidly and became economically linked to Frankfurt. Schwalbach was granted Gemeinde (municipal) status in 1970.
Schöffengrund is a community in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany.
Schloss Buchenau located in Buchenau between Fulda and Bad Hersfeld in the district of Eiterfeld, federal state (Bundesland) of Hesse, Germany.
Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt was a princess of Hesse-Darmstadt and wife of the Prince-elector of the Palatinate.
Hohenstein is a community in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany.
The Aar is a 50-kilometre-long (31 mi) river in western Germany, left tributary of the Lahn. It rises in the Taunus mountains, near Taunusstein. It flows generally north through the towns Taunusstein, Bad Schwalbach, Aarbergen and Hahnstätten. It flows into the Lahn in Diez.
The Limes Railway is a continuously electrified and single-track railway that runs on the southern edge of the Taunus in the German state of Hesse, connecting the towns of Niederhöchstadt and Bad Soden am Taunus. It is named after Limesstadt, a housing development.
Heimbach is a town in the district of Düren in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Landgrave Ernest of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg was from 1649 to 1658 Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels and from 1658 until his death Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg. Because his brothers died young, all later Landgraves in the Rotenburg Quarter are descendants of Ernest. Hence, Ernest is known as the ancestor of the Catholic Rotenburg Quarter, a group of junior lines of the House of Hesse.
Sauerbornsbach is a small river of Hesse, Germany.
Schwalbach is a river of Hesse, Germany. It is formed in Schwalbach am Taunus at the confluence of the rivers Sauerbornsbach and Waldbach. It is a left tributary of the Sulzbach, into which it flows near Sulzbach.
The Aar Valley Railway is a 53.7 km long line between Wiesbaden, the capital of the German state of Hesse, and Diez in Rhineland-Palatinate. From 1985 to 2007, the southern end was operated as a heritage railway with historic trains. The Hessian part of the line is heritage-listed. Currently, two bridges are unusable and several sets of points are defective and need to be repaired. Its northern end is operated with draisines.
The village of Ramchied is a district of the town of Bad Schwalbach in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis region of the state of Hessen, Germany. It is also referred to as Bad Schwalbach - Ramschied.
The Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes, or ORL, is a 550-kilometre-long section of the former external frontier of the Roman Empire between the rivers Rhine and Danube. It runs from Rheinbrohl to Eining on the Danube. The Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes is an archaeological site and, since 2005, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Together with the Lower Germanic Limes it forms part of the Limes Germanicus.
The Church of St. Pankratius is a parish church of the Roman Catholic parish of Schwalbach am Taunus, Hesse, Germany. It is also used as a concert venue.
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