Nastätten, Taunus (Germany)

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General Landmarks Countryside Information

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General

Location	10 km east of the famous Loreley rock, 60 km west of Frankfurt/Main
Coordinates	7.86° East, 50.20° North, 250 meters above N.N.
Size	> 4,000 inhabitants, center of a community with 32 villages of some 16,000 inhabitants
Age	more than 1100 years (first mentioned in 893)
Education	Kindergarten, elementary school, secondary school, high school (14 km)
Culture	different offers at the town hall (Bürgerhaus), cinema, and a lot of clubs, e.g. VfL Nastaetten (sports), volunteer fire brigade, YMCA
Religions	55 % protestant Christians, 35% Roman catholic Christians, some Moslems and Jews
Sports	the VfL Nastaetten (sports) is the biggest club in town
Fairs and Markets	spring market, car show, October market, X-mas street
Mayor	, SPD
State	Rhineland-Palatinate

Landmarks

• protestant church (partially 13th century)
• chapel at Oelsberg (1 km) with the oldest fresco of the Central Rhine
• museum "live and work in the blue countryside" - exhibition of former life and work
• glide airfield of the Aeroclub Nastätten (> 25 planes, world class pilots)
• 25 planes, world class pilots Nicolaus August Otto, inventor of the 4-cycle engine, which works in nearly every car
• parts of the Roman frontier wall Limes and ruins of Roman barracks at Holzhausen (4 km)
• birth place of the famous 18th century robber Schinderhannes at Miehlen (4 km)
• geological open air museum at Bettendorf (3 km)

Countryside

Nastaetten is located in the hills of the western lower Taunus, between the rivers Rhine, Main and Lahn. The countryside is characterised by smooth hills covered with forests (30%) and agriculture, and a lot of sprinkled little villages in it.
Nastaetten is the center of the "Blaues Laendchen" (blue countryside), which name is resulting from the blue colour of the former flax-woven clothing there.

Nastaetten is also very close to the finest parts of River Rhine, with the famous sites of

• Rüdesheim (30 km)
• Pfalzgrafenstein, Kaub (20 km)
• Loreley rock, Sankt Goarshausen (15 km)
• Marksburg, Braubach (25 km)

and also the site of

• Nassau, Lahn (25 km) - the original Nassau, and middle-age origin of the Dutch royal family

Information

Fremdenverkehrsverein Nastätten
Museum
56355 Nastätten
Germany
Phone +49-6772-3120
Fax +49-6772-2987

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