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The Rhine-Neckar public transport system (VRN), with the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn as its backbone, provides infrastructure and connects to neighbouring regions. The Mannheim/Ludwigshafen harbor complex has the second-largest railway yard in Germany together with one of the largest inland ports in Europe and is a central hub for the European handling ...
A treaty from 1476 between the free imperial city Esslingen, Württemberg and Austria fixed free rafting trade as well. The last raft went through Tübingen down the Neckar river on October 26, 1899. [6] The wood from the eastern Northern Black Forest was shipped through the Neckar and then Rhine up to Holland. Because of the developing ...
This is a List of international river borders. Rivers that form any portion of the border between two countries minimum: Rivers that form any portion of the border between two countries minimum: By region
The Rhein-Neckar-Kreis is a district in the northwest of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The administrative headquarters are based in the city Heidelberg , which is a district-free city . As of 2019, the district is the most populous in Baden-Württemberg.
Located about 78 km (48 mi) south of Frankfurt, Heidelberg is part of the densely populated Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region which has its center in Mannheim. Heidelberg is located on the Neckar River, at the point where it leaves its narrow valley between the Oden Forest and the Little Oden Forest, and enters the wide Upper Rhine Plain.
In 2010, along with urban development in South-Walldorf, the park design won a "Landscape in Motion" award in a competition run by Rhine-Neckar Regional Association (Verband Region Rhein-Neckar) under their "Rhine-Neckar Regional Park" concept. [10] It was recognised again in the 2012 Landscape in Motion awards, in connection to the Leimbach Route.
The rivers in this section are sorted south-west (Netherlands) to east (Danish border) and drain into the North Sea: Maas (main branch at Stellendam, Netherlands) Niers (in Gennep, Netherlands) Rur/Roer (in Roermond, Netherlands) Wurm (near Heinsberg) Inde (in Jülich) Rhine/Rhein (main branch at Hook of Holland, Netherlands) Sections of the ...
From Altholz the river is the German-Swiss border until Basel, where it enters Switzerland for the last time. the Upper Rhine is the border between France (to the west) and Switzerland (to the east) for a short distance, from Basel to Hunningue. Here it becomes the Franco (to the west) – German (to the east) frontier until Au am Rhein. Hence ...