Altenkirchen () is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, capital of the district of Altenkirchen. It is located approximately 40 km east of Bonn and 50 km north of Koblenz. Altenkirchen is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld.
Population development
Year Inhabitants17871121800450183099018531,49718611,70019002,04419333,33319393,56219504,18919624,61819844,55319996,64020146,162
Geography Lahrer Herrlichkeit, a landscape region in the collective municipality of Flammersfeld
Notable people
Dirk Adorf (born 1969), race car driver Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler (born 1975), politician (SPD) Ernst Lindemann (1894–1941), an officer of the Imperial Navy and later the Navy commander of the battleship Bismarck Marie Gülich (born 1994), WNBA player.
Other personalities The following figures are not native Altenkirchen people, but have worked or lived in the city:
Wilhelm Boden (1890–1961), former Prime Ministers of Rheinland-Pfalz Ludwig Julius Budge (1811–1888), physician Bernhard Grzimek (1909–1987), zoologist, cooperated in 1938 with the District Veterinary Office in Altenkirchen to combat bovine tuberculosisDiarium the Westerwald Gymnasium with reference to Rhein-Zeitung of 5 January 1985 (+ without attribution autobiography 1974 p.134) François Séverin Marceau (1769–1796), French general Krzysztof Meyer (born 1943), composer Hans Nüsslein (1910–1991), German tennis player, professional world champion in 1933, 1936, 1937 Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818–1888), social reformer Ewald Schnug (* 1954), agricultural researcher, professor, Honorary-President of the International Scientific Center for Fertilizers
Transport
Altenkirchen (Westerw) station is connected to the Limburg-Altenkirchen railway as well as the Engers-Au railway, public rail transport line is RB90 from Limburg via Diez Ost, Westerburg, Nistertal-Bad Marienberg, Hachenburg, Altenkirchen, Au (Sieg) and Betzdorf (Sieg) to Siegen, served by the Hessische Landesbahn (HLB), section Dreiländerbahn.
Altenkirchen town and Altenkirchen district are located on the area of the transport association Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel (VRM), zone number 910.
Altenkirchen also is served by the local bus lines 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 126, 127, 136, 250, 251, 255, 280, 285, 287, 289, 408, 416 and 934.
Most important bus stations in the city of Altenkirchen are the central bus station (Zentraler Omnibusbahbahnhof (ZOB) Altenkirchen, Altenkirchen Bahnhof (Altenkirchen train station), Lindenstr./Post and Weyerdamm./Schulzentrum.
Altenkirchen train station also has a Bike and ride- and a Park and ride facility.
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