Altenkirchen (German pronunciation: [ˌaltn̩ˈkɪʁçn̩] ) 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.
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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 tuberculosis
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.