Bad Kreuznach is the capital of the district of Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is located on the Nahe river, a tributary of the Rhine. The town and surrounding areas are renowned both nationally and internationally for its wines, especially Riesling, Silvaner and Müller-Thurgau grape varieties.
As early as the 5th century BC, there is evidence of a Celtic settlement in the area of the modern municipality. Around 58 BC, the regio...
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Bad Kreuznach is the capital of the district of Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is located on the Nahe river, a tributary of the Rhine. The town and surrounding areas are renowned both nationally and internationally for its wines, especially Riesling, Silvaner and Müller-Thurgau grape varieties.
As early as the 5th century BC, there is evidence of a Celtic settlement in the area of the modern municipality. Around 58 BC, the region became part of the Roman Empire, with a Roman vicus named Cruciniacum — according to legend after the Celtic Cruciniac — forming a supply station between Mainz (Mogontiacum) and Trier (Augusta Treverorum).
Around AD 250 a gigantic (81 m × 71 m, 270 ft × 230 ft) and luxurious palace was built here, north of the Alps, in peristyle, with 50 rooms on the ground floor alone. As part of the fortification of the Limes against invading Alemanni, Valentinian I had a castra built here around AD 370.
Around the year 500, after the collapse of the Roman...
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