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Bernkastel-Wittlich
District
FlagCoat of arms
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
Capital	Wittlich
Government
• District admin.	Gregor Eibes (CDU)
Area
• Total	1,168 km (451 sq mi)
Population
• Total	115,099
• Density	99/km (260/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	WIL, BKS
Website	bernkastel-wittlich.de

Bernkastel-Wittlich (German: Landkreis Bernkastel-Wittlich) is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Vulkaneifel, Cochem-Zell, Rhein-Hunsrück, Birkenfeld, Trier-Saarburg and Bitburg-Prüm.

History

The district was established in 1969 by merging the former districts of Bernkastel and Wittlich.

Geography

The district is situated on both banks of the Moselle, which crosses the territory from southwest to northeast. The country rises to the Eifel in the north and the Hunsrück in the south. A great number of tributaries rise in the Eifel and flow into the Moselle. In the very south of the district is the Erbeskopf (818 m), the highest peak in the Hunsrück and Rhineland-Palatinate.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms displays:

• The cross symbolising the bishopric of Trier
• The crayfish from the arms of Bernkastel-Kues
• The keys from the arms of Wittlich
• The red and white pattern of the County of Sponheim, which ruled this part of the Moselle valley in medieval times

Towns and municipalities

Twin region

At one time, the Borough of Milton Keynes was the twinned region of the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich.

External links

• Official website (German)

References

1. "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.

•  Kreis Bernkastel-Wittlich, Jahrbuch 1982 (page 23ff.), 1982

v t e Urban and rural districts in the State of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany
Urban districts	Frankenthal Kaiserslautern Koblenz Landau Ludwigshafen Mainz Neustadt Pirmasens Speyer Trier Worms Zweibrücken
Rural districts	Ahrweiler Altenkirchen Alzey-Worms Bad Dürkheim Bad Kreuznach Bernkastel-Wittlich Birkenfeld Bitburg-Prüm Cochem-Zell Donnersbergkreis Germersheim Kaiserslautern Kusel Mainz-Bingen Mayen-Koblenz Neuwied Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis Rhein-Lahn-Kreis Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis Südliche Weinstraße Südwestpfalz Trier-Saarburg Vulkaneifel Westerwaldkreis
Districts of German states (Full list) Baden-Württemberg Bavaria Brandenburg Bremen Hesse Lower Saxony Mecklenburg-Vorpommern North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland Saxony Saxony-Anhalt Schleswig-Holstein Thuringia

49°59′13″N 6°53′23″E / 49.98694°N 6.88972°E / 49.98694; 6.88972

• Districts of Rhineland-Palatinate
• Bernkastel-Wittlich