Bad Breisig

"Rheineck Castle" redirects here. For the castle in Franconia, see Rieneck Castle.

Bad Breisig
Town
View of Bad Breisig
Coat of arms
Location of Bad Breisig within Ahrweiler district
Bad Breisig Show map of Germany Bad Breisig Show map of Rhineland-Palatinate
Coordinates: 50°30′33″N 7°17′47″E
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Ahrweiler
Municipal assoc.	Bad Breisig
Government
• Mayor (2024–29)	Marcel Caspers[1]
Area
• Total	19.94 km^2 (7.70 sq mi)
Elevation	70 m (230 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	9,740
• Density	490/km^2 (1,300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	53498
Dialling codes	02633; 02642
Vehicle registration	AW
Website	www.bad-breisig.de

Rheineck Castle [de]

Saint Charles Borromeo chapel

Bad Breisig (German: [baːt ˈbʁaɪziç] ^ⓘ) is a town in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the Rhine, approx. 15 km south-east of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler.

Bad Breisig is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Bad Breisig.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Beate Berger (1886-1940), director of the Jewish children's home Beith Ahawah in Berlin and Haifa

People connected with Bad Breisig

• Max Barthel (1893-1975), working poet, lived from 1948 to 1969 in Bad Breisig
• Klaus Badelt (born 1967), a German composer, which specializes in television and soundtrack.
• Kai Krause (born 1957), a German musician and software - pioneer, lives in Rheineck Castle [de].
• The religious scholar and sociologist Oliver Krüger (born 1973) grew up in Bad Breisig.

See also

• Bad Breisig (Final Palaeolithic site)

References

1. Marcel Caspers ist jetzt auch Stadtbürgermeister, General-Anzeiger, 11 July 2021.
2. "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.