Altenkirchen Explained

Type:	Stadt
Image Coa:	DEU Altenkirchen (Westerwald) COA.svg
Coordinates:	50.6872°N 7.6456°W
Image Plan:	Altenkirchen (Westerwald) in AK.svg
State:	Rheinland-Pfalz
District:	Altenkirchen
Verbandsgemeinde:	Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld
Elevation:	230
Area:	11.00
Postal Code:	57601–57610
Area Code:	02681
Licence:	AK
Gemeindeschlüssel:	07 1 32 501
Mayor:	Matthias Gibhardt^[1]
Leader Term:	2019 - 24
Party:	SPD

Altenkirchen (pronounced as /de/) 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

Lahrer Herrlichkeit, a landscape region in the collective municipality of Flammersfeld

Dirk Adorf (born 1969), race car driver
Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler (born 1975), politician (SPD)
Dittmar Hahn (born 1943), former judge of the Federal Administrative Court
Claus Koch (born 1953), jazz musician
Ernst Lindemann (1894–1941), an officer of the Imperial Navy and later the Navy commander of the battleship Bismarck
Hermann Heinrich Traut (born 1866), librarian
Marie Gülich (born 1994), WNBA player.

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^[2]
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 sen. (1930–2013), Master Gardener, Bearer of the Federal Cross of Merit, First Alderman of Altenkirchen, Gamekeeper's ring leader, County hunting master^[3]
Ewald Schnug (* 1954), agricultural researcher, professor, Honorary-President of the International Scientific Center for Fertilizers ^[4]