The opening of the opera, in particular, was memorable, with the Rheinmaidens swimming in the Rhine.
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Yet across the Rhine the preference is for plodding progress rather than grands projets.
The leaders gathered on a footbridge over the Rhine River separating France and Germany.
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"It's the single harbor which is connected with Danube, with the Rhine-Main-Danube canal and with Rotterdam, " he added.
Time off: Plays master of the house at his stately 19th- century Grand Hotel Quellenhof in the Rhine Valley.
The French are even farther down the slippery slope to fines than their friends on the other side of the Rhine.
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The complex at Ludwigshafen, across the Rhine from Mannheim, comprises up to 250 individual chemical factories turning out 8, 000 different products.
Stretching some 200km east of the Rhine, from Karlsruhe almost to the Swiss border, the Black Forest is something of a misnomer.
He fought in the Battle of the Bulge and the Battle of the Ruhr and crossed the Rhine River into Nazi Germany.
As the train steamed along the Rhine Valley, the river sparkling in the sunshine, Slovak documentary maker Matej Minac told his story.
Beuys lived here from 1959 until his death in 1986, primarily in Oberkassel, the leafy district across the Rhine from the Old Town.
Saturday morning's ceremony over the Rhine was briefly delayed because Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was deep in conversation on his mobile phone.
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When it gets warm, often as early as May, the promenade is the starting point for the Rhyschimme (Swimming in the Rhine).
We used to hang out on the banks of the Rhine and would talk about ending up as enemies as if it were a joke.
Markus Hecher is the owner of Burg Rheinstein, a castle on a scenic stretch of the Rhine River that dates back to the 13th century.
The hyphen maintains separate identities while symbolising co-operation across the Rhine.
But for decades, industrial and domestic waste flowed untreated into the river and, not surprisingly, the Rhine was seriously polluted from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Over a score of federal institutions, including the Cartel Office (Berlin) and the Auditing Court (Frankfurt), have been prodded into abandoning their current homes for the Rhine.
In Jan van Goyen's 1653 "View of the Rhine" (where he made a sketching trip in 1650-51), the lowering, brownish-gray sky takes up about 60% of the picture.
Tucked between the Vosges Mountains and the Rhine, hugging the border between France and Germany, Alsace enjoys a cool growing climate similar to that of the Champagne region.
Without doubt, the best Rieslings are found in the vineyards of Germany, where, on the slopes of the Rhine, Nahe and Mosel, it finds its most precise definition.
Thousands of protesters are expected to converge on the city on the Rhine river for the two-week conference, and Bonn police told the AP they are prepared for violence.
They were exposed 65 years after being dropped when water levels in the Rhine River fell to record lows, prompting what officials said was the biggest evacuation since the war's end.
As one observer in Berlin puts it, Germany's real fear is not that the euro zone unravels to the Alps, but that it collapses all the way up to the Rhine.
Further up the Rhine, in the central German city of Darmstadt, Beuys fans are waiting for the end of 2013, when the city's Hessisches Landesmuseum ( hlmd.de) will reopen after a six-year renovation.
Roche's shares (American Depositary Receipts), which fell 47% from 1999 through 2002, have risen 20% this year, versus an 8% gain for rival Novartis, located just a few miles down the Rhine in Basel.
Karl Timmermann became the first American officer to cross the tottering Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine when "the inner door to Germany had swung wide, never to be shut again" and on to the final German surrender at 2 a.m. on Monday, May 7.
In 2011, 45, 000 residents were evacuated from the city of Koblenz, situated on the Rhine and Moselle rivers, as bomb squads dealt with two bombs and a military fog-producing device that were dropped by American and British warplanes in the last years of the war.
France's dilemma is described in a November report on competitiveness to the French government by Louis Gallois, the former chief executive officer of EADS. Bottom line: Unlike their counterparts across the Rhine, French industrial companies have ended up in the wrong segment of the global product markets.
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