Bernkastel-Wittlich
# Bernkastel-Wittlich

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

| Verband-free town | Verband-free municipality |
| - | - |
| Wittlich | Morbach |

Verbandsgemeinden :

| 1. Bernkastel-Kues $Bernkastel-Kues^{1,2}$ Brauneberg Burgen Erden Gornhausen Graach an der Mosel Hochscheid Kesten Kleinich Kommen Lieser Lösnich Longkamp Maring-Noviand Minheim Monzelfeld Mülheim Neumagen-Dhron Piesport Ürzig Veldenz Wintrich Zeltingen-Rachtig | 2. Thalfang am Erbeskopf Berglicht Breit Büdlich Burtscheid Deuselbach Dhronecken Etgert Gielert Gräfendhron Heidenburg Hilscheid Horath Immert Lückenburg Malborn Merschbach Neunkirchen Rorodt Schönberg Talling $Thalfang^1$ | 3. Traben-Trarbach Bausendorf Bengel Burg Diefenbach Enkirch Flußbach Hontheim Irmenach Kinderbeuern Kinheim Kröv Lötzbeuren Reil Starkenburg $Traben-Trarbach^{1,2}$ Willwerscheid | 4. Wittlich-Land [seat: Wittlich] Altrich Arenrath Bergweiler Bettenfeld Binsfeld Bruch Dierfeld Dierscheid Dodenburg Dreis Eckfeld Eisenschmitt Esch Gipperath Gladbach Greimerath Großlittgen Hasborn Heckenmünster Heidweiler Hetzerath Hupperath Karl Klausen Landscheid Laufeld Manderscheid Meerfeld Minderlittgen Musweiler Niederöfflingen Niederscheidweiler Niersbach Oberöfflingen Oberscheidweiler Osann-Monzel Pantenburg Platten Plein Rivenich Salmtal Schladt Schwarzenborn Sehlem Wallscheid |
| - | - | - | - |
| $^1seat$ of the Verbandsgemeinde; $^2town$ ||||

## Twin region

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

