|
|
 |
| |
|
Home > Travel Germany > Germany Destinations > Baumholder (Rhineland Palatinate)
Baumholder (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Germany is located in Central Europe and it shares borders with Denmark in the North, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France in the West, Austria and Switzerland in the South and Poland and the Czech Republic in the East. The North Sea and the Baltic Sea represent additional National Borders in the North. The official language of Germany is German and Berlin is the capital.
The climate is quite pleasant with almost all variety of seasonal flavors as temperate, marine, cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers, occasional warm, tropical foehn wind and high relative humidity. Germany is divided into 16 states which are further subdivided into 439 districts and cities. Germany is one of the largest European economy and the third largest economy in the world in real terms, placed behind the United States and Japan, and fifth behind the United States, China, India and Japan counted by purchasing power parity.
Baumholder is a town and a municipality in the district of Birkenfeld, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated south of the Hunsruck approximately 10 kilometers south of Idar-Oberstein. Baumholder is home to the largest concentration of American combat soldiers outside the United States. The installation consists of Smith Barracks, which is the main post, and the base operations area support teams of Strassburg in Idar-Oberstein and Neubrucke, near Birkenfeld. It is bounded by the districts of Sankt Wendel, Trier-Saarburg, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhein-Hunsruck, Bad Kreuznach and Kusel.
Baumholder, justifiably so, enjoys a very positive reputation with worldwide travelers, and is one of the most visited place. It is also said the place of best geographical environment and can trace its origins back to prehistoric times.
Back to Germany Destinations
|
|
|
|
|
|
|