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Nassau (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.
 
Nassau is a city located in the Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. It is located in the Lahn River valley between the cities of Bad Ems and Limburg an der Lahn. The city rests on the German-Dutch holiday road, Oranier-Route. Nassau was mentioned for the first time in 915 and received municipal rights in 1348, together with Dausenau, from Emperor Charles IV. In spite of the ancient and eventful history of this city, it presently has only somewhat over 5,000 inhabitants.
 
Located in Nassau, south of the Lahn river is the castle Burg Nassau. It is the eponymous inherited seat of the counts of Nassau and therefore the joint ancestral castle of the Grand Dukes of Luxembourg and Dutch royal house of Nassau. In the city is the Steinische Hof, the seat of the Reichsfreiherren vom und zum Stein, and birth place of the Prussian Reformers and Minister Heinrich Friedrich Karl, Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein.

Nassau is definitely one of the popular tourist attractions in Germany. It is worth paying a visit while touring the country. This place leaves a pleasing and unforgettable memory and justifies the proud cultural tradition of Germany.

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