Idar-Oberstein (deu)

Idar-Oberstein

Idar-Oberstein ranks 4,193rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Berkhamsted, County Cork, and Lünen. Memorable people born in Idar-Oberstein include Bruce Willis, Bernd Cullmann, and Lennart Grill. Idar-Oberstein has been the birth place of many soccer players, and actors. Idar-Oberstein is located in Germany.

Idar-Oberstein is a town in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. As a Große kreisangehörige Stadt, it assumes some of the responsibilities that for smaller municipalities in the district are assumed by the district administration. Today's town of Idar-Oberstein is the product of two rounds of administrative reform, one in 1933 and the other in 1969, which saw many municipalities amalgamated into one. The various Stadtteile have, however, retained their original identities, which, aside from the somewhat more urban character encountered in Idar and Oberstein, tend to hark back to each centre's history as a rural village. Idar-Oberstein is known as a gemstone town, and also as a garrison town. It is also the largest town in the Hunsrück. Read more on Wikipedia