Editing Bacharach (section)

== Culture and sightseeing==
[[File:Bacharach2.jpg|thumb|130px|Saint Peter’s]]
[[File:Bacharach3.jpg|thumb|130px|''Wernerkapelle'']]
[[File:Blücher Gedenkstein.JPG|thumb|130px|Blücher monument stone]]
*[[Timber framing|Timber-frame]] houses, which can be found throughout the town. A whole row of them borders Bacharach along with the town wall along the Rhine.
*''Altes Haus'' (“Old House”), [[Middle Ages|mediaeval]] timber-frame house from 1368
*''Haus Utsch'' from 1585; in its time, Friedrich Wilhelm Utsch, the ''Jäger aus Kurpfalz'' (“Hunter from the [[Electorate of the Palatinate]]” – a character in a well known song) lived there.
*Old postal station
*Old marketplace
*[[Electorate of the Palatinate]] ''[[Amt (country subdivision)|Amt]]'' wine cellar
*Former [[Electorate of the Palatinate]] [[mint (coin)|mint]]
*Toll yard with [[Saint Nicholas]]’s [[Roman Catholicism|Catholic]] Church
*Saint Peter’s [[Evangelical Church in Germany|Evangelical]] Church
*Ruin of the [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] ''Wernerkapelle''
*[[Saint Joseph]]'s [[Roman Catholicism|Catholic]] Chapel
*Town wall ringing Bacharach, parts of which may be visited
*Town wall towers: ''Diebesturm'' (“Thief’s Tower”, remnants), ''Zehnt-turm'' (“Tithe Tower”), ''Spitzenturm'' (“Pointed Tower”, remnants), ''Postenturm'' (“Post Tower”), ''Holztor'' (“Wooden Gate”, also called ''Steeger Tor''), ''Liebesturm'' (“Love Tower”), ''Halbturm'' (“Half Tower”, remnants), ''Kühlbergturm'' (“Kühlberg Tower”, remnants), ''Sonnenturm'' (“Sun Tower”, remnants), ''Hutturm'' (“Hat Tower”), ''Zollturm'' (no longer existing), ''Kranentor'', ''Markttor'' (“Market Gate”), ''Münztor'' (“Mint Gate”), ''Winandturm'' (“Winand’s Tower”). The town fortifications are among the best preserved in Rhineland-Palatinate.
*Island in the Rhine, the ''Bacharacher Werth''.
*[[Stahleck Castle]] (''Burg Stahleck'')
*Remnants of a [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] road up from Stahleck Castle
*Stahlberg Castle (''Burg Stahlberg'') above Bacharach-Steeg
*Blücher monument stone at the Rhine ferry

===Bacharach in art===
* [[Heinrich Heine]]: ''Der Rabbi von Bacherach'' {{sic}} 1840. Text at: [https://web.archive.org/web/20040426053744/http://www.hagalil.com/buch/heine/bacharach.htm], also a further 2 of Heine’s poems on the heritage theme
**dsb., Gedicht "Ich weiß nicht, was soll es bedeuten..." [http://www.tamino-klassikforum.at/thread.php?threadid=6787] also a list of all together 9 musical versions of the Heine poem
* [[Clemens Brentano]]: [[Loreley]]-Gedicht: „Zu Bacharach am Rheine …“
* [[:de:Gerd Hergen Lübben|Gerd Hergen Lübben]]: „DER TEXTFUND ZU BACHERACH [VORSATZ / »VOM [[Werner of Oberwesel|HEILIGEN WERNER]] UND [[Pogrom|POGROM]] IN BACHERACH AM RHEIN« / NACHKLANG]“. In: ''DIE BRÜCKE – Forum for antiracist politics and culture'', Heft 140, 2/2006 (Saarbrücken), S. 126-128
* [[Guillaume Apollinaire]]: poem ''LA LORELEY'' In: Œuvres poétiques, Gallimard, Paris 1965, S. 115f, in German and French in: [http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~musik/web/institut/agOst/docs/mittelost/hefte/Heft7_BildUndText.pdf_046-060.pdf.] S. 48f.- set to music by [[Dmitri Shostakovich]]

=== Regular events ===
[[File:Vierthälermarkt.jpg|thumb|200px|Impression of the ''Vierthälermarkt'' 2007]]
* ''Kulinarische Sommernacht'' (“Culinary Summer Night”, every fourth weekend in August)
* [[Boules]] tournament
* ''Tal to Tal'' – car-free adventure day, upper Rhine Gorge (every last Sunday in June)
* ''Vierthälermarkt'' – mediaeval market in Bacharach

=== Notable people ===
[[File:GerhardVonKügelgen.jpg|thumb|150px|Gerhard von Kügelgen]]
* [[Gerhard von Kügelgen]], (1772–1820), painter
* [[Karl von Kügelgen]], (1772–1832), landscape and historical painter, Russian court and cabinet painter
* [[Hans Meinhard von Schönberg]], (1582–1616), [[Electorate of the Palatinate]] and [[Electorate of Brandenburg]] field colonel (''Feldobrister'') and the [[Frederick V, Elector Palatine|Winter King’s]] ''[[Hofmeister (office)|Hofmeister]]''