Altenkirchen

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Altenkirchen
Town
Town square
Coat of arms
Location of Altenkirchen within Altenkirchen district
Interactive map of Altenkirchen
Location within Germany Show map of Germany Location within Rhineland-Palatinate Show map of Rhineland-Palatinate
Coordinates: 50°41′14″N 07°38′44″E / 50.68722°N 7.64556°E / 50.68722; 7.64556
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Altenkirchen
Municipal assoc.	Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Matthias Gibhardt (SPD)
Area
• Total	10.98 km2 (4.24 sq mi)
Elevation	230 m (750 ft)
Population  (2025-12-31)
• Total	6,797
• Density	619.0/km2 (1,603/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	57601–57610
Dialling codes	02681
Vehicle registration	AK
Website	www.altenkirchen.de

Altenkirchen (German pronunciation: [ˌaltn̩ˈkɪʁçn̩] ^ⓘ) is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, capital of the district of Altenkirchen. It is located approximately 40 km east of Bonn and 50 km north of Koblenz. Altenkirchen is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld.

Population development

Geography

• Lahrer Herrlichkeit, a landscape region in the collective municipality of Flammersfeld

Notable people

• Dirk Adorf (born 1969), race car driver
• Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler (born 1975), politician (SPD)
• Ernst Lindemann (1894–1941), an officer of the Imperial Navy and later the Navy commander of the battleship Bismarck
• Marie Gülich (born 1994), WNBA player.

Other personalities

The following figures are not native Altenkirchen people, but have worked or lived in the city:

• Wilhelm Boden (1890–1961), former Prime Ministers of Rheinland-Pfalz
• Ludwig Julius Budge (1811–1888), physician
• Bernhard Grzimek (1909–1987), zoologist, cooperated in 1938 with the District Veterinary Office in Altenkirchen to combat bovine tuberculosis
• François Séverin Marceau (1769–1796), French general
• Krzysztof Meyer (born 1943), composer
• Hans Nüsslein (1910–1991), German tennis player, professional world champion in 1933, 1936, 1937
• Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818–1888), social reformer
• Ewald Schnug (* 1954), agricultural researcher, professor, Honorary-President of the International Scientific Center for Fertilizers

Transport

Altenkirchen (Westerw) station is connected to the Limburg-Altenkirchen railway as well as the Engers-Au railway, public rail transport line is RB90 from Limburg via Diez Ost, Westerburg, Nistertal-Bad Marienberg, Hachenburg, Altenkirchen, Au (Sieg) and Betzdorf (Sieg) to Siegen, served by the Hessische Landesbahn (HLB), section Dreiländerbahn.

Altenkirchen town and Altenkirchen district are located on the area of the transport association Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel (VRM), zone number 910.

Altenkirchen also is served by the local bus lines 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 126, 127, 136, 250, 251, 255, 280, 285, 287, 289, 408, 416 and 934.

Most important bus stations in the city of Altenkirchen are the central bus station (Zentraler Omnibusbahbahnhof (ZOB) Altenkirchen, Altenkirchen Bahnhof (Altenkirchen train station), Lindenstr./Post and Weyerdamm./Schulzentrum.

Altenkirchen train station also has a Bike and ride- and a Park and ride facility.

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