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Extract from the Andernach Travel Guides:
ANDERNACH
, which lies 16km down the Rhine from Koblenz, can trace its history back further than almost any other German town. It celebrated its 2000th anniversary in 1988, commemorating the foundation of a Roman base for the campaigns against the tribes on the eastern side of the Rhine. Subsequently Andernach became a Franconian royal seat, before passing to the control of the Archbishop-Electors of Cologne, serving as the southern border of their territory until the Napoleonic invasion. Nowadays, it's an odd hybrid, having a fair amount of industry, yet taking advantage of its situation and monuments to double as a holiday resort.
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