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Extract from the Idar-Oberstein Travel Guides:
The double town of
IDAR-OBERSTEIN
lies some 45km up the Nahe from Bad Mnster am Stein-Ebernburg. Formerly a mining centre for precious stones and minerals, Idar-Oberstein has remained, since the virtual exhaustion of the old lodes in 1870, a centre for stone-cutting and polishing, and for the manufacture of jewellery. Oberstein, crammed into the steeply wooded Nahe valley, is the historic part, while Idar, sprawling northwards up the narrow Idarbach valley, is more commercial in character.
From Oberstein's Marktplatz, 230 steps lead up to the late fifteenth-century
Felsenkirche
(daily: April-June...
read the whole Idar-Oberstein Travel Guides...
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