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Extract from the Oberwesel Travel Guides:
OBERWESEL
, on the left bank of the Rhine and just to the north of Kaub, possesses the finest extant fortifications in the Rhineland, a three-kilometre-long
Stadtmauer
which still preserves sixteen of its towers from an original total of twenty-one. Unfortunately, the section guarding the riverfront is marred by the proximity of the railway, which runs directly alongside, but the whole ensemble is nonetheless impressive, not least at the hilly northwestern edge, where the fortified church of
St Martin
(popularly known, for obvious reasons, as the "white church") forms an integral part of the mun...
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