Kaub

Infobox German Location
image_photo = Burg Pfalzgrafenstein - Kaub.jpg
image_caption = Kaub, with the castles Pfalzgrafenstein and Gutenfels
Art = Stadt
Wappen = Wappen kaub.gif
Wappengröße = 142
lat_deg = 50 | lat_min = 5 | lat_sec = 17
lon_deg = 7 | lon_min = 45 | lon_sec = 46
Lageplan =
Lageplanbeschreibung =
Bundesland = Rheinland-Pfalz
Landkreis = Rhein-Lahn-Kreis
Verbandsgemeinde = Loreley
Höhe = 90
Fläche = 12.98
Einwohner = 996
Stand = 2006-06-30
PLZ = 56349
PLZ-alt =
Vorwahl = 06774
Kfz = EMS
Gemeindeschlüssel = 07 1 41 069
LOCODE =
NUTS =
Gliederung =
Adresse-Verband = VGVerw. Loreley
Dolkstraße 3 und 19
56346 St. Goarshausen
Website = [http://www.stadt-kaub.de/ www.stadt-kaub.de]
Bürgermeister = Heribert Werr
Bürgermeistertitel = Mayor
Partei =

Kaub (old spelling: "Caub") is a town in Germany, state Rhineland-Palatinate, district Rhein-Lahn-Kreis. It is part of the municipality ("Verbandsgemeinde") Loreley. It is located on the right bank of the Rhine, approx. 50 km west from Wiesbaden. It is connected to Wiesbaden and Koblenz by railway. Population 1100. It has a Roman Catholic and an Evangelical church, and a statue of General Blücher. The trade mainly consists of the wines of the district.

Kaub is known for the castle Pfalz, or Burg Pfalzgrafenstein, situated on a rock in the middle of the Rhine. According to legend, the Palatine countesses awaited their confinement in the Pfalz, but in reality the castle served as a toll-gate for merchandise on the Rhine. The restored castle Gutenfels sits on a hill above the town.

Kaub, first mentioned in the year 983, originally belonged to the lords of Falkenstein, in 1260 the Counts of Katzenelnbogen divided their county and selected the inhabitants of Kaub, then passed in 1277 to the Rhenish Palatinate, and attained civic rights in 1324. In 1477 Kaub was passed as deposit to the Counts of Katzenelnbogen again. In 1479 this family died out [ http://www.graf-von-katzenelnbogen.de/ Kaub, The County of Katzenelnbogen and the First Riesling of the World] .Here Blücher crossed the Rhine with the Prussian and Russian armies, on New Years night 1813-1814, in pursuit of the French.

Notes and references

* [http://www.dilibri.de/content/pageview/3269 Picture of Pfalzgrafenstein, J.F. Dielmann, A. Fay, J. Becker (painter): F.C. Vogels Panorama des Rheins, Bilder des rechten und linken Rheinufers, Lithographische Anstalt F.C. Vogel, Frankfurt 1833]
* [http://www.dilibri.de/content/pageview/3268 Picture of Kaub, J.F. Dielmann, A. Fay, J. Becker (painter): F.C. Vogels Panorama des Rheins, Bilder des rechten und linken Rheinufers, Lithographische Anstalt F.C. Vogel, Frankfurt 1833]
* [http://www.dilibri.de/content/pageview/3267 Picture 2 of Kaub, J.F. Dielmann, A. Fay, J. Becker (painter): F.C. Vogels Panorama des Rheins, Bilder des rechten und linken Rheinufers, Lithographische Anstalt F.C. Vogel, Frankfurt 1833]