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RHINECK

Volume 17 · 106 words · 1823 Edition

a town of Germany, in the archbishopric of Cologne, seated on the Rhine, E. Long. 7° 53'. N. Lat. 50° 27'.—There is another town of the same name in Switzerland, capital of Rhinthal, seated on the Rhine, near the lake of Constance, with a good castle. E. Long. 9° 53'. N. Lat. 47° 38'.

RHEINFELD, a small but strong town of Germany, formerly belonging to Austria, but now to the grand duchy of Baden. It has been often taken and retaken in the German wars; and is seated on the Rhine, over which there is a handsome bridge. E. Long. 7° 53'. N. Lat. 47° 40'.