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MUNSTER AM STEIN , a watering- place of .See also: Germany, in the Prussian Rhine province, on the See also: Nahe, 22 m
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S. of See also: Kreuznach, on the railway from See also: BingerbrUck to Strassburg
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Pop
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(1905), 915
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Above the See also: village are the ruins of the See also: castle of Rheingrafenstein (12th century), formerly a seat of the count palatine of the Rhine, which was destroyed by the French in 1689, and those of the castle of Ebernburg, the ancestral seat of the lords of See also: Sickingen, and the birthplace of See also: Franz von Sickingen, the famous See also: landsknecht captain and See also: protector of See also: Ulrich von Hutten, to whom a monument was erected on the slope near the ruins in 1889
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The See also: spa (saline and carbonate springs), specific in cases of feminine disorders, is visited by about 5000 patients annually
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See Welsch, Das Sol- and Thermalbad Munster am Stein (Kreuznach, 1886) and Messer, Fiihree durch See also: Bad Kreuznach and Munster am Stein (Kreuznach, 1905)
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