Wintrich

Geschichte

Wintrich is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies in the natural and cultivated landscape of the Moselle valley on the river’s right bank, where the valley broadens out into country marked by even slopes and former oxbows of the Moselle. Against this, however, moderate slopes covered in vineyards and in places by woods climb up to the Eifel over on the other side of the river. Wintrich belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Bernkastel-Kues, whose seat is in the like-named town.Nearby municipalitiesNeighbouring municipalities are, among others, Minheim, Kesten and Brauneberg. The nearest middle centres are Bernkastel-Kues, some 10 km away, and Wittlich, some 20 km away. Trier lies some 40 km away.