Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Upper Middle Rhine Valley' has mentioned 'Valley' in the following places:
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| Map of the Middle Rhine Valley | WIKI |
| The Rhine Gorge is a popular name for the Upper Middle Rhine Valley, a 65xc2xa0km section of the Rhine between Koblenz and Bingen in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse in Germany. | WIKI |
| With increasing wealth, many castles appeared and the valley became a core region of the Holy Roman Empire. | WIKI |
| At one time forming a border of France, in the 19th Century the valley became part of Prussia and its landscape became the quintessential image of Germany. | WIKI |
| View of Burg Katz, with the Lorelei in the background Aerial image of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley in the area of Sankt Goarshausen with the Lorelei at the bottom of the image Koblenz, the northern gateway to the world heritage site, with the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress Deutsches Eck, at the confluence of Rhine and Moselle Stolzenfels Castle, near Koblenz, the epitome of the Rhine romanticism Marksburg Castle, the only hilltop castle in the Middle Rhine Valley that was never destroyed View from the left bank of the Rhine near St. Goar on the Lorelei Stamp from 2006, showing the World Heritage Site Burg Pfalzgrafenstein in the middle of the river, at Kaub, in the background Burg Gutenfels Werner Chapel at Bacharach Burg Rheinstein, the first castle to be rebuilt in the 19th century Binger Loch, the southern gateway to the gorge; on the left the Mouse Tower, on the right Burg Ehrenfels Castle The Niederwalddenkmal monument, with Germania (personification), at Rxc3xbcdesheim One of the oldest surviving church building in the world heritage area, the Basilica of St. Castor in Koblenz Rhein in Flammen in 2011, before the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress at Koblenz Burg Stahleck Castle Middle Rhine Valley at Kaub Rhine Cable Railway at Koblenz | WIKI |
| The strategic location of the dramatic 65km stretch of the Middle Rhine Valley between Bingen, Rxc3xbcdesheim und Koblenz as a transport artery and the prosperity that this engendered is reflected in its sixty small towns, the extensive terraced vineyards and the ruins of castles that once defended its trade. | UNESCO |
| The property extends from the Bingen Gate (Binger Pforte), where the River Rhine flows into the deeply gorged, canyon section of the Rhine Valley, through the 15km long Bacharach valley, with smaller V-shaped side valleys, to Oberwesel where the transition from soft clay-slates to hard sandstone, results. | UNESCO |
| In a series of narrows, the most famous of which is the Loreley, no more than 130m wide (and at 20m the deepest section of the Middle Rhine), and then up to the Lahnstein Gate (Lahnsteiner Pforte), where the river widens again into the Neuwied Valley. | UNESCO |
| The property also includes the adjoining middle and upper Rhine terraces (Upper Valley) which bear witness to the course taken by the river in ancient times. | UNESCO |
| For over a 1,000 years the steep valley sides have been terraced for vineyards. | UNESCO |
| The later 18th century saw the growth of sensibility towards the beauties of nature, and the often dramatic physical scenery of the Middle Rhine Valley, coupled with the many ruined castles on prominent hilltops, made it appeal strongly to the Romantic movement, which in turn influenced the form of much 19th century restoration and reconstruction. | UNESCO |
| The stretch of the Middle Rhine Valley between Bingen and Koblenz is in many ways an exceptional expression of this long history. | UNESCO |
| The geomorphology of the Middle Rhine Valley, moreover, is such that the river has over the centuries fostered a cultural landscape of great beauty which has strongly influenced artists of all kinds - poets, painters, and composers - over the past two centuries. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (ii): As one of the most important transport routes in Europe, the Middle Rhine Valley has for two millennia facilitated the exchange of culture between the Mediterranean region and the north. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (iv): The Middle Rhine Valley is an outstanding organic cultural landscape, the present-day character of which is determined both by its geomorphological and geological setting and by the human interventions, such as settlements, transport infrastructure, and land use, that it has undergone over two thousand years. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (v): The Middle Rhine Valley is an outstanding example of an evolving traditional way of life and means of communication in a narrow river valley. | UNESCO |
| The extensive property contains within its boundaries all the key attributes - the geological landscape, the sixty towns and settlements, the forty castles and forts, the vineyard terraces that define this prosperous and picturesque stretch of the Rhine valley and encompass all the key views that influenced writers and artists. | UNESCO |
| Thanks to the relatively modest leeway given by the natural landscape of the Middle Rhine Valley to the people inhabiting it, this section of the river has undergone fewer changes than others. | UNESCO |
| However the railways that run along the valley contribute to the noise pollution in the Valley which is a problem that needs to be mitigated. | UNESCO |
| Signatories of the Rhine Valley Charter (Die Rheintal Charta) of November 1997, which include the great majority of communities in the Middle Rhine Valley, undertake to conserve, manage, and exercise care in developing the natural and cultural heritage and the unique cultural landscape of the Rhine Valley. | UNESCO |
| Since 2005, the property has been run by the Upper Middle Rhine Valley World Heritage Association, which comprises representatives from all the local and 'county' authorities falling within the region, as well as including officials from the federal states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate. | UNESCO |
| The measures taken in the property serve primarily to preserve historical castles and towns, uphold the tradition of winegrowing on the steep slopes of the valley, secure habitats for rare animal and plant species, and generally ensure that the state of the environment remains unaltered. | UNESCO |
| To conciliate economic development to benefit local communities and the safeguarding of the Outstanding Universal Value of the property a Master Plan for the further sustainable development of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley World Heritage Site is about to be compiled. | UNESCO |