held shortly before Christmas at the Kulturhaus in Rheinböllen and each year has about 1,000 guests. Economy and infrastructure Rheinböllen has its own interchange on the Autobahn A 61 and is 15 km by road from Bacharach on the Rhine, and also roughly 50 km from both Mainz and Koblenz. Rheinböllen munitions depot The Bundeswehr munitions depot, which lies south of town at the foot of the Hochsteinchen, has an area of 130 ha and 120 attendants. It has a siding on the Hunsrückquerbahn (railway). On 1 April 2004, the complex was downgraded from main munitions depot to depot/storage facility. Within the framework of the Bundeswehr's structural reform, the depot is to be fully shut down in 2011. Famous people Sons and daughters of the town (1732–1795), hereditary forester to the Elector of Mainz; said to be the Jäger aus Kurpfalz ("Hunter from the Palatinate"), the subject of a well-known folksong. Famous people associated with the town Leonhard Goffiné (1648–1719), Premonstratensian Canon and religious folk writer; was pastor in Rheinböllen in the 17th century Eduard Puricelli (1826–1893), entrepreneur and member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation. References External links Verbandsgemeinde of Rheinböllen Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis