Cochem is a town on the Mosel in Germany. It lies in the Land Rhineland-Palatinate. Cochem has 5,213 inhabitants. It is the Kreisstadt of the district of Cochem-Zell. The city is a tourist town dominated by the mountain lock. The Cochem castle was built in the 12th and 13th centuries and served as a protection for the city and the Mosel. For centuries Cochem was a city in the Prince Archdiocese of Trier. The city of Trier itself is located upstream on the Mosel. During the Nine Years' War the French troops of Louis XIV destroyed the city of Cochem and the castle (1689). The reconstruction afterwards was difficult. A century later, with the Treaty of Basel, Cochem came under French revolutionary rule with the entire Mosel region. Napoleon took up residence there in 1801 during the war with the German countries. After the Congress of Vienna (1815), the city of Cochem ended up in the Prussian Rhine Province. The castle was restored in 1868 by the Berlin Kommerzienrat Ravené and used as a summer residence. Now she is owned by the city. The Cochemer court is internationally known from the Cochemer model.
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