DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Rheinland-Pfalz	Rhineland-Palatinate
Landkreis: Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis

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Boppard is situated at an elevation of 82 m in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, lying in the Rhine Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The town is also a state-recognized tourism resort and is a winegrowing centre. The municipality has a population of about 15,400 (2015).

Vicus Baudobriga (also Bodobriga or Bontobrica) was founded on the way into the Mühltal (valley) in the course of the Roman conquest and ensuing settlement of the lands on the Rhine's left bank. The name is of Celtic origin, which implies that there had been Celtic settlement before or that there was one at the same time. In the 4th century, the Romans began securing the Middle Rhine and during this process built a castrum at this place. Towards the end of 405, the last Roman troops were withdrawn and the town’s next documentary mention did not come until the Early Middle Ages. According to this source from 643, Boppard was a Frankish royal estate and an administrative centre of the Bopparder Reich (a Merovingian state). Until 1309, Boppard was a free imperial city, and as such was often frequented by the German kings. n 1309 and 1312, Emperor Heinrich VII pledged Boppard along with its outlying lands to his brother, Archbishop Baldwin of Trier, thus making Boppard part of the Electorate of Trier. During the ensuing two centuries, the citizens repeatedly tried to regain their status as an independent Imperial Free City, culminating in the Boppard War of 1497, which ended in the defeat of Boppard. In 1794, French Revolutionary troops occupied the town, which remained under French rule for the next 20 years. In 1815 the Congress of Vienna assigned the town along with the Rhine’s left bank as far upstream as Bingerbrück to the Kingdom of Prussia. Even after the First World War, the Rhine Province, and thereby Boppard too, belonged to Prussia. Since 1946, the town has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In the course of administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate in the 1960s, the district of Sankt Goar was dissolved and Boppard was grouped into the new district of Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (administratove centre: Simmern). In 1970, Boppard, together with the neighbouring communities of Bad Salzig, Buchholz, Herschwiesen, Hirzenach, Holzfeld, Oppenhausen, Rheinbay, Udenhausen and Weiler formed a 'Verbandsgemeinde' ('community association'), which was transformed into the present municipality of Boppard in 1975. Since the old town of Boppard was dissolved by the regulation, Boppard also no longer held town rights. However, the state government granted Boppard town rights once more in 1976.
[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boppard, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boppard]