Where is Werneck, Rio de Janeiro located?

Werneck is located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at approximate coordinates -22.2132°, -43.3174°.

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Werneck

Rio de Janeirovillage

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Elevation222 m

Land area73.57 km²

Coordinates-22.21°, -43.32°

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City facts

Elevation

222 m

Area

73.57 km²

Official website

www.werneck.de

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Overview

Werneck sits in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and is identified as a village. Its coordinates of -22.213°, -43.317° place it in the tropical zone of the southern hemisphere. Up-to-date population figures for this locality are not available in the open datasets we monitor. The location receives about 1,720 kWh/m² of solar irradiance per year and sunshine for roughly 67% of daylight hours. Climatically, locations at this latitude tend to experience warm temperatures throughout the year with pronounced wet and dry seasons. Read on for charts and tables covering demographics, climate, hazards, schools, wildlife and other open-data indicators for Werneck.

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History & geography

History

The first written record of Werneck is dated 10 August 1223, as a fief granted by Bodo of Ravensburg, confirmed by the Pope on 9 April 1223. Between 1224 and 1250, possession of the fief was shared between first the Teutonic Knights and later Conrad of Reichenberg and Conrad of Schmiedefeld, until it finally passed to the Bishopric of Würzburg. A fort located there was sacked in the Peasants' War in 1525 and then seized and burnt down by Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach in 1553. It was rebuilt in 1601 under Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn, but was again destroyed by fire in 1723 and merely patched up in 1724. The current baroque palace, Schloss Werneck, designed by Balthasar Neumann, was built in 1733–45 by Prince Bishop Friedrich Karl von Schönborn. For half a century it was, with Veitshöchheim, a summer residence of the Bishops of Würzburg. On 28 November 1802, the last Prince-Bishop of Würzburg, Georg Karl von Fechenbach, released his vassals there from their oaths of service and recommended them to the new regional overlord, Maximilian, Prince-Elector of Bavaria. In 1803, following secularisation, Werneck became a Bavarian possession. In 1805 it was transferred to Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany as part of the formation of the Grand Duchy of Würzburg. The Treaty of Paris in 1814 returned it to Bavaria. Beginning in 1853, the palace was converted into a hospital for the mentally ill, the Unterfränkische Landes-Irrenanstalt (Lower Franconian State Asylum), which opened on 1 October 1855. Its first director was Bernhard von Gudden (who later wrote the clinical assessment which justified deposing King Ludwig II and who drowned with him in Lake Starnberg). The hospital is thus one of the oldest psychiatric institutions in…

Geography

Werneck lies in the Lower Franconia region of Bavaria, approximately 12 km from Schweinfurt and 25 km from Würzburg. It is located on a bend in the Wern, a tributary of the Main, on the edge of the plateau above the river. Its highest point is at 337.20 m of elevation, its lowest at 212.50 m. The total area of the municipality is 73.65 km², of which approximately 9 km² are wooded. Werneck has the following Ortsteile: * Eckartshausen * Egenhausen * Ettleben * Eßleben * Mühlhausen * Rundelshausen * Schleerieth * Schnackenwerth * Schraudenbach * Stettbach * Vasbühl * Werneck * Zeuzleben

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