After Idar-Oberstein was mentioned here only because of the sad news with the mad murder of last week, I think, also because I am living only 60 km away from it, it should still be remembered as a rather small German city which was famous before for three "things", which almost every West-German knew about this city before:
1. It was and still is one of the relatively few traditional German centers for gemstone cutting because of its natural occurence of semiprecious stones like agates and other gemstones.
2. It is famous for a strange location of a church which was build into a massive rock-mountain below the ruin of a castle:
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3. If you do not know it by now, you will find it hard to believe, but because of his German mother who married his father - an US-American soldier -
Bruce Willis ("Die Hard") was born here in Idar-Oberstein in 1955 and every German fan of his movies knows this fact.
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