Schwarzer Kies Filming Locations

Lautzenhausen is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kirchberg, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Rhineland-Palatinate is a southwest German state bordered by France, Belgium and Luxembourg. The state capital, Mainz, features Jewish synagogues and cemeteries, the Romanesque Mainz Cathedral with ornate tombstones, and the Gutenberg Museum devoted to the inventor of the printing press. The lush Moselle Valley, with its riverside towns of Piesport and Bernkastel-Kues, is one of Germany's largest wine regions.

Germany is a Western European country with a landscape of forests, rivers, mountain ranges and North Sea beaches. It has over 2 millennia of history. Berlin, its capital, is home to art and nightlife scenes, the Brandenburg Gate and many sites relating to WWII. Munich is known for its Oktoberfest and beer halls, including the 16th-century Hofbräuhaus. Frankfurt, with its skyscrapers, houses the European Central Bank.