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View from Deutsches Eck to Koblenz. The river in front you might be able to see is named Mosel.

From Wikipedia:

Deutsches Eck is the name of a headland in Koblenz where the Moselle River joins the Rhine. In 1897, nine years after the death of the German Emperor Wilhelm I, who was celebrated as the man who fought for the German union in several wars, the former emperor was honoured with a giant equestrian statue at the named headland. Under his reign the German Empire included areas which are today parts of Russia, Poland, France, Denmark, Belgium and Lithuania. German was predominantly spoken in all of these areas. The importance of this union was also underlined by an inscription quoting a German poem: “Nimmer wird das Reich zerstöret, wenn ihr einig seit und treu”. (Never will the Empire be destroyed, so long as you are united and true.) Another inscription could be found at the statue dedicating it to “Wilhelm dem Großen” (Wilhelm the Great), demonstrating once more the respect for the deeds of Wilhelm I.