page_title: Idar-Oberstein
section_title: Culinary specialities
hierarchical_section_title: Idar-Oberstein / Culture and sightseeing / Culinary specialities
caption_attribution_description: English: A delicacy from Idar-Oberstein: "Idarer Spießbraten" Deutsch: Eine Idar-Obersteiner Spezialität: Idarer Spießbraten, hier aber als "Schwenkbraten" auf einem schwenkbaren Grillrost
context_page_description: Idar-Oberstein is a town in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. As a Große kreisangehörige Stadt, it assumes some of the responsibilities that for smaller municipalities in the district are assumed by the district administration. Today's town of Idar-Oberstein is the product of two rounds of administrative reform, one in 1933 and the other in 1969, which saw many municipalities amalgamated into one. The various Stadtteile have, however, retained their original identities, which, aside from the somewhat more urban character encountered in Idar and Oberstein, tend to hearken back to each centre's history as a rural village. Idar-Oberstein is known as a gemstone town, and also as a garrison town. It is also the largest town in the Hunsrück.
caption: Idarer Spießbraten
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