Bacharach ( , also known as "Bacharach am Rhein") is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the "Verbandsgemeinde" of Rhein-Nahe, whose seat is in Bingen am Rhein, although that town is not within its bounds.
Verbandsgemeinde includes towns that are not within it's physical bounds.
Bacharach does not reside in the bounds of Verbandsgemeinde.  Towns was used instead Bacharach to negate the name association with the word bounds.