Annweiler am Trifels, or Annweiler is town in the Südliche Weinstraße district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the river Queich, 12 km west of Landau, and on the railway from Landau to Pirmasens. Südliche Weinstraße is a district (Kreis) in the south of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. ... The Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz, sometimes Lower Palatinate or Niederpfalz) occupies rather more than a quarter of the German Bundesland (federal state) of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) and contains the towns of Ludwigshafen, Kaiserslautern, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Pirmasens, Landau and Speyer. ... Map of Germany showing Landau Coat of Arms of Landau, 1291 – 1955 Landau or Landau in der Pfalz is an autonomous (Kreisfrei) city surrounded by the Südliche Weinstraße (southern wineroute) district of southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. ... Pirmasens is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, near the border with France. ...

Annweiler is romantically situated in the eastern part of the Pfälzer Wald called the Pfälzer Schweiz (Palatinate Switzerland), and is surrounded by high hills which yield a famous red sandstone. On the Sonnenberg (1600 feet) lie the ruins of the castle of Trifels, in which Richard Coeur de Lion was imprisoned in 1193. Its main industry is tourism. The Pfälzer Wald (Palatine Forest) is a densely forested mountain range in south-western Germany, in the state Rhineland-Palatinate. ... Richard I (September 8, 1157 – April 6, 1199) was King of England from 1189 to 1199. ... Events Saladin dies, and the lands of the Kurdish Ayyubid dynasty of Egypt and Syria are split among his descendants. ...

Annweiler is also the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Annweiler am Trifels, which consists of the following Ortsgemeinden ("local municipalities"): A Verbandsgemeinde (plural Verbandsgemeinden) is an administrative unit unique to the German Bundesland (federal state) of Rhineland-Palatinate. ...

• Albersweiler
• Annweiler am Trifels
• Dernbach
• Eußerthal
• Gossersweiler-Stein
• Münchweiler am Klingbach
• Ramberg
• Rinnthal
• Silz
• Völkersweiler
• Waldhambach
• Waldrohrbach
• Wernersberg