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The Palatinate (German: Pfalz), historically also Rhenish Palatinate (German: Rheinpfalz), is a region in south-western Germany. It occupies more than a quarter of the German federal state (Bundesland) of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz). Germany is a federal republic made up of 16 states, known in German as Länder (transliterated as laender in English, singular Land). ...
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. ...
Geography
The western and northern part of the Palatinate is densely forested and mountainous. The highest point is the Donnersberg (687 m) near Kirchheimbolanden. The Pfälzer Wald (Palatine Forest) covers more than a third of the region. The eastern part is lower, and is a well known wine region. Most of the cities of the Palatinate (Ludwigshafen, Landau, Frankenthal, Neustadt) lie in the east. Kirchheimbolanden is the capital of Donnersbergkreis. ...
The following districts and independent cities are part of the Palatinate: There are 439 German districts, administrative units in Germany. ...
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Independent cities: Bad Dürkheim is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. ...
The Donnersbergkreis is a district (Kreis) in the middle of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. ...
Germersheim is a district (Kreis) in the south-east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. ...
Kaiserslautern is a district (Kreis) in the south of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. ...
Kusel is a district (Kreis) in the south of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. ...
The Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis is a district (Kreis) in the east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. ...
Südliche Weinstraße is a district (Kreis) in the south of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. ...
Südwestpfalz is a district (Kreis) in the south of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. ...
Political status Country: Germany Federal state: Rhineland-Palatinate Region: Rhine Neckar Area District: Independent municipality Facts Population: 47,564 (December 2003) Area: 43. ...
Kaiserslautern is a town in the south of the Land Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. ...
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. ...
Map of Germany showing Ludwigshafen am Rhein Ludwigshafen am Rhein is a city in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, with about 166,000 inhabitants. ...
Neustadt an der Weinstraße, otherwise known as Neustadt a. ...
Pirmasens is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, near the border with France. ...
Speyer (English formerly Spires) is a city in Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate) with approx. ...
Zweibrücken is a city of Germany in Rhineland-Palatinate, on the Schwarzbach River at the border of the Palatine Forest. ...
History Until the end of the 18th century, the Palatinate was divided over several bigger and smaller states. The most important of these were the Electoral Palatinate (Kurpfalz), the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken and the Bishopric of Speyer. (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ...
A palatinate is a territory administered by a count palatine, originally the direct representative of the sovereign, but later the hereditary ruler of the territory subject to the crowns overlordship. ...
The town of Zweibrücken was mentioned for the first time in 1170, and in 1182 it became an independent county. ...
The Bishop of Speyer is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer in the Archdiocese of Bamberg. ...
After the French era (see French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleonic Wars and Mont-Tonnerre), the whole region became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816. Although the Palatinate was geographically separate from Bavaria, the two were ruled as a single state for the next 130 years. The French Revolutionary Wars occurred between the outbreak of war between the French Revolutionary government and Austria in 1792 and the Treaty of Amiens in 1802. ...
The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars fought during Napoleon Bonapartes rule over France. ...
Mont-Tonnerre is the name of a département of the First French Empire in present Germany. ...
The Free State of Bavaria (German: Freistaat Bayern), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ...
1816 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
The French had introduced their system of administration and the Code Napoleon in the Palatinate. The Bavarian government preserved both after 1816, which gave the Palatinate a distinct legal status within the Bavarian kingdom. The royal family tried to symbolize the unity with Bavaria by erecting a royal palace in Edenkoben and by the restauration of the cathedral in Speyer under direct supervision of King Ludwig I. himself. The town Ludwigshafen was named after the king. The original Napoleonic Code, or Code Napoléon (originally called the Code civil des francais, or civil code of the French), was the French civil code, established at the behest of Napoléon. ...
Edenkoben, a town of Germany, in the Bavarian Palatinate, 6 m. ...
Speyer (English formerly Spires) is a city in Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate) with approx. ...
Map of Germany showing Ludwigshafen am Rhein Ludwigshafen am Rhein is a city in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, with about 166,000 inhabitants. ...
After 1808 the administrative regions in Bavaria were named after their main rivers. Thus the region after its annexation to Bavaria was officially called the "Rheinkreis" (literally "Rhenish circle"). In 1835 the romantic-minded King Ludwig I of Bavaria ordered the adminstrative regions to be named by historical allusions. So the region officially became the "Pfalz" ("Palatinate"). It has to be noted here, that the historic Electoral Palatinate much more was centered on the right bank of the Rhine with Heidelberg and Mannheim as its capitals, whereas the new "Pfalz", that had been composed in 1815/16 solely on the left bank of the Rhine, also included territories, that had never been part of the historic Palatinate (e.g. the former bishopric of Speyer or Kirchheimbolanden, which formerly had belonged to Weilburg branch of Nassau). In order not to confuse the "new" Palatinate with the historic one (and with the Upper Palatinate), the name "Rhenish Palatinate" was common, but never official. The term "Rheinbayern" (Rhenish Bavaria) can be found sometimes in older maps. A palatinate is a territory administered by a count palatine, originally the direct representative of the sovereign, but later the hereditary ruler of the territory subject to the crowns overlordship. ...
Heidelberg (halfway between Stuttgart and Frankfurt) is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ...
Basic information Country: Germany Federal state: Land Baden-Württemberg Regions: Rhein-Neckar District: Independent municipality Population: 324,787 (Mai 2005) Additional information Area: 144. ...
A palatinate is a territory administered by a count palatine, originally the direct representative of the sovereign, but later the hereditary ruler of the territory subject to the crowns overlordship. ...
Speyer (English formerly Spires) is a city in Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate) with approx. ...
Kirchheimbolanden is the capital of Donnersbergkreis. ...
Nassau may mean the following: Place names: The capital of the Bahamas; see Nassau, Bahamas A duchy in the medieval Holy Roman Empire; see Nassau (state) The Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau formed by annexation of that duchy A town in Rhineland-Palatinate; see Nassau, Germany Baarle-Nassau; is a...
The Upper Palatinate (Oberpfalz) is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany, located in the east of Bavaria. ...
During the revolution of 1848 a serparatist movement tried to establish a "palatinate republic", which collapsed under a bloody Prussian military intervention.
The union persisted after Bavaria became part of the German Empire in 1871, and after the Wittelsbach dynasty was deposed and Bavaria became a revolutionary state in 1918 and then a Land of the Weimar Republic. Flag of the German Empire, 1871–1919: black-white-red The term German Empire commonly refers to Germany, from its foundation as a unified nation-state on January 18, 1871, until the abdication of Emperor Wilhelm II on November 9, 1918. ...
1871 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
The Wittelsbach family is a European royal family and a German dynasty from Bavaria. ...
The Bavarian Soviet Republic (Bayerische Räterepublik)—also known as the Munich Soviet Republic (Münchner Räterepublik)—was a short-lived revolutionary government in the German state of Bavaria in 1919 that sought to replace the fledgling Weimar Republic in its early days. ...
1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ...
The period of German history from 1919 to 1933 is known as the Weimar Republic (German Weimarer Republik, IPA: []). It is named after the city of Weimar where a national assembly convened to produce a new constitution after the German Monarchy and German Empire were abolished following the nations...
After the First World War French troops occupied the Palatinate under the terms of the treaty of Versailles. The western districts St. Ingbert and Homburg were separated from the Palatinate and became part of the newly established Saarland, which according to peace treaty was governed by the League of Nations. In a clear breach of the treaty the French in 1923 encouraged a separatist movement for a Rhenish Republic in the remainder of the Rhenish Palatinate and the Prussian Rhineland. The Bavarian government reacted sharply and even had the leading separatist Franz Josef Heinz assassinated in January 1924. In February 1924 members of the separatist movement were killed in a shooting in Pirmasens. Also in February 1924 a treaty between Bavaria in the interallied commission of the Rhineland (teh surpreme council of the Allied occupation forces) recognised and reassured the Palatinate being a part of Bavaria. The Treaty of Versailles of 1919 was the peace treaty which officially ended World War I between the Allies and Germany. ...
Saarland is one of the 16 states of Germany. ...
The Rhineland (Rheinland in German) is the general name for the land on both sides of the river Rhine in the west of Germany. ...
Pirmasens is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, near the border with France. ...
The union with Bavaria was finally dissolved following the reorganisation of German states after World War II due to the occupation of Germany. Whereas proper Bavaria was part of the US occupation Zone, the Palatinate was occupied by French Forces. The French reorganised their occupation Zone by founding new states and in 1947, the Palatinate was combined with Rheinhessen (formerly part of Hesse), and the southern part of the Prussian Rhine Province to form the German federal state Rhineland-Palatinate. Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Commanders {{{commander1}}} {{{commander2}}} Strength {{{strength1}}} {{{strength2}}} Casualties 17 million military deaths 7 million military deaths {{{notes}}} World War II, also known as the Second World War (sometimes WW2 or WWII or World War Two), was a mid-20th century conflict that engulfed much of the...
1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Rheinhessen refers to the part of the former Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt located west of the Rhine river and now part of Rhineland-Palatinate. ...
Hesse (German: Hessen) is one of Germanys sixteen federal states (Bundesländer) and has an area of 21,110 km² and just over six million inhabitants. ...
The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia (German: Preußen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: Prūsai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad exclave of Russia and...
The Rhineland (Rheinland in German) is the general name for the land on both sides of the river Rhine in the west of 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. ...
In 1956 a plebiscite for returning the region to Bavaria failed to gain the necessary support. Nowadays the "Bayern-Pfalz-Stifung" (foundation Bavaria-Palatinate) preserves the memory of common history.
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