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94 unusual facts about Palatinate


Ammeldingen an der Our

Ammeldingen an der Our is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Ammeldingen bei Neuerburg

Ammeldingen bei Neuerburg is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

August Weismann

He returned to Frankfurt as personal physician to the banished Archduke Stephen of Austria at Schaumburg Castle from 1861 to 1863.

Becherbach

Becherbach refers to two villages in the district of Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Beilstein, Rhineland-Palatinate

The municipality has been the setting in a number of German films, such as the 1958 film version of Der Schinderhannes, about the well known outlaw starring Curd Jürgens, Nazi filmmaker Carl Froelich’s 1936 work Wenn wir alle Engel wären (“If We Were All Angels”) starring Heinz Rühmann and the 1938 film Das Verlegenheitskind starring Ida Wüst and Paul Klinger.

Always opening and closing the series of events is a traditional version of the Brothers Grimm’s “Sleeping Beauty”, in keeping with one of the village’s nicknames.

It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Cochem, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Bellingen

Bellingen, Rhineland-Palatinate, a municipality in the district Westerwaldkreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Berghausen

Berghausen, Rhineland-Palatinate - a municipality in the Verbandsgemeinde Katzenelnbogen, district Rhein-Lahn, Germany

Bickenbach, Rhineland-Palatinate

It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Emmelshausen, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Birken-Honigsessen

Birken-Honigsessen is a municipality in the district of Altenkirchen, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

CERH Women's Euro 2011

The CERH Women's Euro 2011 or 2011 CERH Women's Championship was the 11th edition of the CERH European Women's Roller Hockey Championship, held between 25 and 29 October, in Cronenberg, Germany as a single round-robin stage.

Elkenroth

Elkenroth is a municipality that lies on the boundary of the Westerwald region in the district of Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Erbach, Rhineland-Palatinate

It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rheinböllen, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Eßlingen

Eßlingen, in English-language works sometimes spelt Esslingen is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Ezzonids

According to the Brauweiler chronicle, he failed to succeed to the monarchy after the death of emperor Otto III (983–1002) in a rivalry with duke Henry II of Bavaria (1002–1024).

Fischbach-Oberraden

Fischbach-Oberraden is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Frankelbach

Frankelbach is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Herborn

Herborn, Rhineland-Palatinate, a German village in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate

Heuchelheim bei Frankenthal

Heuchelheim bei Frankenthal is a municipality in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Hirschhorn, Rhineland-Palatinate

Hirschhorn is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Hof, Rhineland-Palatinate

Marienberg counted, on the other hand, only 388 inhabitants that same year.

Hof belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Bad Marienberg, a kind of collective municipality.

Hüttingen an der Kyll

Hüttingen an der Kyll is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Hüttingen bei Lahr

Hüttingen bei Lahr is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Isenburg

Isenburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, municipality in the district of Neuwied, Germany

Jacob Best

He was born in Hesse-Darmstadt where he learned the trade and ran a small brewery in Mettenheim, Rhenish Hesse, until immigrating to Milwaukee in 1844 to join his sons.

Jo Niemeyer

Jo Niemeyer (born in 1946 in Alf, Germany) is a concrete artist and designer.

Kappeln, Rhineland-Palatinate

Originally, the village belonged to the Nahegau, and after this was partitioned about 1130, it then passed into the ownership of the Waldgraves of Kyrburg (near Kirn).

According to the document, the magistrates denied Waldgrave Friedrich of Kyrburg any rights to the villages of Schweinschied, Kappeln, Löllbach, Langweiler, Käsweiler (vanished before 1500), Sulzbach, Homberg, Kirrweiler, Oberjeckenbach (cleared out in 1933 by the Nazis to make way for the Baumholder troop drilling ground) and Unterjeckenbach.

Friedhofweg 2 – former rectory; sandstone-framed plastered building on high stone-block pedestal, 1854–1856, architect District Building Councillor Leonhard, Sankt Wendel; in the barn Roman spolia

When the village of Kappeln passed to the Saxe-Coburg Principality of Lichtenberg in the 19th century, the church community remained organizationally with the church community of Meisenheim.

Kappeln borders in the north on the municipality of Löllbach, in the east on the municipality of Medard, in the southeast on an exclave belonging to the municipality of Grumbach and the town of Lauterecken, in the south on the municipality of Grumbach, in the southwest on the municipality of Merzweiler, in the west on the municipality of Hoppstädten and in the northwest on the municipality of Schweinschied.

Kasbach-Ohlenberg

Kasbach-Ohlenberg is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Katzweiler

Katzweiler is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Katzwinkel, Vulkaneifel

Until 1970, the municipality belonged to the Verbandsgemeinde of Daun, when it, along with Beinhausen, Boxberg, Brück, Hörschhausen and Neichen, was annexed to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kelberg.

Kleinmaischeid

Kleinmaischeid is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany and was the centre point of the European Union from 1 May 2004 until 31 December 2006.

Lenus

He was an important god of the Treveri tribe, who had large sanctuaries at medicinal springs at Trier and the Martberg by Pommern in what is now Germany.

Nehren

Nehren, Rhineland-Palatinate, a village in the district Cochem-Zell, Rhineland-Palatinate

Nentershausen, Rhineland-Palatinate

The community belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Montabaur, a kind of collective municipality.

Niederkirchen

Niederkirchen is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

No. 41 Wing RAF

The Burbach iron foundry was hit, as were other buildings and railway lines.

Oberhonnefeld-Gierend

Oberhonnefeld-Gierend is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Obernheim-Kirchenarnbach

Obernheim-Kirchenarnbach is a municipality in Südwestpfalz district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Otterbach

Otterbach is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Ottersheim bei Landau

Ottersheim bei Landau is a municipality in the district of Germersheim, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Otto von Kerpen

Otto came from a poor Rhenish knightly family residing in the castle of Kerpen in Kerpen, Rhineland-Palatinate.

Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Zweibrücken

In 1778/9 the Potato War was fought on Charles' behalf by Prussia and Saxony to prevent Charles Theodore, Duke of Bavaria, exchanging the Duchy of Bavaria for the Austrian Netherlands as Charles was the heir of Bavaria.

Palatinate-Lützelstein

Lützelstein Castle, erected by the Counts of Blieskastel at a mountain pass to Lorraine, and the surrounding territory originally were a fief of the Bishopric of Strasbourg.

His son Count Palatine George John I of Veldenz founded the town of Phalsbourg (Pfalzburg), which he nevertheless was forced to pledge to Duke Charles III of Lorraine shortly afterwards.

Palatinate-Neuburg

After the so-called Kölner Spruch (Verdict of Cologne) the Duchy was created from the territories north of the Danube for Otto Henry and Philipp, the sons of Ruprecht of the Palatinate.

Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld

Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld was created in 1569 in the partition of Palatinate-Zweibrücken after the death of Wolfgang for his youngest son Charles I.

After Charles' death in 1600 his state was partitioned into itself and Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler by his sons, with George William succeeding him in Birkenfeld.

Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld was a state of the Holy Roman Empire based around Birkenfeld in modern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Christian II died in 1717 and was succeeded by his son Christian III.

Two years later he died, and with him the male line of the branch, so the state passed to Christian II of Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler.

George William died in 1669 and was succeeded by his son Charles II Otto.

Rhein-Wupper-Bahn

The section of the line in Rhineland-Palatinate that was formerly served regularly, has been served since 2003 by only one service operated to Remagen in the evening and returning next morning.

In December 2003 it was shortened to terminate at Bonn-Mehlem because Rhineland-Palatinate would not provide sufficient funds for operations in its section.

Rodenbach bei Puderbach

Rodenbach bei Puderbach is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Salz, Rhineland-Palatinate

It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Wallmerod, a kind of collective municipality.

Sarmersbach

The French administration made Sarmersbach the administrative seat of the like-named mairie (“mayoralty”), to which belonged not only Sarmersbach but also Beinhausen, Boxberg, Kradenbach, Gefell, Hörschhausen, Katzwinkel, Neichen, Nerdlen, Schönbach and Utzerath.

Schmittweiler

Schmittweiler is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Schneppenbach

Schneppenbach is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Schönbach, Rhineland-Palatinate

Furthermore, the preamble to the Salic law, the Franks’ law written in the 5th or 6th century, reads: “Long live Christ, Who loves the Franks! May He keep their empire and fill its leaders with the light of His grace.”

Schöneberg, Bad Kreuznach

Schöneberg is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Schwarzerden

Schwarzerden is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Schweinschied

Schweinschied is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Schweppenhausen

Schweppenhausen is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Seesbach

Seesbach is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Seibersbach

Seibersbach is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Sevenig bei Neuerburg

Sevenig bei Neuerburg is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Simon I of Isenburg-Kempenich

In 1330, Simon made himself the sole ruler of Kempenich, sparking a succession war in which Gerard II brought in his allies, the Counts and Lords of Landskron, Rheineck, Schönberg, Eich, Ölbruck and the Archbishop.

Spabrücken

Spabrücken is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Spall, Germany

Spall is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Staudernheim

Staudernheim is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Steinbach am Donnersberg

Steinbach am Donnersberg is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Steinen

Steinen, Rhineland-Palatinate, a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate

Stetten, Rhineland-Palatinate

Stetten was very badly damaged by 1635 due to the Thirty Years' War.

Sunken lane

One of the largest networks of such routes in Germany is to be found in the municipalities of Alsheim and Mettenheim in Rhineland-Palatinate, where there they make up over 30 km of hiking trails.

Traisen, Germany

Traisen is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Üxheim

The parish of Niederehe is made up of the centres of Kerpen with Loogh, Heyroth and Niederehe.

Waldlaubersheim

Waldlaubersheim is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Wallhausen, Rhineland-Palatinate

Wallhausen is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Walsdorf, Rhineland-Palatinate

Saint Arnulf’s Catholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Arnulf), Koblenzer Straße 16 – Classicist aisleless church, 1828.

The annulet is Saint Arnulf’s attribute and the lily Saint Anthony’s, thus representing the municipality’s two patron saints, the former being Walsdorf’s and the latter Zilsdorf’s.

Warmsroth

Warmsroth is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Wartenberg-Rohrbach

Wartenberg-Rohrbach is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Weiler bei Monzingen

Weiler bei Monzingen is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Weitersborn

Weitersborn is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Windesheim, Germany

Windesheim is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Winkel, Rhineland-Palatinate

This lordship comprised the villages of Wollmerath, Filz, Wagenhausen and Niederwinkel, several mills (among them one in Winkel) and estates (among them the great estate in Oberwinkel, whose chapel still stands).

Winterburg

Winterburg is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Zellertal

See Rhineland-Palatinate for a further description of the local viticulture.


34th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Fritz Anneke (Forty-Eighter of German Origin, Prussian Artillery officer and commanding officer of Carl Schurz during the 1849 campaign in Palatinate and Baden, husband of Mathilde Franziska Anneke)

Abraham Kuhn

Abraham Kuhn (August 28, 1838 – September 15, 1900) was an Alsatian otolarynologist born in Bissersheim, Rhineland-Palatinate.

Aull

Aull, Germany, municipality in the district of Rhein-Lahn, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Beuren

Beuren, Trier-Saarburg, a municipality in the district Trier-Saarburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Beuren, Cochem-Zell, a municipality in the district Cochem-Zell, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Bockenheim

Stein-Bockenheim, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate (Alzey-Worms)

Bohemian Palatinate

In 1353 Charles gained 24 Palatinate estates from Rupert I in compensation for his debts.

Charles II Otto, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld

Charles II Otto (German: Karl II. Otto) (5 September 1625 – 30 March 1671) was the Duke of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld from 1669 until 1671.

Compulsory education

During the Reformation in 1524, Martin Luther advocated compulsory schooling so that all parishioners would be able to read the Bible themselves, and Palatinate-Zweibrücken passed accordant legislation in 1592, followed by Strasbourg—then a free city of the Holy Roman Empire— in 1598.

Consulate General of the United States, Frankfurt

The Frankfurt Consular district covers the German states of Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, and Saarland.

Heiligenmoschel

Heiligenmoschel is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Heimburg in Niederheimbach

The Heimburg (also known as Burg Hohneck or Burg Hoheneck) is a castle in the village of Niederheimbach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Heinrich Pickel

He was elected chairman of the CDU district (Mayen) in 1951 and was a member of the District Board and the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1947 to 1963.

Herschbach

Herschbach, Wallmerod, a municipality in the Verbandsgemeinde Wallmerod, Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Herxheim

Herxheim am Berg, a town in the district Bad Dürkheim, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Horschbach

It is 8 km by road to either of the two nearest railway stations at Altenglan and Wolfstein, the former on the Landstuhl–Kusel railway and the latter on the Lauter Valley Railway (Lautertalbahn).

Kerschenbach

Furthermore, they came not from Rome, but rather from the Kannenbäckerland (“Jug Bakers’ Land”, a small region still known for its ceramics industry) in the Westerwaldkreis, also in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Kirchsahr

Kirchsahr consists of the districts Kirchsahr, Binzenbach, Burgsahr, Hürnig and Winnen, and lies near the state border of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia.

Louis III, Elector Palatine

As oldest surving son and new Prince-Elector Louis III received the main part, John received Palatinate-Neumarkt, Stephen received Palatinate-Simmern and Otto received Palatinate-Mosbach.

Münchweiler

Münchweiler an der Alsenz, municipality in the Donnersbergkreis district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Richard Wetz

: (Recording: Rhineland-Palatinate State Philharmonic and State Youth Choir, Werner Andreas Albert, 2001)

Schwarzen

The following places are nearby (with distances in kilometres): Würrich (2), Ober Kostenz (2), Nieder Kostenz (4), Kappel (6), Kludenbach (6), Todenroth (8), Metzenhausen (10).

Stahleck Castle

However, although the castle was no longer the administrative centre of the Palatinate, important gatherings of the nobility continued to take place there into the 15th century, including the election of Ludwig IV as King of Germany in May 1314 and the wedding of Emperor Charles IV and Anna, only daughter of Rudolf II, Count Palatine, on 4 March 1349.

SV Roßbach/Verscheid

SV Roßbach/Verscheid is a German association football club based in Roßbach/Wied, Rhineland-Palatinate that currently plays in the Oberliga Südwest (IV).

Tiefenthal, Bad Kreuznach

Tiefenthal is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Upper Palatinate

Cadet branches of the Wittelsbach also ruled over smaller territories in Neuburg and Sulzbach.

Vierwinden

Vierwinden is a locality in the municipality Windhagen in the district of Neuwied in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Waldorf, Maryland

In 1880 the General Assembly of Maryland by an act changed the name to "Waldorf" in honor of William Waldorf Astor (1848–1919), the great-grandson of John Jacob Astor (1763–1848), who was born in Walldorf, Palatinate, Germany.

Walter Aston, 1st Lord Aston of Forfar

Lord Forfar returned as envoy to Spain in 1636, and although the dispute over the restoration of the Palatinate to the new Elector Palatine (the Winter King having died) remained intractable, Lord Forfar did assistance to twenty-seven lawsuits involving English merchants in Spanish courts.

Werner von Orseln

Von Orseln hailed from a noble family of vogts (reeves) of the Counts of Falkenstein in Oberursel near Frankfurt.