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44 unusual facts about Rhineland-Palatinate


Ammeldingen an der Our

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

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

Eßlingen

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

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.

Gladbach

Gladbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, a municipality in the district Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Heiligenmoschel

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

Heuchelheim bei Frankenthal

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

Hüttingen bei Lahr

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

Katzweiler

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

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.

Maximilian Henry, Count of Wied-Runkel

His part of the county included Altwied Castle, the village of Isenburg, the parish of Maysheid and the Lordship of Meud (which had previously been part of Lower Wied).

Mehlbach

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

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.

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.

Otto von Kerpen

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

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.

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.

Schneppenbach

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

Schöndorf

Schöndorf, Rhineland-Palatinate, in the Trier-Saarburg district, Rhineland-Palatinate

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.

Sevenig bei Neuerburg

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

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.

Springiersbach

Springiersbach Abbey is a former Augustinian (Canons Regular) monastery, and currently a Carmelite monastery in Bengel municipality, in the Eifel region of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Theodoric V 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.

Tiefenthal, Bad Kreuznach

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

Traisen, Germany

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

Volxheim

Volxheim 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.

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.

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).

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.

Bickenbach, Rhineland-Palatinate

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

Bockenheim

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

Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld

Charles I of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (German: Karl I.) (4 September 1560 – 16 December 1600), Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke in Bavaria, Count to Veldenz and Sponheim was the Duke of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld from 1569 until 1600.

Cisnădie

The layout of the church, composed of a small basilica with three naves, as well as the decoration of the carved western entrance portal, dating from 1260, attest to the strong influence of Rhineland architecture.

Consulate General of the United States, Frankfurt

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

Elkenroth

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

Gerd Andres

Gerd Andres (born 8 April 1951 in Wirges, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a German politician and member of the SPD.

Gert Heinrich Wollheim

At the end of 1919 Wollheim and Pankok went to Düsseldorf and became founding members of the "Young Rhineland" group, which also included Max Ernst, Otto Dix, and Ulrich Leman.

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.

Herborn

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

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).

Kappeln, Rhineland-Palatinate

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.

Karl Fleschen

Karl Fleschen (born 28 June 1955 in Daun, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a retired West German runner who specialized in the 3000, 5000 and 10,000 metres.

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.

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.

Krośnice, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Count Adalbert von der Recke had established an Samaritan psychiatric hospital for children here in 1860, modeled after his orphanage in Düsseltal, Rhineland.

Lauro Müller

Born in Itajaí, Santa Catarina, he was the son of the German immigrants Peter Müller and Anna Michels, originally from the Rhineland.

Ludwigswinkel

Ludwigswinkel is a municipality in the district of Südwestpfalz of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, very close to the French border.

Münchweiler

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

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.

Palatine, New York

The named is derived from the Palatinate in the Rhineland, the homeland of the Germans who were the earliest European settlers of this region.

Petra Hammesfahr

Petra Hammesfahr (born 10 May 1951 in Titz, North Rhine-Westphalia) is an acclaimed German crime writer, winner of several awards including the Crime Prize of Wiesbaden and Rhineland Literary Prize.

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).

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).

Tamara Bach

Tamara Bach was born in 1976 in Limburg an der Lahn and grew up in Ludwigshöhe, Rhineland-Palatinate.

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.