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47 unusual facts about Rhineland-Palatinate


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.

Birken-Honigsessen

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

Elkenroth

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

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.

Gerard II of Isenburg-Kempenich

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

Gladbach

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

Gönnersdorf, Vulkaneifel

In 1136, Gönnersdorf had its first documentary mention as Guntersdorf in connection with a donation document from Bishop Alberos von Basel to the Lordship of Kerpen.

Heiligenmoschel

Heiligenmoschel 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.

Hochdorf-Assenheim

Hochdorf-Assenheim is a municipality in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Hüttingen an der Kyll

Hüttingen an der Kyll 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

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.

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.

Nehren

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

Niederbreitbach

Niederbreitbach is a municipality and officially recognised climatic health-resort in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Niedersteinebach

Niedersteinebach is a municipality in the district of Altenkirchen, in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

Oberhonnefeld-Gierend

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

Peter Melander Graf von Holzappel

Peter Melander left a fortune that allowed his widow Agnes to purchase the Lordship and Castle of Schaumburg in 1656, and merge it with Holzappel, thus forming the County of Holzappel-Schaumburg.

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.

Schwarzerden

Schwarzerden 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.

Spabrücken

Spabrücken 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.

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

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.

Tiefenthal, Bad Kreuznach

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

Waldhof-Falkenstein

Waldhof-Falkenstein is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, 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.

Weitersborn

Weitersborn 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).

Winterbach, Bad Kreuznach

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

Winterburg

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


Ammeldingen an der Our

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

Aull

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

Berghausen

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

Bickenbach, Rhineland-Palatinate

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

Consulate General of the United States, Frankfurt

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

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.

Herxheim

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

Hof, Rhineland-Palatinate

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

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).

Horst Siebert

A native of Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Siebert studied economics at the University of Cologne (1959–1963), while also studying, and undertaking research in, economics at Wesleyan University (1960–1961).

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.

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.

Langenberg

Langenberg (Rhineland), an independent town until 1975, now a borough of Velbert, 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.

Ludwigswinkel

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

Nentershausen, Rhineland-Palatinate

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

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.

Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym

She married on 26 June 1823 at Schaumburg Castle, George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1789–1845).

Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 2006

Kurt Beck (SPD) remained Minister-President, winning an outright majority.

Richard Wetz

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

Schifferstadt station

Schifferstadt station is a separation station in the town of Schifferstadt in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, where the Speyer line branches off from the Palatine Ludwig Railway.

Sevenig bei Neuerburg

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

Simmertal

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

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 Alemannia Waldalgesheim

SV Alemannia Waldalgesheim is a German association football club from the city of Waldalgesheim, Rhineland-Palatinate.

Upper Palatinate

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

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.

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.

Wartenberg-Rohrbach

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

Werner von Orseln

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

Zellertal

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