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45 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.

Bellingen

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

Birken-Honigsessen

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

Fischbach-Oberraden

Fischbach-Oberraden is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, 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

Hans-Peter Briegel

Hans-Peter Briegel (born 11 October 1955 in Rodenbach, West Germany) is a former German footballer and manager.

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.

Hirschhorn, Rhineland-Palatinate

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

Hochdorf-Assenheim

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

Isenburg

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

Schwanheim

Schwanheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, in the Südwestpfalz district, Rhineland-Palatinate

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.

Simmertal

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

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.

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.

Volxheim

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

Waldlaubersheim

Waldlaubersheim 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.

Weiler bei Monzingen

Weiler bei Monzingen 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.


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.

Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg

Princess Amelia Charlotte Wilhelmina Louise of Nassau-Weilburg (7 August 1776 in Kirchheimbolanden – 19 February 1841 at Schaumburg Castle, near Limburg an der Lahn) was a Princess of Nassau by birth and by marriage Duchess of Anhalt-Bernburg.

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

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)

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.

Consulate General of the United States, Frankfurt

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

Dalsheim

Ortsteil of Flörsheim-Dalsheim in Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Eckbachweiher

The lake runs in a southwest to northwest direction south of and parallel to the road up the valley, which is identical with the Landesstraße 520 from Carlsberg to Kleinkarlbach).

Einloft

1800 and two brothers of the Rhineland branch migrated to Brazil in the 19th century.

FCK

1. FC Kaiserslautern, a German football club based in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate

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.

Hermann and Dorothea

Goethe's work is set around 1792 at the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars, when French forces under General Custine invaded and briefly occupied parts of the 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

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).

John, Count Palatine of Neumarkt

He came into conflict with his brother Louis, the Elector Palatine, who ruled some territories of the Upper Palatinate around Amberg.

Joseph Fassbender

In 1947 Fassbender founded at Schloss Alfter near Bornheim, together with Hann Trier, Hubert Berke and some other artists and men of letters, the "Donnerstagsgesellschaft" in order to revive, and promote, modern painting in the Rhineland.

Katzenelnbogen

A smaller part of Nassau, including the old castle and village bearing the name of Katzenelnbogen, ended up as part of Rhineland-Palatinate (part of the Rhein-Lahn and Westerwaldkreis districts).

Langenbach

Langenbach bei Kirburg, in the district Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate

Lauro Müller

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

Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony

In exchange for Lower Bavaria, Charles Theodore was to receive the Austrian Netherlands (close to his ancestral domains), the Palatinate (already his patrimony), Jülich and Berg.

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.

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.

Rodenbach bei Puderbach

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

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).

Solomon bar Simson Chronicle

Like the Eliezer bar Nathan Chronicle and the Mainz Anonymous, it is concerned with the persecutions of Jewish communities in the Rhineland area, notably Speyer, Worms, Mainz and Trier, during the First Crusade (1095-1099).

Spabrücken

Spabrücken 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.

Tamara Bach

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

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.

Wallhausen, Rhineland-Palatinate

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

Werner von Orseln

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

Windesheim, Germany

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