Rhineland-Palatinate - Rhineland-Palatinate Flag Statistics Capital: Mainz Area: 19,846 km² Inhabitants: 3,880,000 (2000) pop. density: 196 people/km² Homepage: http://www.rlp.de/ ISO 3166-2: DE-RP Politics Minister-President: Kurt Beck (SPD) Ruling party: SPD/FDP coalition Map The Rhineland-Palatinate (German Rheinland-Pfalz) is one of 16 Bundesländer of Germany. It has an area of 19,846 km² and 3.88 million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Geography 2 Administration 3 History 4 List of Minister-Presidents of Rhineland-Palatinate 5.
Rhine Palatinate - Rhine Palatinate The Rhine 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. Ruled by counts of the Wittelsbach dynasty from 1214 until 1918 (apart from almost 20 years of annexation to France after 1795), the state passed to the family's Bavarian line in 1815. The area was devastated during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) and by French invasion in 1689. It became part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946. The historical rulers of the palatinate included: Frederick V, Elector Palatine (1596 - 1632) See also Palatinate.
Palatinate - Palatinate A Palatinate is an area administered by a palatine count, originally the direct representative of the sovereign but later the hereditary ruler of the territory subject to the crown's overlordship. Examples include the Palatine Counties of Durham (ruled by a bishop) and Chester in England. The Palatinate (German Die Pfalz) refers more particularly to two areas in Germany, which were once ruled by a palatine count. If Germans speak about the Palatinate, they mostly mean the Rhine Palatinate (Rheinpfalz, sometimes "Lower Palatinate" or Niederpfalz). It occupies rather more than a quarter of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) and contains the towns of Ludwigshafen, Kaiserslautern Frankenthal, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Landau and Speyer. That part of the old Rhenish Palatinate which lay on the Right Bank.
Kaiserslautern (district) - Kaiserslautern (district) Statistics State: Rhineland-Palatinate Adm. Region: Rheinhessen-Pfalz Capital: Kaiserslautern Area: 639.85 km² Inhabitants: 110,207 (2001) pop. density: 172 inh./km² Car identification: KL Homepage: http://www.kaiserslautern-kreis.de Map Kaiserslautern is a district (Kreis\) in the south of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from west clockwise) Kusel, Donnersbergkreis, Bad Dürkheim and Südwestpfalz. The city of Kaiserslautern is enclosed by, but not belonging to the district. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Geography 3 Partnerships 4 Coat of arms 5 Towns and municipalities 6.
Kaiserslautern - Kaiserslautern is a town in the south of the Land Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. Central Kaiserslautern from the Rathaus (town hall). . It has 100,000 inhabitants and some 38,000 additional American citizens due to the large military bases in the region. Kaiserslauten is the home to Ramstein Air Base which is the seat of US Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) Headquarters, the Allied Air Forces Central Europe (AIRCENT) and the 86th Airlift Wing. Americans stationed in Kaiserslauten call it K-Town. The American military presence in Kaiserslautern has decreased substantially in recent years, with consequent economic effects to the area. Kaiserslautern's other industries include manufacturing, as the home of Pfaff, an internationally-known maker of sewing machines. Japanese Garden in Kaiserslautern's botanic gardens. Kaiserslautern's large botanic gardens feature a Japanese-style garden..
Katzenelnbogen - is a small city in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Katzenelnbogen was originally an independent territory, but by 1583 it became part of the landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel. This territory was later the core of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau. Katzenelnbogen is primarily known because the name Katzenellenbogen ("cat's elbow") was adopted by a rabbinical family descended from twelve Jews, who settled in Katzenelnbogen in Hesse-Nassau in 1312, with thousands of descendants and huge family connections throughout Europe and America. The name was first used after the family moved to Padan, Italy by Meir Katzenellenbogen (1482-1565)..
Koblenz (region) - Koblenz (region) Statistics State: Rhineland-Palatinate Capital: Koblenz Area: 8,076.21 km² Inhabitants: 1,524,695 (2001) pop. density: 189 inh./km² Map Koblenz was one of the three Regierungsbezirke of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, located in the north-east of the state. Since 2000, the employees and assets of the Bezirksregierungen form the Aufsichts- und Dienstleistungsdirektion Trier (Supervisory and Service Directorate Trier) and the Struktur- und Genehmigungsdirektionen (Structural and Approval Directorates) Nord in Koblenz and Süd in Neustadt_(Weinstraße). These administrations execute their authority over the whole state, i. e. the ADD Trier oversees all schools. Kreise (districts) Kreisfreie Städte (district-free towns) Ahrweiler Altenkirchen Bad Kreuznach Birkenfeld Cochem-Zell Mayen-Koblenz Neuwied Rhein-Hunsrück Rhein-Lahn Westerwaldkreis Koblenz.
Kusel (district) - Kusel (district) Statistics State: Rhineland-Palatinate Adm. Region: Rheinhessen-Pfalz Capital: Kusel Area: 573.42 km² Inhabitants: 78,530 (2001) pop. density: 137 inh./km² Car identification: KUS Homepage: http://www.landkreis-kusel.de Map Kusel is a district (Kreis) in the south of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north-west clockwise) Birkenfeld, Bad Kreuznach, Donnersbergkreis, Kaiserslautern, Saarpfalz and Sankt Wendel, the latter two belonging to the state of Saarland. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Geography 3 Coat of arms 4 Towns and municipalities 5.
Jean Étienne Championnet - battalion to command them. In May 1793 he was charged with the suppression of the disturbances in the Jura, which he quelled without bloodshed. Under Pichegru he took part in the Rhine campaign of that year as a brigade commander, and at Weissenburg and in the Palatinate won the warm commendation of Lazare Roche. At Fleurus his stubborn fighting in the centre of the field contributed greatly to Jourdan's victory. In the subsequent campaigns he commanded the left wing ‘of the French armies on the Rhine between Neuwied and Düsseldorf, and took a great part in all the successful and unsuccessful expeditions to the Lahn and the Main. In 1798 Championnet was named commander-in-chief of the "army of Rome" which was protecting the infant Roman republic against the Neapolitan court and.
Johannes Oecolampadius - Greek equivalent). He was born at Weinsberg, a small town in the north of the modern kingdom of Württemberg, but then belonging to the Palatinate. He went to school at Weinsberg and Heilbronn, and then, intending to study law, he went to Bologna, but soon returned to Heidelberg and took up theology. Enthusiastic about the new learning, he passed from the study of Greek to that of Hebrew, taking his bachelor's degree in 1503. He became cathedral preacher at Basel in 1515, serving under Christopher von Uttenheim, the evangelical bishop of Basel. From the beginning the sermons of Oecolampadius centred on the Atonement, and his first reformatory zeal showed itself in a protest (De risu paschali, 1518) against the introduction of humorous stories into Easter sermons. In 1520 he published his.
Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly - the Catholic League. After the outbreak of the Thirty Years War, he commanded the army of the Catholic League, which with the imperial army put down the Bohemian Protestant forces at the White Mt. (1620). In the next phase of the war, centering about the Palatinate, Tilly was chief commander against Ernst von Mansfeld, Christian of Brunswick, and others. He lost to Mansfeld (April 1622), but won at Wimpfen (May) and Höchst (June) and also at Stadtlohn (1623). After King Christian IV of Denmark entered the war (1625) Tilly and Albrecht von Wallenstein were the chief generals to oppose him. In 1626, aided by some of Wallenstein's troops, Tilly was victorious at Battle of Lutter (1626). When Wallenstein was removed from command of the imperial army in 1630, Tilly was given.
Imperial Circle Estates - Franconian Circle 5 Electoral Rhenish Circle 6 Lower Rhenish-Westphalian Circle 7 Lower Saxon Circle 8 Upper Rhenish Circle 9 Upper Saxon Circle 10 Swabian Circle Austrian Circle Archduke of Austria, etc. Bishop of Trent Bishop of Brixen Bishop of Chur Landkomtur in Austria (Teutonic Order) Trasp (Dietrichstein) Bavarian Circle Ecclesiastical Bench Archbishop of Salzburg Bishop of Regensburg Bishop of Passau Provost of Berchtesgaden Abbot of St. Emmeran in Regensburg Abbess of Niedermünster in Regensburg Abbess of Obermünster in Regensburg Secular Bench Sternstein (Lobkowicz) Haag (Bavaria) Staufenehrenfels (Bavaria/Palatinate) Ortenburg Bavaria Palatinate-Neuburg (Bavaria/Palatinate) Palatinate-Sulzbach (Bavaria/Palatinate) Leuchtenberg (Bavaria) Obersulzbürg and Pyrbaum (Bavaria) Hohen-waldeck (Bavaria) Breiteneck (Bavaria) Regensburg (free city) Burgundian Circle Burgundy/Austrian Netherlands (Austria) Franconian Circle Bench of the Ecclesiastical Princes Bishop of Bamberg Bishop of Würzburg Bishop of Eichstätt Mergentheim (Grand Master of.
Ingelheim - safe refuge from marauding troops during many wars over the centuries. The famous red wine festival is held in these picturesque surroundings each year in late September / early October. During Napoleonic times, the region was under French rule and Ingelheim became the administrative centre of the "Departement Mont-Tonnere". Following Napoleon's downfall it was designated part of the Grand-Duchy of Hesse and the Rhine. The dialect spoken in the area is indeed a mix of the South-Hessian and Palatinate tongues. The modern town was formed in 1938 by consolidating the formerly independent small towns of Ober-Ingelheim, Nieder Ingelheim, Frei-Weinheim and Sporkenheim. In the 1980's Groß-Winternheim was added during a state reform of municipalities. During the Nazi period, the same applied to Ingelheim as to all other German towns: its small but.
ISO 3166-2:DE - second part is two-digit-alphabetic. Decoding table DE-BE Berlin (city-state) DE-BR Brandenburg DE-BW Baden-Württemberg DE-BY Bavaria (Bayern) DE-HB Bremen (city-state) DE-HE Hesse (Hessen) DE-HH Hamburg (city-state) DE-MV Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) DE-NI Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) DE-NW North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen) DE-RP Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) DE-ST Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt) DE-SH Schleswig-Holstein DE-SL Saarland DE-SN Saxony (Sachsen) DE-TH Thuringia (Thüringen). See also ISO 3166-2, the reference table for all country region codes. ISO 3166-1, the reference table for all country codes, as used for domain names on the internet. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Helmut Kohl - of the Christian-Democratic Union (CDU) since 1947. From 1969--1976 he was Ministerpräsident of the Rhineland-Palatinate state, after which he became a member of the Bundestag (Federal Parliament) to be the leader of the CDU opposition against the government led by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) of the time. On October 1, 1982, he succeeded Helmut Schmidt as Bundeskanzler by means of a Constructive Vote of No Confidence, the only one in post-war German history that was successful to date. Kohl holds the record of being the longest-serving Bundeskanzler of Germany until being succeeded by Gerhard Schröder on October 27, 1998 after a landslide victory of the SPD in the 1998 federal elections. Helmut Kohl also was the leader of the CDU party from 1973--1998. He was married to Hannelore Kohl and.
Heidelberg - and the arts and today this tradition is carried on with many research centres located in or around the city. Heidelberg is undoubtedly most famous for the University of Heidelberg. Among the prominent thinkers to have been associated with the University over the centuries are Hegel, the philosopher of hermeneutics Hans-Georg Gadamer, the critical theorist Jürgen Habermas, and the discourse philosopher Karl-Otto Apel. History Heidelberg was first mentioned in 1196. Its university, the oldest in Germany, was founded in 1386. City burned and castle partly destroyed by the French during the War of the Palatinate Succession 1693 Discovery of spectral analysis by Robert Bunsen and Kirchhoff in 1860. Heidelberg is declared World Heritage Site by the UNESCO on October 23, 1998. The "Untere Straße" (lower street), A typical side street in.
Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne - was to have been included; but he escaped in time and with the duchesse de Longueville held Stenay for the cause of the "Princes"--Conde, his brother Conti, and his brother-in-law the due de Longueville. Love for the duchess seems to have ruled Turenne's action, both in the first war, and, now, in seeking Spanish aid for the princes. In this war Turenne sustained one of his few reverses at Rethel (December 15, 1650); but the second conflict ended in the early months of the following year with the collapse of the court party and the release of the princes. Turenne became reconciled and returned to Paris in May, but the trouble soon revived and before long Conde again raised the standard of revolt in the south of France. In this, the.
Heidelberg Catechism - the product of the vision of the pious Elector Fredrick III, sovereign of the Palatinate from 1559 to 1576. The Elector appointed Zacharius Ursinus and Caspar Olevianus, both renowned ministers of the word, to write a Reformed catechism for all people. Fredrick sought out extensive theological input from the leading Reformed scholars of his time to complete this project. The Catechism was divided into fifty-two sections, each to be taught each Sunday of the year. The Synod of Heidelberg approved the catechism in 1563. In the Netherlands, the National Synods of the sixteenth century adopted it as one of the Three Forms of Unity, making it requisite for Elders and Deacons to subscribe to, and ministers to teach. The Heidelberg Catechism has been translated into many languages and is regarded as.
High German - the Low Franconian languages (Dutch, West Flemish, and Afrikaans); or all of the Western Germanic languages other than High German (including English and Frisian). Family tree Note that divisions between subfamilies of Germanic are rarely precisely defined; most form continuous clines, with adjacent dialects being mutually intelligible and more separated ones not. In particular, there never has been an original "Proto-High German". Middle German East Middle German Standard German Lower Silesian (mostly in Lower Silesia, in Poland) Upper Saxon (in Saxony and other areas of eastern Germany) Luxembourgeois (mostly in Luxembourg) Transylvanian Saxon (in Transylvania) West Middle German (Franconian) East Franconian Main Franconian (near Mainz, in Germany) West Franconian Kölsch (near Cologne, in Germany) Pfälzisch (in Palatinate, in Germany) Frankish (in the Alsace, modern France — often confused with Alsatian) Pennsylvania.
History of Bavaria - princes. Henry IX's son Henry X, called the Proud, succeeded in 1126, and obtained the Duchy of Saxony in 1137. Alarmed at this prince's power, King Conrad III refused to allow two duchies to remain in the same hands; and, having declared Henry deposed. he bestowed Bavaria upon Leopold IV, margrave of Austria. When Leopold died in 1141, the king retained the duchy himself; but it continued to be the scene of considerable disorder, and in 1143 he entrusted it to Henry, surnamed Jasomirgott, margrave of Austria. The struggle for its possession continued until 1156, when King Frederick I, in his desire to restore peace to Germany, persuaded Henry to give up Bavaria to Henry the Lion, a son of Duke Henry the Proud. A new era of government set in.
