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Otterbach (Murr, Murrhardt)
Otterbach is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Otterbach was the seat of the former ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") Otterbach, which merged into the new ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Otterbach-Otterberg in 2014. Geography State Otterbach lies in the northwest of Kaiserslautern in the so-called Kaiserslautern Senke. To the north is the Nordpfälzer Bergland and to the east the Otterberger Wald, which belongs to the Palatinate Forest. The community consists of the two districts Otterbach and Sambach. The residential areas Falltal and Sambacher Ziegelhütte also belong to the Otterbach district. Neighbouring municipalities are the local municipality of Katzweiler in the northwest, the town of Otterberg in the northeast and the independent town of Kaiserslautern with the districts of , Morlautern, Wiesenthalerhof and Erfenbach in the south. Surveys and waters The Schlossberg rises in the south and the Galgenber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaiserslautern (district)
Kaiserslautern is a district (''Kreis'') in the south of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from west clockwise) Kusel, Saarpfalz-Kreis, Donnersbergkreis, Bad Dürkheim and Südwestpfalz. The city of Kaiserslautern is almost fully enclosed by, but not belonging to the district. History The district of Kaiserslautern was established in 1939. Minor changes of the borders occurred in 1969 and 1972. Geography The district includes parts of the Palatinate Forest (''Pfälzer Wald'') in the east and the North Palatine Hills (''Nordpfälzer Bergland'') in the west, as well as the lowlands between them. Partnerships Since 1962 the district has had a partnership with Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. As part of the partnership of Rhineland-Palatinate with Rwanda, the district has had a partnership with the municipality of Musasa since 1983. In 2002, a partnership with the Polish district of Olesno was started. Coat of arms The eagle on the top of the coat of arms repr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katzweiler
Katzweiler is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany. History The municipality was first mentioned in 1190 as ''Cazwilere''. Until the end of the 18th Century, it was part of the Electoral Palatinate and under the jurisdiction of the Lautern Superior Court. From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate region was part of the French First Republic (until 1804) und thereafter of the First French Empire, the municipality was incorporated into the Kanton Otterberg. In 1815 the village belonged to Austria, but changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria already in 1816. In 1939, it became part of the Kaiserslautern district. Following World War II, it was within the French Zone of Occupation that formed the new state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946. In the course of the first administrative reforms in Rheinland-Pfalz, the municipality became part of the newly formed Verbandsgemeinde Otterbach Otterbach is a municipality in the district of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauter (Glan)
The Lauter is a tributary to the Glan. The river flows about north-northwest of Kaiserslautern, through Hirschhorn, Wolfstein and Lauterecken Lauterecken () is a town in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Lauterecken-Wolfstein, to which it also belongs. Lauterecken bears the nickname ''Veldenzstadt'', after the comital family ... where it meets the Glan. External links * Rivers and lakes of Western Palatinate Rivers of Rhineland-Palatinate Rivers of Germany {{RhinelandPalatinate-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schlossberg (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Schlossberg or Schloßberg (German for ''Castle Mountain''; usually a hill or mountain with a "castle" on it) may refer to: Places *Schlossberg (Bavaria), a part of the municipality of Stephanskirchen in Bavaria, Germany * Schloßberg (Bopfingen), a suburb of the city of Bopfingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany * Schlossberg (Brandenburg), a hill in Brandenburg, Germany *Schlossberg (Freiburg), a hill near the city of Freiburg im Breisgau in Germany. *Schlossberg (Graz), a hill in Graz, Austria * Schloßberg (Leibnitz), a town in the district of Leibnitz in Styria, Austria * Schloßberg (Pegnitz), a mountain in Bavaria, Germany * Schlossberg (Romania), the German name for the village of Chinari, in Sântana de Mureș, Romania *Schloßberg (Stolpen), a hill formed from basalt columns in Saxony, Germany, * Schlossberg (Uri), a mountain in Central Switzerland * Schlossberg, Bratislava, part of Podhradie, Bratislava * Schlossberg, a hill near Husseren-les-Châteaux in Alsace (France) o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaiserslautern
Kaiserslautern (; Palatinate German: ''Lautre'') is a city in southwest Germany, located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate Forest. The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is from Paris, from Frankfurt am Main, 666 kilometers (414 miles) from Berlin, and from Luxembourg. Kaiserslautern is home to about 100,000 people. Additionally, approximately 45,000 NATO military personnel are based in the city and its surrounding district ('' Landkreis Kaiserslautern''), contributing approximately US$1 billion annually to the local economy. History and demographics Prehistoric settlement in the area of what is now Kaiserslautern has been traced to at least 800 BC. Some 2,500-year-old Celtic tombs were uncovered at Miesau, a town about west of Kaiserslautern. The recovered relics are now in the Museum for Palatinate History at Speyer. Medieval period Kaiserslautern received its name from the favourite hunting retreat of Holy Roman Emperor F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otterberg
Otterberg is a town in the district of Kaiserslautern in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate with about 7,350 (as of 6/2006) inhabitants. It is situated approximately north of Kaiserslautern. Otterberg is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") Otterbach-Otterberg. History The following events occurred, in each year: *1143 The monastery was established. *1168 Construction of the monastery began. *1254 The church was inaugurated on May 10. *1380 The monastery was in steady decline beginning about 1380 until the 15th century. *1504 During the Bavaria-Landshut War of Succession, the monastery was plundered. *1525 During the German Peasants' War (Bauernkrieg); the insurgent peasants fell on the remainder of the monastery. *1556 The Reformation was introduced to the area. *1559 The remaining monks were instructed to convert. *1561 The last Abbott Wendelin Merbot left the monastery. *1564 The monastery was left open. The gates of Otterberg were opened. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Koblenz, Trier, Kaiserslautern, Worms and Neuwied. It is bordered by North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland, Baden-Württemberg and Hesse and by the countries France, Luxembourg and Belgium. Rhineland-Palatinate was established in 1946 after World War II, from parts of the former states of Prussia (part of its Rhineland and Nassau provinces), Hesse (Rhenish Hesse) and Bavaria (its former outlying Palatinate kreis or district), by the French military administration in Allied-occupied Germany. Rhineland-Palatinate became part of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 and shared the country's only border with the Saar Protectorate until the latter wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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