Kandel () is a town in the

Germersheim Germersheim () is a town in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, of around 20,000 inhabitants. It is also the seat of the Germersheim (district), Germersheim district. The neighboring towns and cities are Speyer, Landau, Philippsburg, Karlsru ...

district of

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 ...

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, near the border with

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and approximately 18 km north-west of

Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...

, and 15 km south-east of

Landau Landau ( pfl, Landach), officially Landau in der Pfalz, is an autonomous (''kreisfrei'') town surrounded by the Südliche Weinstraße ("Southern Wine Route") district of southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a university town (since 1990 ...

. Kandel is twinned with the small Lancashire town of Whitworth. Kandel is the seat of the ''

Verbandsgemeinde A Verbandsgemeinde (; plural Verbandsgemeinden) is a low-level administrative unit in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt. A Verbandsgemeinde is typically composed of a small group of villages or towns. Rhineland- ...

'' ("collective municipality") Kandel.

Coat of arms meaning

Star: Celestial goodness, noble person, leadership, excellence. Sword: Justice and military honour. Sky-Blue (Azure): Truth and loyalty.

Notable inhabitants

The following overview contains notable people associated with Kandel. The list does not claim to be complete.

Honorary citizens

* 1980: Maria Wiesheu (Sister Himeria), a member of the Order of the Sisters of the Divine Redeemer, a province of Palatinate,

Esthal Esthal is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location The municipality lies on a plateau ...

, a long time active as a nurse in Kandel * 1991: Oskar Böhm († 2001), 1955-1989 Mayor of the city of Kandel, 1972-1981 Mayor of the Association of Kandel

Sons and daughters of the city

Franz Michael Leuchsenring Franz Michael Leuchsenring (13 April 1746 – February 1827) was a German writer of the German Enlightenment. Life In 1769, Leuchsenring with Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Johann Gottfried Herder, and Johann Wolfgang Goethe were known as members of t ...

(1746-1827), author * Horst Schütz (born 1951), cyclist *

Ingrid Persohn Ingrid Persohn (born 20 March 1952) is a German former professional racing cyclist Cycle sport is Competition, competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, ...

(born 1952), cyclist and three-time German champion *

Nadine Härdter Nadine Härdter (born 29 March 1981) is a German handball player. She plays for the club Thüringer HC and for the German national team. She represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the ...

(born 1981), handball player *

Manuel Hornig Manuel Hornig (born 18 December 1982 in Kandel) is a German former professional footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association footb ...

(born 1982), soccer player * Pascal Ackermann (born 1994), cyclist *

Petrissa Solja Petrissa Solja (born 11 March 1994) is a German table tennis player. Solja won silver in the team event in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She reached her highest world ranking of thirteenth in March 2016. Personal life Solja was bor ...

(born 1994), table tennis player

People who have worked in Kandel

* Albert Hilger, (1839-1905), completed on the spot starting from 1854 a pharmacist teaching

References

External links

* Germersheim (district) {{Germersheim-geo-stub