Katzweiler is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in

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, western

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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 The Palatinate (german: Pfalz; Palatine German: ''Palz'') is a region of Germany. In the Middle Ages it was known as the Rhenish Palatinate (''Rheinpfalz'') and Lower Palatinate (''Unterpfalz''), which strictly speaking designated only the wes ...

was part of the

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(until 1804) und thereafter of the

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, the municipality was incorporated into the Kanton Otterberg. In 1815 the village belonged to

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, but changed to the

Kingdom of Bavaria The Kingdom of Bavaria (german: Königreich Bayern; ; spelled ''Baiern'' until 1825) was a German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1805 and continued to exist until 1918. With the unification of Germany into the German E ...

already in 1816. In 1939, it became part of the Kaiserslautern district. Following

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, it was within the

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that formed the new state of

in 1946. In the course of the first administrative reforms in Rheinland-Pfalz, the municipality became part of the newly formed

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- ...

Otterbach 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'' Ot ...

in 1971. Since July 1, 2014, it is part of the Verbandsgemeinde Otterbach-Otterberg . Katzweiler Mühle 1936

References

Kaiserslautern (district) {{Kaiserslautern-geo-stub