Linden is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in

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, western

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Geography

The community is located on the edge of the biosphere reserve Palatinate Forest. Through Linden flows the Queidersbach, popularly also called Steinalb. Linden also includes the living spaces Ländler-Hof, Lindener Mühle and Weiherhof.

History

The place was first mentioned in documents in 1363. The village Linden belonged from the early 16th to the end of the 18th century to the so-called Grand Court of the rule

Landstuhl Landstuhl () is a town in the Kaiserslautern district of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. It is the seat of ''Verbandsgemeinde Landstuhl'', a kind of "collective municipality." Landstuhl is situated on the north-west edge of the Palatinate F ...

, which was owned by the barons of Sickingen the line to Hohenburg. In 1794, the left bank of the Rhine was occupied in the First Coalition War. From 1798 to 1814 Linden belonged to the canton

in the department Donnersberg. Due to the agreements made at the

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, the area first came to

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in June 1815 and was ceded 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 ...

in 1816 on the basis of the Treaty of Munich. Under the Bavarian administration Linden belonged from 1817 to the Landkommissariat Homburg in the Rhine district, from 1862 to the district office Homburg, moved in 1929 to the district office Kaiserslautern and belongs since 1939 to the district of Kaiserslautern. After the

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, the community Linden within the

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was part of the administrative district Pfalz in the then newly formed state

Population Growth

The development of the population of Linden, the values from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

References

Palatinate Forest Kaiserslautern (district) {{Kaiserslautern-geo-stub