Pfalz, Pfälzer, or Pfälzisch are German words referring to Palatinate. They may refer to:

Places

*Pfalz, 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 ...

of Germany **Nordpfalz, the

North Palatinate North Palatinate''Das Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges in der Nordpfalz'' by Timo Scherne, Nordpfälzer Geschichtsverein, 2006. (german: Nordpfalz) is a region in southwest Germany with an area of just 650 km², making it the smallest landscape in ...

**Vorderpfalz, the

Anterior Palatinate 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 ...

**Südpfalz, the

South Palatinate 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 ...

**Westpfalz, the

West Palatinate Western Palatinate or West Palatinate (german: Westpfalz) is a sub-region in the west of the Palatinate (region), Palatinate, a German cultural and historic region in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It includes the western part of the Palatine ...

*Pfalz, the Palatinate wine region of Germany **Pfälzische Weinkönigin, the

Palatine Wine Queen The Palatine Wine Queen (german: Pfälzische Weinkönigin), sometimes also called the Palatinate Wine Queen, is the annually elected representative of the Palatine wine region, one of currently 13 recognized wine regions in Germany. She is eligible ...

elected representative of the region *the ''Pfalz'', nickname for

Pfalzgrafenstein Castle Pfalzgrafenstein Castle (german: link=no, Burg Pfalzgrafenstein) is a toll castle on the Falkenau island, otherwise known as Pfalz Island in the River Rhine near Kaub, Germany. Known as "the Pfalz", this former stronghold is famous for its pic ...

, Germany *Pfälzerwald, the Palatinate Forest *Rheinland-Pfalz, the current federal German state 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 ...

Historic states

*''Kurpfalz'', the

Electoral Palatinate The Electoral Palatinate (german: Kurpfalz) or the Palatinate (), officially the Electorate of the Palatinate (), was a state that was part of the Holy Roman Empire. The electorate had its origins under the rulership of the Counts Palatine of ...

of the Holy Roman Empire. Historic houses and states include: **Pfalz-Birkenfeld, the

House of Palatinate-Birkenfeld The House of Palatinate-Birkenfeld (German: ''Pfalz-Birkenfeld''), later Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, was the name of a collateral line of the Palatine Wittelsbachs. The Counts Palatine from this line initially ruled over only a relatively u ...

** Pfalz-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler ** Pfalz-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen ** Pfalz-Birkenfeld-Zweibrücken **

Pfalz-Kleeburg Palatinate-Kleeburg was a state of the Holy Roman Empire, which centered on the Alsatian lordship of Kleeburg. Palatinate-Kleeberg was the younger partition of Palatinate-Zweibrücken in 1604 for John Casimir, the youngest son of John I, Cou ...

** Pfalz-Landsberg ** Pfalz-Lautern ** Pfalz-Mosbach ** Pfalz-Mosbach-Neumarkt ** Pfalz-Neuburg **Pfalz-Palatinate-Neumarkt, the

House of Palatinate-Neumarkt A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air condit ...

**Pfalz-Simmern, the

House of Palatinate-Simmern The House of Palatinate-Simmern (german: Pfalz-Simmern) was a German- Bavarian cadet branch of the House of Wittelsbach. The house was one of the collateral lineages of the Palatinate. The Palatinate line of the House of Wittelsbach was divided i ...

** Pfalz-Simmern-Zweibrücken ** Pfalz-Simmern-Kaiserslautern ** Pfalz-Simmern-Sponheim ** Pfalz-Sulzbach ** Pfalz-Sulzbach-Hilpoltstein ** Pfalz-Zweibrücken ** Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld ** Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Vohenstrauss-Parkstein

People

* Elisabeth-Charlotte Wittelsbach von Pfalz (1652-1722) * Friedrich V von der Pfalz (1596-1632) * Heinrich Friedrich von der Pfalz (1614-29) * Karl I. Ludwig von der Pfalz (1617-80) * Ludwig I von Pfalz-Zweibrücken (1424-89) *

Sophie von der Pfalz Sophia of Hanover (born Princess Sophia of the Palatinate; 14 October 1630 – 8 June 1714) was the Electress of Hanover by marriage to Elector Ernest Augustus and later the heiress presumptive to the thrones of England and Scotland (later Grea ...

(1630-1714) * Wolfgang Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg (1578-1653)

Transportation

Aircraft

Pfalz Flugzeugwerke Pfalz Flugzeugwerke was a World War I German aircraft manufacturer, located at the Speyer airfield in the Palatinate (German: Pfalz). They are best known for their series of fighters, notably the Pfalz D.III and Pfalz D.XII. The company went ba ...

, a German World War I aircraft manufacturer ** Pfalz D.III, 1917 biplane fighter ** Pfalz D.VI, 1917 sesquiplane fighter aircraft not put into production **

Pfalz D.VII The Pfalz D.VII was a German biplane fighter aircraft from World War I. It was not put into production. Design and development The D.VII was a single- bay biplane with staggered, parallel- chord wings. It had simple parallel interplane struts ...

, late 1917 biplane fighter not put into production **

Pfalz D.VIII The Pfalz D.VIII was a German World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United ...

, 1918 biplane fighter **

Pfalz D.XII The Pfalz D.XII was a German fighter aircraft built by Pfalz Flugzeugwerke. Designed by Rudolph Gehringer as a successor to the Pfalz D.III, the D.XII entered service in significant numbers near the end of the First World War. It was the last P ...

, 1918 biplane fighter **

Pfalz D.XV The Pfalz D.XV was a German single seat fighter aircraft which was approved for production right at the end of World War I, too late to enter service. Design and development The D.XV was last of the series of biplane fighter aircraft, fighters ...

, 1918 single seat biplane fighter **

Pfalz Dr.I The Pfalz Dr.I was a German fighter prototype of World War I. Official interest in the potential of the triplane A triplane is a fixed-wing aircraft equipped with three vertically stacked wing planes. Tailplanes and canard foreplanes are n ...

, 1917 triplane fighter ** Pfalz Dr.II, 1917 triplane fighter prototype

Rail

*''Pfalz'', a German steam locomotive preserved at the Neustadt/Weinstrasse Railway Museum *Pfälzische Nordbahn, the

Palatine Northern Railway The Palatine Northern Railway (german: Pfälzische Nordbahn) is a non-electrified single-track main line that connects Neustadt (Weinstr) Hbf with Monsheim in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was opened between 1865 and 1873 in three s ...

*Pfälzische Ludwigsbahn, historic name for the Mannheim–Saarbrücken railway *Pfälzische Maximiliansbahn, historic name for the Neustadt–Wissembourg railway

Ships

* SS ''Pfalz'', the name for three different steamships operated by German shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd

Other uses

* Pfälzisch, a dialect of the German language