Edenkoben is a ''

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. Rhinelan ...

'' ("collective municipality") in the Südliche Weinstraße district, in

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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. The seat of the municipality is in

Edenkoben Edenkoben () is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstraße district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It lies approximately halfway between Landau and Neustadt an der Weinstraße. Edenkoben is one of the towns situated along the German Wine R ...

History

The ''Verbandsgemeinde'' was founded in 1972. It belonged to the

Regierungsbezirk A ' () means "governmental district" and is a type of administrative division in Germany. Four of sixteen ' ( states of Germany) are split into '. Beneath these are rural and urban districts. Saxony has ' (directorate districts) with more res ...

Rheinhessen-Pfalz, before its dissolution in 2000. It was expanded with the municipalities of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Maikammer in July 2014, but this merger was reverted by the

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of Rhineland-Palatinate in June 2015.Verfassungsgerichtshof kippt Zwangsfusion

Local municipalities

The ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Edenkoben consists of the following ''Ortsgemeinden'' ("local municipalities"):

References

External links

* Verbandsgemeinde in Rhineland-Palatinate Südliche Weinstraße {{SüdlicheWeinstraße-geo-stub