Germersheim (district)

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Germersheim
Map of Rhineland-Palatinate highlighting the district Germersheim
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
County seat	Germersheim
Area	463.26 km²
Population	124,380 (2001)
pop. density	268 inh./km²
Car identification	GER
Web page	kreis-germersheim.de

Germersheim is a district (Kreis) in the south-east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from west clockwise) Südliche Weinstraße, Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, the district Karlsruhe as well as the district-free city Karlsruhe, and the French département Bas-Rhin.

1 History
2 Geography
3 Coat of arms
4 Towns and municipalities
5 External links

[edit] History

Most of the region was part of the Palatinate from the 11th century on. The bishops of Speyer owned some lands, too. The Palatinate was destroyed in the Napoleonic Wars, and the clerical states of Germany were dissolved in 1803. After a period of French occupation the Congress of Vienna decided to hand the territories over to Bavaria. The region remained a part of Bavaria until World War II; afterwards it was incorporated into the newly established state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

[edit] Geography

The Rhine river marks the eastern boundary of the district, the river Lauter most of the southern boundary. The landscape of the district consists of the Rhine valley, in the north and east meeting the jungle-like areas of old Rhine arms, in the south covering the Bienwald (a forest stretching into the north of Alsace).

[edit] Coat of arms

The coat of arms shows the lion of Palatinate in the top part, and the cross of Speyer in the bottom part. The wavy line in the middle symbolizes the Rhine river, and the escutcheon in the middle is from the coat of arms of the city of Germersheim.

[edit] Towns and municipalities

Towns	Verbandsgemeinden
Germersheim Wörth am Rhein	Bellheim Hagenbach¹ Jockgrim Kandel¹ Lingenfeld Rülzheim ¹includes town of the same name

Towns

Verbandsgemeinden

¹includes town of the same name

[edit] External links

Official website (German)

	Urban and rural districts in the Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany
Urban districts	Frankenthal \| Kaiserslautern \| Koblenz \| Landau \| Ludwigshafen \| Mainz \| Neustadt (Weinstraße) Pirmasens \| Speyer \| Trier \| Worms \| Zweibrücken
Rural districts	Ahrweiler \| Altenkirchen \| Alzey-Worms \| Bad Dürkheim \| Bad Kreuznach \| Bernkastel-Wittlich \| Birkenfeld \| Bitburg-Prüm Cochem-Zell \| Daun \| Donnersbergkreis \| Germersheim \| Kaiserslautern \| Kusel \| Mainz-Bingen Mayen-Koblenz \| Neuwied \| Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis \| Rhein-Lahn-Kreis \| Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis Südliche Weinstraße \| Südwestpfalz \| Trier-Saarburg \| Westerwaldkreis