Hochspeyer

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Hochspeyer
Coat of arms Location
Coat of arms of Hochspeyer
Hochspeyer (Germany)
Hochspeyer
Administration
Country Flag of Germany Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Kaiserslautern
Municipal assoc. Hochspeyer
Mayor Gerhard Scherer
Basic statistics
Area 22.72 km² (8.8 sq mi)
Elevation 267 m  (876 ft)
Population 4,680  (31/12/2006)
 - Density 206 /km² (534 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate KL
Postal code 67691
Area code 06305
Website www.hochspeyer-pfalz.de

Coordinates: 49°26′34″N 7°53′48″E / 49.44278, 7.89667

Hochspeyer is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated in the Palatinate forest (Pfälzer Wald), approx. 10 km east of Kaiserslautern.

Hochspeyer is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Hochspeyer ("collective municipality").

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[edit] History

Hochspeyer's history is closely related to the Cistercian Abbey of Otterberg, to which the Münchhof belonged since 1195.

In 1801 the region Palatinate became part of the French Département Mont-Tonnerre, and in 1815 it became part of the Bavarian Kingdom.

After World War II Palatinate (and with it Hochspeyer) was incorporated in the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

[edit] Education

Hochspeyer has the Münchhofschule (a primary and secondary school) as well as three Kindergartens.

[edit] Economy

Trade, minor industry and farming shape the small local economy in Hochspeyer. Tourism is about to develop since the Palatinate forest has become part of the biosphere reserve Pfälzer Wald-Vosges du Nord in 1998 and projects like the Mountainbikepark Pfälzerwald, a route network for mountainbiking, have been initiated.

[edit] Transport

Hochspeyer is near the A6 and A63 motorways. It is also served by the B37 and B49 roads.

For rail, Hochspeyer is served by the metro railway (S-Bahn) between Kaiserslautern/Homburg and Mannheim/Heidelberg half hourly.

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