Freinsheim
Sign in to saveFreinsheim (; ) is a town in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. With about 5,000 inhabitants, it is among the state's smaller towns. It is also the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality.
Key facts
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.image_photo
- Freinsheim BW 24.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- Town hall and protestant church
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Freinsheim COA.svg
- German location.image_flag
- Hissflagge Freinsheim.svg
- German location.image_plan
- Freinsheim in DÜW.svg
- German location.state
- Rheinland-Pfalz
- German location.district
- Bad Dürkheim
- German location.Verbandsgemeinde
- Freinsheim
- German location.elevation
- 72
- German location.area
- 13.59
- German location.postal_code
- 67251 67098 (Lindemannsruhe) 67247, 67248 (P.O. boxes)
- German location.area_code
- 06353 06322 (Lindemannsruhe)
- German location.licence
- DÜW
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 07 3 32 019
- German location.website
- www.stadt-freinsheim.de
- German location.mayor
- Jochen Weisbrod (CDU)
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Article
31 sectionsContents
- Geography
- History
- Politics
- Town council
- Mayors
- Coat of arms
- ''Verbandsgemeinde''
- Town partnerships
- Culture and sightseeing
- Literature prize
- Buildings
- Town wall
- Protestant parish church
- Former castle
- Wayside shrine
- West tower
- Regular events
- ''Rotweinwanderweg''
- ''Freinsheimer Altstadtfest''
- ''Stadtmauerfest''
- ''Kulinarischer Weinwanderweg''
- ''Weihnachtsmarkt''
- Economy and infrastructure
- Economy
- Transport
- Famous people
- Sons and daughters of the town
- Famous people associated with the town
- Further reading
- References
- External links
Freinsheim (; ) is a town in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. With about 5,000 inhabitants, it is among the state's smaller towns. It is also the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality.
== Geography == Freinsheim lies in the Upper Rhine Plain at the eastern edge of the Palatinate forest, roughly 20 km west of Ludwigshafen between Bad Dürkheim (about 6 km to the southwest) and Grünstadt near the German Wine Route. Within town limits rises the Fuchsbach.