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Haßloch () is a large village in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Unlike most municipalities in the district, it does not belong to any Verbandsgemeinde – a type of collective municipality. It lies near the Mannheim/Ludwigshafen built-up area. The municipality has grown out of a single centre and is thus sometimes styled “Germany’s biggest village”. Haßloch is the Bad Dürkheim district's biggest municipality, exceeding even the namesake district seat. The village has at its disposal well developed infrastructure with educational and shopping facilities; the region's

Key facts

German place.image_photo
Hassloch 01.jpg
German place.image_coa
DEU Hassloch COA.svg
German place.image_plan
Haßloch in DÜW.svg
German place.state
Rheinland-Pfalz
German place.district
Bad Dürkheim
German place.elevation
110
German place.area
39.95
German place.postal_code
67454
German place.area_code
06324
German place.licence
DÜW
German place.Gemeindeschlüssel
07 3 32 025
German place.website
www.hassloch.de
German place.mayor
Tobias Meyer
German place.leader_term
2020–28
German place.party
CDU

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Encyclopedic overview

23 sections
Contents
  • Geography
  • Location
  • History
  • Religion
  • Population development
  • Origin of the name
  • Politics
  • Municipal council
  • Youth municipal council
  • Volunteering
  • Coat of arms
  • Town partnerships
  • Economy and infrastructure
  • Haßloch as a test market
  • Transport
  • Public institutions
  • Education
  • Notable people
  • Sons and daughters of the town
  • Famous people associated with the municipality
  • Further reading
  • References
  • External links

Haßloch () is a large village in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Unlike most municipalities in the district, it does not belong to any Verbandsgemeinde – a type of collective municipality. It lies near the Mannheim/Ludwigshafen built-up area. The municipality has grown out of a single centre and is thus sometimes styled “Germany’s biggest village”. Haßloch is the Bad Dürkheim district's biggest municipality, exceeding even the namesake district seat. The village has at its disposal well developed infrastructure with educational and shopping facilities; the region's surrounding centres can in the main be reached within 20 minutes.

== Geography == === Location === Haßloch lies east of Neustadt an der Weinstraße and is part of the Rhine-Neckar urban agglomeration southwest of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen. It also lies on the Mannheim–Kaiserslautern line. At the municipality's northern limit runs Autobahn A 65, and from there it is 25 km to either Ludwigshafen or Mannheim. Haßloch is on the whole a continuous built-up area, although Haßloch's southeasternmost neighbourhood, the Wehlachsiedlung, lies somewhat apart from the main centre.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Haßloch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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