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Kirchheimbolanden
Sign in to saveKirchheimbolanden is the capital and the second largest city of the Donnersbergkreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate. Situated in south-western Germany, it is approximately 25 km west of Worms, and 30 km north-east of Kaiserslautern.
Key facts
- German place.type
- Stadt
- German place.image_coa
- DEU Kirchheimbolanden COA.svg
- German place.image_plan
- Kirchheimbolanden in KIB.svg
- German place.state
- Rheinland-Pfalz
- German place.district
- Donnersbergkreis
- German place.Verbandsgemeinde
- Kirchheimbolanden
- German place.elevation
- 232
- German place.area
- 26.36
- German place.postal_code
- 67292
- German place.area_code
- 06352
- German place.licence
- KIB
- German place.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 07 3 33 039
- German place.mayor
- Marc Muchow
- German place.leader_term
- 2019–24
- German place.party
- CDU
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Encyclopedic overview
23 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Middle ages
- Early modern age
- From the 19th century
- Geography
- Location
- Elevation
- Urban division
- Politics
- City Mayor
- Coat of arms
- Twin towns and sister cities
- Climate
- Sons and daughters of the city
- Year up to 1900
- 20th century
- Gallery
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Works cited
- External links
Kirchheimbolanden is the capital and the second largest city of the Donnersbergkreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate. Situated in south-western Germany, it is approximately 25 km west of Worms, and 30 km north-east of Kaiserslautern.
The first part of the name, Kirchheim, dates back to 774. It became a town in 1368, and the Sponheim family improved its security with many towers and walls. William, Duke of Nassau, ancestor of the royal families of Belgium, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, and of the grand-ducal family of Luxembourg, was born in Kirchheimbolanden. It was also ruled by the First French Empire between 1792 and 1814, before passing to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1815. It was a rural district centre in the Rheinkreis, which was renamed Pfalz (Palatinate) in 1835.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kirchheimbolanden” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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