Leiningerland
Sign in to savethumb|Leiningerland (outlined in light blue) The Leiningerland () is an historic landscape in the Palatinate region in the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is named after an aristocratic family that used to be the most important in the region, the House of Leiningen.
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- Germany
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- Rhineland-Palatinate
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- Pfaelzerwaldkarte Leiningerland.png
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thumb|Leiningerland (outlined in light blue) The Leiningerland () is an historic landscape in the Palatinate region in the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is named after an aristocratic family that used to be the most important in the region, the House of Leiningen.
== Geography == thumb|left|A loess wall, a natural monument and biotope The Leiningerland lies in northeast Palatinate, mostly in the county of Bad Dürkheim. Its area coincides with large parts of the collective municipalities of Hettenleidelheim and Grünstadt-Land as well as the town of Grünstadt. Also a part of the historic Leiningerland is the region around the town of Eisenberg, which is in the county of Donnersbergkreis today. Its total area is just under 200 km2.
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