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Rhenish Palatinate (German: Rheinpfalz), the old name for the Palatinate region (Pfalz), Rhineland-Palatinate. The name Rheinpfalz is still used in German today for this region. Rhenish Palatinate (German: Rheinpfalz ), another name for the Circle of the Rhine ( Rheinkreis ) or the Bavarian Palatinate ( Bayerischen Pfalz ) west of the Rhine ...
In 1945, After WWII, right side of the Rhine river, which were a part of Mainz, became a part of Wiesbaden and other part of Hesse due to its occupation zone where Mainz and Rhineland-Palatinate were French occupation zone and Wiesbaden and Hesse were American occupation zone where both cities became its state capital in 1946. Mainz lost 21.1% ...
After the Second World War and the new reorganisation of the region, Hechtsheim became a municipality in the district of Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate). In the 1950s, it benefited from the development of its commercial area. In 1969, Hechtsheim was incorporated into the city of Mainz as a district (Ortsbezirk) called Mainz-Hechtsheim. [5]
The state of Rhineland-Palatinate was founded shortly after the Second World War, on 30 August 1946. It was formed mainly from the southern part of the Prussian Rhine Province (the Regierungsbezirke of Koblenz and Trier ), from Rhenish Hesse , from the western part of Nassau and the Bavarian Rhenish Palatinate minus the county of Saarpfalz .
The Palatinate (German: Pfalz; Palatine German: Palz), or the Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz), is a historical region of Germany.The Palatinate occupies most of the southern quarter of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz), covering an area of 2,105 square miles (5,450 km 2) with about 1.4 million inhabitants.
During World War I and World War II the citadel was used as prisoner-of-war camp (Oflag XII-B). According to the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 - and the slighting of the fortifications in and around Mainz as effect of it- the military history of the citadel of Mainz ended. Nevertheless, during the last days of World War II, the population of ...
Mainz-Bingen is a district (Kreis) in the east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Rheingau-Taunus , the district-free cities Wiesbaden and Mainz , the districts Groß-Gerau , Alzey-Worms , Bad Kreuznach , and Rhein-Hunsrück .
Map of the Middle Rhine Valley. The Rhine Gorge is a popular name for the Upper Middle Rhine Valley, a 65 km (40 mi) section of the Rhine between Koblenz and Rüdesheim in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse in Germany.