DONNERSBERGKREIS

The 'Donnersbergkreis' is a district (''Kreis'') in the middle of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are Bad Kreuznach, Alzey-Worms, Bad Dürkheim, Kaiserslautern, Kusel.

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History

Geography

Coat of arms

Towns and municipalities

External links

History

The district was created in 1969 by merging the districts Kirchheimbolanden and Rockenhausen.

Geography

The district is located around the highest mountain of the Palatinate, the ''Donnersberg'' with 687 m above sea level.

Coat of arms

Coat of arms

Both of the districts merged into the Donnersbergkreis had a wheel in their coat of arms, which are now also shown in the coat of arms of the new district. In the left is the red wheel of Lords of Bolanden, taken from the Kirchheim coat of arms. The blue wheel in the right is the wheel of the Lords of Falkenstein, taken from the Rockenhausen coat of arms. The green are in bottom with the peak symbolizes the Donnersberg, the highest elevation in the district, and the sun the importance of the sunny plains for viticulture.

Towns and municipalities

Verbandsgemeinden
★ '1. Alsenz-Obermoschel'# Alsenz1 # Finkenbach-Gersweiler # Gaugrehweiler # Kalkofen # Mannweiler-Cölln # Münsterappel # Niederhausen an der Appel # Niedermoschel # Oberhausen an der Appel # Obermoschel2# Oberndorf # Schiersfeld # Sitters # Unkenbach # Waldgrehweiler # Winterborn ★ '2. Eisenberg'# Eisenberg1, 2# Kerzenheim # Ramsen ★ '3. Göllheim'# Albisheim# Biedesheim # Bubenheim # Dreisen # Einselthum# Göllheim1# Immesheim # Lautersheim # Ottersheim # Rüssingen # Standenbühl # Weitersweiler # Zellertal	★ '4. Kirchheimbolanden'# Bennhausen # Bischheim # Bolanden # Dannenfels # Gauersheim # Ilbesheim # Jakobsweiler # Kirchheimbolanden1, 2# Kriegsfeld # Marnheim # Mörsfeld # Morschheim # Oberwiesen # Orbis # Rittersheim # Stetten ★ '5. Rockenhausen'# Bayerfeld-Steckweiler # Bisterschied # Dielkirchen # Dörrmoschel # Gehrweiler # Gerbach# Gundersweiler # Imsweiler # Katzenbach # Ransweiler # Rathskirchen # Reichsthal # Rockenhausen1, 2# Ruppertsecken # Sankt Alban # Schönborn # Seelen # Stahlberg # Teschenmoschel # Würzweiler	★ '6. Winnweiler'# Börrstadt # Breunigweiler # Falkenstein # Gonbach # Höringen # Imsbach # Lohnsfeld# Münchweiler an der Alsenz # Schweisweiler # Sippersfeld # Steinbach am Donnersberg # Wartenberg-Rohrbach # Winnweiler1
1seat of the Verbandsgemeinde; 2town

External links

★ Official website (German)

★ Touristic website (German)