Annweiler am Trifels

Annweiler am Trifels
Town hall

Coat of arms
Annweiler am Trifels
Location of Annweiler am Trifels within Südliche Weinstraße district
Coordinates: 49°12′N 7°58′E / 49.200°N 7.967°E / 49.200; 7.967Coordinates: 49°12′N 7°58′E / 49.200°N 7.967°E / 49.200; 7.967
Country Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Südliche Weinstraße
Municipal assoc. Annweiler am Trifels
Government
 • Mayor Thomas Wollenweber (SPD)
Area
 • Total 39.87 km2 (15.39 sq mi)
Elevation 179 m (587 ft)
Population (2017-12-31)[1]
 • Total 7,114
 • Density 180/km2 (460/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 76855
Dialling codes 06346
Vehicle registration SÜW
Website www.annweiler.de

Annweiler am Trifels (  ), or Annweiler is a town in the Südliche Weinstraße district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the river Queich, 12 km west of Landau. Annweiler am Trifels station is on the Landau–Saarbrücken railway.

Annweiler is situated in the Southern part of the Palatinate forest called the Wasgau, and is surrounded by high hills which yield a famous red sandstone. The town's main industry is tourism. On the Sonnenberg (493 m) lie the ruins of the castle of Trifels, in which Richard Coeur de Lion was imprisoned from 31 March to 19 April 1193.[2]

Annweiler is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") of Annweiler am Trifels.

In a 1911 edition of the Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, the area around Annweiler was referred to as "Pfälzer Schweiz".[3]

Protestant church at the Marktplatz
Annweiler am Trifels
Annweiler am Trifels
Annweiler am Trifels

Mayors

  • Christian Sieben (1815–1832)
  • Heinrich Pasquay (1832–1833)
  • Abraham Noe (1833–1835)
  • Heinrich Mühlhäuser (1837–1848)
  • Wilhelm Köstner (1848–1851)
  • Matthäus Künkele (1852)
  • Georg Jacoby (1853–1858)
  • Philipp Streccius (1871–1874)
  • Karl Culmann (1875–1877)
  • Georg Jacoby (1877–1885)
  • August Pasquay (1885–1899)
  • Philipp Daniel Bartz (1900–1913)
  • Jean Meyer (1913–1918)
  • Philipp Mergenthaler (1918–1919)
  • Adolf Hoffmann (1920–1921)
  • Heinrich Gotthold (1921)
  • Konrad Bretz (1921–1928)
  • Friedrich Orth (1928–1933)
  • Karl Becker (1933)
  • Richard Bärsch (1933–1935)
  • Friedrich Peters (1935–1940)
  • Richard Bärsch (1940–1945)
  • Eduard Diehlmann (1945–1946)
  • Friedrich Hofäcker (1946–1956)
  • Theo Leyendecker (1956–1969)
  • Hans Stöcklein (1969–1987)
  • Peter Weber (1987–1994)
  • Gert Rillmann (1994–2004)
  • Thomas Wollenweber (2004 – )

Notable residents

  • Markward von Annweiler (1140–1202)
  • Horst Christill
  • Matthias Kern (1750–1793) Journalist
  • Eugen Jäger (1842–1926) Publicist
  • August Naegle (1869–1932) Church Historian, Politician
  • Hans-Ulrich Pfaffmann Politician
  • Jutta Kleinschmidt Auto Racing Driver
  • Gustav Franz Ullrich Industrialist
  • Friedrich Gerhard Wahl Engineer and Architect (1748–1826)

International relations

Annweiler am Trifels is twinned with:

Cardboard factory in Sarnstall

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz "Bevölkerungsstand 2017 - Gemeindeebene" Check |url= value (help). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz (in German). 2018.
  2. ↑ Wikisource Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Anweiler". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 158.
  3. ↑ Entry for Annweiler in the German "Brockhaus Kleines Konversations-Lexikon" from 1911

References

  • Biundo, Georg, Georg; Hess, Hans (1968). Annweiler - Geschichte einer alten Reichsstadt. Mannheim: Studio Hruschka.
  • Kölsch, Hans-Joachim; Sonja Pfundstein (2004). Annweiler - Zeitsprünge. Oaklands Book.


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