Talk:Rhineland-Palatinate

message: (***Map updated 2005-12-09***) 
I've tried to work out which of the 12 unnumbered areas on the map are which of the 12 listed cities. I can't do it. The positions disagree with the maps I'm using. Is this map wrong or ... -- SGBailey 23:27, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Image changed above to a temporary and wrong image to aid discussion. I'm happy with: Kaiserslautern, Koblenz, Mainz, Zweibrücken, Pirmasens, Trier. I'm unhappy with the rest: Frankenthal, Landau, Ludwigshafen, Neustadt, Speyer, Worms. Help anyone? -- SGBailey 14:50, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's right except for the following: The little unmarked spot NW of Landau is an exclave of that city. Frankenthal is not shown at all in the map; it is immediately north of Ludwigshafen. --Chl 18:41, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Image now edited as described by Ch1. Image in this page now changed to that edited image and the discussion image listed for deletion. -- SGBailey 22:44, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Yeah it should be easier just to merge them together.Corpus1 (talk) 01:32, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: District map identification

message: Is there a page which I cannot find, or can a section be added here, which will detail the history of the various 'top level' governments of the area? By this I mean, before there was aunified Germany, there were numerous administrative controllers, from Napoleon to the Holy Roman Empire, at times in the 30 years' war the French controlled it, and so on. ThuranX 03:26, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As the land did not exist before 1946, you can't provide the requested info in one article. You will have to look at the different regions or towns of RP. --Symposiarch 17:35, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  administrative history 

message: The results of the 2006 state election presented here, are different from those shown in the article devoted to this specific subject (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhineland-Palatinate_state_election,_2006).
201.239.126.11 (talk) 20:46, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  2006 Election 

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;Culture 
;Parks 
In 1856, the later German empress, Augusta, had the Rheinanlagen in Koblenz laid out as a park. She was also a patroness of the Catholic priest, Kraus, and supported his efforts to create a Biblical landscape, today known as the Pfarrer-Kraus-Anlagen.
In 1992 a new and popular type of leisure facility was designed, the barefoot park at Bad Sobernheim. This was subsequently copied at many places in the German-speaking world.
The following nature, leisure and wildlife parks are found in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate:
* Vulkanland Eifel Geopark
* Worms Wildlife Park
* Kaiserslautern Zoo
* Landau Zoo
* Neuwied Zoo
* Eifelpark in Gondorf
* Holiday Park in Haßloch
* Kurpfalz Park in Wachenheim
* Klotten Wildlife and Amusement Park in Klotten
* Südliche Weinstraße Wildlife Park in Silz
* Hunsrück Deer Conservation Park in Rheinböllen
* Wildenburg Wildlife Park near Kempfeld
* Eifel Zoo near Lünebach, near Prüm
* Daun Wildlife Park on the German Wildlife Route
-- Jytdog (talk) 09:37, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  unsourced content about parks 

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;Geography 
Located in western Germany, the Rhineland-Palatinate borders (from the north and clockwise) the German states North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, and Baden-Württemberg. It shares an international border with France (Grand Est), followed by the German state of Saarland, and international borders with Luxembourg (Diekirch and Grevenmacher Districts) and Belgium (Wallonia).
The largest river in the state is the Rhine, which forms the border with Baden-Württemberg and Hesse in the southeast before flowing through the northern part of Rhineland-Palatinate. The Rhine Valley is bounded by mountain chains and it contains several of the historically significant places in Germany.
The Eifel and Hunsrück mountain chains are found on the west bank of the Rhine in northern Rhineland-Palatinate, while the Westerwald and Taunus mountains are found on the east bank. The hilly lands in the southernmost region of the state are covered by the Palatinate forest and the Palatinate. These mountain chains are separated from each other by several tributaries of the Rhine: the Mosel, the Lahn, and the Nahe.
The modern state consists of a conglomeration of the historic regions of southern Rhine Province, Rheinhessen, and the Palatinate.
See also List of places in Rhineland-Palatinate and List of landscapes in Rhineland-Palatinate.
===Administration===
thumb|Trier
Rhineland-Palatinate is divided into 36 districts (24 rural and 12 urban), formerly grouped into three administrative regions: Koblenz, Trier and Rheinhessen-Pfalz.
Since 2000, the employees and assets of the former administrative regions have been organized into the Aufsichts- und Dienstleistungsdirektion Trier (Supervisory and Service Directorate Trier) and the Struktur- und Genehmigungsdirektionen (Structural and Approval Directorates) Nord in Koblenz and Süd in Neustadt (Weinstraße). These administrations execute their authority over the whole state, for example, the ADD Trier oversees all schools.
Map of the districts of Rhineland-Palatinate.
The rural districts:
#  Ahrweiler
#  Altenkirchen
#  Alzey-Worms
#  Bad Dürkheim
#  Bad Kreuznach
#  Bernkastel-Wittlich
#  Birkenfeld
#  Bitburg-Prüm
#  Cochem-Zell
#  Vulkaneifel
#  Donnersbergkreis
#  Germersheim
#  Kaiserslautern 
#  Kusel
#  Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis
#  Mainz-Bingen
#  Mayen-Koblenz
#  Neuwied
#  Rhein-Hunsrück
#  Rhein-Lahn
#  Südliche Weinstraße
#  Südwestpfalz
#  Trier-Saarburg
#  Westerwaldkreis
Every rural district is composed of a number of municipalities. Each municipality can consist of cities, villages, or groups of villages, the latter kind of municipality known as a Verbandsgemeinde. The 12 urban districts, identified on the map with letters, are:
#  Frankenthal (F)
#  Kaiserslautern (Ka)
#  Koblenz Coblenz (Ko)
#  Landau (La, the main city and an exclave)
#  Ludwigshafen (Rheinpfalz-Kreis) (L)
#  Mainz (M)
#  Neustadt (Weinstraße) (N)
#  Pirmasens (P)
#  Speyer Spires (S)
#  Trier (T)
#  Worms (W)
#  Zweibrücken (Z)
-- Jytdog (talk) 09:38, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  unsourced Geography section 

message: thumb|Trier
Rhineland-Palatinate is divided into 36 districts (24 rural and 12 urban), formerly grouped into three administrative regions: Koblenz, Trier and Rheinhessen-Pfalz.
Since 2000, the employees and assets of the former administrative regions have been organized into the Aufsichts- und Dienstleistungsdirektion Trier (Supervisory and Service Directorate Trier) and the Struktur- und Genehmigungsdirektionen (Structural and Approval Directorates) Nord in Koblenz and Süd in Neustadt (Weinstraße). These administrations execute their authority over the whole state, for example, the ADD Trier oversees all schools.
Map of the districts of Rhineland-Palatinate.
The rural districts:
#  Ahrweiler
#  Altenkirchen
#  Alzey-Worms
#  Bad Dürkheim
#  Bad Kreuznach
#  Bernkastel-Wittlich
#  Birkenfeld
#  Bitburg-Prüm
#  Cochem-Zell
#  Vulkaneifel
#  Donnersbergkreis
#  Germersheim
#  Kaiserslautern 
#  Kusel
#  Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis
#  Mainz-Bingen
#  Mayen-Koblenz
#  Neuwied
#  Rhein-Hunsrück
#  Rhein-Lahn
#  Südliche Weinstraße
#  Südwestpfalz
#  Trier-Saarburg
#  Westerwaldkreis
Every rural district is composed of a number of municipalities. Each municipality can consist of cities, villages, or groups of villages, the latter kind of municipality known as a Verbandsgemeinde. The 12 urban districts, identified on the map with letters, are:
#  Frankenthal (F)
#  Kaiserslautern (Ka)
#  Koblenz Coblenz (Ko)
#  Landau (La, the main city and an exclave)
#  Ludwigshafen (Rheinpfalz-Kreis) (L)
#  Mainz (M)
#  Neustadt (Weinstraße) (N)
#  Pirmasens (P)
#  Speyer Spires (S)
#  Trier (T)
#  Worms (W)
#  Zweibrücken (Z)
-- Jytdog (talk) 09:38, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Administration

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;Emigration
Rhineland-Palatinate has supplied immigrants to many parts of the world.  The names of the villages of New Paltz, Palatine Bridge and German Flatts, New York, and Palatine, Illinois, attest to settlements of Palatine Germans.  The Hunsrückischen dialect in Brazil also bears testimony to an immigrant community.
The Pennsylvania Dutch spoken by the Amish in the United States is (among other dialects) derived from the German dialect spoken in the Rhineland-Palatinate, which many Palatine refugees brought to the colony in the early decades of the 18th century. The only existing Pennsylvania German newspaper, Hiwwe wie Driwwe, is published bi-annually in the village Ober-Olm, which is located close to Mainz, the state capital. In the same village, one can find the headquarters of the German-Pennsylvanian Association.
Certain colonies in the United States were settled by major groups of poor Palatines—then refugees in England—passage paid for by Queen Anne to reduce the number of impoverished families who had taken refuge in London. In 1710 the English used ten ships to transport nearly 3,000 Germans to the colony of New York. Many died en route, as they had been weakened by disease.  They were settled in work camps along the Hudson River, where they developed naval stores for the English to work off their passage.  Churches set up in both the East and West Camps provided some of the earliest population records in New York.  In 1723 the first hundred heads of families were allowed to acquire land west of Little Falls, New York, along the Mohawk River, in what was called the Burnetsfield Patent after the governor.  This became Herkimer County.  The Germans and their descendants were important in the defense of the Mohawk Valley during the American Revolutionary War.
New Bern is one of the earliest North Carolina colonies settled in 1710 by about 400 Palatines (650 left Germany, but about half died in passage) and 100 Swiss. This venture was orchestrated by the Swiss-born Christoph von Graffenried after purchasing more than   from the British Proprietors of the Carolinas.
In the 19th century, there was a substantial number of emigrants from the area around Trier, many of whom settled in Wisconsin.
-- Jytdog (talk) 09:39, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  unsourced emigration section 

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;Politics
;State elections
Elections for the Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag are held every five years, with residents over age 18 eligible to vote. This regional parliament or legislature then elects the premier and confirms the cabinet members. Rhineland-Palatinate is the only German state to have a cabinet minister for winegrowing (Ministry of Economy, Traffic, Agriculture and Winegrowing)
;Latest state election
-- Jytdog (talk) 09:40, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  unsourced politics 

message: This is almost as bad as the article before I cleaned it out, in terms of the lack of sourcing.  I suspect that the original page was also copied from de-WP. I will wait a few days, but I will again remove the large swaths of unsourced content in a while...Jytdog (talk) 13:40, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  new content from de-WP