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Coordinates: 49°12′N, 07°58′E

Annweiler am Trifels
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Südliche Weinstraße
Population	7,178 (June 30, 2005)
Area	39.87 km²
Population density	180 /km²
Elevation	183 m
Coordinates	49°12′ N 07°58′ E
Postal code	76851-76855
Area code	06346
Licence plate code	SÜW
Mayor	Thomas Wollenweber (SPD)
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, and on the railway from Landau to Pirmasens.

Annweiler is romantically situated in the eastern part of the Pfälzer Wald called the Pfälzer Schweiz (Palatinate Switzerland), and is surrounded by high hills which yield a famous red sandstone. On the Sonnenberg (493 m) lie the ruins of the castle of Trifels, in which Richard Coeur de Leon was imprisoned in 1193. Its main industry is tourism.

Annweiler is also the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") of Annweiler am Trifels, which consists of the following Ortsgemeinden ("local municipalities"):

• Albersweiler
• Annweiler am Trifels
• Dernbach
• Eußerthal
• Gossersweiler-Stein
• Münchweiler am Klingbach
• Ramberg
• Rinnthal
• Silz
• Völkersweiler
• Waldhambach
• Waldrohrbach
• Wernersberg

Contents 1 Mayors 2 Notable Residents of Annweiler 3 References 4 Twin cities

• 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 - )

• 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
• Gustav Franz Ullrich Industrialist
• Friedrich Gerhard Wahl Engineer and Architect (1748–1826)

• Biundo, Georg and Hess, Hans (1968). Annweiler - Geschichte einer alten Reichsstadt. Studio Hruschka, Mannheim, Germany. 

• Kölsch, Hans-Joachim and Pfundstein, Sonja (2004). Annweiler - Zeitsprünge. Oaklands Book Services Ltd, England. 

• Ambert, France