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Germersheim (district)

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Germersheim
Map of Rhineland-Palatinate highlighting the district of Germersheim
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District seat	Germersheim
Area	463.26 km²
Population	124,380 (2001)
Pop. density	268 /km²
Licence plate code	GER
Web page	kreis-germersheim.de

Germersheim is a district (Kreis) in the south-east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from west clockwise) Südliche Weinstraße, Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, the district Karlsruhe as well as the district-free city Karlsruhe, and the French département Bas-Rhin.

1 History
2 Geography
3 Coat of arms
4 Towns and municipalities
5 External links

Most of the region was part of the Palatinate from the 11th century on. The bishops of Speyer owned some lands, too. The Palatinate was destroyed in the Napoleonic Wars, and the clerical states of Germany were dissolved in 1803. After a period of French occupation the Congress of Vienna decided to hand the territories over to Bavaria. The region remained a part of Bavaria until World War II; afterwards it was incorporated into the newly established state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

The Rhine river marks the eastern boundary of the district, the river Lauter most of the southern boundary. The landscape of the district consists of the Rhine valley, in the north and east meeting the jungle-like areas of old Rhine arms, in the south covering the Bienwald (a forest stretching into the north of Alsace).

The coat of arms shows the lion of Palatinate in the top part, and the cross of Speyer in the bottom part. The wavy line in the middle symbolizes the Rhine river, and the escutcheon in the middle is from the coat of arms of the city of Germersheim.

Towns	Verbandsgemeinden
Germersheim Wörth am Rhein	1. Bellheim Bellheim¹ Knittelsheim Ottersheim bei Landau Zeiskam 2. Hagenbach Berg Hagenbach^{1, 2} Neuburg am Rhein Scheibenhardt 3. Jockgrim Hatzenbühl Jockgrim¹ Neupotz Rheinzabern	4. Kandel Erlenbach bei Kandel Freckenfeld Kandel^{1, 2} Minfeld Steinweiler Vollmersweiler Winden 5. Lingenfeld Freisbach Lingenfeld¹ Lustadt Schwegenheim Weingarten Westheim 6. Rülzheim Hördt Kuhardt Leimersheim Rülzheim¹
	¹seat of the Verbandsgemeinde; ²town

Towns

Verbandsgemeinden