Battenberg, Rhineland-Palatinate
Battenberg | |
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Location of Battenberg within Bad Dürkheim district | |
Coordinates: 49°31′55″N 08°08′18″E / 49.53194°N 8.13833°E | |
Country | Germany |
State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
District | Bad Dürkheim |
Municipal assoc. | Leiningerland |
Government | |
• Mayor (2019–24) | Hans-Peter Schmidt[1] (Ind.) |
Area | |
• Total | 5.45 km2 (2.10 sq mi) |
Highest elevation | 330 m (1,080 ft) |
Lowest elevation | 300 m (1,000 ft) |
Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 382 |
• Density | 70/km2 (180/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Postal codes | 67271 |
Dialling codes | 06359 |
Vehicle registration | DÜW |
Website | www |
Battenberg (officially Battenberg (Pfalz)) is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
Location
The municipality lies in the Rhine-Neckar urban agglomeration on the seam between the Haardt and the Upper Rhine Plain. Standing together 300 m above sea level, high above the river Eckbach's banks are the small village and the like-named castle, Burg Battenberg, to the east. Battenberg belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Leiningerland, formed in 2018, whose seat is in Grünstadt, although that town is itself not in the Verbandsgemeinde.
History
Politics
Municipal council
The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected by
Coat of arms
The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per fess azure an eagle displayed wings elevated argent armed and langued gules, and argent a greyhound courant sinister sable.
Battenberg's arms developed out of the link between the
See also
- Battenberg Castle
- House of Leiningen
- Mountbatten.
References
- ^ Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Bad Dürkheim, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 3 August 2021.
- Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
- ^ Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat
External links
- Municipality’s official webpage (in German)
- Private webpage about Battenberg (in German)
- Battenberg in the collective municipality’s Web pages (in German)