Battenberg, Rhineland-Palatinate

Battenberg
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Battenberg within Bad Dürkheim district
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Coordinates: 49°31′55″N08°08′18″E / 49.53194°N 8.13833°E / 49.53194; 8.13833
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-pfalz.de

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

Battenberg's main street

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

Battenberg Castle, which was owned since the Middle Ages by the Counts of Leiningen, to whom belonged the Leiningerland, controlled together with the other castle across the dale to the north (1 400 m away as the crow flies), Neuleiningen Castle, the entrance to the valley, the Eckbach valley. On 7 September 1966, the municipality was given the epithet “(Pfalz)”. Until 1969, the municipality belonged to the now abolished district of Frankenthal (Landkreis Frankenthal).

Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman. ^[3]

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 Counts of Leiningen and Murbach Abbey in Alsace. The “greyhound” here is called the “Hound of Murbach” in the German blazon.

See also

• Battenberg Castle
• House of Leiningen
• Battenberg, Hesse, the town linked with the name Mountbatten.

References

1. Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Bad Dürkheim, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 3 August 2021.
2. "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
3. 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)