Carlsberg, Germany
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Location of Carlsberg within Bad Dürkheim district
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| Coordinates: 49°30′14″N 08°02′30″E / 49.50389°N 8.04167°ECoordinates: 49°30′14″N 08°02′30″E / 49.50389°N 8.04167°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Bad Dürkheim | |
| Municipal assoc. | Hettenleidelheim | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Werner Majunke (CDU) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 7.03 km2 (2.71 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 285 m (935 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 3,455 | |
| • Density | 490/km2 (1,300/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 67316 | |
| Dialling codes | 06356 | |
| Vehicle registration | DÜW | |
| Website | www.carlsberg-pfalz.de | |
Carlsberg (IPA: [ˈkaʁlsbɛʁk]) is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
The municipality lies at the north edge of the Palatinate Forest between the Haardt range in the south and the Autobahn A 6 in the north in the Leiningerland at an elevation of 285 m above sea level. Carlsberg belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Hettenleidelheim, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.
The outlying centre of Hertlingshausen lies in the northern Palatinate Forest and is crossed by the river Eckbach, which rises in the part of the municipal area known as Kleinfrankreich (“Little France”). Since Carlsberg is a scattered settlement, it is not possible to say where Hertlingshausen ends and the main centre begins.
Carlsberg’s Ortsteile are Carlsberg and Hertlingshausen.
In 1754, Carlsberg, originally a dispersed settlement, had its first documentary mention. Count Georg II of Leiningen had a new settlement laid out in a clearing in the early 18th century for Huguenots who had fled persecution, and in 1726 he named it after his son Georg Karl I August Ludwig of Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen.
Older than Carlsberg itself is its outlying centre of Hertlingshausen. As of 1160 there was an Augustinian convent in Hertlingshausen as a branch of the Höningen Monastery. This had its first documentary mention in 1212 as Hertingeshausen. After a great fire in 1460 and a sacking in 1520, the convent was forsaken. The local lore has it that the village of Hertlingshausen was built out of the convent’s stones in 1585.
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