Elmstein
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Location of Elmstein within Bad Dürkheim district
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| Coordinates: 49°21′02″N 07°56′24″E / 49.35056°N 7.94000°ECoordinates: 49°21′02″N 07°56′24″E / 49.35056°N 7.94000°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Bad Dürkheim | |
| Municipal assoc. | Lambrecht (Pfalz) | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Stefan Herter (Soziale Wählergemeinschaft) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 75.69 km2 (29.22 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 225 m (738 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 4,196 | |
| • Density | 55/km2 (140/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 67471 | |
| Dialling codes | 06328, 06306 | |
| Vehicle registration | DÜW | |
| Website | www.elmstein.de | |
Elmstein is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Elmstein lies in the Palatinate Forest. The municipality belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Lambrecht, whose seat is in the like-named town.
Elmstein’s Ortsteile are, besides the namesake one, Appenthal, Erlenbach, Harzofen, Helmbach, Iggelbach, Mückenwiese, Röderthal, Schafhof, Schwabenbach, Schwarzbach, Stilles Tal, Speyerbrunn and Wolfsgrube.
Clockwise from the northwest, these are Waldleiningen, Weidenthal, Esthal, an exclave of Kirrweiler, an exclave of Venningen, an exclave of Rhodt unter Rietburg, an exclave of Edesheim, an exclave of Landau in der Pfalz, Wilgartswiesen, Trippstadt and Kaiserslautern.
Elmstein arose from the Castle Elmstein, which itself was built in the 12th century by the Counts Palatine of the Rhine. The outlying centres arose later, mostly as extension settlements for lumberjacks, as a location of a sawmill or, like Röderthal, as a mining settlement.
On 1 January 1976, a centre with 207 inhabitants was transferred from the municipality of Wilgartswiesen to Elmstein.
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