Grünstadt

Coat of arms

Grünstadt

Location of Grünstadt within Bad Dürkheim district

Coordinates: 49°34′09″N 08°10′05″E / 49.56917°N 8.16806°ECoordinates: 49°34′09″N 08°10′05″E / 49.56917°N 8.16806°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Klaus Wagner (CDU)

Area

• Total

18.09 km² (6.98 sq mi)

Elevation

161 m (528 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

13,213

• Density

730/km² (1,900/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

67269

06359

DÜW

Website

www.stadt-gruenstadt.de

Grünstadt is a town in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany with roughly 13,200 inhabitants. It does not belong to any Verbandsgemeinde – a kind of collective municipality – but is nonetheless the administrative seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Grünstadt-Land.

The town lies in the Leiningerland (the lands once held by the Counts of Leiningen) on the northern border of the Palatinate Forest about 10 km north of Bad Dürkheim, 15 km southwest of Worms and 20 km northwest of Ludwigshafen at the point where the German Wine Route crosses the Autobahn A 6. Grünstadt belongs to the “Unterhaardt” a landscape with submediterranean character as the geographer Christophe Neff wrote in his paysages blog. The town’s landmark mountain is the so-called Grünstadter Berg.

Yearly precipitation in Grünstadt amounts to 529 mm, which is very low, falling into the lowest tenth of the precipitation chart for all Germany. Only at 7% of the German Weather Service’s weather stations are even lower figures recorded. The driest month is February. The most rainfall comes in June. In that month, precipitation is 1.7 times what it is in February. Precipitation hardly varies throughout the year, however. At 15% of the weather stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.

Besides the main town of Grünstadt itself, which has some 10,000 inhabitants, there are two outlying centres within town limits, the Ortsteile of Asselheim (about 1,300 inhabitants) and Sausenheim (about 2,300 inhabitants).

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