Queidersbach is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

, western

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Geography

The municipality is located 10 km southwest of Kaiserslautern in a natural meadow valley on the western edge of the Palatinate Forest, which merges in this area into the Sickingen Heights. Almost two-thirds of the 1500 hectare district is covered with forest. Queidersbach includes the areas Forsthaus Stempelberg, Schweinstal and Zuckerhof. Through Queidersbach flows the eponymous creek, which is popularly referred to as Steinalb. The neighbouring communities are Bann, Kaiserslautern, Krickenbach, Linden, Weselberg and Obernheim-Kirchenarnbach.

History

The community was first documented in 976 when

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gave his vassal Biso, the Bishop of

Paderborn Paderborn (; Westphalian: ''Patterbuorn'', also ''Paterboärn'') is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn district. The name of the city derives from the river Pader and ''Born'', an old German term for t ...

, land on the Queidersbach. The village Queidersbach, until the end of the 18th century, belonged to the Grand Court of the Rule Landstuhl, which was ruled by the barons of Sickingen-Hohenburg. In 1794, the left bank of the Rhine was occupied in the First Coalition War. From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic and then part of the

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, Queidersbach was incorporated into the canton of Landstuhl in the department of Donnersberg. At the time, it was the seat of a

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which also included Linden. Due to the agreements made at the

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, the area first came to Austria in June 1815 and was ceded to the

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in 1816 on the basis of the Treaty of Munich. Under Bavarian administration, Queidersbach belonged to the Landeskommissariat Homburg in the Rhine district. This was converted into a district office in 1862. From 1929 to 1939, Queidersbach belonged to the district office of Kaiserslautern. Since 1939, the community has been a part of the district of Kaiserslautern. After the

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, Trippstadt was within the

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of the then newly formed state of

and the administrative district of Pfalz. In 1972 Queidersbach was incorporated into the newly created collective municipality of Kaiserslautern-Süd during the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform. This municipality subsequently merged with

Landstuhl Landstuhl () is a town in the Kaiserslautern district of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. It is the seat of ''Verbandsgemeinde Landstuhl'', a kind of "collective municipality." Landstuhl is situated on the north-west edge of the Palatinate F ...

in July 2019.

References

Municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate Palatinate Forest Kaiserslautern (district) {{Kaiserslautern-geo-stub