Frankenstein () is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; ; ; ) 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 sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are ...

, western

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. On a hill towering over the village is

Frankenstein Castle Frankenstein Castle () is a hilltop castle in the Odenwald overlooking the city of Darmstadt in Germany. This castle may have been an inspiration for Mary Shelley when she wrote her 1818 Gothic novel '' Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' ...

Frankenstein (Pfalz) station Frankenstein (Pfalz) station is the station of the town of Frankenstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Frankenstein in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Deutsche Bahn classifies it as a German railway station categories, category 6 station and it ...

is located on the

Mannheim–Saarbrücken railway The Mannheim–Saarbrücken railway () is a railway in the German states of Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and the Saarland that runs through Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Kaiserslautern, Homburg (Saar), Homburg an ...

References

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