Annweiler am Trifels (), or Annweiler is a town in the

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district, in

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. It is situated on the river

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, 12 km west of

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. Annweiler am Trifels station is on the Landau–

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railway. Annweiler is situated in the Southern part of the

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called the

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, and is surrounded by high hills which yield a famous red sandstone. The town's main industry is tourism. On the ''Sonnenberg'' (493 m) lie the ruins of the castle of Trifels, in which

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was imprisoned from 31 March to 19 April 1193. Annweiler is the seat of the ''

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'' ("collective municipality") of

Annweiler am Trifels Annweiler am Trifels (), or Annweiler is a town in the Südliche Weinstraße district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the river Queich, 12 km west of Landau. Annweiler am Trifels station is on the Landau–Saarbrücken r ...

. In a 1911 edition of the

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, the area around Annweiler was referred to as "Pfälzer Schweiz".Entry for Annweiler in the German "Brockhaus Kleines Konversations-Lexikon" from 1911
/ref> Annweiler has a primary school and a

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('' Staatliche Realschule Annweiler '') which was a partner school with the William Lovell Secondary School in

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. There is also a school for people with learning disabilities and a vocational school and the ''Trifels-Gymnasium''

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Mayors

* Christian Sieben (1815–1832) * Heinrich Pasquay (1832–1833) * Abraham Noe (1833–1835) * Heinrich Mühlhäuser (1837–1848) * Wilhelm Köstner (1848–1851) * Matthäus Künkele (1852) * Georg Jacoby (1853–1858) * Philipp Streccius (1871–1874) * Karl Culmann (1875–1877) * Georg Jacoby (1877–1885) * August Pasquay (1885–1899) * Philipp Daniel Bartz (1900–1913) * Jean Meyer (1913–1918) * Philipp Mergenthaler (1918–1919) * Adolf Hoffmann (1920–1921) * Heinrich Gotthold (1921) * Konrad Bretz (1921–1928) * Friedrich Orth (1928–1933) * Karl Becker (1933) * Richard Bärsch (1933–1935) * Friedrich Peters (1935–1940) * Richard Bärsch (1940–1945) * Eduard Diehlmann (1945–1946) * Friedrich Hofäcker (1946–1956) * Theo Leyendecker (1956–1969) * Hans Stöcklein (1969–1987) * Peter Weber (1987–1994) * Gert Rillmann (1994–2004) * Thomas Wollenweber (2004–2019) * Benjamin Seyfried (2019)

Notable residents

Markward von Annweiler Markward von Annweiler ( – died 1202) was Imperial Seneschal and Regent of the Kingdom of Sicily. Biography Markward was a ministerialis, that is, he came not from the free nobility, but from a class of unfree knights and administrators whose pu ...

(1140–1202) * Horst Christill (born 1959), church musician and composer * Matthias Kern (1750–1793) Journalist * August Naegle (1869–1932) Church Historian, Politician * Hans-Ulrich Pfaffmann Politician *

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Auto Racing Driver *

Gustav Ullrich Gustav Franz Ullrich (11 February 1860 – 21 February 1938) was a German entrepreneur, industrialist, and founder of the enamelling factory ''ASTA-Emaille-Fabrik'' as well as the company ''Stabila Messgeräte Gustav Ullrich GmbH'', which still ...

Industrialist * Friedrich Gerhard Wahl Engineer and Architect (1748–1826)

International relations

Annweiler am Trifels is twinned with: *

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Notes and references

References

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