Palatinate
Pfalz stands for:
- Königspfalz , a castle-like palace complex, where emperors and kings held court in the Middle Ages
- Pfalzgrafschaft , the territory of a count palatine
geographically:
- Pfalz (region) , a region in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate
- Pfalz (wine-growing area) , the wine-growing area in the Pfalz region
- Bezirksverband Pfalz , a regional authority in the Palatinate region
- Kurpfalz (region) , eastern part of the historic Kurpfalz that has become Baden
- Upper Palatinate , an administrative district in the Free State of Bavaria
- Forecourt of the Basel Minster
historical:
- Pfalz (Bavaria) , the Bavarian Rhine District renamed Pfalz in 1837
- Young Palatinate , 1505 newly created territory of the Count Palatine near the Rhine
- Electoral Palatinate , the Rheinische Pfalzgrafschaft or Pfalzgrafschaft bei Rhein , a territory in the Holy Roman Empire on both sides of the Rhine
- Bavarian Palatinate, according to Rheinkreis (1816) from 1837 the name for the left bank of the Rhine in Bavaria until 1946, see Pfalz (Bavaria)
- Pfalz-Neuburg , a duchy in the Holy Roman Empire
- Pfalz-Sulzbach , a duchy in the Holy Roman Empire
- Pfalz-Zweibrücken , a duchy in the Holy Roman Empire
- Administrative district Pfalz , a former administrative district in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate
Buildings:
- New Palatinate in Soest, a secondary residence of the Archbishops of Cologne; see Palatium (Soest)
- New Palatinate (St. Gallen) , the residence of the prince abbots of St. Gallen, today the canton's government building
- Service area Pfalz near Wattenheim on the federal motorway 6 in the Bad Dürkheim district
Others:
- Pfalz (Schiff, 1893) , a steamship of the North German Lloyd, later Gertrud Woermann (II)
- Palatinate locomotives , express train locomotives with a tender of the Pfalzbahn, see Palatinate No. 26 to 63 . This included:
- Pfalz (Locomotive) , an express locomotive of the Palatinate Ludwig Railway from 1853, of which a preserved replica was made in 1925
- Pfalz-Flugzeugwerke , a former aviation company in Speyer
Pfalz is the family name of the following people:
- von der Pfalz , Palatine line of the noble family of the Wittelsbacher, see list of the Wittelsbacher family
- Alexander Sigismund von der Pfalz (1663–1737), Prince-Bishop of Augsburg from the House of Wittelsbach
- Anton Pfalz (1885–1958), Austrian linguist
- Benedicta Henriette von der Pfalz (1652–1730), noblewoman from the Wittelsbach family, Duchess of Braunschweig-Calenberg
- Franz Pfalz (1832–1910), German teacher, headmaster and local history researcher
- Heinrich von der Pfalz (1487–1552), Prince-Bishop of Worms, Utrecht and Freising from the House of Wittelsbach
- Johann von Pfalz-Mosbach (1443–1486), prince of the Wittelsbach family, canon and provost
- Karl Friedrich Müller-Pfalz (1894–1969), German pianist and composer
- Karl Moritz Raugraf zu Pfalz (1670–1702), Raugraf zu Pfalz near the Rhine and lieutenant colonel in Brandenburg
- Liselotte von der Pfalz (1652–1722), noblewoman from the Wittelsbach family, Duchess of Orléans and sister-in-law of King Louis XIV of France
- Mechthild von der Pfalz (1419–1482), noblewoman from the House of Wittelsbach, Countess of Württemberg and Archduchess of Austria
- Reinhard Pfalz (1930–2014), German ear, nose and throat doctor
- Sophie von der Pfalz (1630–1714), noblewoman from the Wittelsbach family, Electress of Hanover
- Wolfgang Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg (1578–1653), Count Palatine of Pfalz-Neuburg, Duke of Jülich and Berg
See also:
- Pfalzgrafenstein Castle in the Rhine before Kaub
- Fold
- Palatinate
- Pfaltz
Wiktionary: Pfalz - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
