Lower Palatinate

The Electoral Palatinate around 1400

As a sub-Pfalz (also Lower Palatinate , Lower Palatinate [Latin: Palatinatus inferior ] or Rheinpfalz [lat .: Palatinatus ad Rhenum, Palatinatus Rhenensis, Palatinatus Rheni ]) were in the 17th century, the bank of the Rhine by the then Electorate Palatinate referred to, as a distinction to Upper Palatinate in Bavaria (lat .: Palatinatus superior, Palatinatus Bavariæ ). The then Lower Palatinate included the geographical Palatinate , Rheinhessen and North Baden , with the residences in Heidelberg , Mannheim and Schwetzingen in what is now the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region . During the Thirty Years' War the part of the Lower Palatinate on the right bank of the Rhine was under Bavarian occupation and the part on the left bank under Spanish occupation and administration.

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Bavarian Main State Archive, holdings Kurbayern External Archive No. 2564, fol. 350

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press & Download - Bavarian State Exhibition 2003 in Amberg. In: www.hdbg.de. Retrieved July 19, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Discussion forum ( Memento from June 29, 2006 in the Internet Archive )