Electoral Palatinate is the more colloquial name of the Baden Part of the Rhine-Neckar area, to the northwest of Baden-Wuerttemberg. In the Electoral Palatinate To this day, predominantly Palatinate is spoken and cooked. For further information see also Rhine-Neckar area.
Regions
The Electoral Palatinate today roughly includes the large independent cities of Heidelberg and Mannheim as well as the Rhein-Neckar district. Geographically, parts of the Electoral Palatinate belong to Baden Rhine plain, to the Hessian Ried, to Mountain road, to the Front Odenwald, to the Neckar Valley and Kraichgau.
places
The biggest cities are 1 Mannheim and 2 Heidelberg. Other places are:
- in the Baden Rhine plain south of the Neckar:
- north of the Neckar
- 14 Dossenheim
- 15 Heddesheim
- 16 Ladenburg
- At the Mountain road lie
- 17 Hemsbach
- 18 Weinheim
- 19 Hirschberg on the Bergstrasse
- 20 Schriesheim
- 21 Glue
- 22 Nut hole
- 23 Wiesloch
- To the Odenwald belong
- 24 Schönau
- 25 Neckargemünd
- 26 Wall
background
The historic Electoral Palatinate extended over an area that is now in the federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate and whose foothills reached into Alsace. It was the rulership of the Count Palatine, later the Elector Palatinate. The residence of the Count Palatine was initially in HeidelbergAfter the castle was destroyed, it was relocated to Mannheim. With the end of Napoleon's era, the Electoral Palatinate was dissolved, the areas on the left bank of the Rhine simply remained Palatinate, a large part of the areas on the right bank of the Rhine came to the Grand Duchy of Baden. Today one understands by Kurpfalz only the Baden part of the former area, in which also still being babbled like a Kurpälzisch.
In recent years, the Tourist community Kurpfalz established, its members are not only the communities in the region around Mannheim and Heidelberg, but also communities that formerly belonged to the Electoral Palatinate. These include in Baden
from the northern neighbor Hesse these are
Municipalities from Rhineland-Palatinate have also participated:
language
The Electoral Palatinate dialect is a mixture of Baden-Palatinate dialects and for Leaned often not easy to understand, although often very pictorial.Don't do Ferz is e.g. the request to leave nonsense or not to exaggerate with a story. The language is not uniform. In some villages - as in the Palz on the other side of the Rhine - no Pf spoken, there is still one Parrer with the Peif in the Kersch, a few places further on you amuse yourself about it.
getting there
Airports
- City Airport Mannheim as a feeder for smaller commercial aircraft and private planes
- Frankfurt am Main airport (with direct ICE connection from Mannheim)
- the Stuttgart Airport
By train
- ICE stops are Mannheim and Heidelberg
- The Electoral Palatinate is served by the Rhein-Neckar S-Bahn network and regional railways.
In the street
The Electoral Palatinate can be reached via several motorways
- about the A5 (North-south connection) from Frankfurt am Main to Freiburg in Breisgau
- about the A6 (East-west connection) from Nuremberg to Kaiserslautern,
these routes meet at the Walldorfer Kreuz.
There are also various federal highways:
- the B3 goes along the mountain road
- the B37 goes through that Neckar Valley and to the Palatinate Ludwigshafen
mobility
- Public Transport: the Verkehrsverbundes Rhein-Neckar (VRN, here tariffs and timetables) maintains a good network throughout the region. The local rail transport is operated by Rhein-Neckar S-Bahn and the Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (rnv). All local transport services (train and bus) can be included uniform tickets of the Rhein-Neckar transport association, even if they are provided by different companies. It is the same Change also permitted across providers with one ticket.
- Bicycle: The Electoral Palatinate is mostly quite flat, there are good bike paths. The Rhine cycle route and the Rhine Valley Path crosses the Electoral Palatinate, the Neckar valley cycle path ends in Mannheim
- Scenic routes:Mountain road of Darmstadt to Heidelberg (and Wiesloch), · Ride on the Bertha Benz Memorial Route on the trail of the world's first long-distance journey in an automobile (Mannheim, Ladenburg, Heidelberg, Wiesloch, Bruchsal, Pforzheim, Schwetzingen, Mannheim)
Tourist Attractions
in selection:
- The Heidelberg Castle as the residence of the Electors of the Palatinate
- The Mannheimer Castle as a successor residence
- The Schwetzingen Castle as the summer residence of the electors
- Luisenpark in Mannheim (BUGA 1975)
- Cathedral closed Speyer
activities
kitchen
"Upper Rhine cuisine" is the combination of Palatine, Baden and Swabian elements in regional cuisine. There are very simple and tasty things like Potato soup or Worschtsalat, but also more unusual dishes like Keschdegemieß from chestnuts. And don't forget: around in the southern Electoral Palatinate Schwetzingen Excellent asparagus is grown, the matching wine grows in the neighboring one Wiesloch. They are also known and popular Bubespitzle and the Butcher soup from thePalatinate cuisine.
nightlife
security
climate
In the Electoral Palatinate and the neighboring regions there is a relatively mild climate, so almond trees and chestnuts thrive here, as is the Electoral Palatinate Keschde, are common.
literature
Web links
- Tourist community Kurpfalz, PF 3010, 68739 Plankstadt. Tel.: 49 (0)6202 970 60 71, Fax: 49 (0)6202 970 60 72, Email: [email protected].
. - Cooking recipes from the Kurpfälzer Fasnet
- Meeting point Kurpfalz
