Frankenthal - DEB31

EU regions: Germany > Rhineland-Palatinate > Rheinhessen-Pfalz > Frankenthal

indicator	period	value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2022	48 773
population density	2022	1134
old-age dependency ratio	2022	36.9
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2020	109

* more on wikidata Q6905 * on OpenStreetMap * Frankenthal slovensky: DEB31

From wikipedia:

Frankenthal (Pfalz) is a town in southwestern Germany, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

History

Frankenthal was first mentioned in 772. In 1119 an Augustinian monastery was built here, the ruins of which — known, after the founder, as the Erkenbertruine — still stand today in the town centre.

In the second half of the 16th century, people from Flanders, persecuted for their religious beliefs, settled in Frankenthal. They were industrious and artistic and brought economic prosperity to the town. Some of them were important carpet weavers, jewellers and artists whose Frankenthaler Malerschule ("Frankenthal school of painting") acquired some fame. In 1577 the settlement was raised to the status of a town by the Count Palatine Johann Casimir.

In 1600 Frankenthal was converted to a fortress. In 1621 it was besieged by the Spanish during the Thirty Years' War, and then successively occupied by troops of the opposing sides. Trade and industry were ruined and the town was not reconstructed until 1682.

other: Rheinhessen-Pfalz, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Zweibrücken, Germersheim, Rhein-Pfalz, Mainz-Bingen, Kaiserslautern, Worms, Pirmasens, Alzey-Worms, Bad Dürkheim (district), Landau in der Pfalz, Donnersbergkreis, Südwestpfalz, Mainz, Ludwigshafen, Speyer, Kusel, Südliche Weinstraße, Frankenthal, Kaiserslautern

neighbours: Mannheim, Rhein-Pfalz, Ludwigshafen

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: EU regions - Frankenthal - DEB31, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/eu-regions/DEB31

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