Kirchheimbolanden

Kirchheimbolanden
Kirchheimbolanden
	Town walls with the Grey Tower
	; Coat of arms
	; Coat of arms
	Kirchheimbolanden
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Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Donnersbergkreis
Municipal assoc.	Kirchheimbolanden
Government
• Mayor	Klaus Hartmüller (CDU)
Area
• Total	26.36 km2 (10.18 sq mi)
Population (2013-12-31)
• Total	7,726
• Density	290/km2 (760/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	67292
Dialling codes	06352
Vehicle registration	KIB

Kirchheimbolanden, the capital of Donnersbergkreis, is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, south-western Germany. It is situated approximately 25 km west of Worms, and 30 km north-east of Kaiserslautern. The first part of the name, Kirchheim, dates back to 774. It became a town in 1368, and the Sponheim family improved its security with many towers and walls. William, Duke of Nassau, ancestor of the royal families of Belgium, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, and of the grand-ducal family of Luxembourg, was born in Kirchheimbolanden. It was also ruled by First French Empire between 1792 and 1814 before passing to Kingdom of Bavaria in 1815. It was a rural (landkreis) centre of initially in the Circle of Rhine (Rheinkreis), then Rhenish Palatinate.

Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg, an ancestor of both Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and his brother Prince Harry, was born in Kirchheimbolanden on 22 April 1780.

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