Dirmstein

Dirmstein
Municipality
Coat of arms of Dirmstein
Coat of arms
Location of Dirmstein within Bad Dürkheim district
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Dirmstein is located in Germany
Dirmstein
Dirmstein
Dirmstein is located in Rhineland-Palatinate
Dirmstein
Dirmstein
Coordinates: 49°33′48″N 08°14′51″E / 49.56333°N 8.24750°E / 49.56333; 8.24750
CountryGermany
StateRhineland-Palatinate
DistrictBad Dürkheim
Municipal assoc.Leiningerland
Government
 • Mayor (2019–24) Bernd Eberle[1] (FW)
Area
 • Total
14.68 km2 (5.67 sq mi)
Elevation
108 m (354 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[2]
 • Total
3,029
 • Density210/km2 (530/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
67246
Dialling codes06238
Vehicle registrationDÜW
Websitewww.dirmstein.de
Village centre: Castle Square (Schlossplatz) with (from right) Sturmfedersches Schloss (Town Hall), Café Kempf and the St. Michael Apothecary's rear building

Dirmstein (Palatine German: Dermschdää) is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. With its roughly 3,000 inhabitants, it is the third largest Ortsgemeinde in the Verbandsgemeinde of Leiningerland, whose seat is in Grünstadt, although that town is itself not in the Verbandsgemeinde. Dirmstein lies in the outermost northeast of the district and the northwest of the Rhine-Neckar urban agglomeration.

In the 8th century, Dirmstein had its first documentary mention, although this was undated. The first dated documentary mention came in 842. Although it never belonged to the Counts of Leiningen, it is today counted as part of the Leiningerland, the name used for those noblemen's old domain. The historical and well restored village centre has been raised to a monumental zone by the monument protection authority.[3] Of the 58 protected objects,[4] 48 lie within this zone. With few exceptions, they go back, like the village's foremost landmark, the Baroque simultaneous church St. Laurentius (Saint Lawrence's), to the municipality's heyday in the 18th century, towards the end of which Dirmstein apparently held town rights for two decades, although some sources are disputed.[5]

  1. ^ Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Bad Dürkheim, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 3 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
  3. ^ Georg Peter Karn, Ulrike Weber: Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Kulturdenkmäler in Rheinland-Pfalz
  4. ^ Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe Rheinland-Pfalz: Nachrichtliches Verzeichnis der Kulturdenkmäler: Kreis Bad Dürkheim[permanent dead link‍]
  5. ^ Michael Martin in: Dirmstein – Adel, Bauern und Bürger, Chronik der Gemeinde Dirmstein, S. 157