title: Pfalz
text: # Pfalz
  
  Pfalz, Pfälzer, or Pfälzisch are German words referring to Palatinate.
  
  They may refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  * Pfalz, the Palatinate (region) of Germany
     * Nordpfalz, the North Palatinate
     * Vorderpfalz, the Anterior Palatinate
     * Südpfalz, the South Palatinate
     * Westpfalz, the West Palatinate
  * Pfalz, the Palatinate wine region of Germany
     * Pfälzische Weinkönigin, the Palatine Wine Queen elected representative of the region
  * the Pfalz, nickname for Pfalzgrafenstein Castle, Germany
  * Pfälzerwald, the Palatinate Forest
  * Rheinland-Pfalz, the current federal German state of Rhineland-Palatinate
  
  ## Historic states
  
  * Kurpfalz, the Electoral Palatinate of the Holy Roman Empire. Historic houses and states include:
     * Pfalz-Birkenfeld, the House of Palatinate-Birkenfeld
     * Pfalz-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler
     * Pfalz-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen
     * Pfalz-Birkenfeld-Zweibrücken
     * Pfalz-Kleeburg
     * Pfalz-Landsberg
     * Pfalz-Lautern
     * Pfalz-Mosbach
     * Pfalz-Mosbach-Neumarkt
     * Pfalz-Neuburg
     * Pfalz-Palatinate-Neumarkt, the House of Palatinate-Neumarkt
     * Pfalz-Simmern, the House of Palatinate-Simmern
     * Pfalz-Simmern-Zweibrücken
     * Pfalz-Simmern-Kaiserslautern
     * Pfalz-Simmern-Sponheim
     * Pfalz-Sulzbach
     * Pfalz-Sulzbach-Hilpoltstein
     * Pfalz-Zweibrücken
     * Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
     * Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Vohenstrauss-Parkstein
  
  ## People
  
  * Elisabeth-Charlotte Wittelsbach von Pfalz (1652-1722)
  * Friedrich V von der Pfalz (1596-1632)
  * Heinrich Friedrich von der Pfalz (1614-29)
  * Karl I. Ludwig von der Pfalz (1617-80)
  * Ludwig I von Pfalz-Zweibrücken (1424-89)
  * Sophie von der Pfalz (1630-1714)
  * Wolfgang Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg (1578-1653)
  
  ## Transportation
  
  ### Aircraft
  
  * Pfalz Flugzeugwerke, a German World War I aircraft manufacturer
     * Pfalz D.III, 1917 biplane fighter
     * Pfalz D.VI, 1917 sesquiplane fighter aircraft not put into production
     * Pfalz D.VII, late 1917 biplane fighter not put into production
     * Pfalz D.VIII, 1918 biplane fighter
     * Pfalz D.XII, 1918 biplane fighter
     * Pfalz D.XV, 1918 single seat biplane fighter
     * Pfalz Dr.I, 1917 triplane fighter
     * Pfalz Dr.II, 1917 triplane fighter prototype
  
  ### Rail
  
  * Pfalz, a German steam locomotive preserved at the Neustadt/Weinstrasse Railway Museum
  * Pfälzische Nordbahn, the Palatine Northern Railway
  * Pfälzische Ludwigsbahn, historic name for the Mannheim–Saarbrücken railway
  * Pfälzische Maximiliansbahn, historic name for the Neustadt–Wissembourg railway
  
  ### Ships
  
  * SS Pfalz, the name for three different steamships operated by German shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Pfälzisch, a dialect of the German language
  