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Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 Bundesländer (federal states) of Germany. It has an area of 19,846 km² and about 4.048 million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz. The federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate was established on 30 August 1946.
Erdesbach
With the founding of the Kingdom of Bavaria after French times in 1816, Erdesbach belonged to the "Bürgermeisteramt" (“Mayoralty”) of Ulmet, the "Landcommissariat" (later "Bezirksamt", then "Landkreis", or rural district) of Kusel and the "bayerischer Rheinkreis", the part of the kingdom that was not contiguous with the rest to the east. The kingdom's borders, as defined by the Congress of Vienna, remained thus until 1945 (by which time the monarchy had ended and Bavaria was now the Free State of Bavaria). With the formation of the new state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1947, consisting of the "Regierungsbezirke" of Koblenz, Trier, Montabaur, Rheinhessen and Pfalz, a new political order was created in the southwest of what was shortly to become West Germany. Later, the "Regierungsbezirke" of Montabaur and Rheinhessen were dissolved and integrated into the "Regierungsbezirke" of Koblenz and Pfalz respectively; in 2000, all the state's "Regierungsbezirke" were dissolved, and in their stead arose the "Aufsichts- und Dienstleistungsdirektion" (ADD. roughly “Directorate of Inspection and Services”), which is now responsible for the whole of Rhineland-Palatinate.