Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate is located in western Germany covering an area of and a population of 4.05 million inhabitants, the seventh-most populous German state. Mainz is the state capital and largest city, while other major cities include Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Koblenz, Trier, Kaiserslautern, and Worms. Rhineland-Palatinate is surrounded by the states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland, Baden-Württemberg, and Hesse. It also borders three foreign countries: France, Luxembourg and Belgium.
Evangelical Church in the Rhineland
The Protestant Church in the Rhineland emerged on 12 November 1948, when the "Ecclesiastical Province of the Rhineland" within the Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union gained independence as its own church body.
The Protestants in Hohenzollern emerged 1950 to Württemberg, keeping the Old Prussian mass.