Landau

Landau is an independent town surrounded with the aid of the Sudliche Weinstrabe district of southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a college city, an extended-status cultural centre, and a marketplace and purchasing city, surrounded with the aid of vineyards and wine-developing villages of the Palatinate wine region. Landau lies east of the Palatinate wooded area, Europe's biggest contiguous wooded area, on the German Wine Route. It contains the districts of Arzheim, Dammheim, Godramstein, Morlheim, Morzheim, Nussdorf, Queichheim, and Wollmesheim.

Landau was first referred to as a agreement in 1106. It turned into in the possession of the counts of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Landeck, whose arms, differenced by means of an escutcheon of the Imperial eagle, served because the arms of Landau till 1955. The town become granted a constitution in 1274 by means of King Rudolf I of Germany, who had the metropolis a Free Imperial Town in 1291; nevertheless Prince-Bishop Emich of Speyer, a first-rate landowner in the district, seized the town in 1324. The city did now not regain its historical rights until 1511 from Maximilian I. An Augustinian monastery changed into based in 1276.