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{{Infobox German location
|type               = Stadt
|image_photo       = 180812-Edenkoben-01.jpg
|image_coa            = DEU Edenkoben COA.svg
|coordinates       = {{coord|49|17|N|8|8|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|image_plan = Edenkoben in SÜW.svg
|state        = Rheinland-Pfalz
|district         = Südliche Weinstraße
|Verbandsgemeinde  = Edenkoben
|elevation              = 149
|area            = 17.90
|postal_code               = 67480
|area_code           = 06323
|licence               = SÜW
|Gemeindeschlüssel = 07 3 37 020
|website           = [https://www.edenkoben.de/ www.edenkoben.de]
|mayor             = Ludwig Lintz<ref>[https://www.wahlen.rlp.de/de/kw/wahlen/kd/gebiete/3370000000000.html Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Südliche Weinstraße], Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 10 August 2021.</ref>
|leader_term       = 2019&ndash;24
|party             = CDU
}}
[[File:180624-Villa Ludwigshöhe-01.jpg|thumb|Villa Ludwigshöhe]]
'''Edenkoben''' ({{IPA|de|ˈeːdn̩koːbm̩}}) is a municipality in the [[Südliche Weinstraße]] district, in [[Rhineland-Palatinate]], [[Germany]]. It lies approximately halfway between [[Landau]] and [[Neustadt an der Weinstraße]].  Edenkoben is one of the towns situated along the [[German Wine Route]]. Edenkoben is the seat of the ''[[Verbandsgemeinde]]'' ("collective municipality") [[Edenkoben (Verbandsgemeinde)|Edenkoben]].

==History==
[[Palatinate (region)|This part of the Rhineland]] passed to [[Bavaria]] at 1815 following the [[Congress of Vienna]], which reallocated many of the [[Mont-Tonnerre|territories that had comprised Napoleon's empire]].   Like several towns in the area, Edenkoben has both a [[Roman Catholic]] and a [[Protestant]] church (recalling [[Maximilian II of Bavaria|King Maximillian's]] marriage to [[Marie of Prussia|a Protestant princess]]).

Edenkoben's status as an administrative and cultural centre for the surrounding villages is reflected in the presence of several high-grade schools. The little town also has a considerable [[viticulture|cultivation and trade in wine]]. Outside the primary (agricultural) sector, industries include the manufacture of [[Exhaust system|automotive exhaust systems]] and of doors. In former times there was a [[sulphur]]-[[mineral water|spring]] here called ''Kurbrunnen''.

Edenkoben is overlooked, on its west side, by the imposing Friedensdenkmal, from the top of which visitors can enjoy a fine view across to the Rhine.  Originally constructed to celebrate German unity in the aftermath of the [[Franco-Prussian War]], the memorial was renamed Friedensdenkmal (Peace Memorial) after 1945, when celebration of German military victories fell out of fashion in Europe: at the time of writing the Friedensdenkmal contains a small restaurant.   The [[:commons:Edenkoben|inscription]] on the Unification / Peace memorial reflects the determination of the German government in 1871 to downplay the extent to which the [[Treaty of Frankfurt (1871)|Treaty of Frankfurt]] resulted from military victory by [[Prussia]].  Given the frequency with which the German-speaking Rhenish provinces had been devastated by French armies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it was in [[Electoral Palatinate|this region]] easy to emphasize the defensive nature of [[German unification]].

==Notable residents==
[[File:Friedrich Arnold (Anatom).jpg|thumb|150px|Friedrich Arnold (anatomist)]]
*[[Johann Adam Hartmann]] (1743–1836), frontierman, emigrated to the Americas at the age of 16
* [[Friedrich Arnold]] (1803–1890), professor of medicine
* [[Eugen von Lommel]] (1837–1899), physicist
* [[Heinrich Göring]] (1839–1913), jurist and diplomat
* [[Theodor Meyer]] (1853–1936), judge
* [[Friedrich Auerbach]] (1870–1925), 1894 to 1898 operation manager at Edenkoben Blaukali factory
* [[Franz Weidenreich]] (1873–1949), professor of medicine and [[anthropology|anthropologist]]
* [[Richard Schneider-Edenkoben]] (1899–1986), writer, director and screenwriter
* [[Ralf Fücks]] (born 1951), politician (The Greens)

==References==
{{EB1911 poster|Edenkoben}}
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[[Category:Towns in Rhineland-Palatinate]]
[[Category:Palatinate Forest]]
[[Category:Südliche Weinstraße]]
[[Category:Palatinate (region)]]