Group 4 Presentation: Rhineland-Palatine

Rhineland-Palatine

The state:

  The state that the two of us in our group chose was Rhineland-Palatine. Rhineland Palatine was first established in 1946on the 30th on August. The state includes parts of the northern French Occupation Zone which includes parts of Bavaria, the Prussian Rhine Province, parts of the Prussian Province on Nassau, and finally parts of Hesse-Darmstadt. The constitution was put into place on May 18th, 1947.

 Size:

  The state itself has an area of 7,663 square miles. Which is a little bit larger than the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island put together. The population of Rhineland-Palatine is roughly 4 million, which is just about the same amount of people that  live in Oklahoma. The capital city of the Rhineland-Palatinate is Mainz.

Religion/Polotics:

  The religion in Rhineland-Palatine is split up 50,30,20. 50% of the population of Rhineland-Palatine is Roman Catholic, 30% is Evangelical, and 20% of the population is either nonreligious or follow other religions.

  They hold elections every 5 years and all residents over 18 are eligible to vote. This parliament elects the premier and confirms the cabinet members. The different roles of the cabinet ministers are Economy, Traffic, Agriculture, and Wine-Growing. Rhineland-Palatinate is the only German state that has its own cabinet minister for wine-growing.

Other group-mates:

Matt Schoening
Denise Bechtold
Maria Mueller
Jonothan Porter
Jeff Foster

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhineland-Palatinate. September 05, 2014

Picture was found on Wikipedia page and was edited by me.

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