Rodalben [SEP] located in the administrative territorial entity
Rodalben
Rodalben is a municipality in the Südwestpfalz district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated in the Palatinate forest, approx. 5 km northeast of Pirmasens.
Rodalben is the seat of the "Verbandsgemeinde" ("collective municipality") Rodalben. Having a population above 7000 it is the largest local authority district.
History.
Rodalben was founded by a Celtic tribe.
In 1237 Rodalben was first mentioned as a "Meyerhof". Over the centuries mainly farmers lived there.
Reichskommissariat
Reichskommissariat () is the German designation for a type of administrative entity headed by a government official known as a "Reichskommissar" (). Although many different such offices existed primarily throughout the Imperial German and Nazi periods in a number of different fields (ranging from public infrastructure and spatial planning to ethnic cleansing) it is most commonly used to refer to the quasi-colonial administrative territorial entity established by Nazi Germany in several occupied countries during World War II. While officially located outside the German Reich in a legal sense