{{use dmy|date=July 2025}} {{distinguish|Marxdorf (disambiguation){{!}}Marxdorf}} {{Infobox German location |name = Maxdorf |image_photo = |image_coa = DEU Maxdorf COA.svg |coordinates = {{coord|49|28|55|N|8|17|24|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |image_plan =Karte Maxdorf.png |state = Rheinland-Pfalz |region = |district = Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis |Verbandsgemeinde = Maxdorf |elevation = 95 |area = 7.35 |Gemeindeschlüssel = 07 3 38 018 |postal_code = 67133 |area_code = 06237 |licence = RP |website = https://www.vg-maxdorf.de/ |mayor = Werner Baumann<ref>[https://rlp-kw24.wahlen.23degrees.eu/wahlen/direktwahlen-gemeindeebene/3380401800 Direktwahlen 2024, Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis], Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 24 October 2024.</ref> |leader_term = 2024–29 |party = CDU }}
'''Maxdorf''' ({{IPA|de|ˈmaksdɔʁf}}) is a [[Municipalities of Germany|municipality]] in the [[Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis]], in [[Rhineland-Palatinate]], [[Germany]]. It is situated approximately 11 km west of [[Ludwigshafen]]. Maxdorf is also the seat of the ''[[Verbandsgemeinde]]'' ("collective municipality") [[Maxdorf (Verbandsgemeinde)|Maxdorf]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rheinpfalz.de/lokal/rhein-pfalz-kreis_artikel,-maxdorf-investiert-millionen-_arid,884701.html|title=Maxdorf investiert Millionen |language=de |date=13 May 2017|website=Rheinpfalz|accessdate=5 July 2025}}</ref>
==History== The area that would become Maxdorf was originally a timber yard in the 1700s until it was destroyed in the [[French Revolution]] in 1794.<ref name=md>{{Cite web|url=https://www.maxdorfer-geschichte.de/?page_id=1730|language=de |work=Maxdorfer Geschichte |title=Zeittafel zur Ortsgeschichte von Maxdorf|date=20 December 2023|accessdate=5 July 2025}}</ref> Gradually people started settling around the timber yard until 1819 when Maxdorf was formally founded by King [[Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria]].<Ref name=md /> It was incorporated into [[Lambsheim]] in 1865. After the [[First World War]], French soldiers occupied the village and destroyed the schoolhouse. During the [[Second World War]], [[Nazi Germany]] used French prisoners of war to clear the streets of snow in 1941. Maxdorf was bombed by the [[Royal Air Force]] in 1944, which destroyed a third of the village's buildings.<Ref name=md />
In 1952, Maxdorf became an independent municipality again. They adopted a new coat of arms with a crown as a reference to King Maximilian I, the blue diamonds being a reference to the historical associations with [[Bavaria]], the red and silver being a reference to Lambsheim and the golden tree referencing their former timber industry.<ref name=md /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/de-lu-04.html|title=Maxdorf Associated Municipality (Germany)|website=CRW Flags|accessdate=5 July 2025}}</ref>
In the 1980s, Maxdorf was attacked by members of the communist [[Red Army Faction]] with them robbing the municipality's gun shop in 1984 and using the weapons that they stole to commit further crimes throughout [[West Germany]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rheinpfalz.de/lokal/ludwigshafen_artikel,-bei-raf-terroristin-waffe-aus-maxdorf-entdeckt-_arid,5622123.html|title=Bei RAF-Terroristin Waffe aus Maxdorf entdeckt|date=8 March 2024|website=Rheinpflaz|language=de|accessdate=5 July 2025}}</ref> The stolen firearms were still being recovered as of 2024, with some being rediscovered as far away as [[Berlin]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rheinpfalz.de/politik_artikel,-waffe-von-raf-terroristin-stammt-aus-der-pfalz-_arid,5622095.html|title=Waffe von RAF-Terroristin stammt aus der Pfalz - Kriminalität|date=8 March 2024|website=Rheinpfalz |language=de|accessdate=5 July 2025}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Cities and towns in Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis (district)}}
{{Authority control}} [[Category:Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis]]