- published: 12 Jan 2016
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Kallstadt is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Kallstadt lies on the German Wine Route. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Freinsheim, whose seat is in the like-named town.
The area where Kallstadt now stands lay on the Roman road that linked Altenstadt – now in Alsace and a constituent community of Wissembourg – with the Rhineland and even in Roman times its cultural landscape was blossoming. Many archaeological finds witness settlement by merchants, former legionnaires and also winegrowers from about 79 BC to at least AD 383. The settlement that stands today could well have had its beginnings when the land here was settled by a Frankish clan that arose about 500 and whose chief, Chagilo, became the village’s namesake.
In 824, Kallstadt had its first documentary mention as Cagelenstat. Originally an Imperial Village, it later passed to the County of Pfeffingen (Homburg) and beginning in 1321 was held in fief first by the Knights Monfort, and then from 1451 until about 1551 by the House of Blicken von Lichtenberg. Thereafter, Kallstadt belonged, until 1794, as an Electoral Palatinate fief, to the Leiningens’ holdings.