Hello Betsy, the area where Nothweiler and Rumbach are is, geographically speaking, a long way from Bavaria. Last century however, they had been politically part of Bavaria. The duke or whatever of Bavaria had been owning the area. It has always been named Pfalz, and is *west* of river Rhine. It goes like this: Pfalz = Palatinate = Rheinland-Pfalz The last is the modern name of the Pfalz. Nothweiler and Rumbach are now part of Rheinland-Pfalz. If you are trying to locate them on a map this might be important. You can find them: 40 km south of Kaiserslautern, 18 km south-east of Pirmasens. Nothweiler is on the border to France. Both villages seem to be very small. Regards, Henry Dipl.-Ing. Henry Foster ** foster@e-technik.uni-kl.de ** Fachbereich Elektrotechnik ** with the usual disclaimers ** Universitaet Kaiserslautern ** pgp 2.6.2 - finger: ** 67653 Kaiserslautern ** 21 56 3e eb 14 43 21 e7 ** Germany ** 44 cf 6a 39 75 6c f6 8f **