Editing Electoral Palatinate (section)

== Legacy ==
[[File:Coat of arms of Rhineland-Palatinate.svg|thumb|left|upright=0.7|[[Coat of arms of Rhineland-Palatinate]]]]
In 1806, [[Grand Duchy of Baden|Baden]] was raised to a grand duchy and parts of the former Palatinate including Mannheim became part of it. At the [[Congress of Vienna]] in 1814 and 1815, southern parts of the left-bank Palatinate were restored and enlarged by mediatisation (consuming the former [[Prince-Bishopric of Speyer]], the Free Imperial City of [[Speyer]], and others) up to the new border with France, and given (temporarily) to the Habsburg [[Austrian Empire]]; after this time, it was [[Palatinate (region)|this new region]] that was principally known as "the Palatinate". The right-bank Palatinate remained with Baden while northern parts became part of [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]] ([[Rhine Province]]) and [[Grand Duchy of Hesse|Hesse]] ([[Rhenish Hesse]]).

In 1816, the Palatinate became a formal part of the Wittelsbach [[Kingdom of Bavaria]] (the {{lang|de|Rheinkreis}} or [[Circle of the Rhine]]) in a pre-arranged exchange for [[County of Tyrol|Tyrol]], which Bavaria returned to Austria. Most of the area remained a part of Bavaria until after the Second World War (after 1918 the [[Free State of Bavaria]]), with [[Saarpfalz-Kreis|some western parts]] becoming part of the [[Territory of the Saar Basin]] after World War I.

In September 1946 the territory was made part of the federal state of [[Rhineland-Palatinate]], along with former left bank territories of [[Free State of Prussia|Prussia]] (southern part of the Rhine Province, including the former [[Principality of Birkenfeld]] which had been an exclave of [[Free State of Oldenburg|Oldenburg]] until 1937, and western parts of the [[Province of Nassau]]) and Rhenish Hesse. The former Territory of the Saar Basin was reinstated and expanded to create the French [[Saar Protectorate]], which returned to Germany in 1956 as the modern state of [[Saarland]].