Bann (German pronunciation: [ban] ^ⓘ) is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany. Located in the Steinalb valley with the Palatinate Forest bordering it to the east.

It is located between the hills of Hausberg (474 m), Kahlenberg (464 m) and Kirchberg (423 m) in the Steinalb valley, which separates the Sickingen Heights from the Palatinate Forest.

Through Bann flows a small stream, the Queidersbach, popularly called Steinalb. It rises at the Ziegelsteige on the Sickingerhöhe.

Bann was first mentioned in the year 1182 in a document by the Pope.

Until the end of the 18th century the municipality belonged to the so-called Grand Court of the rule Landstuhl, which was owned by the barons of Sickingen the line to Hohenburg.

In 1794, the left bank of the Rhine was occupied in the War of the First Coalition. From 1978 to 1814 Bann belonged to the canton Landstuhl in the department Donnersberg.

Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna, the area first came to Austria in June 1815 and was ceded to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 on the basis of the Treaty of Munich. Under the Bavarian administration Bann belonged from 1817 to the District of Homburg in the Rhine district, from 1862 to the district office Homburg, moved in 1929 to the district office Kaiserslautern and belongs since 1939 to the district of Kaiserslautern.

In 1982, the 800th anniversary of the municipality was celebrated with a big celebration. Amongst other things there was a big historical procession.