Gossersweiler-Stein

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 10 '  N , 7 ° 56'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southern Wine Route
Association municipality :	Annweiler am Trifels
Height :	285 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.6 km 2
Residents:	1410 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	164 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	76857
Area code :	06346
License plate :	SOUTH
Community key :	07 3 37 033
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Messplatz 1 76855 Annweiler am Trifels
Website :	www.gossersweiler-stein.de
Local Mayor :	Pascal Braun
Location of the local community Gossersweiler-Stein in the southern Weinstrasse district

View from Rötzenfelsen to Gossersweiler-Stein

Gossersweiler-Stein is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstrasse district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It was created in 1970 by merging the communities of Gossersweiler and Stein . It belongs to the community of Annweiler am Trifels , within which it forms the third largest local community with around 1400 inhabitants. Gossersweiler-Stein is a state-approved resort .

geography

location

Gossersweiler-Stein lies in the Wasgau , which is formed by the southern part of the Palatinate Forest and the northern part of the Vosges , in the center of the Gossersweiler valley within a leveled area. It is part of the Dahn-Annweiler Felsenland subunit and within this part of the Annweiler Felsenland .

The local community consists of the two districts of Gossersweiler in the northwest and Stein in the southeast. Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Völkersweiler , Waldrohrbach , Silz , Vorderweidenthal , Darstein , Dimbach , Schwanheim and Lug .

Surveys

Striking elevations on the municipality markings are the Rötzenberg ( 459  m above sea level ), the Dimberg ( 418  m above sea level ) on the border with Dimbach and Schwanheim and the Eichelberg ( 406  m above sea level ). The northeast slope of 437.6  m above sea level. NN high Schloßberg is also located in the area of ​​Gossersweiler-Stein, while this, including its summit, is otherwise in the district of Vorderweidenthal.

Waters

The Kaiserbach rises on the eastern edge of the settlement of Gossersweiler and then flows to the northeast. The Klingbach rises in the southern part of the municipality marker and includes both a main and a secondary source around 300 meters further south; however, it does not affect the settlement area of ​​the local community.

The Triebborn rises north-west of Gossersweiler and drains beyond the district via the Rimbach and Queich . Thus the watershed between Queich and Michelsbach runs through the middle of the municipality .

history

The two places Gossersweiler and Stein belonged to the Electoral Palatinate until the end of the 18th century . After the Left Bank of the Rhine was taken by French revolutionary troops in 1794, both places were assigned to the canton of Annweiler in the Donnersberg department from 1798 to 1814 and were administered by the Mairie in Schwanheim . Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna held in 1815 , the Palatinate and thus also the communities of Gossersweiler and Stein were initially assigned to Austria . In a state treaty concluded in 1816 , Austria ceded the region to the Kingdom of Bavaria . The now Bavarian canton Annweiler belonged in the newly created Rhine district for the time being to the Zweibrücken district formed from the previous arrondissement and came to the Landau district on August 1, 1816. After the subdivision of the districts into Landkommissariate (1818), the two places belonged to the Landkommissariat Bergzabern , from which the Bergzabern district emerged in 1939 .

In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , Gossersweiler and Stein moved to the newly created Landau-Bad Bergzabern district, which was renamed the Südliche Weinstrasse district in 1978 . On March 1, 1970, the previously independent communities of Gossersweiler and Stein were merged to form the new community of Gossersweiler-Stein. Two years later, the latter was assigned to the community of Annweiler am Trifels .

population

Population development

The development of the number of inhabitants in relation to today's municipality of Gossersweiler-Stein; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 876 1835 1,037 1871 993 1905 929 1939 1,116 1950 1.108

year Residents 1961 1,189 1970 1,276 1987 1,308 1997 1,445 2005 1,472 2019 1,410

religion

Field cross in Gossersweiler-Stein

The Catholics belong to the Diocese of Speyer and are subordinate to the Landau deanery , the Evangelicals to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate . The local community is predominantly Catholic. Up until the end of 2015 there was a Catholic parish in the Gossersweiler district, which had branches in Stein and Völkersweiler. Since 2016 the parish belongs to the parish of St. Elisabeth in Annweiler.

politics

In federal elections, the community has been part of the Südpfalz constituency since 1965 (until 1983: Landau constituency ) , before that until 1961 it was part of the Zweibrücken constituency . In state elections, Gossersweiler-Stein was part of the Südliche Weinstrasse constituency from 1991 to 2011 . In 2016 it was temporarily added to the Pirmasens constituency , and from 2021 it will again belong to the Südliche Weinstrasse constituency.

Municipal council

The council in Gossersweiler-Stein consists of 16 council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	CDU	UWG	WGR	total
2019	by majority vote			16 seats
2014	-	6th	10	16 seats
2009	6th	10	-	16 seats
2004	5	11	-	16 seats

• UWG = Independent Voting Group
• WGR = Renno voters group

Local mayor

Pascal Braun (UWG) became the local mayor of Gossersweiler-Stein on July 2, 2019. Since there was no candidate for the direct election on May 26, 2019, the upcoming election of the mayor was carried out by the council in accordance with the municipal regulations. The majority decided in favor of Braun, who was thus elected for five years. His predecessors were Stefan Renno (term of office 2014–2019) and Hanns-Christian Conrad (UWG, 1994–2014).

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In red, two floating, patted silver crosses, one above the other."

Community partnerships

A partnership with the French community of Schoenenbourg has existed since November 1984 .

Culture

Buildings

Listed Catholic Church of St. Martin

Engelsmannfelsen natural monument

Cultural monuments

There are a total of eight properties in the community - three of them in Gossersweiler and five in Stein - which are listed buildings, with the exception of a tobacco shed, these are all sacred buildings, including the Catholic Church of St. Martin and the one on the border with Völkersweiler Jergen Chapel.

Other structures

Another chapel is located half a kilometer south of the Stein settlement area, not far from the border with Silz.

nature

The municipality is located in the Palatinate Forest Nature Park , which in turn belongs to the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord Biosphere Reserve . There are a total of six natural monuments in the area around Gossersweiler-Stein , including several rock formations such as the Isselmann stones, the Dreifelsen, the Engelsmannfelsen and the Krimhildenstein. The community is also part of the southern Palatinate climbing area .

societies

There are a total of 24 clubs on site, including several sports clubs such as SV Gossersweiler-Stein and the Gossersweiler Tal gymnastics club . There is also a local branch of the Palatinate Forest Association .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Due to the geographic conditions, the forest and timber industry dominated the area for centuries. The local forest areas are subject to the Annweiler Forestry Office . There is also an industrial park on the eastern outskirts of Gossersweiler.

traffic

State road 494 , which leads from Völkersweiler to Silz, runs through the community . From this, at the level of the district of Gossersweiler, Kreisstraße 8 branches off, which connects its settlement area and is called Am Kaiserbach there . The bus line 531 of the Rhein-Neckar transport association connects the community with Landau in the Palatinate and Annweiler am Trifels. The closest train station is the one in Annweiler am Trifels .

Facilities

At the foot of the Engelsmannfelsen, just outside the settlement areas of the two districts, the Gossersweiler-Stein elementary school, the Berglandhalle and the local volunteer fire brigade are located. The former is attended by around 180 schoolchildren; its catchment area also includes the communities of Völkersweiler, Waldrohrbach, Waldhambach, Silz and Münchweiler. The Eichwald holiday village, built in the early 1970s, is also to the southwest of Stein.

tourism

PWV refuge Gossersweiler

The PWV refuge Gossersweiler has existed on site since 2006 .

Gossersweiler-Stein is a possible starting point for hikes and mountain bike tours in the Palatinate Forest. The Klingbach cycle path runs through the community itself . The Staudernheim-Soultz-sous-Forêts long-distance hiking trail, marked with a blue nalken, leads through the north-west of the district ; In the south of the municipality there is a hiking trail that is marked with a yellow-red bar , in the west one that is marked with a blue cross and in the far south-west the path marked with a red dot leads over the delimitation of the Local parish. It is also on a hiking trail marked with a green triangle on a white background .

media

A so-called "village newspaper" appears in the village once a month.

Personalities

• Philipp Hammer (1837–1901), Catholic priest, nationally known preacher and popular speaker.

Web links

Commons : Gossersweiler-Stein  - Collection of images

• Gossersweiler-Stein. In: gossersweiler-stein.de/. 2019(website of the local community Gossersweiler-Stein). 
• Literature about Gossersweiler-Stein in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data. Retrieved June 1, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 177 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
4. ↑ daten.digitale-sammlungen.de: List of localities for the Free State of Bavaria . Retrieved July 13, 2020 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved April 16, 2020 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: 2014 municipal council election Gossersweiler-Stein. Retrieved April 16, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Agnes Fazekas: Gossersweiler-Stein: Pascal Braun new local chief. Die Rheinpfalz, July 4, 2019, accessed on April 16, 2020 . 
8. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Annweiler am Trifels, Verbandsgemeinde, fifth row of results. Retrieved April 16, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Gerhard Sommer: On Case II: Which local chiefs in Trifelsland are running again. Die Rheinpfalz, September 14, 2018, accessed on April 16, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Thanks and appreciation. Honoring resigned local mayors. Verbandsgemeinde Annweiler am Trifels, December 2, 2014, accessed on April 18, 2020 .