Kapsweyer

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 3 '  N , 8 ° 1'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southern Wine Route
Association municipality :	Bad Bergzabern
Height :	145 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.26 km 2
Residents:	931 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	113 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	76889
Area code :	06340
License plate :	SOUTH
Community key :	07 3 37 046
Association administration address:	Königstrasse 61 76887 Bad Bergzabern
Website :	www.kapsweyer.de
Local Mayor :	Felix fining
Location of the local community Kapsweyer in the district of Südliche Weinstrasse

Kapsweyer with a view of the Palatinate Forest

Kapsweyer is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstrasse district in Rhineland-Palatinate and a border town with France . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Bad Bergzabern , within which it is the sixth largest local community in terms of population.

geography

location

Kapsweyer is located on the border with France in the midst of nature reserves on the so-called cattle track . The south of the district protrudes into the Bienwald . The Waldhof residential area also belongs to Kapsweyer . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Oberotterbach , Niederotterbach , Steinfeld (Palatinate) , Wissembourg and Schweighofen .

Waters

The Lauter forms the southern boundary of the district. The Otterbach grazes the northeast of the district. The Bruchbach runs immediately south of the settlement area .

climate

The annual precipitation is 792 mm. The precipitation is in the middle third of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 61% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is September, with the most rainfall in June. In June there is 1.5 times more rainfall than in September. Precipitation hardly varies and is evenly distributed over the year. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at only 18% of the measuring stations .

history

Kapsweyer is located in the Mundat area, which Pippin the Younger donated to the Weissenburg monastery around 760 . As a result, the monastery founded many farms and hamlets, including Kapsweyer, on cleared land. The place was first mentioned in 1368.

From the end of the 18th century, the community was part of the French Republic , then part of the Napoleonic Empire until 1815 , and incorporated into the canton of Bergzabern in the department of the Lower Rhine . In 1815 it was added to Austria . Just one year later, like the entire Palatinate, it moved to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 Kapsweyer belonged to the Land Commissioner Bergzabern ; The Bergzabern district office emerged from this .

In 1939 the community was incorporated into the Bergzabern district. After the Second World War , the municipality within the French occupation zone became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate. During the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform changed the place on 7 June 1969 in the newly created district Landau-Bad Bergzabern, in 1978 in South County Wine Trail is renamed . In 1972 Kapsweyer was assigned to the also newly formed community of Bad Bergzabern .

religion

At the end of 2013, 64.4 percent of the population were Catholic and 15.7 percent Protestant. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Kapsweyer consists of twelve council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	3	1	8th	12 seats
2014	2	2	8th	12 seats
2009	1	2	9	12 seats
2004	1	2	9	12 seats

mayor

1800–1812 Martin Conrath (Maire et Officier de l'etat civil mayor and registrar) 1813–1819 Wingerter 1820–1829 Martin Conrath (already in office 1800–12) 1830–1832 Georg Franz Beck 1833-1834 Martin Nist 1835 (1.1. – 4.2.) Caspar Röhrig 1835–1838 Johannes Conrath 1838–1852 Jakob Baumgarten 1853–1854 Johannes Conrath (already in office 1835–38) 1855–1858 Martin Nist (already in office 1833–34) 1858–1869 Georg Fridmann 1870–1873 Andreas Conrath 1874–1884 Jakob Heil

1885–1899 Johann Georg Eichmann 1900–1920 Franz-Josef Frey 1920–1922 Jakob Gewahl 1923 Philipp Heil (from January 1, 1923 to May 1, 1923) 1923–1933 Karl Paul 1933–1936 Hermann Wilhelm 1936–1944 / 45 Fritz Kirch (mayor of the mayor's office) 1945–1948 Josef Heil 1948–1964 Emil Frey 1964–1981 Hans Zimmermann 1981–1992 Raimund Zimmermann 1992–2014 Hermann Paul since 2014 Felix Schönung

In the direct election on May 26, 2019, Felix Schönung (FWG) was confirmed in his office for another five years with 88.16% of the vote.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Divided and divided six times at the top by green and silver, at the bottom in red a silver pinnacle castle with a gate with a closed silver gate and a raised central tower between two low pinnacle towers, behind each a golden abbot slanting outwards."
	Foundation for the coat of arms: It was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1970 . The coat of arms of the Weißenburg monastery is shown below and the coat of arms of the Fleckenstein family , who exercised the fiefdom of the Weißenburg office of St. Remig, to which Kapsweyer belonged.

Community partnerships

Partnerships exist with the Upper Franconian municipality of Burgebrach and the Alsatian Krautergersheim .

Culture

Monuments

In Kapsweyer there are a total of five objects that are under monument protection .

Regular events

The Grenzlandfest has been taking place every two years on the last weekend in June in Kapsweyer since 1983. In 2005, the Kapsweyer landmark, the Wuddwuddseckele, was presented at this festival and presented to Prime Minister Kurt Beck , former Prime Minister Bernhard Vogel and Kapsweyer's Mayor Hermann Paul.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Kapsweyer is a wine-growing town and as such part of the Palatinate wine-growing region . The Lerchenberg single vineyard is located on site .

traffic

railroad

Kapsweyer train station

→ Main article : Kapsweyer train station

Kapsweyer is located on the Neustadt – Wissembourg railway line, which opened in 1855, and is part of the Karlsruhe Transport Association (KVV) and the Rhine-Neckar Transport Association (VRN). Today's stop and former Kapsweyer station is located on the southern outskirts of Kapsweyer. It was built around 1875. After the First World War it was given a goods shed and a customs building, as it was the last train station in Germany along the route when it was returned from Weißenburg or Wissembourg to France . From then on, customs controls for hand luggage took place there. Due to the permanent affiliation of Alsace after the two world wars, the passenger traffic between Winden and Wissembourg lost its importance, so that it was discontinued in 1975. In 1997 it was reactivated. Since then, the Kapsweyer stop has been served hourly by regional trains to Wissembourg and Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (via Winden and Landau ).

Street

State road 546 and district road 26 run through Kapsweyer . The place is connected to the local transport network via the bus line 544 of the transport association Rhein-Neckar, which leads to Bad Bergzabern and Schweighofen.

Web links

Commons : Kapsweyer  - Collection of Images

• Kapsweyer
• Grenzlandfest
• Literature about Kapsweyer in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 159 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2013
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Bad Bergzabern, Verbandsgemeinde, eleventh line of results. Retrieved April 21, 2020 . 
6. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .