Lauterecken

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 39 '  N , 7 ° 36'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kusel
Association municipality :	Lauterecken-Wolfstein
Height :	169 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.89 km 2
Residents:	1984 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	223 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67742
Area code :	06382
License plate :	KUS
Community key :	07 3 36 058
Association administration address:	Schulstrasse 6a 67742 Lauterecken
Website :	www.lauterecken.de
City Mayor:	Isabell Steinhauer-Theis ( CDU )
Location of the city of Lauterecken in the district of Kusel

Lauterecken is a city in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Kusel and its sixth largest local community in terms of population. It is the administrative seat of the Lauterecken-Wolfstein community , to which it also belongs. Lauterecken is nicknamed Veldenzstadt . Lauterecken is designated as a basic center according to state planning . In addition, Lauterecken is part of a medium-sized network together with the district town of Kusel .

In terms of both the number of inhabitants and the area of the district, Lauterecken is one of the smallest cities in Germany.

geography

Geographical location

Lauterecken is located in the North Palatinate Uplands . Neighboring communities are - in clockwise direction - Medard , Cronenberg , Hohenöllen , Lohnweiler , Wiesweiler , Hausweiler , Grumbach and Kappeln .

Elevations and waters

Immediately to the northwest of the settlement area the Hedgehog's head rises . The town lies at the mouth of the Lauter in Glan . The latter takes up the Grumbach from the left .

climate

The annual precipitation is 707 mm. The precipitation is in the middle third of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 41% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is April, with the most rainfall in June. In June there is 1.4 times more rainfall than in April. Precipitation varies only minimally and is extremely evenly distributed over the year. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at only 0% of the measuring stations .

history

View according to Matthäus Merian

Battle of Lauterecken. The troops of Sweden fought against Spanish troops in the Thirty Years War, 1632? Matthias Merian in Danckert's Historis , 1642.

The city is named after the Lauter river, which flows into the Glan flowing from Altenglan near the center of the village. The place and its castle, a forerunner of the Veldenz Castle, was first mentioned in a secure manner in 1343. Between 1343 and 1350 (the original document has not been preserved) Lauterecken received its town charter. At that time Lauterecken was owned by the Counts of Veldenz , the descendants of the Nahegau Counts (Emichons).

When the Veldenz family died out in 1444, Lauterecken fell to the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken and was the residence of the Wittelsbach branch of the Pfalz-Veldenz-Lauterecken line from 1543 to 1694 . The Palatinate-Veldenzian line ruled for 151 years until it died out. In 1689 the town and castle were partially destroyed. From 1733 to 1797 Lauterecken was the seat of an Electoral Palatinate Higher Office. In 1752 the upper office building was rebuilt on the late Gothic cellar of the palace. The city remained with the Electoral Palatinate until the end of the 18th century.

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Lauterecken was the seat of the canton of the same name , to which 20 other municipalities belonged, as well as the Mairie of the same name , which also included four municipalities. In 1815 Lauterecken had 792 inhabitants. In the same year the city of Austria was struck. Then Lauterecken moved to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 Lauterecken was part of the Kusel Land Commissioner , which was then converted into a district office.

In 1939 the city was incorporated into the Kusel district. After the Second World War , Lauterecken became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform , Lauterecken became the administrative seat of the newly created association of the same name , which at the time belonged to Lauterecken as well as 25 independent local communities, since 2014 the city has been the seat of the Lauterecken-Wolfstein association with a total of 41 communities.

religion

There was once a Jewish cemetery on site .

politics

City council

The city ​​council in Lauterecken consists of 16 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary city ​​mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the city council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FDP	FWG	total
2019	3	5	3	5	16 seats
2014	4th	3	3	6th	16 seats
2009	4th	4th	3	5	16 seats
2004	5	5	2	4th	16 seats

mayor

Isabell Steinhauer-Theis (CDU) became mayor of Lauterecken on July 4, 2019 . In the runoff election on June 16, 2019, she prevailed with a share of 70.95% of the vote, after none of the original four applicants, including the previous incumbent, had achieved a sufficient majority in the direct election on May 26, 2019. Your predecessor Heinrich Steinhauer (FWG) held the office for 20 years.

coat of arms

	Justification of the coat of arms: The blue lion indicates the former rule of the Counts of Veldenz .

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

The Veldenz Tower of Lautereck Castle

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Lauterecken

The Bahnhofstrasse is a conservation zone reported. There are also numerous individual objects that are under monument protection , including the old castle with Veldenz tower , which once served as the residence of the Count of Pfalz-Veldenz , the portal of the "New Building", the war memorial on the Igelskopf, the war memorial on Veldenzplatz from 1870 / 71, the old bridge over the Lauter and the two parish churches.

Regular events

Major events include the spring market, the big home festival, the autumn market, the Christmas market and the tower festival that takes place every two years.

Economy and Infrastructure

Part of the heating in the city is obtained in an environmentally friendly manner by a high-performance heat pump from the Freital-based company BDR Thermea from the Lauter, which has an annual mean temperature of 10 ° C. Alternatively, a condensing boiler only kicks in when there are frost temperatures.

Established businesses

Volksbank Lauterecken

Due to its central location in the northern district of Kusel, Lauterecken is home to three medium-sized companies and various shops. The fruit juice manufacturer Niehoffs Vaihinger Fruchtsaft , a plant belonging to the Cellpack Group (food packaging), which has been part of the Behr Bircher Cellpack BBC industrial group since 2003, and a production facility for BITO storage technology should be mentioned as a company of national importance . The Volksbank Lauterecken and the Lauterecken brewery also exist on site . In addition, the Kreissparkasse Kusel has a branch in Lauterecken. The Sander family of instrument makers used to have a workshop on site.

traffic

rail

In 1883 Lauterecken was connected to the railway network in the form of the Lautertal Railway. The former terminal station was on the southern outskirts. It initially remained in place when the lower Glantalbahn was extended as a direct continuation of the Lautertalbahn to Odernheim in 1896 and a year later it was tied through to Staudernheim on the Rhein-Nahe-Bahn .

In this context, another train stop called Lauterecken was built around one kilometer north of the station . It was intended to facilitate access to the railway for residents of the northern urban area of ​​Lauterecken and the communities in the central Glan Valley. With the completion of the Glantalbahn in 1904 it was given up.

Railcar at Lauterecken-Grumbach station in 1986

Already in the course of the planning of the rest of the Glantalbahn, which was built primarily for strategic reasons , it turned out that the previous station was in an unfavorable location with regard to the connection with the Lauterstraße. For this reason, the Lauterecken-Grumbach train station , which opened in 1904, was built not far from the previous stop, which from then on served as a connecting station and which still connects the city with the Kaiserslautern regional center. The old station was initially operated as a stopping point before it was abandoned in 1912 due to lack of profitability. On the Glantalbahn, passenger traffic between Altenglan and Lauterecken ended in 1985, followed a year later by the section between Lauterecken and Staudernheim. At the same time, the Lautertalbahn was also threatened with closure, but this was averted. Freight traffic came to a standstill in 1993. Draisine traffic was opened along the Glantalbahn in 2000 , with Lauterecken-Grumbach station being one of a total of three borrowing stations for draisines.

Street

Bundesstrasse 270 and Bundesstrasse 420 meet in Lauterecken . The district road 39 , which leads to Hohenöllen , also begins on site . The city is connected by the bus line 260 operated by Omnibusverkehr Rhein-Nahe , which leads to Bad Sobernheim .

tourism

For cyclists, Lauterecken is a transit point of the Glan-Blies cycle path and the northern end of the Lautertal cycle path . In addition, the city is the northern starting point of a hiking trail, which is marked with a blue-yellow bar . In addition, the Palatinate High Trail runs through Lauterecken. In addition, the Deutsche Schuhstrasse runs through the city.

Public facilities

While it was part of France, the city was the seat of a peace court that was subordinate to the Tribunal of First Instance in Kaiserslautern . In the following years Lauterecken was the seat of a local court .

Lauterecken is the seat of the Lauterecken-Wolfstein community and also houses its administration. A branch of the Federal Employment Agency is also located here (of a total of three in the Kusel district). Lauterecken owns a residence of the residential and senior citizens' facility "Pro Seniore", in which single people and those in need of care can live and be looked after. A small city library can be found in the town hall. Lauterecken houses a police station that the police department Kaiserslautern the police headquarters Westpfalz subordinate.

education

In the Veldenz town of Lauterecken there is a primary school, a school with a special focus on learning (Janusz Korczak School), a school center with Realschule plus and the Veldenz Gymnasium. The city library is located in the town hall ("Stadthaus").

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Ursula von Pfalz-Veldenz-Lützelstein (1572–1635), later Duchess Ursula von Württemberg
• Gustav Philipp von Pfalz-Veldenz (1651–1679), Hereditary Prince of the County of Veldenz
• Elisabeth Johanna von Pfalz-Veldenz (1653–1718), Countess Palatinate of Veldenz
• Bernhard Joseph Schleiss (1731–1800), court and medical advisor to the Electoral Palatinate and city physician
• Carl Theodor Barth (1805–1837), lawyer and democratic publicist
• Leopold Dippel (1827–1914), botanist
• Karl Gebhart (1859–1921), politician (DVP)
• Oskar Henrich (1860–1948), Bavarian Commerce Councilor, director of Steinwerke GmbH Lauterecken
• Max Hartmann (1876–1962), biologist and philosopher
• Albert Young (1877-1940), American boxer
• Cläre Weitzel (1889–1945), writer
• Theodor Henrich (1892–1976), District Administrator of the Kusel District (1946–1948)
• Walter Weizel (1901–1982), physicist and politician (SPD)
• Edwin Steinhauer (1916–1996), farmer and politician (CDU)
• Hans Otto Streuber (* 1949), politician (SPD)
• Michael Baumann (* 1956), Brigadier General and Vice President of the BND
• Kurt Wallat (* 1960), archaeologist
• Uwe Hartenberger (* 1968), soccer player

People who have worked in the city

• Bruno Eckhardt (1960–2019), professor of theoretical physics at the Philipps University of Marburg, attended the Lauterecken grammar school
• Emil Fränger (1856–1941), German administrative lawyer, was a trainee lawyer in Lauterecken in 1882
• Johannes Lohr (1875–1941), Protestant pastor in the Lauterecken deanery
• Friedrich Schüler (1791–1873) was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly from 1848/1849 as a representative for Lauterecken

literature

• Literature about Lauterecken in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Lauterecken  - Collection of images

Wikisource: Lautereck in the Topographia Palatinatus Rheni (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• Website of the city of Lauterecken
• City of Lauterecken on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde

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 - regional data
3. ↑ Ernst Schworm: Lauterecken . In: Kreisverwaltung Kusel (Ed.): Westricher Heimatblätter (special issue Verbandsgermeinde Lauterecken) . Vol. 41. Koch Druckerei, Kusel September 2010, p. 104-113 .
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
5. ↑ ^{a b} Sabrina Schreiner: Lauterecken: Isabel Steinhauer-Theis introduced as the new mayor. Die Rheinpfalz, July 5, 2019, accessed on May 1, 2020 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Lauterecken-Wolfstein, Verbandsgemeinde, 24th line of results. Retrieved May 1, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Barbara Feldmann: Lauterecken: runoff between Steinhauer-Theis and Saladin. Die Rheinpfalz, May 26, 2019, accessed on May 1, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Thermea. Energy Systems
9. ^ The exotic among alternative energies ( Memento of April 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Financial Times of April 4, 2011, accessed April 9, 2011