Association community of Weilerbach

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 29 '  N , 7 ° 38'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kaiserslautern
Area :	71.96 km 2
Residents:	14,191 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	197 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	KL
Association key :	07 3 35 5009
Association structure:	8 municipalities
Association administration address :	Rummelstrasse 15 67685 Weilerbach
Website :	www.weilerbach.de
Mayoress :	Anja Pfeiffer ( CDU )
Location of the community of Weilerbach in the Kaiserslautern district

The Verbandsgemeinde Weilerbach is an administrative unit in the legal form of a regional authority in the district of Kaiserslautern in Rhineland-Palatinate . The municipality has eight independent local churches at the administrative headquarters are in the eponymous municipality Weilerbach .

Association members communities

Local parish	Area (km²)	Residents
Erzenhausen	5.63	794
Owl bis	3.97	494
Kollweiler	5.57	544
Mackenbach	3.53	1,983
Reichenbach-Steegen	15.12	1,367
Rodenbach	13.74	3,195
Schwedelbach	8.40	1,066
Weilerbach	16.00	4,748
Association community of Weilerbach	71.97	14,191

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

Population development

The development of the number of inhabitants in relation to the area of ​​today's community of Weilerbach; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 3,898 1835 5,775 1871 6,489 1905 6,965 1939 7,380 1950 8,486

year Residents 1961 9,632 1970 10.134 1987 10,975 1997 13,576 2005 14,181 2019 14,191

politics

Association municipal council

The local council Weilerbach consists of 28 honorary council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation were elected, and the full-time mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FDP	GREEN	LEFT	FWG	total
2019	10	7th	1	3	1	6th	28 seats
2014	11	9	-	2	1	5	28 seats
2009	12	8th	-	-	1	7th	28 seats
2004	12	9	-	-	-	7th	28 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group Verbandsgemeinde Weilerbach e. V.

mayor

• 1987–2005: Anton Jung, SPD
• 2005 – today: Anja Pfeiffer, CDU (when she was inaugurated at the age of 25, the youngest female mayor in Germany)

Anja Pfeiffer was confirmed in a run-off election on June 23, 2013 with a share of the vote of 51.54% for a further eight years after none of the original three applicants achieved a sufficient majority in the direct election on June 21, 2013.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In a shield border divided by gold and blue, divided by gold and blue by a wavy line, top right a red imperial orb, top left a growing red-armored and tongued black lion, below a golden ploughshare."

US Army

The association community is shaped by the stationing of US soldiers in nearby Ramstein . In addition to the approximately 14,000 inhabitants, there are around 5,000 Americans, both soldiers and civilian employees such as teachers and doctors.

Infrastructure

From 1912 to 1996, the Bachbahn ran through the area of ​​the Verbandsgemeinde from the Lampertsmühle-Otterbach station to Weilerbach - from 1920 to Reichenbach, which has since been closed.

Web links

• Association community of Weilerbach

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: Association municipal council elections 2019 Weilerbach. Retrieved August 17, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Verbandsgemeinde Weilerbach: Obituary Anton Jung †. March 1, 2018, accessed November 30, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Vivien Pieper: Germany's youngest mayor. dw.de, October 4, 2005, accessed on February 2, 2013 . 
6. ↑ Focus Online: Weilerbach mayor re-elected in runoff election. June 23, 2013, accessed November 30, 2019 . 
7. ↑ https://www.morgenweb.de/mannheimer-morgen_artikel,-welt-und-wissen-us-militaer-baut-fuer-fast-eine-milliarde-dollar-_arid,1096595.html