Waldleiningen

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kaiserslautern
Association municipality :	Enkenbach-Alsenborn
Height :	290 m above sea level NHN
Area :	26.67 km 2
Residents:	392 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	15 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67693
Area code :	06305
License plate :	KL
Community key :	07 3 35 048
Association administration address:	Hauptstrasse 18 ; 67677 Enkenbach-Alsenborn
Website :	www.waldleiningen.de
Local Mayor :	vacant (Oswald Kullmer, First Alderman)
Location of the local community Waldleiningen in the district of Kaiserslautern

Landscape of the Palatinate Forest on the district of Waldleiningen

Waldleiningen is a municipality in the Kaiserslautern district in Rhineland-Palatinate , where the world axis is lubricated according to a local tradition. It belongs to the community of Enkenbach-Alsenborn , within which it is the second largest in terms of area, but the smallest in terms of population.

geography

location

The community is located in the center of the Palatinate Forest . Waldleiningen is the only independent local community in the Frankenweide , as the middle part of the mountain complex is called. Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Hochspeyer , Frankenstein , Weidenthal , Elmstein and Kaiserslautern . The Stüterhof district is located on the southwestern edge of the municipality not far from the Mölschbach district of Kaiserslautern . In the north there is also an uninhabited exclave belonging to Waldleiningen, which is completely surrounded by the district of Hochspeyer.

Surveys

In the district of Waldleiningen there is the 507 meter high Leiterberg in the south , the 465 meter high Große Roßrück and the 459 meter high Kleine Roßrück in the northwest and the 430 meter high Große Berg and the 433 meter high Wolfeneck in the east . The Eselsohler Berg rises on the boundary of Weidenthal and its 439 meter high Hohe Loog in the area of the district triangle Waldleiningen / Weidenthal / Frankenstein .

Waters

The Palatinate main watershed runs right through the west of the district . The Leinbach flows shortly after its source to Seewoog and then the settlement area; partially it forms the boundary to Hochspeyer. To the east of the Stüterhof is the Haidhaldbrunnen , which is the original source of the Leinbach stream . The Stüterbächel, which rises there, seeps away after a while. In the north-west of the district, west of the watershed, is the beam fountain .

climate

The annual precipitation is 818 mm. The precipitation is in the upper third of the values recorded in Germany. Lower values are registered at 67 percent of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is September, the most precipitation falls in December. In December there is 1.4 times more rainfall than in September. Precipitation varies only minimally and is extremely evenly distributed over the year. No lower seasonal fluctuations are registered at any of the measuring stations .

history

In 1533, Count Emich VIII von Leiningen had a building built on the northern border of his Oberamt Falkenburg in the area of the fallow land Frankenweide , which was called "Leinhaus". At the beginning of the 17th century, the Leinhaus became the "Leinhof", a rural property with an associated clearing area and forest. After the Thirty Years' War and the subsequent War of the Palatinate Succession , the Leinhof became a desert . Only years later can Palatinate-Zweibrücken forest personnel be found on the Leinhof. In 1755, the forest staff from Leiningen-Hardenburg and Pfalz-Zweibrücken pulled the families living in the forest valleys together on the Leinhof; In 1769, nine families lived there in addition to the forest staff. In 1785, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Leiningen , founded the village of Waldleiningen and attracted settlers from its territories. The settlement was founded to allow forest management to be carried out, which was characteristic for the village until the 20th century. Even in the Liningian period, the area was a preferred hunting ground for the ruling family. Waldleiningen formed a condominium until the end of the 18th century , as it belonged jointly to the Electoral Palatinate and the Leiningen-Dagsburg.

When the princes of Leiningen lost their territory on the left bank of the Rhine and were compensated by the principality of Leiningen on the right bank of the Rhine , they built the hunting castle Waldleiningen there - in memory of their old Palatinate hunting ground - the name of which was to be reminiscent of Waldleiningen in the Palatinate Forest .

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Waldleiningen was part of the Mairie von Hochspeyer and the canton of Kaiserslautern to the Département du Mont-Tonnerre . In 1815 the place had 169 inhabitants. In the same year it was added to Austria . A year later he came to Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 he was a member of the Land Commissioner in Kaiserslautern ; from this the district office of Kaiserslautern emerged.

Waldleiningen has been part of the Kaiserslautern district since 1939 . After the Second World War , the place became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , the municipality was added to the newly formed Hochspeyer association in 1972 . On September 4, 1976, a part of the area with 59 inhabitants was reassigned from Hochspeyer to Waldleiningen. Waldleiningen has been part of the Enkenbach-Alsenborn community since 2014 .

politics

Municipal council

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

Allocation of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	DB	total
2019	-	-	3	5	8 seats
2014	-	5	3	-	8 seats
2009	4th	3	1	-	8 seats
2004	5	3	-	-	8 seats

FWG = Free Voter Group Waldleiningen e. V.
DB = The Alliance e. V.

mayor

After the resignation of the mayor, Rainer Decker, in January 2020, Oswald Kullmer is the first deputy to lead the office until the new election and the inauguration of a successor. A new election was planned for April 5, 2020, but had to be postponed due to the corona pandemic.

Rainer Decker (Das Bündnis e.V.) became the local mayor of Waldleiningen in 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected with 63.34% of the vote and thus succeeded Michael Gasiorek, who was no longer running.

Partner municipality

Since 1986 there has been a parish partnership with Xirocourt in France.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In blue a raised, curved silver tip, in it on the green ground a green deciduous tree, the trunk of which is covered with a red ax on the left, a red-armored silver eagle in each of the upper corners."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The tree with ax points to the very intensive forestry on site. The Leininger eagle is a reminiscence of the village founder.

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

A listed forestry office on the right side of the picture, in the foreground is the old school / post office

With the forestry office and a courtyard in Schloßstraße, there are two properties on site that are listed .

nature

There are a total of 13 natural monuments in the area of Waldleiningen . In the northeast is the Eulenhald-Ungertal nature reserve . The Eulenhald , the Große Berg and the Haidhaldbrunnen also each form core areas of the Palatinate Forest Nature Park ; The former also represents one of 54 natural forest reserves in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Palatinate world axis

(On the small Roßrück 49 ° 24 ' N , 7 ° 50' O ) between Waldleiningen and locust cross is a sandstone blocks with the Palatine inscription: 49.39419 7.84146

"Thou the world ax will be smacked in - don't pay attention that nothing goes wrong!"

(High German: "Here the world axis is greased and watch out that nothing happens.") The quote comes from the Palatinate world history of the local poet Paul Münch , according to which the Palatinate world axis should be the center of the world at this point . Then the Waldleininger should be responsible for the proper lubrication of the world axis.

Knight stones

There are also several knight stones in the district of Waldleiningen . Ritterstein 108 Haidhaldbrunnen 220 Schr. Refers to the Haidhaldbrunnen, which is 220 steps deep. 117 Daemmchen points to an earthfill that presumably served a Roman road. 135 Leimersohl is in a former clay pit. 138 Seewoog marks the woog of the same name.

Infrastructure

economy

Due to the geographical conditions, forestry dominated the area. Intensive agriculture was not possible because of the relief of the landscape and the poor soil. However, in 1833, in order to create a cultivation area as a source of food, the field mark "Rotheneck" was created by clearing the forest.

traffic

The B 48 , which leads from Bad Bergzabern to Bad Kreuznach , runs through the west of the district . State road 504 , which connects with Kaiserslautern and Elmstein, runs through the settlement area . The county road 47 acts as a transverse axis between it and the main road. The district road 78 branches off from the latter and connects the Stüterhof.

The next motorway junction is Enkenbach-Alsenborn on federal motorway 6 Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern , about twelve kilometers away. The closest train station is Hochspeyer on the Mannheim – Saarbrücken line .

tourism

The former forester's lodge Schwarzsohl , located in the far east of the district, was operated as a hiking hut by the Palatinate Forest Association for several decades from the 1960s ; the latter has been done by a private person since 2014. The Nahegau-Wasgau-Vogesen long-distance hiking trail, marked with a white cross, leads through Waldleiningen and leads from Niederhausen (Nahe) to Wingen-sur-Moder in France . In addition, two other hiking trails run through the municipality, one of which is marked with a white and red bar ; and establishes the connection with Kaiserslautern as well as Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and Speyer . The other is marked with a blue-yellow bar and runs from Lauterecken to Sankt Germanshof .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Waltraud Meißner (* 1940), dialect poet

People who worked on site

Ludwig Anton von Hacke (1682–1752), baron, Oberstforst- und Oberstjägermeister from the Electoral Palatinate, had the Riesenberger Weg laid out between Waldleiningen and the Stüterhof in 1737 to transport timber
Henrich Ottstadt , 1792/93 member of the Rhine-German National Convention

Web links

Commons : Waldleiningen - Collection of images

Internet presence of the local community Waldleiningen
Literature about Waldleiningen in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

↑ 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. 199 (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.
↑ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Waldleiningen. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
↑ Joachim Baadte, Gabriele Schöfer: Local mayor election: date for voting still open. In: The Rhine Palatinate. Rheinpfalz Verlag und Druckerei GmbH & Co. KG, Ludwigshafen, May 24, 2020, accessed on July 19, 2020 .
↑ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Enkenbach-Alsenborn, Verbandsgemeinde, penultimate row of results. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .
↑ Waldleiningen - a small community with a heart in the Palatinate Forest. Retrieved September 5, 2019 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).