Weilerbach

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Weilerbach (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 29 '  N , 7 ° 38'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kaiserslautern
Association municipality :	Weilerbach
Height :	241 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16 km 2
Residents:	4748 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	297 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67685
Area code :	06374
License plate :	KL
Community key :	07 3 35 049
Association administration address:	Rummelstrasse 15 67685 Weilerbach
Website :	www.weilerbach.de
Local Mayor :	Horst Bonhagen ( SPD )
Location of the local community in Weilerbach in the Kaiserslautern district

The village of Weilerbach

Weilerbach is a municipality in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Kaiserslautern . The municipality is the administrative seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Weilerbach , to which it also belongs, and is designated as a basic center according to state planning .

geography

location

Weilerbach is eleven kilometers northwest of Kaiserslautern . The Reichswald extends south of the settlement area . Weilerbach also includes the residential areas An den Kreuzen, Eichwieserhof, Obere Pfeifermühle, Samuelshof, Schellenbergerhof and Ziegelhütte .

Neighboring communities are Erzenhausen , Eulenbis , Rodenbach , the city of Kaiserslautern ( Einsiedlerhof district ), Ramstein-Miesenbach , Mackenbach and Schwedelbach .

Waters

The Mooslauter forms the boundary to Rodenbach in the east and the Rischbach, which flows into this from the left, forms the border to Erzenhausen in the north.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1214, when King Friedrich II gave his loyal Reinhard von Lautern , Knight of Hoheneck , the patronage rights over the parish church of Ramstein with the branch churches of Weilerbach ( Wilrebach ) and Spesbach ( Spethisbach ). Siegfried of Hoheneck 1253 gave these rights and the resulting income of at Kaiserslautern lying Deutschherrenkomturei Einsiedeln . In 1258, Pope Alexander IV confirmed the possession of the Teutonic Commandery in Ramstein, Weilerbach and Spesbach. In 1257 Steinmar and Diederich von Weilerbach and 1273 Hertlin and Theodor von Weilerbach appear as witnesses in documents from the monasteries of Lautern and Enkenbach .

From 1559 to 1592 Weilerbach belonged to Palatinate-Lautern . Subsequently, the community became part of the Electoral Palatinate until the end of the 18th century , where it belonged to Oberamt Lautern and was the place of jurisdiction for the villages of Erzenhausen , Eulenbis , Pörrbach , Rodenbach , Schwedelbach and Weilerbach, as well as the farms Atzenhausen (today Samuelshof), Einsiedel , Mückenhof and Schellenberg. The court had a mayor , four lay judges and the Ramstein court clerk . Here the old roads from Lautern to Kusel and from Zweibrücken to Bingen crossed and were the reason for a customs post in the Electoral Palatinate .

In 1794, French revolutionary troops had taken the left bank of the Rhine . From 1798 to 1814 the region and thus Weilerbach belonged to the canton of Kaiserslautern in the Donnersberg department . Under French administration, Weilerbach became the capital of a Mairie , which, unlike in the previous judicial district, included the municipalities of Erfenbach (298), Erzenhausen (386), Rodenbach (322), Siegelbach (293) and Stockborn (63) in addition to Weilerbach .

Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna and a Bavarian-Austrian state treaty , the Palatinate became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 . The municipality of Weilerbach in the canton of Kaiserslautern , which was part of the Kaiserslautern Land Commissioner (renamed the Kaiserslautern District Office in 1862 ) in the Rhine District , remained under Bavarian administration . The village of Einsiedlerhof was transferred to Kaiserslautern in 1932 .

Population development

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

Population development of Weilerbach from 1815 to 2017 according to the table below

year Residents 1815 751 1835 1,286 1871 1,390 1905 1,657 1939 1,720 1950 1.997 1961 2,394

year Residents 1970 2,739 1987 3.163 1997 4,273 2005 4,599 2011 4,534 2017 4,644

In 1787 the parish had 119 families and 578 residents. Three churches, two parsonages, two school houses and 93 residential buildings were recorded. The district of Weilerbach comprised 2076 acres of fields, 582 acres of meadows, 23 acres of gardens and 60 acres of forest.

In 1837 Weilerbach already had 1286 inhabitants, of which 525 were Catholics , 746 Protestants and 15 Mennonites .

In the Bavarian local register from 1928, the rural community of Weilerbach, now part of the Bavarian administrative district Palatinate , is described as follows: A total of 1933 inhabitants (815 Catholics and 1118 Protestants), 331 residential buildings and an area of ​​2158 hectares; there was a railway station, a post office, a gendarmerie station, a tax and community collection department, a Catholic and a Protestant parish, a Catholic and a Protestant school, and two children's detention centers . In addition to the village of Weilerbach, six other localities belonged to the municipality: The village of Einsiedlerhof with 187 inhabitants, 28 residential buildings and a denominational community school, the Einsiedler Forsthaus (four inhabitants), Harzofen (seven inhabitants), Obere Pfeifermühle (six inhabitants), the hamlet of Samuelshof (32 residents, four residential buildings) and Ziegelhütte (six residents).

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Weilerbach consists of 20 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	GREEN	FWG	total
2019	8th	7th	2	3	20 seats
2014	8th	8th	1	3	20 seats
2009	8th	7th	-	5	20 seats
2004	6th	11	-	3	20 seats

• FWG = Free Voter Group Weilerbach e. V.

Local mayor

The local mayor of Weilerbach is Horst Bonhagen (SPD). In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with 63.13% of the vote.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In gold an upright blue ploughshare."

Community partnerships

Partner municipalities are Kingsbridge in England, Canton Isigny-sur-Mer in France and Gatonde in Rwanda.

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

Listed residential and commercial building

There are a total of ten objects on site that are listed .

Museums

The history of the region from the Stone Age to the 19th century is shown in the Reinhard-Blauth-Heimatmuseum.

nature

In addition, the Rodenbacher Bruch , Krausenbruch and Eastern Palatinate Moorniederung nature reserves extend partly over the district of Weilerbach.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

In the 19th century the community belonged to the catchment area of ​​the West Palatinate traveling musicians .

Weilerbach is characterized by the stationing of US soldiers in nearby Ramstein. NATO members live in every fourth house. The former ammunition depot was located in the district of Weilerbach. The Army will build the largest American Army hospital outside the United States on the site by 2020 for almost a billion dollars.

traffic

From 1914 to 1972 Weilerbach was connected to the rail network via the so-called Bachbahn , which ran from the Lampertsmühle-Otterbach station to Weilerbach and from 1920 to Reichenbach. The train station was in the center of Weilerbach. It had a reception building and a 68.3 meter long ramp on the opposite side. The length of the platform was 150 meters. In the 1950s, there was a 205 meter long loading track in the area of ​​the ramp. Immediately to the west of the station building and the platform was a 60-meter-long siding. Among other things, animals for slaughter were loaded in the station, which the trains transported to the slaughterhouse at Kaiserslauterer Westbahnhof.

In the 1980s it was officially just a junction . At this point in time, the track system no longer allowed locomotives to be moved, which is why trains had to run to Reichenbach for this procedure in the following years, even though the freight traffic there had come to a standstill. Only after a corresponding switch had been installed in Weilerbach at the end of the 1980s could the rear part of the line be closed. At the same time, the station had a new facility for loading grain, as the volume of goods had increased for a short time. Most of the tracks had been in place until the very end. At that time the station was approached by a transfer trip to Lauterecken on the way back.

The public transport in the transport association Rhein-Neckar integrated (VRN). State road 356 runs right through the village . The national road 367 grazes the southern edge of the development. The county road 13 connects to Schwedelbach and Kaiserslautern. The circuit road 19 leads to Erzenhausen. The community is connected to the motorway network by the A 6 (junction: Kaiserslautern-West).

Schools and kindergartens

Kindergartens

• Protestant day care center "Janusz Korczak"
• Municipal day care center "Noah's Ark"

schools

• Primary school (all-day school)
• West Palatinate School ( Realschule plus )

tourism

The Barbarossa Cycle Path and the Palatinate Country Cycle Path run through Weilerbach .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Reinhard Blauth (1889–1980), appointed 1964

Sons and daughters of the church

• Carl Raab (1772–1854), farrier, farmer and co-founder of the Raab Karcher company .
• Ludwig Diehl (1894–1982), theologian; 1934–1945 Protestant regional bishop of the Palatinate.

People who worked on site

• Hartmut Hofrichter (* 1939), architect and university professor; lives in Weilerbach.
• Ludwig Levy (1854–1907), architect and university professor; planned the Protestant church in Weilerbach.
• Johann Niclas Müller (1669–1732), mill technician, inventor; completed a miller's apprenticeship in places in the area of ​​what is now the community of Weilerbach.
• Oskar von Redwitz (1823-1891), writer; lived in Schellenbergerhof for several years
• Herbert Schoner (1939–1971), police officer; Shot by members of the RAF while exercising their duties and buried in Weilerbach.
• Wilhelm Schulte II. (1896–1977), architect, created the local Holy Cross Church, which was built from 1930 to 1933

Web links

Commons : Weilerbach  - Collection of Images

 Wikinews: Weilerbach  - in the news

• Website of the local community Weilerbach
• Website of the local history museum
• Literature about Weilerbach 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. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 152 (PDF; 3 MB).
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Michael Frey : Attempt of a geographical-historical-statistical description of the able. bayer. Rheinkreises , Volume 3, Neidhard, 1837, p. 86 ff. ( Google Books )
5. ^ PA Müller: Statistical yearbook for the German states between the Rhine, the Moselle and the French border. Kupferberg, Mainz 1815, p. 147 ( Google Books )
6. ^ Johann Goswin Widder : Attempt of a complete geographical-historical description of the Kurfürstl. Pfalz am Rheine , Volume 4, Frankfurt / Leipzig 1788, p. 285 ( Google Books )
7. ^ Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria , based on the census of June 16, 1926 and the territorial status of January 1, 1928, column 742 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de )
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: City Council Election 2019 Weilerbach. Retrieved October 28, 2019 . 
9. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
10. ^ The State Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Weilerbach, Verbandsgemeinde, seventh line of results. Retrieved October 28, 2019 . 
11. ↑ http://www.heimatmuseum-weilerbach.de/
12. ↑ https://www.morgenweb.de/mannheimer-morgen_artikel,-welt-und-wissen-us-militaer-baut-fuer-fast-eine-milliarde-dollar-_arid,1096595.html