Adenbach

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

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 40 '  N , 7 ° 39'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kusel
Association municipality :	Lauterecken-Wolfstein
Height :	180 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.94 km 2
Residents:	147 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density :	50 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67742
Area code :	06753
License plate :	KUS
Community key :	07 3 36 001
Association administration address:	Schulstrasse 6a 67742 Lauterecken
Website :	www.vg-lw.de
Local Mayor :	Jürgen Klein
Location of the local community of Adenbach in the Kusel district

Adenbach is a municipality in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Lauterecken-Wolfstein association.

geography

The place is located in the Odenbachtal in the North Palatinate Bergland in the West Palatinate . The Brucherhof residential area also belongs to Adenbach .

The municipality of Adenbach borders Odenbach to the west and north, Becherbach to the east and Ginsweiler and Cronenberg to the south .

history

In 1957 the remains of a house from Roman times were found. Adenbach was first mentioned in a document in 1379 in a document from the County of Veldenz . The place name is derived from the flowing stream, which was previously called Adolfsbach.

From 1816 on, Adenbach belonged to the Kingdom of Bavaria and was part of the canton of Lauterecken in the Rhine district . In 1840 the place had 37 houses and 296 inhabitants. He was assigned to the Catholic parish Reipoltskirchen and the Protestant parish Odenbach .

Population development

The development of the population of Adenbach, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 181 1835 296 1871 219 1905 225 1939 199 1950 237

year Residents 1961 181 1970 170 1987 181 1997 175 2005 188 2017 137

politics

Municipal council

The council in Adenbach consists of six council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

mayor

Jürgen Klein became the local mayor of Adenbach in 1999. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for a further five years with a share of 76.09% of the votes.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In a wavy cut, divided obliquely to the left, a blue, red-armored and red-tongued lion growing out of the division in silver, two golden ears of wheat placed in black after division, leaning on the right and upright, as well as a gold miner's lamp with a red flame."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The lion comes from the earlier coats of arms of the Counts of Veldenz and the Dukes of Zweibrücken, in whose territories Adenbach was located. Ears of wheat and miner's lamp indicate the economic structure of the village, the agriculture and the former coal and lime mines.

traffic

The federal highway 420 runs in the north . In Lauterecken there is a station of the Lautertalbahn .

Sons and daughters of the church

• Walter Cappel (1918–2004), educator

Web links

Commons : Adenbach  - Collection of Images

• Literature about Adenbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography
• Local community Adenbach on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Lauterecken-Wolfstein
• Adenbach at regionalgeschichte.net
• Local portrait for the television program Hierzuland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, 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. 153 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ Max Siebert: The Kingdom of Bavaria topographically and statistically in lexicographical and tabular form. Georg Franz Verlag, Munich 1840, p. 156 ( Google Books ).
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ↑ Road renovation: costs estimated at up to 5000 euros. 2014 fourth primary election for Jürgen Klein. Die Rheinpfalz, May 8, 2014, accessed on April 26, 2020 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Lauterecken-Wolfstein, Verbandsgemeinde, first line of results. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .