Schmitshausen

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 18 '  N , 7 ° 31'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southwest Palatinate
Association municipality :	Thaleischweiler-Wallhalben
Height :	375 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.49 km 2
Residents:	400 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	89 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66484
Area code :	06375
License plate :	PS , ZW
Community key :	07 3 40 224
Association administration address:	Hauptstrasse 52 66987 Thaleischweiler-Fröschen
Website :	www.vgtw.de
Local Mayor :	Markus Schieler
Location of the local community Schmitshausen in the district of Südwestpfalz

The Rosendorf Schmitshausen is a municipality in the district of Südwestpfalz in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Thaleischweiler-Wallhalben community .

geography

Schmitshausen is on the Sickinger Höhe . The distance to the city of Zweibrücken is 15 km.

The Am Ochsenberg and Hellborner Hof residential areas also belong to Schmitshausen .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1685.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 300 1835 395 1871 356 1905 385 1939 369 1950 413 1961 410

year Residents 1970 414 1987 398 1997 425 2005 428 2011 410 2017 412

religion

At the end of 2014, 60.0 percent of the population were Catholic and 30.1 percent Protestant. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational. The Catholics belong to the Diocese of Speyer , the Evangelicals to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate .

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Markus Schieler became the local mayor of Schmitshausen on July 15, 2014. Since there was no candidate in the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was unanimously re-elected by the municipal council on July 29, 2019. Schieler's predecessors were Willi Hunsicker (2004–2014), Adolf Strauf (1994–2004) and, until 1994, the local mayor of many years, Alois Staab.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In blue a silver horseshoe with downward facing studs, in the middle a silver rose with blue tufts." It was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1981 .

Community partnerships

In 1971 Schmitshausen concluded a three-fold communal partnership under the sign of the rose with Limana in Italy, Longuyon in France and Walferdange in Luxembourg. The sponsor of these partnerships is the Saarländischer Rundfunk in Saarbrücken. From 1979 the schools were also included in this partnership. In 1981 the Council of Europe in Strasbourg awarded the local congregation the title “Commune of Europe” together with the presentation of the European flag.

Culture and sights

The observation tower on the elevated water reservoir near Schmitshausen

In 1967 the Association of German Rose Friends awarded the flower-adorned place the title Rosendorf . On the village square, in the so-called rose garden , in plants and in private properties, all kinds of roses can still be seen in their heyday . In 1976, at the 4th Rose Festival, a climbing rose was christened "Rosendorf Schmitshausen" .

In addition to a youth home and a community library, the community has several local recreation facilities (youth camp site, forest nature trail, rest hut with barbecue area).

On a hill about 500 m southwest of the village (386 m above sea level) there is an old water tank from 1898, on which an 8.4 m high wooden observation tower was built in 1980 by the Association of Rosenfreunde Schmitshausen eV and the local beautification association . From the upper, roofed viewing platform at a height of 5.8 m you have a good view over the hilly landscape of the Sickinger Höhe up to the Hunsrück .

See also: List of cultural monuments in Schmitshausen

Economy and Infrastructure

The L 466 runs through Schmitshausen . There is a connection to long-distance traffic via the nearby A 6 , A 8 and A 62 .

Honorary citizen

• Hans Erich Henkes, village renovator and former rector of the Franz von Sickingen School in Wallhalben
• Karl Höchst, journalist Saarländischer Rundfunk
• Oskar Scheerer, horticultural director in Zweibrücken

Web links

Commons : Schmitshausen  - Collection of Images

• Website of the local community Schmitshausen
• Local community Schmitshausen on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Thaleischweiler-Wallhalben
• Literature about Schmitshausen 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. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 111 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ↑ Municipal statistics KommWis, as of December 31, 2014
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ^ Record of the meeting of the local council of the Schmitshausen community. Verbandsgemeinde Thaleischweiler-Wallhalben, July 15, 2014, accessed on March 29, 2020 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Thaleischweiler-Fröschen-Wallhalben, Verbandsgemeinde, 18th line of results. Retrieved March 29, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Norbert Schwarz: Markus Schieler unanimously mayor. Pfälzischer Merkur, August 4, 2019, accessed on March 29, 2020 . 
9. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
10. ↑ www.welt-der-rosen.de
11. ↑ ^{a b} Information according to the memorial plaque on the elevated water tank
12. ↑ Information according to information from the Association of Rosenfreunde Schmitshausen e. V.
13. ↑ ^{a b} Height information according to measurements taken privately