Ausweiler
Ausweiler was a village in the Birkenfeld district with 329 inhabitants (as of 1939). The place was abandoned and leveled in 1937 when the Baumholder military training area was laid out . The inhabitants were resettled in the surrounding villages.
Ausweiler was first mentioned in 825 as a property of Tholey Abbey . Later it came to the Office Frauenberg of the Hinteren Grafschaft Sponheim created in 1332 and was incorporated into the Office Birkenfeld in 1580. During the Napoleonic era Ausweiler belonged to the Mairie Reichenbach in the canton of Baumholder , then to the Lichtenberg mayor's office Reichenbach and from 1834 to the Prussian mayor's office Baumholder .
The small chapel in the village, mentioned in 1560, already belonged to the Reichenbach parish . Until the village was dissolved, Ausweiler belonged to the Protestant parish of Reichenbach.
literature
- Ulrike Weber-Karge, Maria Wenzel (edit.): District of Birkenfeld (= cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 11 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1993, ISBN 3-88462-099-1 , p. 90 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Population of the communities in the district of Birkenfeld. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Evangelical Church Community Reichenbach - History
Coordinates: 49 ° 39 ′ 44.4 " N , 7 ° 19 ′ 36.2" E