Biedershausen

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′  N , 7 ° 29 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southwest Palatinate
Association municipality :	Thaleischweiler-Wallhalben
Height :	306 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.65 km 2
Residents:	191 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	52 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66917
Area code :	06375
License plate :	PS , ZW
Community key :	07 3 40 204
Association administration address:	Hauptstrasse 52 66987 Thaleischweiler-Fröschen
Website :	www.vgtw.de
Local Mayor :	Christian Bühler
Location of the local community Biedershausen in the district of Südwestpfalz

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

geography

Biedershausen is on the Sickinger Höhe . To the east is Wallhalben , south Winterbach and in the West Krahenberg . 70 percent of the municipal area is used for agriculture, another 22 percent is forest (as of 2011).

history

The place was first mentioned in 1315.

Biedershausen belonged to the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken until the end of the 18th century and was subordinate to the Oberamt Zweibrücken . After the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops (1794), the place belonged to the canton of Homburg in the Donnersberg department from 1798 to 1814 . In 1802 Biedershausen had 164 inhabitants, including Pletschmühle to the north, 159 were Reformed and 27 Lutherans.

A participant in the Congress of Vienna (1815) and agreements made between a Austria and Bavaria shot treaty came the Palatinate in 1816 for the Kingdom of Bavaria .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 280 1835 259 1871 238 1905 220 1939 212 1950 245

year Residents 1961 223 1970 206 1987 221 1997 288 2005 275 2019 191

religion

At the end of 2014, 39.8 percent of the population were Catholic and 42.2 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 Biedershausen 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

Christian Bühler became mayor of Biedershausen on July 10, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, there was no candidate, the election was made by the municipal council. Bühler's predecessor Thomas Büffel had held the office for ten years.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Diagonally divided by black and gold, top left a red armored and tongued golden lion, bottom right a red plow turned left."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1981 and, with the Palatinate lion, reminds of the former belonging to Pfalz-Zweibrücken .

Culture and sights

There are five associations in the village: the fire brigade sponsorship group, the male choir association, the male choir association, the Krahenberg-Biedershausen rural woman association and the Avalon Order of the Red Dragon eV

Economy and Infrastructure

Biedershausen can be reached via subordinate streets. The A 6 runs about 10 kilometers north. The A 62 is at the same distance to the east .

Sons and daughters of the church

• Ludwig Boslet (1860–1951), organist and composer

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Biedershausen

Web links

Commons : Biedershausen  - collection of images

• The local community Biedershausen on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Thaleischweiler-Wallhalben
• Literature about Biedershausen in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ↑ Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal. bayer. Rheinkreises , Volume 4, Neidhard, 1837, p. 163 ( Google Books )
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. ↑ Norbert Schwarz: Biedershausen starts the new council period harmoniously. Pfälzischer Merkur, July 11, 2019, accessed on March 26, 2020 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Thaleischweiler-Fröschen-Wallhalben, Verbandsgemeinde, eleventh line of results. Retrieved March 26, 2020 . 
8. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .