Bridges (Palatinate)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '  N , 7 ° 22'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kusel
Association municipality :	Upper Glantal
Height :	247 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.12 km 2
Residents:	2075 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	256 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66904
Area code :	06386
License plate :	KUS
Community key :	07 3 36 011
Association administration address:	Rathausstrasse 8 66901 Schönenberg-Kübelberg
Website :	www.bruecken-pfalz.de
Local Mayor :	Pius Klein ( CDU )
Location of the local community of Brücken (Pfalz) in the district of Kusel

Brücken (Pfalz) is a municipality in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Upper Glantal .

geography

The place is in the Ohmbachtal in the West Palatinate . To the north is Ohmbach , northeast Steinbach am Glan and Börsborn , south Schoenberg Kübelberg and west is Dittweiler .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Brücken consists of 16 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	WGR	total
2019	2	9	3	2	16 seats
2014	3	9	1	3	16 seats
2009	5	11	-	-	16 seats
2004	5	11	-	-	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group Bridges / Palatinate e. V.

mayor

Pius Klein (CDU) became mayor of Brücken on July 11, 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for another five years with 79.29% of the votes.

Toni Guhmann, as the predecessor of Pius Klein, held the office of mayor until 2014.

Economy and Infrastructure

Before the Second World War, Brücken was the economic center of the Palatine diamond grinding trade . In the Diamond Grinder Museum in Brücken there are original workplaces from different times and regrinding of the 35 largest and most important diamonds in the world. In front of the museum there is a statue of a diamond cutter, designed by the Lustadt sculptor Peter Brauchle .

traffic

The place is connected to the national traffic by the federal road 423 ( Mandelbachtal - Altenglan ). The A 6 is to the south and the A 62 to the northeast . In Glan-Münchweiler there is a train station of the Glantalbahn .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• August Spies (1893–1972), politician (CDU)
• Karl August Geimer (* 1943), politician (CDU)
• Marcella Berger (* 1954), author

People who worked in the place

• Franz Gillmann (1865–1941), priest, was temporarily pastor in Brücken.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Brücken (Pfalz)
• Synagogue Brücken (Palatinate)

literature

• Literature about bridges in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Bridges  - Collection of Images

• Internet presence of the local community of Brücken
• Local community bridges on the sides of the Verbandsgemeinde Oberes Glantal
• Tower recording with full bells of the Catholic parish church St. Laurentius in Brücken (Palatinate)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
3. ↑ ^{a b} Minutes of the resolution of the local council on July 11, 2014. Bridges community, August 29, 2019, accessed May 3, 2020 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Oberes Glantal, Verbandsgemeinde, fourth line of results. Retrieved May 3, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Reinhard Schmidt: No other councilor for bridges. Die Rheinpfalz, August 29, 2019, accessed on May 3, 2020 .