Bruchmühlbach-Miesau

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 24 '  N , 7 ° 27'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kaiserslautern
Association municipality :	Bruchmühlbach-Miesau
Height :	228 m above sea level NHN
Area :	26.86 km 2
Residents:	7834 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	292 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66892
Area code :	06372
License plate :	KL
Community key :	07 3 35 003
Community structure:	5 districts
Association administration address:	Am Rathaus 2 66892 Bruchmühlbach-Miesau
Website :	www.bruchmuehlbach-miesau.de
Local Mayor :	Rüdiger Franz ( SPD )
Location of the local community Bruchmühlbach-Miesau in the Kaiserslautern district

Bruchmühlbach-Miesau is a municipality in the Kaiserslautern district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is the administrative seat of the association of the same name , to which it also belongs. The municipality is a state-recognized tourist destination and designated as a basic center according to state planning .

geography

Geographical location

Bruchmühlbach-Miesau is located in the far west of the Kaiserslautern district in the Landstuhler Bruch am Glan , a right tributary of the Nahe .

Districts and residential areas

The 8,093 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2004) are distributed among the individual districts as follows:

District	associated living spaces	Pop.
Bruchmuehlbach	On the Bergfeld, Belzmühle, Tausendmühle, Bruchwiesenhof	2,813
Buchholz		1,028
Elschbach	At the train station, at the swimming pool, at Schanzermühle	411
Lousy	Birkenhof, Schanzerhof	2,550
Vogelbach	At the old customs, rail post 20, Vogelbachermühle	1,241

Residential places according to the Rhineland-Palatinate State Statistical Office

climate

The annual precipitation is 783 mm. The precipitation is in the middle third of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 59% of the German Weather Service's measuring stations . The driest month is April, with the most rainfall in December, 1.5 times more than in April. Precipitation varies only minimally and is fairly evenly distributed over the year. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at only 3% of the measuring stations .

history

Bruchmühlbach (west of the Frohnbach ) belonged to Pfalz-Zweibrücken until 1798 . Mühlbach im Bruch (east of the Frohnbach) belonged to the Landstuhl estate of the Lords of Sickingen . Vogelbach belonged to Pfalz-Zweibrücken. Elschbach, Niedermiesau and Obermiesau belonged to the Electoral Palatinate until 1779 and then came to Pfalz-Zweibrücken in exchange with the Kübelberg office.

During the so-called French period (1798-1814) Bruchmühlbach and Mühlbach in Bruch formed a municipality that was the seat of a Mairie in the canton of Landstuhl in the Donnersberg department . The municipalities Hauptstuhl and Vogelbach also belonged to the Mairie . Elschbach, Niedermiesau and Obermiesau belonged to the canton of Waldmohr in the Saardepartement .

In 1816 all communities in the Rhine District, later Palatinate (Bavaria) , became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria .

On January 7, 1918, a serious railway accident occurred when a holiday train collided with a second train in Bruchmühlbach. 33 people died and another 121 were injured.

The municipality of Bruchmühlbach was enlarged on October 1, 1938 by incorporating the previous municipality of Mühlbach , which was also called Mühlbach im Bruch . The later district of Miesau was divided into the separate communities of Niedermiesau and Obermiesau until 1937. The Buchholz district of Miesau was not created until the 1930s.

In 1951/52 the porcelain manufacturer Gebr. Winterling founded a factory in Bruchmühlbach which produced hard- paste porcelain tableware, fireproof cookware and gifts under the Rheinpfalz brand . In the 1970s, production was on earthenware changed (Pfalz ceramic) .

The local community Bruchmühlbach-Miesau was newly formed on April 22, 1972 from the communities Bruchmühlbach and Miesau. Three years earlier, on June 7, 1969, the Vogelbach community had been incorporated into Bruchmühlbach and the Elschbach community had been incorporated into Miesau.

religion

At the end of 2014, 37.8% of the population were Protestant and 28.1% Catholic . 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 municipal council in Bruchmühlbach-Miesau consists of 24 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	WGH	total
2019	10	9	5	24 seats
2014	15th	9	-	24 seats
2009	15th	9	-	24 seats
2004	13	11	-	24 seats

• WGH = voter group Heintz

mayor

Rüdiger Franz (SPD) is the local mayor of Bruchmühlbach-Miesau. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected with 51.07% of the vote and is the successor to Klaus Neumann (SPD), who did not run again after 20 years in office.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Divided by green, black and blue by silver goblets, on the right an ornate silver stand, on it a sitting left-facing golden bird, holding a curved silver hook in its beak, on the left a red-armored and tongued golden lion, below a silver wavy bar, with a growing silver mill wheel. " The coat of arms was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1976 .
	Justification of the coat of arms: The silver stand with a golden bird comes from the former Vogelbach municipal coat of arms . The corrugated beam with mill wheel contained the Bruchmühlbach coat of arms before 1972. The Palatinate Lion reminds of the earlier affiliation of all suburbs to the Electoral Palatinate .

Culture and sights

• Simultaneous church Vogelbach

See also : List of cultural monuments in Bruchmühlbach-Miesau

Leisure and sports facilities

The community has accommodation and restaurants for all needs, tennis courts and bowling alleys and has a network of hiking trails with 120 kilometers of marked circular hiking trails . Between the districts of Miesau and Elschbach there is a warm forest open-air pool with facilities suitable for competitions , a family slide , as well as play and relaxation opportunities. There is an opportunity for sport fishing , a campsite , a mini golf course and equestrian facilities .

A hiking trail leads from the Bruchmühlbach district to the Elendsklamm natural monument .

Regular events

Traditional and annual celebrations in the municipality are:

meeting	event
Pentecost	Horse show in Miesau
First weekend in July	Westrich summer festival in Bruchmühlbach
First weekend in July	Play party in the forest warm outdoor pool in Miesau
First weekend in July	Kerwe in Bruchmühlbach
Second weekend in August	Kerwe in Elschbach
Last weekend in August	Kerwe in Vogelbach
First weekend in September	Viking festival in Elschbach
Fourth weekend in October	Kerwe in Miesau
Annually in August	Horse racing day in Miesau

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Bruchmühlbach-Miesau is connected to the supra-regional road network by its own motorway connection via the A 6 ( Mannheim - Saarbrücken ) and is located on the parallel Mannheim-Saarbrücken railway . The train station is located in the Bruchmühlbach district.

The district of Elschbach was connected to the railway network in 1904 with the opening of the Glantalbahn . Because Elschbach is very peripheral, the Elschbach Ort stop was opened around 8 km east of the Elschbach Tunnel in the early 1960s . This was intended to revitalize the Glantalbahn in its southern section Homburg - Glan-Münchweiler . The Elschbach Ort stop was closed in 1976, and the actual train station followed two years later. Passenger traffic was stopped in 1981. Since freight traffic between Schönenberg-Kübelberg and Glan-Münchweiler had already been abandoned, the section was henceforth without regular traffic. The tracks were dismantled at the end of the 1980s.

Educational institutions

With the Adam Müller School, the community has a secondary school plus and elementary schools in Miesau and Bruchmühlbach. There are also four kindergartens .

military

The US military maintains the Miesau Army Depot near Miesau ("Am Panzergraben") , the largest ammunition depot outside the USA and the largest in Germany. In 1990 the depot was temporarily used as an interim storage facility for the removal of the approximately 100,000 poison gas grenades stored in Germany ( Lindwurm campaign ).

Sons and daughters of the church

• Hanns Haberer (1890–1967), politician (CDU), 1946/47 State Minister for Economics and Finance of Rhineland-Palatinate
• Horst Eckel (* 1932), soccer player, member of the " Walter -Elf", world champion 1954
• Wolfgang Schnarr (* 1941), soccer goalkeeper
• Margit Mohr (* 1949), politician (SPD)
• Alexander Weis (* 1959), civil servant in defense policy
• Patricia Brocker (* 1966), soccer player, member of the national team from 1992–1996

Web links

Commons : Bruchmühlbach-Miesau  - Collection of images

 Wikinews: Bruchmühlbach-Miesau  - in the news

• Association municipality Bruchmühlbach-Miesau
• Miesau district
• Brief portrait of Bruchmühlbach on SWR television
• Literature on Bruchmühlbach-Miesau 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 - regional data
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 94 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
4. ^ Statistical yearbook for the department of Donnersberg , 1811, p. 270 ( Google Books )
5. ^ Hans Joachim Ritzau: Railway disasters in Germany. Splinters of German history . Vol. 1: Landsberg-Pürgen 1979, p. 72
6. ↑ Statistics of the German Reich, Volume 450: Official municipality directory for the German Reich , Part I, Berlin 1939, p. 269
7. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 487 .
8. ^ Beatrix Münzer-Glas: Founding families. Starting families. A contribution to the history of the porcelain industry in Northeast Bavaria (publications and catalogs of the German Porcelain Museum, vol. 75). Hohenberg 2002, ISBN 3-927793-74-4 , p. 297 f
9. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 161 (PDF; 2.8 MB; see also footnotes 9 and 10, p. 183).
10. ↑ community statistics KommWis, Booth 31 December 2014
11. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
12. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Bruchmühlbach-Miesau, Verbandsgemeinde, first line of results. Retrieved October 31, 2019 . 
13. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
14. ^ Heraldry of the World: Vogelbach coat of arms
15. ↑ Heraldry of the World: Bruchmühlbach coat of arms
16. ↑ Westpfalz-Journal.de: "Elendsklamm" ( Memento from April 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
17. ↑ municipality Bruchmühlbach-Miesau: Natural Monument "misery gorge" ( Memento of 18 December 2018 Internet Archive ), accessed on 17 December 2018
18. ↑ Riding and Driving Association Miesau e. V .: Horse race 2009 ( Memento from February 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
19. ↑ globalsecurity.org: Miesau Army Depot (Engl.)
20. ↑ DCR docu center Ramstein: Operation dragon. A documentation