Bruchweiler-Bärenbach

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '  N , 7 ° 48'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southwest Palatinate
Association municipality :	Dahn rock country
Height :	265 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.36 km 2
Residents:	1549 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	165 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	76891
Area code :	06394
License plate :	PS , ZW
Community key :	07 3 40 501
Association administration address:	Schulstrasse 29 66994 Dahn
Website :	www.bruchweiler-baerenbach.de
Local Mayor :	Günther Feyock
Location of the local community Bruchweiler-Bärenbach in the district of Südwestpfalz

Napoleonsfels near Bruchweiler-Bärenbach

Bruchweiler-Bärenbach is a municipality in the district of Südwestpfalz in Rhineland-Palatinate , which was created in 1828 by merging the municipalities of Bruchweiler and Bärenbach . In 1969 merged with the neighboring town of Bundenthal to form the local community of Wieslautern , this was reversed in 1989 and the community of Bruchweiler-Bärenbach was restored in its previous form. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Dahner Felsenland , which has its administrative seat in the city of Dahn and within which it is the second largest local community in terms of population. Bruchweiler-Bärenbach is a state-approved resort .

geography

location

Bruchweiler-Bärenbach is located in Wasgau , as the southern part of the Palatinate Forest and the adjoining northern part of the Vosges are also called, in the middle of the Dahn-Annweiler Felsenland and its sub-area Dahner Felsenland . The community consists of the districts Bruchweiler in the west and Bärenbach in the east. Structurally, these have now grown together; accordingly, spatial separation is no longer possible. Likewise, the community has grown together with the neighboring Bundenthal in terms of development to the south .

The community also includes the Reinigshof residential area to the northwest of the core community . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Dahn , Schindhard , Busenberg , Erlenbach bei Dahn , Bundenthal , Rumbach and Fischbach bei Dahn . A few kilometers further south is the state border with France .

Surveys

Elevations on the parish of the municipality include the 352  m high Rauhberg located on the boundary with Dahn , the Am Knopf ( 335  m ), the Beutelstein ( 312  m ), the Dretschbergfelsen ( 280  m ) and the Schlangenberg ( 280  m ) .

Waters

The Lauter , a left tributary of the Rhine, flows through the center of the town in a north-south direction . The Wöllmersbach , a right tributary of the Lauter and its two source rivers, is also located entirely in the Bruchweiler-Bärenbach area . The Dumbach in the south forms the boundary to Bundenthal and the Geiersteinbach in the northeast that to Schindhard.

history

The oldest surviving documentary mention of Bärenbach (as Berenbach ) comes from 760, of Bruchweiler (as Bruchwilre ) from 1465. Bärenbach belonged to the territory of the Fürstpropstei Weißenburg , which in 1546 became de facto part of the Duchy of Speyer, while Bruchweiler became part of the Dahn des office Principality of Speyer . Both places came under French sovereignty at the end of the 17th century, with the Prince Diocese of Speyer still retaining certain lower state rights. It was not until the French Revolution that the Speyer prince-bishopric lost its remaining rights, and the two places became fully part of France. After the north-eastern border of France had been shifted slightly to the south in 1815, the places came to Bavaria in 1816 .

In 1828 Bärenbach and Bruchweiler were combined to form the community of Bruchweiler-Bärenbach. The newly created community was initially part of the Pirmasens Land Commissioner , which was converted into a district office in 1862. In 1939 it was incorporated into the Pirmasens district (from 1997 Südwestpfalz district ) . After the Second World War , Bruchweiler-Bärenbach became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform , the municipality of Wieslautern was created by merging with the municipality of Bundenthal on June 7, 1969 , the center of which was the area of ​​the former municipality of Bruchweiler-Bärenbach. After protests by the Bundenthal population, it was disbanded on June 17, 1989. Since then, the restored local community of Bruchweiler-Bärenbach has belonged to the Dahner Felsenland community, which was created in 1972 .

population

Population development

In 1928 the community had 892 inhabitants who lived in 137 residential buildings.

religion

The Catholics belong to the diocese of Speyer and are subordinate to the deanery of Pirmasens . The Kreuzeck was once a Christian hermitage on the parish of the local community .

politics

Municipal council

The council in Bruchweiler-Bärenbach consists of 16 council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman. In the 2009 election, the council members were elected in a personalized proportional representation.

mayor

Günther Feyock became local mayor of Bruchweiler-Bärenbach on August 12, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 70.02% of the vote. His predecessor Michael Zwick (CDU), who had held office for ten years, did not run again. Zwick had already announced this after he was elected mayor of the Dahner Felsenland community in 2017.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Four natural reeds growing out of blue waves in a split shield in front in silver, two each diagonally crossed to the left and two to the right, in the back a golden, red-armored bear walking to the right."

Culture

Cultural monuments

Catholic Church

In Bruchweiler-Bärenbach there are a total of six objects that are under monument protection .

The place is particularly known for its sonorous Mühleisen organ from 1994 in the Catholic parish church Heilig Kreuz. The instrument has 32 registers on 3 manuals and a pedal. Organists such as Pierre Pincemaille , Michelle Leclerc, Pascal Reber and Christian Ott have performed on the organ . Every year there are organ concerts that are worth listening to, mostly in connection with organ tours.

Natural monuments

→ Main article : List of natural monuments in Bruchweiler-Bärenbach

In the immediate vicinity of Bruchweiler-Bärenbach there are numerous natural monuments made from the red sandstone that predominates here . There are rock formations shaped by erosion , around which many myths entwine and some of which the population has given their own names. These include the vulture stones , the Pulpit rock in the basin of the neighboring community already Bundenthal belonging recently Berg , the Käskammerfelsen , the Zwick rock , the Dretschbergfelsen which Wöllmersbergfelsen and the smoke mountain rocks . Particularly worth seeing is the Napoleon rock , the shape of which is reminiscent of the general Napoleon with his characteristic hat.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

District road 42 in Bruchweiler-Bärenbach

Due to the geographic conditions, the forest and timber industry dominated the area for centuries.

traffic

Landesstraße 489 , which connects the town with Dahn and Bundenthal, and Kreisstraße 42 , which connects the Reinigshof to the road network, run through Bruchweiler-Bärenbach . The place has the Bruchweiler stop on the Wieslauterbahn , opened in 1911 , on which passenger traffic was discontinued in 1966 and 1976 and reactivated in 1997 for excursion traffic.

The stop on the way, which is sometimes alternatively referred to as Bruchweiler-Bärenbach , is located at the entrance to the community. It used to be a train station as well, which was dismantled as part of rationalization measures. However, at no time did he have a station building, only a bus shelter . In the 1950s, tickets were sold through a local greengrocer.

tourism

The hut on the Schmalstein belonging to the Palatinate Forest Association

In the northwest of the district is the Ludwigshafener Hütte of the Ludwigshafen section of the German Alpine Club ; There is a climbing facility on their premises. The hut on Schmalstein , which belongs to the Palatinate Forest Association and was inaugurated in 1988, is also located in the west of the district .

The southern route of the Palatinate Way of St. James also runs via Bruchweiler-Bärenbach . The international long-distance hiking trail Donnersberg-Donon , which is marked with a red bar, also runs through the municipality .

In addition, with the biosphere tour and the Pamina cycle path Lautertal, two cycle paths run through Bruchweiler-Bärenbach; The former runs in the circle between Dahn, Fischbach bei Dahn and Rumbach and the latter connects the community with Hinterweidenthal and Neuburg am Rhein .

Web links

Commons : Bruchweiler-Bärenbach  - Collection of images

• Internet presence of the community of Bruchweiler-Bärenbach
• Literature about Bruchweiler-Bärenbach 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 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 171 (PDF; 3 MB).
4. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 184 (PDF; 2.8 MB; footnote 13).
5. ↑ daten.digitale-sammlungen.de: List of localities for the Free State of Bavaria . Retrieved July 17, 2018 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
7. ↑ Petra Würth: Bruchweiler-Bärenbach: Günther Feyock takes office as mayor. Die Rheinpfalz, August 13, 2019, accessed on April 7, 2020 . 
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Dahner Felsenland, Verbandsgemeinde, penultimate line of results. Retrieved April 7, 2020 . 
9. ^ Mechthilde Treusch: About the person: Michael Zwick. Die Rheinpfalz, August 5, 2017, accessed on April 7, 2020 . 
10. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - District of Südwestpfalz. Mainz 2020, p. 6 (PDF; 8.7 MB).
11. ↑ Reiner Schedler: Secondary and narrow-gauge railways in Germany then and now . 1998, p. 4 .
12. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of railways in Wieslautertal . 2011, p. 16 .
13. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 25 .