Bruchweiler (Bruchweiler-Bärenbach)

Bruchweiler Local community Bruchweiler-Bärenbach Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 38 ″  N , 7 ° 48 ′ 2 ″  E
Postal code :	76891
Area code :	06394
Location of Bruchweiler in Rhineland-Palatinate

Bruchweiler is the larger district west of the Wieslauter in the municipality of Bruchweiler-Bärenbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Südwestpfalz .

location

Bruchweiler is located in the western municipality in the middle of Wasgau , as the southern part of the Palatinate Forest and the adjoining northern part of the Vosges are also called. The place forms that part of the local community that is orographically to the right of the Wieslauter . The Wöllmersbach flows through the northern part of the settlement area.

history

The first documentary mention of the place took place in 1465 as Bruchwilre in the copy book of Berwartstein Castle. Five years later, a chapel and chaplaincy are mentioned on site. In 1545 a total of eight families lived in Bruchweiler. In the course of the fighting during the Thirty Years War , only two families remained in 1633.

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Bruchweiler was incorporated into the canton of Dahn . In 1815 the place Austria was added. Just a year later, Bruchweiler moved to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 the place was part of the Landkommissariat Pirmasens , which was converted into a district office in 1862. In 1828 Bruchweiler was merged with the neighboring community of Bärenbach to form Bruchweiler-Bärenbach . In 1969 the place became part of the local community of Wieslautern , before it was dissolved again 20 years later. Bruchweiler is no longer perceived as an independent settlement.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ bruchweiler-baerenbach.de: village history . Retrieved February 17, 2018 .