Bundenthal

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 6 '  N , 7 ° 49'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southwest Palatinate
Association municipality :	Dahn rock country
Height :	190 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.22 km 2
Residents:	1078 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	105 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	76891
Area code :	06394
License plate :	PS , ZW
Community key :	07 3 40 502
Association administration address:	Schulstrasse 29 66994 Dahn
Website :	www.dahner-felsenland.de
Local Mayor :	Wolfgang Morio
Location of the local community Bundenthal in the district of Südwestpfalz

The townscape of Bundenthal, in the background the Bobenthaler button

Bundenthal is a municipality in the Südwestpfalz district in Rhineland-Palatinate . In 1969 merged with the neighboring village of Bruchweiler-Bärenbach to form the local community of Wieslautern , this was reversed in 1989 and the community of Bundenthal was restored in its previous form. It belongs to the community of Dahner Felsenland , which has its administrative seat in the city of Dahn .

geography

location

Bundenthal is located in the Wasgau , as the southern part of the Palatinate Forest and the adjoining northern part of the Vosges are also called, in the so-called Dahner Felsenland . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Bruchweiler-Bärenbach , Busenberg , Erlenbach bei Dahn , Niederschlettenbach , Nothweiler , Schönau (Pfalz) and Rumbach . The state border with France is located around a few hundred meters south of the municipal marker . The rock layers consist of fine-grain sandstones.

Surveys

The Jüngstberg extends in the northeast of the district . Not far from the border with Nothweiler, it is 412  m above sea level. NN high Mäuerle . Immediately west of this at the boundary to Rumbach, the 475  m above sea level extend . NN high Beißenberg , the Große Heinzenkopf ( 309.3  m above sea level ) and in the northwest on the border with Bobenthal the 455  m high Große Humberg .

Waters

The Lauter flows through the settlement area in a north-south direction; there it takes up the Rumbach from the right .

history

The place Bundenthal is mentioned for the first time in a document from Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria from September 22nd, 1342 as "Wuntental". The local government had from 1648 until the French Revolution , the taverns of Waldenburg held.

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Bundenthal was incorporated into the canton of Dahn . In 1815 the place Austria was added. Just one year later, the community 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 1834 the neighboring village of Finsternheim was incorporated , which was first mentioned in a contract between Count Walraff von Zweibrücken and Abbot Eberhard von Weißenburg .

In 1939, Bundenthal was incorporated into the district of Pirmasens (from 1997 district of Südwestpfalz ) . After the Second World War , the municipality within the French occupation zone became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

In the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform , Bundenthal lost its independence on June 7, 1969, as the place was combined with Bruchweiler-Bärenbach to form the new municipality of Wieslautern . After protests by the population, Wieslautern was dissolved by state law on June 17, 1989 and Bundenthal was independent again. Since then, the restored local community of Bundenthal has belonged to the Dahner Felsenland community, which was created in 1972 .

religion

In 2012, 76.6 percent of the population were Catholic and 11.7 percent Protestant. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational. The Catholics belong to the Diocese of Speyer and are subordinate to the Deanery Pirmasens , the Evangelicals to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate .

politics

Municipal council

The council in Bundenthal 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.

mayor

Wolfgang Morio has been the local mayor of Bundenthal for many years. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for another five years with a share of 72.01% of the votes.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Divided by blue and gold, above a floating three-legged silver tournament collar, below a red key placed diagonally on the right." It was approved by the Mainz Interior Ministry in 1952 .
	Justification of the coat of arms: The tournament collar comes from the coat of arms of the taverns of Waldenburg, who exercised the local rule. The key stands for the Weißenburg monastery , which was the local ruler in Finsternheim.

Parish partnership

A partnership with the municipality of Horgau in Bavaria has existed since 1990 .

Culture

Listed church in the town center

Cultural monuments

There are a total of 20 objects on site that are listed .

nature

The community is located in the Palatinate Forest Nature Park , which in turn belongs to the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord biosphere reserve . The flat stones and the Pulpit rock also two rock formations that exist as natural monuments are reported. In the south of the district is the Ritterstein 302 ; it is called the Battle of the Mäuerle in 1793 and refers to a battle that took place in the municipality during the coalition wars .

Organizations

In 1993 the Bundenthal volunteer fire brigade was world champion in the traditional fire brigade competitions without age points .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

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

traffic

Bundenthal-Rumbach station in 2003

In 1911, the community was connected to the railway network when the Wieslauterbahn , which began in Hinterweidenthal and ended in Bundenthal , was opened. The station was named Bundenthal-Rumbach because it was designed as a common train station with the neighboring Rumbach. After passenger traffic was discontinued in 1966, it has been operating again since 1997 for excursion traffic. At times, however, the route was in danger again, as it was claimed by the nearby town of Dahn for an inner-city relief road. From 1921 to 1930, Bundenthal was also the starting point for the narrow-gauge Wasgauwald Railway , which ran via Rumbach and Fischbach to Ludwigswinkel .

The state roads  478 and 489 also lead through the village ; the former runs from the Saarland border to the French border at Wissembourg and the latter from Reichenbach via Bruchweiler-Bärenbach to Bundenthal. In addition, the district road 46 , which runs from Rumbach to Niederschlettenbach, runs through the Bundenthal municipal area at two points. In addition, the community has a small airport with a runway.

tourism

The community is the eastern end of the Hornbach-Fleckenstein-Radweg , which leads to Hornbach. In addition, with the biosphere tour and the Pamina cycle path Lautertal, two further cycle paths run through Bundenthal; the former runs in the district between Dahn, Fischbach bei Dahn and Rumbach and the latter connects the community with Hinterweidenthal and Neuburg am Rhein . The community is also the starting point for Tour 14 of the Palatinate Forest Mountain Bike Park .

The southern route of the Palatinate Way of St. James also runs through Bundenthal .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Friedrich "Fritz" Frankfurter (1928–2016), member of the local council from 1964 to 1969 and 1989 to 1999, for "his outstanding commitment to a large number of associations in the Bundenthal community, whose fortunes and development he actively shaped and helped shape"

Sons and daughters of the church

• Ludwig Kneiss (1830–1900), singer and actor

People who worked in the place

• Philip Schulz (* 1979), cyclist, was put on a doping test on May 4, 2008 in Bundenthal.

Web links

Commons : Bundenthal  - Collection of Images

• Tourist information Bundenthal-Pfalz
• Bundenthal on the website of the Dahner Felsenland community
• Main street in Bundenthal called from the SWR Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz on February 14, 2014.
• Literature about Bundenthal 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. ↑ 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 p. 183 f., Footnotes 11 and 13).
3. ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2012
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
5. ^ The State Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Dahner Felsenland, Verbandsgemeinde, last line of results. Retrieved April 7, 2020 . 
6. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
7. ^ Fritz Frankfurter. Retrieved March 20, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Wolfgang Meorio: OBITUARY. The local community of Bundenthal mourns the loss of its honorary citizen Friedrich Frankfurter. Retrieved March 20, 2020 .