Clausen

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Clausen (disambiguation) .

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '  N , 7 ° 41'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southwest Palatinate
Association municipality :	Rodalben
Height :	400 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.46 km 2
Residents:	1457 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	117 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66978
Area code :	06333
License plate :	PS , ZW
Community key :	07 3 40 003
Association administration address:	Am Rathaus 9 66976 Rodalben
Website :	www.clausen.de
Local Mayor :	Harald Wadle ( CDU )
Location of the local community Clausen in the district of Südwestpfalz

Clausensee

Clausen is a municipality in the Südwestpfalz district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rodalben , within which it is the third largest local community in terms of population.

geography

location

Clausen is located in the Graefensteiner Land in the Palatinate Forest . 80 percent of the district area is forested. The next larger city is Pirmasens , located to the southwest . Clausen to include the residential places Forsthaus Heidelburg, youth center and Hollertal Orlebrunnen. Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Heltersberg , Leimen , Merzalben , Münchweiler an der Rodalb , Rodalben , Donsieders and Waldfischbach-Burgalben .

Elevations and waters

The 465 meter high Hesselsberg rises in the east of the district .

In the northeast, the Schwarzbach initially forms the boundary with Heltersberg; The Clausensee is also located in this area . Then the river forms the border to Waldfischbach-Burgalben. There he takes the Hollertalbach from the left , but does not touch the settlement area. In the extreme south, the municipality mark extends for a short distance to the Rodalb . In this area the latter takes up from the right the Dreiweiherbach , which rises in the municipality and flows southwards ; during the last 300 meters it forms the boundary between Rodalben and Clausen.

history

Development until the beginning of the 19th century

The village of Clausen belonged to the margraviate of Baden until the end of the 18th century . In 1794 the left bank of the Rhine was occupied in the First Coalition War.

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Clausen was incorporated into the canton of Waldfischbach in the Donnersberg department and was subordinate to Mairie Merzalben .

Emergency landing on a historic balloon flight

The aviation pioneer and inventor of the frameless parachute André-Jacques Garnerin (1769-1823) completed a 395 km balloon flight between Paris and Clausen on November 22nd and 23rd, 1807 . The balloon and parachute pioneer made the unforeseen emergency landing in Clausen when he noticed that his long-distance journey from Paris to Switzerland had become an odyssey. His gondola was slightly damaged during the emergency landing. The balloon cover and gondola were brought from Clausen to Zweibrücken by horse and cart . From there he started the journey home to Paris with his equipment by stagecoach.

Further development

Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna , the area first came to Austria in June 1815 and was ceded to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 on the basis of a state treaty . Under the Bavarian administration, Klausen belonged - as it was spelled at the time - to the Pirmasens Land Commissioner in the Rhine District from 1817 and to the Pirmasens District Office from 1862.

In 1939 Clausen 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 Palatinate administrative district in the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate . In the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform , the place became part of the newly created Verbandsgemeinde Rodalben .

Population development

The development of the population of Clausen, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 460 1835 721 1871 670 1905 993 1939 1,329 1950 1,432 1961 1,557

year Residents 1970 1,590 1987 1,523 1997 1,670 2005 1,598 2011 1,397 2017 1,403

religion

At the end of 2014, 67.4 percent of the population were Catholic and 16.2 percent Protestant . 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 Clausen consists of 16 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	FWG	UWG	total
2019	4th	12	-	-	16 seats
2014	3	13	-	-	16 seats
2009	2	9	3	2	16 seats
2004	2	10	4th	-	16 seats

mayor

Harald Wadle (CDU) became the local mayor of Clausen in 2009. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with a share of the vote of 68.89%. Wadle's predecessor was Emil Cronauer (CDU).

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Split by blue and red, on the right agold-armoredsilver griffin turned left , on the left, on a curved green background, the gold-crowned Saint Bernard of Baden in a gold armor with a red breast cross, in his right a gold heraldic shield with a red sloping bar, in the left a silver flag with a red cross. "
	Justification of the coat of arms: It was approved by the Ministry of the Interior in Koblenz in 1949 and, with the griffin, is a reminder of the former affiliation with Baden .

Culture

The site of Clausen

Cultural monuments

In Clausen there are a total of seven objects that are under monument protection .

societies

There is FK Clausen on site , who played in the Southwest Football League from 1981 to 1983 and 1985 to 1987 .

Events

The rock band 7ty Proof made their first appearance in 1996 in Clausen.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

A part of Rheinberger's operation existed on site at times .

Clausen special weapons warehouse

Watchtower of the former Clausen special weapons warehouse

Until 1991 the Seventh United States Army operated special weapons warehouse Clausen - also called Clausen Ammo Area 59 and NATO SITE 59 - existed in the east of the municipality. By September 1990, over 100,000 American warfare shells were stored there , including 400 tons with the chemical warfare agents VX and sarin . Between July and September 1990, they were removed in the action Lindwurm and brought to the Pacific atoll Johnston Island for later destruction .

traffic

The state road 498 leads through the village, which connects the community on the one hand with Donsieders and Waldfischbach-Burgalben and on the other hand with Merzalben. There is a connection to long-distance traffic via the nearby Thaleischweiler-Fröschen driveway on the A 62 .

education

There is a primary school in Clausen.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Johannes Cronauer (1793–1870), cathedral vicar, bishop secretary and cathedral capitular of the diocese of Speyer ; also papal secret chamberlain.
• Werner Melzer (* 1954), former German soccer player.

People who worked on site

• Markus Appelmann (* 1978), TV and radio presenter.
• Ludwig Becker (1855–1940), architect, designed the local Catholic church

Web links

Commons : Clausen  - collection of images

• Clausen on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Rodalben
• Literature about Clausen 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 (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 109 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ↑ Rudolf Wolf: Maybach engines and automobiles in the Rhine-Neckar triangle and the Palatinate , 2007, p. 149 ( Google Books )
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
5. ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2014
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
7. ^ Marianne Teuscher: Mayor: Harald Wadle is running again. Die Rheinpfalz, June 20, 2018, accessed on April 2, 2020 . 
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Rodalben, Verbandsgemeinde, first line of results. Retrieved April 2, 2020 . 
9. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Election of the honorary local and city mayors. District administrators and mayors until 2008. Accessed April 2, 2020 . 
10. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .