Dried mussel

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '  N , 7 ° 45'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Donnersbergkreis
Association municipality :	North Palatinate Country
Height :	370 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.88 km 2
Residents:	139 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	48 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67806
Area code :	06361
License plate :	KIB, ROK
Community key :	07 3 33 016
Association administration address:	Bezirksamtsstrasse 7 67806 Rockenhausen
Website :	www.nordpfälzerland.de
Local Mayor :	Uwe Edmund Rainau
Location of the local community Dörrmoschel in the Donnersbergkreis

Dörrmoschel is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany . It belongs to the Nordpfälzer Land association.

geography

The place is located in the northern Palatinate mountains in the valley of the Moschel west of the Donnersberg between Kaiserslautern and Bad Kreuznach . The street village stretches from east to west along the local road, the only street in town next to Friedhofstraße.

history

Dörrmoschel is first mentioned in 1212 under the name Siccamushela . The Latin sicca "dry", which was adopted as "dörr" in today's place names, was used to distinguish it from the nearby Heiligenmoschel in the valley of the Moschelbach . Both rivers go back to the same root word * muska- "moss".

Dörrmoschel was the aristocratic seat of Duchess Charlotte Friederike von der Pfalz (* December 2, 1653 in Zweibrücken, † October 27, 1712 in Dörrmoschel), the widow of Wilhelm Ludwig Hereditary Prince of Pfalz-Zweibrücken , who died at the age of 27 . After the French Revolution , the place was incorporated into the French Donnersberg department . As a result of the Congress of Vienna , he was Bavarian from 1816 to 1945 . After the Second World War , Dörrmoschel was part of the French occupation zone and was incorporated into the newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946.

politics

Municipal council

The council in Dörrmoschel consists of six council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Local mayor

The local mayor is Uwe Edmund Rainau. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected in office with 89.47% of the votes.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Above a green shield base divided by red and gold; a silver scallop shell above, a striding black boar below. "

Economy and Infrastructure

There is a connection to long-distance traffic via the Winnweiler junction of the A 63 in the southeast. In Rockenhausen there is a train station of the Alsenz Valley Railway .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Dörrmoschel

Web links

Commons : dried mussel  - collection of images

• Local municipality Dörrmoschel on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Nordpfälzer Land
• Brief portrait of Dörrmoschel ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on SWR television
• Literature about dried mussels 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. ↑ Ernst Christmann: The settlement names of the Palatinate . Volume 1, Publishing House of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science, Speyer 1968, p. 115
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal Council Election 2019 Dörrmoschel. Retrieved August 24, 2019 . 
4. ↑ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. Retrieved on August 25, 2019 (see Nordpfälzer Land, Verbandsgemeinde, sixth row of results).