Dannenfels

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 38 '  N , 7 ° 57'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Donnersbergkreis
Association municipality :	Kirchheimbolanden
Height :	400 m above sea level NHN
Area :	15.79 km 2
Residents:	836 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	53 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67814
Area code :	06357
License plate :	KIB, ROK
Community key :	07 3 33 013
Association administration address:	Neue Allee 2 67292 Kirchheimbolanden
Website :	www.dannenfels.de
Local Mayor :	Ernst-Ludwig Huy
Location of the local community Dannenfels in the Donnersbergkreis

Dannenfels at the foot of the Donnersberg. In the foreground the airfield

Dannenfels is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Kirchheimbolanden community . Dannenfels is a state-approved climatic health resort .

geography

location

Dannenfels is located in the North Palatinate Bergland on the eastern slope of the Donnersberg at an altitude of about 400 meters. A large part of the Donnersberg massif, including the summit itself, belongs to the district. While the Donnersberg massif is forested, the fields in the protected mountain shade below the village are used for growing fruit crops.

The exposed location of the place offers a distant view over the entire Rhine plain to the Kraichgau.

Community structure

The Bastenhaus , Dannenfelsermühle (restaurant) and Haus Donnersberg residential areas also belong to Dannenfels.

Neighboring communities

Adjacent neighboring towns are - clockwise - the municipalities of Bolanden , Bennhausen , Jakobsweiler and Steinbach am Donnersberg , as well as the towns of Rockenhausen and Kirchheimbolanden .

climate

The annual precipitation is 808 mm. The precipitation is in the middle third of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 65 percent of the German Weather Service's measuring stations . The driest month is September, with the most rainfall in June. In June there is 1.4 times more rainfall than in September. Precipitation varies only minimally and is extremely evenly distributed over the year. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at only 4% of the measuring stations .

history

In 1331, Dannenfels was declared a city on the initiative of Count Philipp von Sponheim-Bolanden. Even the son of this count, Heinrich II von Sponheim-Bolanden , moved his residence to Kirchheimbolanden around 1370 . After his death (1393), her granddaughter's husband, Count Philip I of Nassau-Saarbrücken, inherited the rule of Kirchheim and Stauf through his granddaughter . That is why the Nassau lion is on the town's coat of arms.

Until the end of the 18th century, the community then belonged to Nassau-Weilburg and was subordinate to the Oberamt Kirchheim .

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 , Mörsfeld was incorporated into the canton of Kirchheim in the Donnersberg department and was the seat of its own Mairie . In 1815 it was added to Austria . Just one year later, the place, like the entire Palatinate, changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 Ramsen was part of the Kirchheim Land Commissioner - later Kirchhheimbolanden ; from this the district office of Kirchhheimbolanden emerged.

On June 11, 1922, Fritz Heß became mayor of the community and thus probably the first National Socialist mayor in Germany.

From 1939 the place was part of the Kirchheimbolanden district . After the Second World War , Dannenfels 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 , Dannenfels moved to the newly formed Donnersbergkreis in 1969 ; three years later, the community was incorporated into the also newly created community of Kirchheimbolanden .

population

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 114 1835 617 1871 635 1905 693 1939 799 1950 940 1961 925

year Residents 1970 887 1987 880 1997 946 2005 963 2011 865 2017 850 2019 836

religion

The monastery of Gethsemani is located in the district of Dannenfels .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Dannenfels consists of twelve council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	FBD	Flat share	WGHe	WGHo	total
2019	1	4th	-	2	5	12 seats
2014	by majority vote					12 seats
2009	4th	3	5	-	-	12 seats
2004	4th	3	5	-	-	12 seats

• FBD = Voting Group Free Citizens Dannenfels 1991 e. V.
• WGHe = Heckmann voter group
• WGHof = Hofmeister voter group

mayor

The local mayor is Ernst-Ludwig Huy. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with a share of 54.51% of the votes.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Split by blue and silver, on the right in a field strewn with golden shingles a left-facing, red-tongued and armored golden lion, on the left a green fir tree with roots."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms was awarded by the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior in 1925 and goes back to a seal from 1658.

Community partnerships

Dannenfels has had a partnership with the Hungarian Abaliget since 2002 .

Culture and sights

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  Prot. Church of Dannenfels

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  Dannenfels Ludwigsturm

Buildings

Cultural monuments

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Dannenfels

The Tannenfels castle ruins above the village and the ruins of Wildenstein Castle are designated as monument zones.

In addition, there are a total of eight individual objects that are listed :

The Donnersberghaus was built as a schoolhouse in 1825; since 1991 it has been a museum and information center. The village museum is located in a half-timbered building built around 1830; it shows agricultural and household appliances. A Gothic tabernacle from the convent church remains from the medieval St. Jakob monastery as a spoil. The Ludwigsturm is also a listed building .

Other structures

The Donnersberg transmitter is also located on site .

Natural monuments and nature protection

Chestnut tree Dannenfels, natural monument

There are three natural monuments in the municipality . The best known, because it is located right in the village

Big keschde

(ND-7333-030) Also known locally as the "old Keschdebaam" is an old sweet chestnut tree ( Castanea sativa ) in the passage through Dannenfels. In the natural monument list of the Donnersbergkreis his age is given as 650 years. Other sources only attest the Dicken Keschde to an age of 400–600 years. However, it is proven that it is the thickest sweet chestnut north of the Alps. On April 25, 2012, the German Dendrological Society and the German Arboretum Society named her nationwide Champion Tree 2012.

In 1860, a hurricane put an abrupt end to the primary crown of the “Dicken Kescht” , noted the Kühn brothers in their book Germany's Old Trees . The entire treetop perished. The lower part of the trunk has remained, but only has a single, intact side branch. Nevertheless, the remains of the trunk still preserved today had a circumference of 9 m measured in 2014.

Protected areas and natural features

• The Eschdell nature reserve extends to the north-west of the district .
• The Königsstuhl is a rock formation on the Donnersberg .

archeology

The menhir of Dannenfels is located in the municipality .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The A 63 ( Kaiserslautern - Mainz ) is located to the south-east in close proximity . In Kirchheimbolanden there is a stop of the Donnersbergbahn .

education

There is a primary school in Dannenfels. She is also responsible for the surrounding towns of Bennhausen , Jakobsweiler , Ruppertsecken and Marienthal .

tourism

To the west of the municipality is the Keltenhütte owned by the Kirchheimbolanden local group of the Palatinate Forest Association . The Waldhaus restaurant on the Donnersberg, which stands on the site of the medieval St. Jakob monastery, is also part of the village boundary . It is considered the highest inn in the Palatinate .

The Pfälzer Höhenweg hiking trail and the Staudernheim-Soultz-sous-Forêts long-distance hiking trail marked with a blue bar run through Dannenfels .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Wilhelm Theodor Gümbel (1812–1858), botanist
• Carl Wilhelm von Gümbel (1823–1898), geologist
• Fritz Heß (1879–1938), politician (NSDAP)
• Michael Weiß (* 1965), football coach

People who worked on site

• Erich Spickschen (1897–1957), National Socialist Farmer's Leader , leased an inn on site in November 1950
• Moritz Anton Konerding (1960–2015), anatomist scientist, died in a plane crash in the municipality

literature

• Land survey office Rhineland-Palatinate: The Donnersberg and the surrounding area , topographic map 1: 25000, 4th edition 1998, ISBN 3-89637-278-5
• Stefan Kühn, Bernd Ullrich and Uwe Kühn: Germany's old trees. A picture journey to the fabulous tree shapes between the coast and the Alps . BLV, Munich, Vienna and Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-405-16107-X

Web links

Commons : Dannenfels  - Collection of Images

• Website of the local community in Dannenfels
• Dannenfels on the website of the Kirchheimbolanden Association
• Literature about Dannenfels in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 142 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( information ), community boundaries can be activated.
4. ^ Community of Dannenfels. Verbandsgemeinde Kirchheimbolanden, accessed on November 23, 2017 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Description of the coat of arms on the homepage of the local community
6. ^ Statistical yearbook for the department of Donnersberg. 1811, p. 278 ( Google Books ).
7. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved February 2, 2020 . 
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: City Council Election 2019 Dannenfels. Accessed August 31, 2019 . 
9. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections.
10. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Direct elections 2019. Accessed on August 31, 2019 (see Kirchheimbolanden, Verbandsgemeinde, fourth row of results). 
11. ^ "Sweet chestnut Bennhauser Strasse in Dannenfels" in Monumental Trees at monumentaltrees.com
12. ↑ "Record tree 2012 - The thickest chestnut north of the Alps" in Dannenfels Tourism at www.dannenfels.de
13. ↑ Castanea sativa (ID 350). In: Record Trees. German Dendrological Society, April 25, 2012, accessed on November 23, 2017 . 
14. ↑ "Thick sweet chestnut from Dannenfels" in the tree register at www.baumkunde.de