Dansenberg

Dansenberg City of Kaiserslautern
Coordinates: 49 ° 24 '17 "  N , 7 ° 43' 41"  E
Height :	369 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.92 km²
Residents :	2644  (Jun. 30, 2018)
Population density :	537 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	7th June 1969
Postal code :	67661
Area code :	0631
Location of Dansenberg in Rhineland-Palatinate
Signpost at the center of the village

Dansenberg is a district of Kaiserslautern in the Palatinate Forest . Mentioned for the first time during the Thirty Years War , Dansenberg remained a small village for a long time. Since it was incorporated into Kaiserslautern in 1969, the population has doubled.

geography

Geographical location and geology

Dansenberg is located on the mountain of the same name, over 400 meters high, in the southeast of the so-called Kaiserslauter Basin , east of the Sickinger Höhe , which can already be clearly seen from Dansenberg.

Neighboring districts of Kaiserslautern are Hohenecken in the west and Mölschbach in the east. Neighboring communities are Trippstadt and Stelzenberg .

The local area is surrounded by forest, in the south and south-west there are smaller agricultural areas that are mainly used for private horse keeping.

Geologically, Dansenberg is located on red sandstone , which was originally covered by sediments from shell limestone . However, these sediments were later washed out and deposited in the Westrich .

Precipitation

climate

Precipitation

Dansenberg lies within the temperate climate zone with precipitation in all seasons. Compared to other regions in Germany , Dansenberg has a very warm and very sunny climate. Due to the location in the lee of the Hunsrück and Eifel , precipitation is usually withheld in north-west weather conditions. Due to the comparatively high location of the place, there is even less rainfall here than in Kaiserslautern and the place is usually spared from storms. Due to the exposed location of the place, above-average wind speeds are often reached here during storms, which is often reflected in considerable storm damage to buildings and in the forest.

The annual precipitation is 840 mm. The precipitation is in the upper third of the measuring points of the German Weather Service . 71% indicate lower values. The driest month is April; it rains most in December. In the wettest month there is about 1.4 times more rain than in the driest month. The seasonal fluctuations in precipitation are in the lower tenth. In only 2% of all places, the monthly precipitation fluctuates less.

temperature

month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Maximum	4 ° C	5 ° C	10 ° C	13 ° C	19 ° C	22 ° C	25 ° C	25 ° C	20 ° C	15 ° C	9 ° C	5 ° C
Minimal	−1 ° C	−2 ° C	2 ° C	3 ° C	8 ° C	12 ° C	14 ° C	13 ° C	9 ° C	6 ° C	3 ° C	1 ° C

Townscape

Today Dansenberg has roughly the shape of a regular octagon. In the south and south-west are the already mentioned agricultural areas, the western boundary of which is the Bergbrunner Kopf. This is a small area with weekend homes. The northern boundary of the usable area in the south of the village is formed by a new building area that takes up over 50 percent of the local area. The usable areas in the west are limited to the north by the Sauberg, which is adjoined by a forest aisle. The main street, Dansenberger Straße, runs north of this aisle and the aforementioned new development area. It separates the new development area from the old district.

The town center with the old school, the kindergartens, the local gastronomy and various other infrastructural facilities is located on Dansenberger Straße. At the eastern end of Dansenberger Straße are the cemeteries and the sports hall. In the northern area of ​​Dansenberger Straße is the old place built on a slope, including the two churches and the parish homes. In the north is the development that has emerged over the past few decades, within which the slope of the slope is lower.

The townscape of Dansenberg is characterized by one and two family houses. Occasionally, especially in the area of ​​the town center, multi-family and terraced houses can be found. Apartment blocks can only be found south of the town center in the Wasserlochstück and Schlehweg. There are several large houses with extensive gardens, especially on the northern edge of the village. Also in the area of ​​the old settlement area there are occasional large gardens with land areas of more than 1500 square meters. However, most of these were converted into building sites. The infrastructural facilities are all on the ground floor around the town center.

etymology

The name Dansenberg, often Dooseberch in the dialect , is derived from the term Doose . Doose / Danse means pine. Dansenberg got its name from its formerly lush pine vegetation , which has now been replaced by mixed forest . However, street names such as Am Kiefernkopf still bear witness to the old trees.

history

time	Events
about 23000 BC BC ( Paleolithic )	first settlement
around 2000 BC BC ( Neolithic )	proven settlement
about 900 BC Chr.	Settlement by Celts
1618-1648	Development of a settlement during the Thirty Years War
1631	Huguenots from Lixheim flee to Dansenberg
1635	Destruction of the settlement by Croatians
around 1700	Creation of a lumberjack settlement
1793	French murder of civilians
around 1800	Construction of the old school
10/21/1894	Inauguration of the Protestant Church
1949	Inauguration of a catholic emergency church
10/22/1967	Inauguration of the new Catholic Church
7.6.1969	Dansenberg becomes a district of Kaiserslautern
1990	Inauguration of the new school

Early history

The Dansenberg was first settled in the Paleolithic around 25,000 years ago. This is suggested by the discovery of a fire and storage site from this period at a depth of around 2.5 m, which was discovered during excavations. That the place was also settled about 4,000 years ago has been proven by other finds from the Neolithic Age . Around 900 BC Dansenberg was settled by the Celts , who marked their traffic routes with menhirs , one of which was found in the area of ​​today's cemetery. Since these paths were also used by the Romans, the place was known to them. One of their streets led from Kaiserslautern to Waldfischbach , including over the Dansenberg.

Local history

Dansenberg is first mentioned in the period from 1618 to 1648 as a settlement during the Thirty Years' War. Fleeing Huguenots in particular settled here, around 1631 from Lixheim in Lorraine . However, Croatians looted the settlement in 1635 and killed the fleeing people. The place where the settlers sought refuge in vain is now called Jammerhalde . According to legend, the moaning of the murdered can be heard in the forest every seven years.

Around 1700 lumberjacks settled in Dansenberg and founded a small settlement in the area of ​​today's town center, which grew only very slowly. In the winter of 1793 the French plundered Kaiserslautern and the city's population sought refuge in a cave in the forest on the slope of the Dansenberg. The refugees had taken their poultry with them, so that the French became aware of them by the screeching of cocks and killed everyone. This place near the Jammerhalde is now called Hahnenfalz .

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the First French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the First French Empire, Dansenberg was incorporated into the Canton of Kaiserslautern . Then the place changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 he was a member of the Land Commissioner in Kaiserslautern ; from this first the district office of Kaiserslautern emerged and finally in 1938 the district of Kaiserslautern .

In 1928 the place had 645 inhabitants, of whom 355 were Protestant and 290 were Catholic who lived in 89 residential buildings. In World War II Dansenberg was hardly damaged. However, since there were several anti-aircraft gun positions in the Dansenberg Forest to protect Kaiserslautern, there are now many bomb impact craters around Dansenberg. As part of the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform, Dansenberg was incorporated into the independent city of Kaiserslautern on June 7, 1969 .

population

Population numbers and age structure

The following diagram shows the population development of Dansenberg from 1705 to 2001. Since the incorporation, the population has increased significantly.

Dansenberg population development from 1705 to 2001

Dansenberg has a balanced age structure. Of the 2652 inhabitants, 29.7% are under 30 years of age and 29.0% are seniors over 60 years of age.

religion

1469 Protestants live in Dansenberg, making them the dominant community in Dansenberg. The community has a parsonage, a newly built parsonage, and a church consecrated in 1894.

The 980 member Catholic community in Dansenberg has existed as its own church foundation since 1950. A year earlier, an emergency church was consecrated, which was later converted into the parish home that still exists today. The current parish church was consecrated in 1967. The parish in Dansenberg is a subsidiary of the parish in Hohenecken .

politics

Local advisory board

A local district was formed for the district of Dansenberg . The local council consists of 15 members, the chair of the local council is chaired by the directly elected mayor .

For more information on the local council, see the results of the municipal elections in Kaiserslautern .

Mayor

The mayor of Dansenberg Franz H. Rheinheimer replaced his CDU predecessor Monika Ziegler in the 2004 local elections. Since then he has been re-elected, most recently in the direct election on May 26, 2019 as the sole candidate with a share of the vote of 59.55%.

Local mayors since the incorporation in 1969 were or are:

Surname	from	to
Heinrich Schmitt (SPD)	0July 9, 1969	April 26, 1974
Karl Lambrecht (CDU)	April 26, 1974	22nd August 1979
Ernst Wagner (SPD)	22nd August 1979	17th December 1986
Monika Ziegler (CDU)	17th December 1986	04th September 1989
	September 12, 1994	September 20, 2004
Hugo Kramer (SPD)	04th September 1989	September 12, 1994
Franz Rheinheimer (1)	September 20, 2004

⁽¹⁾ 1999 to June 30, 2007 FDP, since July 1, 2007 FWG

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Dansenberg shows a tree towards which a bird is flying, the Kerscheknabber . The inhabitants are called "Kerscheknabberer". It was created in 1761 and became Dansenberg's official coat of arms on September 14, 1949. The type of tree is not known, but - according to the official interpretation - it is supposed to be a cherry tree . It is also not known which bird the coat of arms represents, but there are indications that it is a duck . The coat of arms may refer to bird hunting in the Dansenberg forest.

Dansenberg's coat of arms was painted in oil on behalf of the Dansenberg Fruit and Horticultural Association by the Dansenberg-based teacher Wilhelm Schneider and is now on permanent loan in the meeting room of the local council in the community center.

Sights and culture

Buildings

Protestant Church

• Protestant Church : The Protestant Church was built over 100 years ago. It consists of a long nave, on the roof of which there is an onion dome with a tower cock. The church bells have been hanging in this tower since 1973. In the wooden-lined interior of the church there is a gallery with an organ.
• Catholic Church : The Catholic Church dates from the 1970s. It consists of a circular ship, the ceiling of which was modeled on a ship's keel (an allusion to Noah's Ark ). There are two bells hanging in its tower, and a cinnamon organ is on the gallery. The altar houses relics of the martyrs Nectarius and Nicostratus.
• Old cemetery : The so-called old cemetery is located at the end of Dansenberger Straße. Here is the morgue, which is used by the congregations of both denominations. Many burials take place today in the nearby new cemetery.
• War memorial : Above the old cemetery there is a memorial in reminiscence of those who died in the world wars.
• Old School : The old school is a building built around 1800. It offered space for four classes and had a staff room. The toilets were in the annex. Today the building houses a kindergarten, primary school care, the council chamber of the local council, toilets and other rooms. It is used by a driving school, a music school and local clubs, among others. The old extension was converted into a fire station .
• Center : The center consists of a small park-like facility with a playground and is located next to the old school. Shops and medical practices have been set up nearby. Behind the tree-planted area is the village square, which is used for various events and as a resting place.
• Village fountain : The village fountain has been running again since its renovation. The watercourse is on the corner of Brunnenstrasse and Wasserlochteile. It is considered a resting place by the Dansenbergers and is frequented by children.
• Telecommunication tower Kaiserslautern : This structure is 133 meters high and was erected about 800 meters north of the village in the forest. The tower itself can only be seen from a few points in the town, mostly it is covered by buildings or trees. From here the signals for television, radio and telephone of the city of Kaiserslautern are sent. In addition, the radio of the fire brigade and rescue service in Kaiserslautern and the surrounding area is handled via the tower. The owner and operator of the broadcast tower is T-Systems Media & Broadcast GmbH (M&B).

Surroundings

There is also a path around Dansenberg, which begins at the entrance to Dansenberg. Parking at the Hotel-Restaurant Fröhlich. It leads north through the forest past a forest playground. Then it runs through the village past the cemetery and the new forest cemetery to another forest playground, from which it continues as a path at the edge of the forest. Further to the south, it forms the border between the agricultural land and the forest, before it runs west towards Bergbrunner Kopf. Finally, it leads through the valley past the Sauberg and the rain retention basin back to its starting point.

Events and clubs

Various festivals take place in Dansenberg, including a Catholic and a Protestant parish festival, a fire brigade festival with practical exercises and the singers' den, which is organized by the men's choir. The village festival (called "Kerscheknabberfest" in reference to the coat of arms since summer 2008) is organized by the local associations, parties and the volunteer fire brigade , the Dansenberger Kerwe is organized by the mayor / local administration and the local advisory board in cooperation with the city administration.

The club system in Dansenberg includes - apart from the political parties - the sports club TuS 04 Kaiserslautern-Dansenberg e. V. , the men's choir 1963 Dansenberg e. V., the support associations of the elementary school and the sports club, the fruit and gardening association e. V. and Juntos e. V.

Economy and Infrastructure

Transport and tourism

Dansenberg is on Landesstraße 502 and is a dead end town . There is a second access road, but it is privately owned by the forest . The place has several stops for the buses of the SWK Verkehrs-AG , which run here every hour, and every half hour during rush hour. There are also two guest houses in Dansenberg, including the Hotel Fröhlich.

education

There is a Protestant and a municipal kindergarten in Dansenberg. Dansenberg also has a primary school. The new primary school building is friendlier and more spacious than the old one and has extensive outdoor facilities. This consists of a paved, partially roofed school yard and a large meadow with a barefoot path, chicken pen, school pond, open-air classroom, climbing equipment and more.

Services and trade

After the last grocery store has closed due to competition from the shops in the nearby city center, the population has to get the groceries outside of the district. There is currently a bakery sales point in Dansenberg and recently a "corner shop". In addition, a savings bank branch, a general practitioner and a dentist, a pharmacy, lawyers and tax advisors, an insurance and real estate broker and various craft firms offer their services.

A vehicle from the Kaiserslautern volunteer fire brigade has been stationed in Dansenberg since 1977 . The fire station is in the extension of the old school on Franz-Becht-Straße. This street was named after the former commander of the fire brigade who was killed in an operation in 2001.

Since 2005, on the initiative of the mayor Franz Rheinheimer, there has been a first responder group that is equipped with a defibrillator , among other things . Originally, it was only recruited from rescue workers from the Red Cross and ensured medical care for emergency patients until the emergency doctor arrived from Kaiserslautern. The fire brigade has also been active in this service since 2006.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Johannes Pfleger (1867–1957), chemist

People who lived or worked on site

• Friedrich Wilhelm Hebel (1875–1931), educator and author, taught at times at the Dansenberg School
• Dietmar Schwager (1940-2018), football player, lived in Dansenberg until his death in 2018
• Zedd (* 1989), musician, grew up there

literature

Books

• TuS 04 (Ed.): Festschrift / TuS 04 Kaiserslautern-Dansenberg: gymnastics - handball - karate; 100 years of club history, reports and pictures. Self-published, Kaiserslautern 2004.
• Fruit and horticultural association Dansenberg (ed.): From the lumberjack village to the district: 100 years of the fruit and horticultural association Dansenberg. Self-published, Kaiserslautern 1997.
• TuS 04 (Hrsg.): Festschrift 75 years Turn- u. Sports club 1904 Dansenberg eV / TuS 04 Dansenberg. Self-published, Kaiserslautern 1979.
• Walter Hach / Dieter Kämmer: Register for the church book of the reformed parish Erfenbach 1735 to 1798: (Erfenbach, Siegelbach, Stockborn, Lampertsmühle) with entries from the places Dansenberg, Hohenecken, Erzhütten u. a. Cultural Office of the City of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern 1979, ISBN 3-9805946-1-0 .
• Protestant Church Congregation (Ed.): 100 years of Protestant Church Dansenberg. Self-published, Kaiserslautern 1994.
• Heinz Friedel: The Protestant community of Dansenberg at the time of National Socialism. Friedel, Kaiserslautern 1993.
• Elementary School Dansenberg (Ed.): Elementary School Dansenberg . WEKA-Verlag, Vienna 1990.
• Elisabeth Kaltenbach (editing and layout): Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Catholic Church Choir St. Peter and Paul Dansenberg . Self-published, Kaiserslautern 1998.
• Men's choir Dansenberg (ed.): Festschrift for the consecration of flags . Self-published, Kaiserslautern 1966.

Newspapers, magazines

Wittich (Ed.): Around Kaiserslautern: Weekly newspaper for the districts of Einsiedlerhof, Dansenberg, Hohenecken, Mölschbach, Wiesenthalerhof-Erzhütten, Erfenbach, Erlenbach, Siegelbach. (=  weekly newspaper ). SÜWE Vertriebs- und Dienstleistungsges. (Ed.): Wochenblatt Kaiserslautern. (=  weekly newspaper ).

Web links

Commons : Dansenberg  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Kaiserslautern.de
• Dansenberg.de
• Short portrait with a film about Dansenberg on SWR television
• Literature about Dansenberg in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics / core city & districts. City of Kaiserslautern, July 9, 2018, accessed on July 6, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 151 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
3. ↑ daten.digitale-sammlungen.de: List of localities for the Free State of Bavaria . Retrieved November 27, 2013 . 
4. ^ City of Kaiserslautern: main statute. (PDF) § 9 by July 14, 2019, accessed on October 23, 2019 . 
5. ↑ City of Kaiserslautern: Announcement of the results of the elections of May 26, 2019 of the local councilors in the city of Kaiserslautern in accordance with Section 65 of the local electoral code (KWO). (PDF) June 6, 2019, accessed October 23, 2019 .