Dittweiler

This article deals with the municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate. For the German painter and set designer see Ludwig Dittweiler .

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '  N , 7 ° 20'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kusel
Association municipality :	Upper Glantal
Height :	278 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.63 km 2
Residents:	815 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	145 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66903
Area code :	06386
License plate :	KUS
Community key :	07 3 36 016
Association administration address:	Rathausstrasse 8 66901 Schönenberg-Kübelberg
Website :	www.dittweiler.de
Local Mayor :	Winfried Karl Closs
Location of the local community of Dittweiler in the Kusel district

Dittweiler is a municipality in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Upper Glantal .

geography

The place is in the Kohlbachtal in the West Palatinate . To the east is bridges , in the southeast of Schoenberg Kübelberg , southwest Dunzweiler and northwest is Altenkirchen .

history

Dittweiler was first mentioned in a document in 1316. Originally part of the realm of Kaiserslautern, Dittweiler belonged to the Electoral Palatinate from 1438 to 1779 . The boundary stones to the west of the village, which are still in existence today and mark the border with Pfalz-Zweibrücken , date from 1774 .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Dittweiler consists of twelve council members, who were elected by a majority vote 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	FWG	total
2019	by majority vote		12 seats
2014	by majority vote		12 seats
2009	7th	5	12 seats
2004	7th	5	12 seats

• Free voter group Dittweiler e. V.

mayor

Winfried Closs became the local mayor of Dittweiler on July 2nd, 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for another five years with a share of the vote of 85.97%.

Gunter Becker, as the predecessor of Closs, held the office of mayor.

traffic

The A 6 is to the southeast and the A 62 to the northeast . In Glan-Münchweiler there is a train station of the Glantalbahn .

Sons and daughters of the church

• Kurt Lauer (1923 – after 1955), Nazi functionary

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Dittweiler

literature

• Literature about Dittweiler in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Dittweiler  - Collection of Images

• Internet presence of the local community Dittweiler
• Local parish Dittweiler on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Oberes Glantal
• Emigrants from Dittweiler (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
3. ↑ ^{a b} handover. Municipal council meeting on July 2nd, 2014. Dittweiler community, July 2, 2014, accessed on May 4, 2020 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Oberes Glantal, Verbandsgemeinde, fifth row of results. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .