Kapellen-Drusweiler

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 6 '  N , 8 ° 2'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southern Wine Route
Association municipality :	Bad Bergzabern
Height :	159 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.77 km 2
Residents:	951 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	165 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	76889
Area code :	06343
License plate :	SOUTH
Community key :	07 3 37 045
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Königstrasse 61 76887 Bad Bergzabern
Website :	www.kapellen-drusweiler.de
Local Mayor :	Gerd Kropfinger ( CDU )
Location of the local community Kapellen-Drusweiler in the district of Südliche Weinstrasse

The village of Kapellen-Drusweiler

Kapellen-Drusweiler is a municipality in the southern Weinstrasse district in Rhineland-Palatinate , which was created in 1410 by merging the villages of Kapellen and Drusweiler. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Bad Bergzabern , within which it is the sixth largest local community in terms of population.

geography

location

The wine village is a street village and lies between the Wasgau , as the southern part of the Palatinate Forest and the adjoining northern part of the Vosges Mountains is also called, and the Rhine . The municipality belongs to the main unit Haardtrand , alternatively called the Weinstrasse region , and to the sub-unit Oberhaardt , which belong to the upper unit of the Northern Upper Rhine Lowland .

In addition to the two districts, Kapellen-Drusweiler also includes the Deutschhof , Eichenhöfe and Kaplaneihof residential areas . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Niederhorbach , Oberhausen , Dierbach , Oberotterbach , Dörrenbach , Bad Bergzabern and Pleisweiler-Oberhofen .

Waters

The Erlenbach flows through the settlement area and represents the spatial separation between the districts of Drusweiler in the north and chapels in the south, which have now grown structurally together. The Dierbach flows in a west-east direction through the south of the municipality marker; at Deutschhof it takes up the Dörrenbach from the left .

history

Drusweiler was first mentioned in a document in 1179. Around 1200, the Klingenmünster monastery built a chapel across from the Drusweiler church. The independent settlement of Kapellen developed around them . In 1410, the Duke of Pfalz-Zweibrücken united the two communities.

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , the municipality was incorporated into the canton of Bergzabern . In 1815 it was added to Austria . Just one year later, the place changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 "Kapellen und Drußweiler" was part of the Bergzabern Land Commissioner , which was then converted into a district office.

In 1939 Kapellen-Drusweiler was incorporated into the Bergzabern district. After the Second World War , the municipality within the French occupation zone became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate. During the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform changed the place on 7 June 1969 in the newly created district Landau-Bad Bergzabern, in 1978 in South County Wine Trail is renamed . In 1972 Kapellen-Drusweiler was assigned to the also newly formed community of Bad Bergzabern .

religion

Catholics belong to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer and stand there the deanery Landau , the evangelicals to Protestant State Church Palatinate and are subject to the church district of Bad Bergzabern were at the end of 2013, 50.1 percent of the population Protestant and 25.5 percent Catholic . The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational .

A Mennonite congregation has existed on the Deutschhof since the middle of the 19th century , and a church has been built since 1842. In 2013 the community had 74 members; Children are not included in this number, as Mennonites only baptize people after they have made their own creed when they are of mature age. The community belongs to the Association of German Mennonite Congregations and, through this, the Working Group of Mennonite Congregations in Germany .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Kapellen-Drusweiler 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	CDU	FDP	FWG	WGK	total
2019	2	-	-	3	7th	12 seats
2014	3	5	1	3	-	12 seats
2009	3	4th	2	3	-	12 seats
2004	3	4th	2	3	-	12 seats

• WGK = Kropfinger voter group

mayor

Gerd Kropfinger became the local mayor of Kapellen-Drusweiler on June 27, 2019 . In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 78.37 percent of the vote. His predecessor Karl Hoffmann (CDU) had held the office for ten years. Before that, Friedrich Job from the FDP held the office.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Split by black and gold, right a golden ploughshare, left a black armchair."
	Founding of the coat of arms: It was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1981 and goes back to a seal from 1744.

Culture

Cultural monuments

Listed Protestant church

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Kapellen-Drusweiler

The cemetery is designated as a monument zone . In addition, there are a total of five individual objects that are under monument protection .

societies

The LG Kapellen-Drusweiler , which offers athletics, exists on site .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Kapellen-Drusweiler is a wine-growing town and as such part of the Palatinate wine-growing region . The rose garden is located on site . Hops are grown on site; the community is the location of a so-called seal hall .

traffic

Kapellen-Drusweiler has a stop on the Winden – Bad Bergzabern railway, which opened in 1870 . At times the station was named Kapellen-Niederhorbach . Passenger traffic was initially stopped in 1981. In the course of the dismantling of the line in 1983, it lost its siding . The former station building is atypical for its peers. Stylistically, it is based on buildings from the 1920s. In 1995, the route was reactivated for passenger transport.

The federal highway 427 runs in an east-west direction along the southern edge of the settlement. The federal highway 38 , which runs in north-south direction and which becomes the federal highway 48 after crossing with the former , runs through the extreme west of the district. In addition, there is Kreisstraße 16 within the municipality , which connects the core municipality with Niederhorbach and the Deutschhof. The circuit road 23 leads through the Deutschhof and Kaplaneihof; it establishes a connection to Dörrenbach and Dierbach. In addition, the 547 bus runs from Bad Bergzabern to Kandel through the town.

tourism

The Petronella Rhine Cycle Path , which runs from Bad Bergzabern to Wörth, runs through the south of the municipality away from the built -up areas .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Friedrich Christian Exter (1746–1817), classical philologist, founder of the Societas Bipontina
• Hans-Christian Hege (* 1954), computer scientist and physicist

People who worked on site

• Friedrich Exter (1714–1787), teacher and numismatist, was at times pastor in Drusweiler
• Dieter Luther (* 1953), cook, lives on site
• Herbert Cuntz , achieved sixth place for the LG Kapellen-Drusweiler at the German Athletics Championships in the 100-kilometer road race in 1993
• Werner Schuhmacher , achieved fifth place for the LG Kapellen-Drusweiler in 1997 at the German Athletics Championships as part of the team classification of the 100-kilometer road race
• Bernd Theilmann , achieved fifth place for the LG Kapellen-Drusweiler in 1997 at the German Athletics Championships as part of the team classification of the 100-kilometer road race

Web links

Commons : Kapellen-Drusweiler  - Collection of images

• Internet presence of the local community Kapellen-Drusweiler
• Literature about Kapellen-Drusweiler 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. 101 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2013
4. ↑ Kapellen-Drusweiler: The courtyards. Deutschhof, Kaplaneihof and Eichenhof ( Memento of the original dated August 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , As of June 14, 2014. 
5. ↑ Article Deutschhof (Rhineland-Palatinate) . As of July 27, 2014, at GAMEO .
6. ^ Mennonite yearbook. 113 (2014), p. 170.
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
8. ^ Maria Hirsch: Local council Kapellen-Drusweiler elects Klaus Hege as first alderman. Die Rheinpfalz, July 2, 2019, accessed on April 21, 2020 . 
9. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Bad Bergzabern, Verbandsgemeinde, tenth line of results. Retrieved April 21, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Gerhard Sommer: On Case II: Which local chiefs in the Bad Bergzabern community are running again. Die Rheinpfalz, October 1, 2018, accessed on April 21, 2020 . 
11. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .