Ehweiler

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 31 '  N , 7 ° 22'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kusel
Association municipality :	Kusel-Altenglan
Height :	320 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.57 km 2
Residents:	164 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	46 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66871
Area code :	06384
License plate :	KUS
Community key :	07 3 36 018
Association administration address:	Marktplatz 1 66869 Kusel
Website :	vg-kusel-altenglan.de
Local Mayor :	Stefan Reusemann
Location of the local community Ehweiler in the Kusel district

Ehweiler is a municipality in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Kusel-Altenglan .

geography

Today the agricultural community of Ehweiler is 320 meters above sea level and consists of around 35 hectares of forest.

history

The village was first mentioned in 1316 as Eygewilre .

As part of the Remigiusland and belonging to the county of Veldenz , the place fell to the newly formed county of Pfalz-Zweibrücken , whose fate Ehweiler now shared, with the extinction of their male line in 1444 .

Ehweiler suffered significant population losses several times. Three waves of plague in the years 1583, 1597 and 1613 are recorded. In the plague year of 1583 alone, 34 people died, and thus around half of the villagers at that time. Subsequently, both the Thirty Years' War and the Palatinate War of Succession led to severe devastation in the 17th century . But there was also the immigration of new families, which caused the population to grow again.

From 1801 to 1814 Ehweiler belonged to France as part of the Saardepartement , Arrondissement Birkenfeld , Canton and Marie Kusel. At the Congress of Vienna , the Palatinate on the left bank of the Rhine fell to Austria in 1815 and to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 on the basis of an exchange contract . Ehweiler was assigned to the Kusel Land Commissioner in the Bavarian Rhine District.

After the Second World War , Ehweiler 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 , the place was assigned to the Kusel Association in 1972 , which was merged into the Kusel-Altenglan Association in 2018 .

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Stefan Reusemann became mayor of Ehweiler on November 27, 2016. Since there were no applicants for the direct election on May 26, 2019, the upcoming election was carried out by the council in accordance with municipal regulations. He unanimously confirmed Reusemann on June 19, 2019 for another five years in his office.

Reusemann's predecessor Ingwald Theis, who had held the office for 17 years, died unexpectedly in mid-August 2016.

coat of arms

The blazon of the coat of arms reads: "In green a golden harrow."

Economy and Infrastructure

There is a hard quarry in the Ehweiler district.

The A 62 runs to the south . In Kusel there is a train station on the Landstuhl – Kusel railway line .

literature

• Literature about Ehweiler in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Ehweiler  - Collection of Images

• Local community Ehweiler on the website of the association community Kusel-Altenglan
• Ehweiler at regionalgeschichte.net
• Brief portrait of Ehweiler on SWR television

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Ehweiler. In: Verbandsgemeinde Kusel-Altenglan. Retrieved December 14, 2019 . 
3. ^ Ernst Schworm: Ehweiler. Surname. In: regionalgeschichte.net. Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz eV, accessed on May 19, 2020 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Rainer Dick: Ehweiler. Outline of the local history. In: regionalgeschichte.net. Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz eV, accessed on May 19, 2020 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ↑ ^{a b} Local Mayor: Reusemann takes over. Die Rheinpfalz, October 15, 2016, accessed on May 10, 2020 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Kusel-Altenglan, Verbandsgemeinde, ninth line of results. Retrieved May 10, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Sabrina Wagner: City council re-elects Stefan Reusemann as local mayor of Ehweiler. Die Rheinpfalz, June 23, 2019, accessed on May 10, 2020 .