Elzweiler

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Coat of arms of the local community Elzweiler
Elzweiler
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Coordinates: 49 ° 35 '  N , 7 ° 31'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Kusel
Association municipality : Kusel-Altenglan
Height : 250 m above sea level NHN
Area : 2.09 km 2
Residents: 117 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density : 56 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 66887
Area code : 06387
License plate : KUS
Community key : 07 3 36 021
Association administration address: Marktplatz 1
66869 Kusel
Website : www.elzweiler.com
Local Mayor : Hartmut Jung
Location of the local community Elzweiler in the district of Kusel
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Elzweiler is a municipality in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Kusel-Altenglan .

geography

The place is in the West Palatinate . Welchweiler is in the southwest and Horschbach in the northeast .

history

Elzweiler is probably a Franconian foundation. Later it was Reichsland and came in 1350 under the rule of the game count . From the middle of the 16th century it belonged to Pfalz-Zweibrücken . The old city ​​walls can still be seen. After the Thirty Years War , Elzweiler was abandoned as a settlement and became a desert . Elzweiler was not settled again until 1710.

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

In the direct election on May 26, 2019, Hartmut Jung was confirmed in his office as local mayor for another five years with a share of the vote of 92.65%.

coat of arms

The red lion on a golden background symbolizes the wild counts as former rulers of Elzweiler and makes a reference to the local history. The golden anchor on a blue background goes back to an old but no longer preserved seal of the community.

Economy and Infrastructure

Elzweiler is a commuter community . In the southwest is the A 62 . In Altenglan there is a train station on the Landstuhl – Kusel railway line .

literature

Web links

Commons : Elzweiler  - Collection of Images

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. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Kusel-Altenglan, Verbandsgemeinde, tenth line of the result. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  4. Hartmut Jung: Meeting of the local community council. Invitation March 21, 2019. Kusel-Altenglan Association, March 7, 2019, accessed on May 10, 2020 .
  5. Declaration of the municipality's coat of arms on the website of the Altenglan Association ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 2, 2012.