Enkenbach-Alsenborn

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Enkenbach-Alsenborn
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Coordinates: 49 ° 29 '  N , 7 ° 54'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Kaiserslautern
Association municipality : Enkenbach-Alsenborn
Height : 289 m above sea level NHN
Area : 30.04 km 2
Residents: 7076 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 236 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 67677
Area code : 06303
License plate : KL
Community key : 07 3 35 004
LOCODE : DE EN2
Community structure: 2 districts
Association administration address: Hauptstrasse 18
67677 Enkenbach-Alsenborn
Website : www.enkenbach-alsenborn.de
Local Mayor : Jürgen Wenzel ( CDU )
Location of the local community Enkenbach-Alsenborn in the district of Kaiserslautern
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Enkenbach-Alsenborn is a local community in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Kaiserslautern , within which it is the fourth largest local community in terms of population. It was created in 1969 by merging the communities of Enkenbach and Alsenborn . It belongs to the association of the same name , whose administrative seat it is also. Until his death, the community was the residence of the Palatinate football player Fritz Walter . Since 2012, Enkenbach-Alsenborn has also been a master plan municipality and designated as a basic center according to state planning .

geography

location

Enkenbach-Alsenborn is 15 kilometers east of Kaiserslautern on the north-western edge of the Palatinate Forest . The east of the district lies in its partial area Stumpfwald and the southeast in the Diemersteiner Wald . The community consists of the districts Enkenbach and Alsenborn, which have now grown together structurally; accordingly, spatial separation is no longer possible. In addition, there is the Eselsmühle suburb that belongs to Enkenbach . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Neuhemsbach , Sippersfeld , Kerzenheim , Ramsen , Wattenheim , Fischbach , Kaiserslautern, Mehlingen and Sembach .

Surveys

Rock formation on Schorlenberg

Alsenborn east of the 402 meter high rises spritzer Mountain and southwest of this district at the border with Fischbach of the 421  m high Nußknick and the 419  m high barrier head . In the far northeast are the 370  m high Schelmenkopf , on the border with Kerzenheim the 353.5  m high Salweidenkopf and on the border with Ramsen the 358  m high Steinkopf . The Breitenauer Kopf also rises to the west of the district .

Waters

The most important flowing water is the Alsenz , which rises in the center of Alsenborn. In the municipality it takes on the Metzwiesengraben , the Hasselbrunnengraben , the Klosterbach and the Schwarzbach ; the latter in turn takes up the Maigraben from the right . The Billesbach rises in the northeast of the district and a short time later flows through the Billesweiher , then runs through the neighboring municipality of Neuhemsbach, which is also part of the Alsenz river system. The Eselsbach begins on the western outskirts of Enkenbach, flows west and later flows into the Lauter .

history

The two villages were closely intertwined in their history. This was shown by a common mayor (until 1795), but ended in 1825. Seven years later, in 1832, the forest that had been common up until then was also divided.

The favorable traffic situation and the connection to the railway network in 1871 as well as the settlement of companies let the population grow from 1,095 people in 1800 to 3,326 in 1900 and 6,900 in 1975, despite strong emigration. The character of farming villages was lost and Enkenbach and Alsenborn became residential communities.

Before the First World War, the Enkenbach-Alsenborn military training area was set up in the forest west of Mehlingen. After it was no longer in use, it became the Mehlinger Heide .

Today's local community Enkenbach-Alsenborn was created in the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform with effect from June 7, 1969 through the formation of the previously independent communities Enkenbach (3922 inhabitants) and Alsenborn (2452 inhabitants). Three years later it became the seat of the newly formed association of the same name . The newly created municipality initially had the postcode 6753, since 1993 this has been 67677.

Denominations

Worship room in the Mennonite parish hall, here in the evening light

On October 31, 2014, 42.07 percent of the population were Protestant and 29.77 percent Catholic . The rest belonged to another religious community or were non-denominational. A Mennonite community has existed in the Enkenbach district since 1956. In 2016 it had 251 members; Children are not included in the statistics, since Mennonites only baptize people when they are of mature age after their personal creed.

The working group of Mennonite Congregations in Germany, founded in 1990, had its seat in Enkenbach-Alsenborn for years . Werner Funck, the pastor of Enkenbach, was its honorary chairman from 1999 to 2007. The members of the Mennonite faith hold their services in the parish hall built in 1957. The current parish pastor, Rainer W. Burkart, was one of two European members of the Executive Committee of the Mennonite World Conference until 2018 . There is also a collaboration with the Menno-Heim nursing home .

politics

Municipal council

town hall

The local council in Enkenbach-Alsenborn consists of 22 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation 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 CDU GREEN FDP FWG total
2019 6th 9 3 2 2 22 seats
2014 8th 9 2 1 2 22 seats
2009 6th 11 1 1 3 22 seats
  • FWG = Free Voting Group Enkenbach-Alsenborn e. V.

mayor

Jürgen Wenzel (CDU) is the honorary local mayor of Enkenbach-Alsenborn. He was directly elected in the 2019 local elections with 51.53 percent of the vote .

coat of arms

Enkenbach-Alsenborn coat of arms
 Blazon : “Split by blue and gold, on the left a golden fountain, from which a fountain column rises with two tubes with flowing silver water and a golden lion turned to the left on the top, on the right a blue-covered red church with silver windows with a blue cross. "

It was approved by the district government in Neustadt in 1969 .

Community partnerships

A partnership has been maintained with Saint-Mihiel in Lorraine since October 9, 1983. Therefore, there is a St.-Mihiel-Platz in the district of Enkenbach.

Culture and sights

Protestant Church in Alsenborn

Buildings

Cultural monuments

The Daubenbornerhof is designated as a monument zone .

In addition, there are a total of 18 individual monuments, including the monastery church of the former Premonstratensian monastery in Enkenbach from the 13th century and the Protestant church in Alsenborn .

The monastery church in Enkenbach , built in the late Romanesque and Gothic style, was later rebuilt several times. Nothing of the other monastery buildings has survived either. However, the image program of the west portal is of supraregional importance. Other cultural monuments include the Orthsche House in Alsenborn as well as the Hahnerhof and the Obere Eselsmühle in the Enkenbach area .

Other structures

Town hall fountain

The provincial cinema is located on site ; this is an art house cinema with a long tradition. The stump forest court is located in the northeast of the district . The so-called Breidenborn Castle existed near the Daubenbornerhof from the 12th to the 15th century . A castle of the same name was located east of the Alsenborn town center . In front of the town hall, built in 1987, stands the town hall fountain that was built in the same year . There is a Kneipp facility in the swimming pool in the center of Alsenborn .

Nature and knight stones

There are a total of 17 natural monuments within the municipality , including the Billesweiher. There are also knight stones 285 and 289 on site ; the former is called Alsenz-Ursprung and is located directly at the local swimming pool at the source of the Alsenz. The latter has the inscription Here was the district court on the Stampe - court of the Counts of Leiningen - later complaint court nine chairs and is located on the forest boundary at the former Stumpfwaldgericht.

Sports

The largest club is the gymnastics and police sports club - abbreviated TPSV - Enkenbach. He offers handball, volleyball, athletics and more. At the moment there is an M * and A tournament group in the riding / vaulting area. The Alsenborn district came into focus nationwide in the 1960s and 1970s due to the success of SV Alsenborn , which had one of the best football teams in southwest Germany during this period and played three times in a row for promotion to the Bundesliga . He carries out his encounters in the stadium at the Kinderlehre .

Regular events

A traditional peculiarity of the place is particularly the " St. Peter's Day" on February 22nd, on which, in memory of the liberation from the horned cattle epidemic in 1776, no meat is consumed in many families.

Museums

Fritz Walter Museum

Fritz Walter House in Alsenborn

After more than two years of construction and renovation work on the property of Italia and Fritz Walter on Leininger Strasse in Enkenbach-Alsenborn, the doors of the private exhibition Fritz Walter - in memoriam - were opened to the public on May 20, 2004 .

Bajasseum Circus Museum

Alsenborn is known in the area as the "home of the tightrope walkers", and the inhabitants are jokingly called "Bajasse" up to the present day. The artist history of the place has its origin in the crises of the 19th century. Ways out of impoverishment and hunger, alternatives to emigration were in demand. Initiated by the Schramm family, a special type of traveling trade developed here. As musicians, puppeteers and acrobats, some Alsenborn residents moved around in the summer and lived on the money they had made in winter. The group of artists expanded quickly and existed in the typical form of the wandering family business until the Second World War . After that, the Alsenborn were mainly known in the variety world. The “heyday” between 1870 and the First World War saw many well-known artist families such as Bügler, Traber, Althoff or Rosenberg in Alsenborn, who gave the local history its special color.

The exhibition is structured according to epochs and leads from the present back into the past. Only a few props, everyday items and other objects survived the wandering life. For this reason, the exhibition focuses on pictures by the Alsenborn artists.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

The community is the seat of the iron casting company HegerGuss .

traffic

rail

The train station in Enkenbach

The municipality has a train station in Enkenbach on the Alsenz Valley Railway , which opened here in 1870 and 1871 . The northern part of the Altenhof tunnel is located in the south of the municipal marker. The branch line to Kaiserslautern , which passes the Schützenkanzel tunnel on the southern edge of the settlement of Enkenbach, has existed since 1875 . The Eistalbahn , opened in 1876, was tied through to Enkenbach in 1932, which also gave Alsenborn a train station on the northern edge of the settlement. The west of the Stempelkopf tunnel , which the route crosses, is on the Enkenbach-Alsenborn district; To the west of it, the service station at Stempelbrunnen was built , which enables train crossings and was used to load wood. Its passenger traffic ceased in 1976.

Street

The federal road 48 and the state road 395 run through Enkenbach-Alsenborn . The community is connected to the supra-regional road network - from France to the Czech Republic - which runs on the southern edge of the district via the federal motorway 6 , which passes through Saarbrücken and Mannheim , among others ; there is the Enkenbach-Alsenborn junction . In addition, the community is served by the Kaiserslautern night bus on weekends and public holidays .

tourism

Enkenbach-Alsenborn is on Deutsche Schuhstrasse . In addition, the Barbarossa cycle path runs through the municipality. It is also the starting point for the Alsenz cycle path and a hiking trail that is marked with a white and green bar .

education

Comprehensive school

Locally exist Josef Guggenmos - elementary school , an integrated comprehensive school , the Hans-Zulliger School ; in the latter it is a special school L . The community is one of two locations of the Rhineland-Palatinate Police College . As part of the country's riot police, it forms one of four operational hundred.

Enkenbach-Alsenborn fire brigade

The volunteer fire brigade in Enkenbach-Alsenborn is one of four local units in the association. Until the forced merger with the Hochspeyer community in 2014, it was the only fire department in the community. The operations department consists of around 70 men and women. The volunteer fire brigade is also active in the area of ​​disaster control in the district and leads the “Dekon-P” unit there . There has also been a youth fire brigade in Enkenbach-Alsenborn since 2005 , to which around 40 young people currently belong.

Climate protection

Enkenbach-Alsenborn biomass cogeneration plant
Solar roof register Enkenbach-Alsenborn

In May 2012, the local community of Enkenbach-Alsenborn received a substantial grant from the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety as part of the National Climate Protection Initiative for its project as a “ Master Plan 100% Climate Protection ” community. In 2014 the municipality was named an “energy municipality”.

A total of 19 municipalities were honored, including large cities such as Frankfurt am Main, Hanover and Rostock.

The aim of the master plan project is to develop municipal action strategies with high transferability that will contribute to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 80–95% by 2050 compared to 1990 levels. From 2012 to 2016 the Federal Environment Ministry in Enkenbach-Alsenborn is funding the creation of the “Master Plan 100% Climate Protection” in a first phase until the beginning of 2014 and its implementation in phase 2 until the end of the project in 2016.

The focus of the project is the development of an energy supply based on renewable energies. This includes:

According to a forecast for 2013, the share of renewable energies in relation to the total electricity volume in the company's own electricity network is over 50 percent in Enkenbach-Alsenborn. Since 2013, an internet-based solar roof cadastre has been used to estimate the maximum output and profitability of every house. A climate protection council (Committee for Environment and Climate Protection) was set up in the municipality to prepare decisions on issues relating to renewable energies, energy efficiency and climate protection.

Compared to 2010, almost 130,000 kWh of electricity could be saved in the Enkenbach-Alsenborn sewage treatment plant in 2013 . This means a decrease in electricity consumption of almost 2 percent.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

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  • 1931: Daniel Häberle (1864–1934), local researcher and university professor
  • 1974, December 19: Franz Jacob († April 5, 1986)
  • 1974, December 19: Otto Bold († December 26, 1990)
  • 1985, September 9: Albert Bold († February 22, 1990)
  • 1992, September 9: Friedrich Schneider († March 17, 2015)
  • 2007, September 21: Hans Buch (1937–2019), graduate engineer FH (specializing in surveying technology), awarded in recognition of his services as mayor of the community of Enkenbach-Alsenborn from 1982–2001

Sons and daughters of the church

People who worked on site

Web links

Commons : Enkenbach-Alsenborn  - collection of images, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Enkenbach-Alsenborn  - in the news

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: My village, my city. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Mehlinger Heide. In: Open Street Map. Retrieved May 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 176 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
  5. ↑ Municipal statistics . In: KommWis. October 31, 2014, accessed November 30, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Mennonite Yearbook 117 (2018), p. 162.
  7. ↑ Report at Mennonews.de , accessed on December 23, 2016.
  8. ↑ Executive Committee of the Mennonite World Conference , accessed on December 23, 2016, in conjunction with access on October 13, 2018.
  9. ^ Election results for the municipal council Enkenbach-Alsenborn 2019
  10. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
  11. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Enkenbach-Alsenborn, Verbandsgemeinde, first line of results. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .
  12. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
  13. ↑ St.-Mihiel-Platz in Enkenbach-Alsenborn. Verbandsgemeinde Enkenbach-Alsenborn, accessed on May 7, 2019 .
  14. ^ Fire department Enkenbach-Alsenborn - Dekon-P unit Enkenbach-Alsenborn
  15. ↑ Fire Brigade Enkenbach-Alsenborn - Youth Fire Brigade
  16. ↑ Master plan 100% climate protection of the local community Enkenbach-Alsenborn. Retrieved May 7, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Local economic factor: Renewable energies. Renewable Energy Agency, accessed May 7, 2019 .
  18. ↑ CV of Prof. Dr. Daniel Häberle. Verbandsgemeinde Enkenbach-Alsenborn, accessed on May 30, 2019 .
  19. ^ Hans Buch's obituary notice
  20. ↑ Honorary citizen of the Enkenbach-Alsenborn community. Retrieved May 30, 2019 .