Eschbach (Palatinate)

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southern Wine Route
Association municipality :	Landau country
Height :	231 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.66 km 2
Residents:	640 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	175 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	76831
Area code :	06345
License plate :	SOUTH
Community key :	07 3 37 022
Association administration address:	To 44 No. 31 ; 76829 Landau in the Palatinate
Website :	www.eschbach-pfalz.de
Local Mayor :	Frank Laux (independent)
Location of the local community Eschbach in the district of Südliche Weinstrasse

General view - view from the Madenburg

Eschbach is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstrasse district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Landau-Land community .

location

Eschbach is located on the eastern edge of the Wasgau , as the southern part of the Palatinate Forest and the adjoining northern part of the Vosges are also called. Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Leinsweiler , Ilbesheim near Landau in the Palatinate , Göcklingen , Klingenmünster , Waldhambach and Landau in the Palatinate (exclave). The 476.3 meter high Rothenberg extends southwest of the settlement area . Further to the north-west lies the 523-meter-high Schletterberg , the eastern flank of which lies on the outskirts of Eschbach.

history

The community is first mentioned in a document from the Eusserthal monastery in 1254 as Echibach . Until the end of the 18th century, the place belonged to the rule Madenburg .

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Eschbach was incorporated into the canton of Landau . Then the community moved to the canton of Annweiler in 1815, the place had a total of 640 inhabitants. In the same year it was added to Austria . Just one year later, the place, like the entire Palatinate, changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . In the following period Eschbach returned to the canton of Landau. From 1818 to 1862 the community belonged to the Landau Landau commissioner ; from this the district office of Landau emerged. In 1832, participants in the Hambach Festival from the town set up a tree of freedom in Wollmesheim after they returned from it .

From 1939 the place was part of the Landau district in the Palatinate . After the Second World War , Eschbach became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . 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 Eschbach was assigned to the also newly formed community of Landau-Land .

religion

At the end of 2013, 65.1 percent of the population were Catholic and 18.6 percent Protestant. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational.

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Frank Laux (independent) became the local mayor of Eschbach on January 1, 2018. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for a further five years with 81.14% of the votes. His predecessors were Siegfried Schmid (term of office November 2014 to December 2017) and Klaus Christ (from 2009), who died in 2014 after being successfully re-elected before taking up his second term.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In green, three silver diagonal waves."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The basis is a court seal proven as early as 1626, the award was made on December 2, 1937 by the Reich Governor in Bavaria .

Culture and sights

Above Eschbach is the Madenburg , to whose rule the place belonged. The knights of the castle belonged to the society with the donkey in the 15th century , which is why the nickname donkey, which the neighboring villages gave to the Eschbachers, became established. As a reminder of this, artistically designed donkey sculptures have been set up throughout the village since 2004.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

The community is a wine village and as such part of the Palatinate wine-growing region . There is a large site called Herrlich and a single site called Hasen .

traffic

State roads 508 and 509 run through Eschbach ; the former is identical on site with the German Wine Route . The bus line 531 of the Rhein-Neckar transport association connects the community with Landau in the Palatinate and Annweiler am Trifels . The community is also located on the southern route of the Palatinate Way of St. James and the German Wine Route cycle route .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Kar Beil (1902–1992), pastor, from 1975
Albert Weigel (1902–1985), pastor and clergyman, from 1985
Otto Thomas (1927–2006), pastor, from 1993

Sons and daughters of the church

Franz Josef Ehrhart (1853–1908), politician (SPD), member of the Landtag and Reichstag
Peter Dausch (1864–1944), Catholic priest, professor of theology and academic book author.