Eschenau (Sankt Julian)

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Eschenau
Local parish Sankt Julian
Coordinates: 49 ° 36 ′ 2 ″  N , 7 ° 29 ′ 18 ″  E
Height : 205 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 210  (2010)
Incorporation : 7th June 1969
Postal code : 66887
Area code : 06387
Eschenau (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Eschenau

Location of Eschenau in Rhineland-Palatinate

Eschenau is a part of the local community of Sankt Julian in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Kusel . Until 1969, the agricultural town was an independent municipality. However, it does not have legal status as a local district.

location

Eschenau is located in the North Palatinate Uplands not far from the orographic left bank of the Glan in the western part of the district of Sankt Julian. The nearby Schrammenmühle , like the right bank of the river, is already part of the Gumbsweiler district . In the immediate vicinity of Eschenau there were two devastations: Haunhausen and Olscheid .

history

Development until 1900

Eschenau was founded in the High Middle Ages , the exact date of foundation is unknown. The first documentary mention was either 1330 or 1340 as Essenoe . The first owners of the community were the lords of Montfort , who had to hand over part of the town's economic income to the provost of St. Remigius . From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the First French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the First French Empire , Eschenau was incorporated into the Canton of Grumbach . From 1816 Eschenau belonged to the Kingdom of Bavaria like the entire Palatinate of that time and was assigned to the Kusel Land Commissioner .

From the 20th century

In 1928 the place had 216 inhabitants, all of whom were Protestants and lived in 39 residential buildings.

Since 1939 the place has been in the Kusel district . During the Second World War , Eschenau fell victim to several aerial bombings, which were primarily intended to hit the strategically important Glantalbahn , to which the town had been connected since 1904. In February 1945, American forces wanted to blow up the bridge directly at the station. While the actual project did not succeed, the village of Eschenau was almost completely destroyed by these attacks; this resulted in numerous deaths on site. In March the said bridge was attacked two more times.

After the Second World War it became part of the newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In the course of the Rhineland-Palatinate functional and territorial reform, it was incorporated into the neighboring municipality of Sankt Julian . In 2010, the construction of a new high-level earth tank for drinking water supply was approved on site, as the neighboring counterparts in Niederalben and Sankt Julian had become dilapidated.

Eschenauer Wunner

Several hundred years ago, there was a footbridge over the nearby Glan in Eschenau. However, it disappeared after a flood. After the villagers first looked for him down the river, one wanted to do so in the opposite direction and found the jetty in a neighboring community. This had taken the flood as a good opportunity to steal the jetty. This story is known as the Eschenauer Wunner (= miracle).

Population development

In 1824 the community had 139 inhabitants, 40 years later there were already 211. In 1928 the population was 216 and in 1961 it rose to a total of 258. At the time of incorporation into Sankt Julian in 1969, Eschenau had 221 residents. In 2010, 210 people lived on site.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The federal highway 420 runs through Eschenau . From this, Kreisstraße 75 branches off to Schrammenmühle . In 1904 the place was connected to the railway network in the form of the Eschenau (Pfalz) station on the Glantalbahn , which was built for strategic reasons . Like most stops on the way in the Altenglan - Lauterecken-Grumbach section , it was only of minor importance. In 1985, passenger traffic on this section was discontinued, and the station had already lost its importance in freight traffic by this time. Since 2000 there has been a draisine operation on the former Glantalbahn between Altenglan and Staudernheim ; since then there has been a trolley station at the former train station. The Glan-Blies-Weg has been on the route of the second track, which was dismantled in 1962, since 2005 . Since the line was closed, the closest train stations are in Altenglan and Lauterecken.

Infrastructure

Eschenau has a historic town center. With the former reception building, in which an art studio is now housed, as well as a cross house in Flurstraße 2, there are a total of two cultural monuments on site . In the 20th century there was also a post office and a Protestant school on site. The latter was given up in 1969. The former schoolhouse has now been converted into a village community center.

With the Wunnerverein , the Country Women's Association , and a choral society there are three clubs in Eschenau. The former organizes the regionally important rock in the cowshed and also organizes parties, exhibitions and tent camps. The so-called Kirmes von Eschenau takes place every year on the fourth weekend in October .

Son of Eschenau

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways on Glan and Lauter . Self-published, Waldmohr 1996, ISBN 3-9804919-0-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e regionalgeschichte.net: Pfalz> Cities & Villages> Eschenau . Retrieved March 21, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b c Eschenau. In: Draisinentour. Tourist information Palatinate Bergland, accessed on September 5, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c Eschenau (St. Julian) - A portrait of Harald Hort. swr.de, accessed on September 5, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b List of localities for the Free State of Bavaria. In: daten.digitale-sammlungen.de. Retrieved March 11, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 51 .
  6. ↑ sgdsued.rlp.de: New elevated tank St. Julian / Eschenau approved . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 14, 2014 ; Retrieved March 11, 2013 .
  7. ↑ gov.genealogy.net: Obermohr . Retrieved March 10, 2013 .
  8. ↑ 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. 195 (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.  
  9. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 60 .
  10. ↑ achim-bartoschek.de: Railway route cycling - details - Germany> Rhineland-Palatinate> south of the Nahe - RP 3.08 Glan-Blies cycle path: section Staudernheim - Waldmohr . Retrieved March 10, 2013 .
  11. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Kusel district. Mainz 2019, p. 28 (PDF; 5.8 MB).
  12. ↑ Walter Blauth