Etschberg

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 31 '  N , 7 ° 25'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kusel
Association municipality :	Kusel-Altenglan
Height :	370 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.45 km 2
Residents:	654 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	190 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66871
Area code :	06381
License plate :	KUS
Community key :	07 3 36 024
Association administration address:	Marktplatz 1 66869 Kusel
Website :	vg-kusel-altenglan.de
Local Mayor :	Christoph Schneider
Location of the local community Etschberg in the district of Kusel

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

geography

Etschberg is located in the Kuseler Musikantenland in the West Palatinate on a slope of the Odersberg. The Glan flows to the east .

To Etschberg includes the residential places Lindenhof and homestead stroke Leidsthalerhube.

history

The village was first mentioned as Etzberg in 1364 .

Initially belonging to the county of Veldenz , the place fell to the newly formed county of Pfalz-Zweibrücken , whose fate was now shared by Etschberg, when its male line was extinguished in 1444 .

Like the other villages in the area, Etschberg was hit several times by wars in the 17th century. Only a few residents survived the Thirty Years' War , and the village was also described as "burned" in 1775 during the wars of the French King Louis XIV , which culminated in the War of the Palatinate Succession . With the immigration of young families, things picked up again, and finally, in the 18th century, population growth began.

From 1801 to 1814 Etschberg belonged to France as part of the Saardepartement , Arrondissement Birkenfeld , Canton Kusel, Mairie Quirnbach. 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 . The place has now been assigned to the Land Commissioner and Mayor's Office Kusel in the Bavarian Rhine District.

Even before that, it was more strongly influenced by handicrafts than many neighboring towns, but Etschberg developed into a workers' village and from the 19th century to the beginning of the Second World War also into a village of traveling musicians , whereas nowadays it is more of a residential community from which many commuters go to work outside of Germany.

After the war, Etschberg 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 council in Etschberg 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

Christoph Schneider became the local mayor of Etschberg in 2019. Since there was no candidate in the direct election on May 26, 2019, the upcoming election was made by the council.

Schneider's predecessor, Klaus Rech, who was elected in 2014, had to resign from office in March 2019 for health reasons and died in July of that year.

coat of arms

The blazon of the coat of arms reads: "In silver on a curved, green floor, a kneeling, green-clad hunter with a red feather on his hat and a golden arrow with a blue tip in a stretched, golden bow."

Economy and Infrastructure

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

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Ernst Rech (1876–1955), musician
• Alfons Schneider (1903–1983), teacher, writer, local poet
• Ernst Diehl (* 1949), soccer player

People who have worked in the community

• Margit Conrad (* 1952), politician (SPD), grew up in Etschberg

literature

• Literature about Etschberg in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Etschberg  - Collection of Images

• Local community Etschberg on the website of the association community Kusel-Altenglan
• Etschberg at regionalgeschichte.net
• Short portrait with a film about Etschberg on SWR television

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 (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 157 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ^ Helmut Schneider: Etschberg. Surname. In: regionalgeschichte.net. Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz eV, accessed on May 20, 2020 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Helmut Schneider: Etschberg. Outline of the local history. In: regionalgeschichte.net. Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz eV, accessed on May 20, 2020 . 
5. ^ Helmut Schneider: Etschberg. Residents. In: regionalgeschichte.net. Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz eV, accessed on May 20, 2020 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Kusel-Altenglan, Verbandsgemeinde, twelfth line of the results. Retrieved May 10, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Etschberg. Local Mayor Christoph Schneider. Retrieved May 10, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Susanne Cahn: Former Etschberg Mayor Klaus Rech has died. Die Rheinpfalz, July 10, 2019, accessed on May 10, 2020 . 
10. ↑ ^{a b} Helmut Schneider: Etschberg. Personalities. In: regionalgeschichte.net. Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz eV, accessed on May 20, 2020 .