Fischbach (near Kaiserslautern)

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kaiserslautern
Association municipality :	Enkenbach-Alsenborn
Height :	299 m above sea level NHN
Area :	15.04 km 2
Residents:	725 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	48 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67693
Area code :	06305
License plate :	KL
Community key :	07 3 35 007
Association administration address:	Hauptstrasse 18 ; 67677 Enkenbach-Alsenborn
Website :	www.fischbach-pfalz.de
Local Mayor :	Sascha Leidner
Location of the local community Fischbach in the district of Kaiserslautern

The townscape of Fischbach

Fischbach is a municipality in the Kaiserslautern district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It has been a member of the Enkenbach-Alsenborn community since July 1, 2014 , within which it is the second smallest local community in terms of population.

geography

location

The community is located in the Palatinate Forest . The east of the district lies in its sub-area Diemersteiner Wald ; there is the Vallunga in the far east of the district . The Altenhof is located in the very north of the municipality . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Enkenbach-Alsenborn , Wattenheim , Bad Dürkheim , Frankenstein (Palatinate) , Hochspeyer and Kaiserslautern .

Surveys

The Great Kieneck extends to the east and the Great and the Kleine Hetzelkopf to the northwest . The Harzkopf , Mitteleck , Hundsbrunnerkopf and Mehlweiler Kopf are located in the western municipality area . Immediately on the border with Enkenbach-Alsenborn rise the 421 m high nut bend and the 419 m high barrier head and to the south of them the beech heads .

Waters

The eponymous Fischbach runs through the middle of the settlement area . The Glasbach happens in its upper reaches for a short time the east of the municipality. Its left tributary, Siebenquellenbach, forms the boundary to Bad Dürkheim along its entire length.

history

The first documented mention of a Marien pilgrimage chapel there was in 1221. From 1471 the Fischbach monastery developed from it and subsequently the associated village.

By the end of the 18th century, Fischbach formed a condominium as it belonged jointly to the Electoral Palatinate and the Counts of Leiningen-Dagsburg . From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Fischbach formed a municipality with the neighboring "Hochspeier" and was incorporated into the canton of Kaiserslautern . In 1815 the place Austria was added. Just one year later, the place, like the entire Palatinate, changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 Fischbach belonged to the Land Commissioner Kaiserslautern - still combined with Hochspeyer to form one municipality ; from this the district office of Kaiserslautern emerged.

Fischbach has been part of the Kaiserslautern district since 1939 . After the Second World War , the place became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , the municipality was added to the newly formed Hochspeyer association in 1972 . Fischbach has been part of the Enkenbach-Alsenborn community since 2014 .

religion

From 1400 to 1418 the local Marian pilgrimage chapel was looked after by the St. Jakob monastery on Donnersberg. By the end of the 18th century, Fischbach had its own Mennonite community, which then merged with the one in nearby Sembach.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of twelve 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. A majority vote took place in the 2014 local elections .

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	-	3	9	12 seats
2014	Majority vote			12 seats
2009	4th	-	8th	12 seats
2004	4th	-	8th	12 seats

mayor

Sascha Leidner (FWG) has been the local mayor since 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with 70.59% of the vote.

Culture

Cultural monuments

Listed ovens

In Fischbach there are a total of five objects that are under monument protection .

nature

The community is located in the Palatinate Forest Nature Park , which in turn belongs to the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord biosphere reserve . There are four natural monuments in the municipality , including the Sieben-Brunnen .

Knight stones

Ritterstein 177 Schmugglersdell in the district of Fischbach

There are numerous knight stones in the municipality . Several of those who are in the eastern municipality refer to redoubts from the First Coalition War

Events

Every year there are two “ceremonial meetings” for carnival, on the two Saturdays before the carnival weekend. On May 1st, the maypole is set up at the monastery fountain. On the first weekend of Advent there is a Christmas tree decoration with a Christmas market at the monastery fountain. On December 31st at midnight there is a midnight meeting at the turn of the year.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

The forester's lodge Schorlenberg is located in the very north-east of the municipality .

traffic

The B 48 , which leads from Bad Bergzabern to Bad Kreuznach , runs directly through the village. The next motorway junction Enkenbach-Alsenborn (17) on the federal motorway 6 in the direction of Saarbrücken and Waidhaus is about three kilometers away and is partly on the Fischbacher district.

The closest train station is Hochspeyer on the Mannheim – Saarbrücken line . Although the Alsenz Valley Railway, which opened in 1870 and 1871, passes through the town, it never had its own train station due to its small size and the short distance to Hochspeyer. However, the Hochspeyer-Nord train station section of the nearby Hochspeyer train station is within the boundaries of the municipality, as is the southern part of the Altenhof tunnel . There is also the N 10 night bus operated by SWK Stadtwerke Kaiserslautern Verkehrs-AG , which also leads to Mehlingen .

tourism

The Nahegau-Wasgau-Vosges long-distance hiking trail marked with a white cross and one with the sign “white-blue bar” run through the east of the district . One that is marked with a blue-yellow bar and runs from Lauterecken to Sankt Germanshof and a route marked with a white-green bar that leads from the Obere Eselsmühle in Enkenbach-Alsenborn to Maikammer lead through the west of the municipality . One that is marked with a green-red bar leads through the middle of the settlement area .

military

The Fischbach Terminal Station (FSH) of the Seventh United States Army , which was abandoned in 1992, was once located in the municipality .

education

Fischbach has the Mäuseburg kindergarten .

Sports

The first badminton team of SV Fischbach in 1959 plays in the second Bundesliga and was German U19 champions in 2008.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Karl Kleeberger (1862–1944), local historian
Achim Albrecht (* 1959), legal scholar

People who worked on site

Johannes Möllinger (1739–1815), German watchmaker, was there.
Franz Kraus (March 28, 1914 - June 7, 1994), teacher and disseminator of Spiritual Christian teaching in Germany, came from Fischbach.
Arno Zude (* 1964), chess player, won the German championship in solving chess problems and studies on site in 1994

Web links

Commons : Fischbach - Collection of Images

Wikisource: Fischbach near Kaiserslautern - sources and full texts

Homepage of the local community Fischbach
Literature about Fischbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Fischbach. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
↑ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Enkenbach-Alsenborn, Verbandsgemeinde, second line of results. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).