Frankelbach

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Frankelbach (disambiguation) .

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '  N , 7 ° 38'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kaiserslautern
Association municipality :	Otterbach-Otterberg
Height :	230 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.29 km 2
Residents:	293 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	55 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67737
Area code :	06308
License plate :	KL
Community key :	07 3 35 009
Association administration address:	Hauptstrasse 27 67697 Otterberg
Website :	otterbach-otterberg.de
Local Mayor :	Hans-Peter Spohn
Location of the Frankelbach community in the Kaiserslautern district

Frankelbach is a municipality in the north of the Kaiserslautern district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Otterbach-Otterberg .

geography

The local community is located in a left side valley of the upper Lauter , through which the Frankelbach flows. The valley falls from 443  m above sea level in just three kilometers . NN lying Galgenberg to Lauter around 250 m. The area is largely part of the Palatinate Uplands . The university town of Kaiserslautern , the center of the entire region, is about 16 km from Frankelbach, the small town of Wolfstein about 6 km. The northern neighboring municipality of Kreimbach-Kaulbach is already in the Kusel district .

To Frankelbach includes the residential places Brühlhof, Grubenhof and station Olsbrücken.

history

Frankelbach essentially shares the history of the entire Palatinate. Traces of early Celtic settlements cannot be definitely proven, but can be assumed. The term "Teufelsstein" should refer to the Celts. In addition, the street name "Ruhling" speaks for an old Roman road that ran along here. Ruhling comes etymologically from the word “Reuel”, in the Palatinate “Raul”, which means narrow, narrow passage. Raul, in turn, can be derived from the Latin “rivulus”. The preservation of this name speaks for a continuity of settlement since Roman times, as the names for streets in the past were only passed on orally from generation to generation.

Frankelbach belonged to the district of Kusel from 1939 on . After the administrative reform in 1971, the community moved to the district of Kaiserslautern .

politics

Municipal council

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

Local mayor

The local mayor of Frankelbach is Hans-Peter Spohn. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with 82.58% of the vote.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Divided by black and gold by a diagonal wave line, at the top left a growing red armored, tongued and crowned golden lion, at the bottom right an upright red-tongued black wolf turned to the left, accompanied by three black diamond stones 1: 2."
	Justification of the coat of arms: It was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1975 and goes back to a seal from 1743. The Palatinate Lion is a reminder of the former belonging to the Electoral Palatinate .

Economy and Infrastructure

Frankelbach is a commuter community . Many residents have their jobs in companies and institutions in and around Kaiserslautern.

traffic

The most important traffic artery in the Lautertal is the B 270 , which leads from Kaiserslautern via Wolfstein and Lauterecken to Idar-Oberstein . The railway line from Kaiserslautern to Lauterecken also uses the partly narrow Lauter valley. The next motorway junction is about twelve kilometers from Frankelbach ( Kaiserslautern-West on the A 6 from Kaiserslautern to Saarbrücken ).

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Frankelbach

Web links

Commons : Frankelbach  - Collection of Images

• Local community Frankelbach on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Otterbach-Otterberg
• Short portrait of Frankelbach ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on SWR television
• Literature about Frankelbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

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. 152 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ^ Rudolf Post: Palatinate - Introduction to the Linguistic Landscape. Landau / Palatinate 1992
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local council election 2019 Frankelbach. Retrieved October 27, 2019 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Otterbach-Otterberg, Verbandsgemeinde, first line of results. Retrieved October 27, 2019 . 
6. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .