Freisbach

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Coat of arms of the local community of Freisbach
Freisbach
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Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '  N , 8 ° 16'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Germersheim
Association municipality : Lingenfeld
Height : 115 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.98 km 2
Residents: 1146 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 230 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 67361
Area code : 06344
License plate : GER
Community key : 07 3 34 006
Association administration address: Hauptstrasse 60
67360 Lingenfeld
Website : www.freisbach.de
Local Mayor : Peter Gauweiler
Location of the local community of Freisbach in the district of Germersheim
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Freisbach City Hall

Freisbach is a municipality in the district of Germersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Lingenfeld community .

geography

Freisbach is between Landau , Germersheim , Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and Speyer .

Freisbach is the northernmost municipality in the district of Germersheim and is one of the small towns. The location in the fertile Gäu Plain ( Palatinate Gäu ) and away from the major traffic routes have preserved the village's rural character. Freisbach is now a popular place to live in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region.

The Auländer, In den Forlen and Lindenhof residential areas also belong to Freisbach .

history

Freisbach was first mentioned in a document in 1179 in the Codex of Abbot Edelin von Weißenburg . Until the late Middle Ages, the residents were able to maintain freedoms similar to an imperial village . The abbey sold its rights to Freisbach in 1482 to the Speyer cathedral chapter.

Population development

If not listed separately, the source of the data is the State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate.

year Residents
1802 405
1815 512
1835 555
1849 596
1861 576
1871 557
1905 539
year Residents
1939 480
1950 589
1965 548
1970 540
1975 601
1980 664
1985 761
year Residents
1990 839
1995 869
2000 1.014
2005 1,042
2010 1,085
2013 1,067
2019 1,146

religion

In 2012, 45.5 percent of the population were Protestant and 24.4 percent Catholic . The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational . In 1871, out of a total of 557 inhabitants, 528 were Protestant (95 percent), 7 Catholic (1 percent) and 22 Jewish (4 percent).

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Freisbach consists of 16 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote, and the honorary local mayor Peter Gauweiler as chairman.

mayor

Peter Gauweiler was founded in 2004 with 72.0%, in 2009 78.1% 2014 74.8% and in 2019 with 68.19% of the votes in direct elected mayor. His predecessor was Uwe Reif (SPD).

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Freisbach
 Blazon : "In red, a silver house brand in the form of a double-shafted, curved A."
Justification for the coat of arms: It was approved by the Bavarian king in 1841 and goes back to a court seal from 1731.

Culture and sights

church

Buildings:

  • Parish church, with an organ from 1788/89, built by the organ builder Johann Georg Geib .

traffic

From 1905, Freisbach owned a station on the Speyer – Neustadt local railway, which was closed in 1956 . Freisbach is connected to the regional transport network via the L 507 state road and the 272 federal road . The federal road connects the place with Landau in the Palatinate , Germersheim , Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and Speyer . Freisbach is connected to public transport to Speyer , Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , Germersheim and Lingenfeld by regular buses .

Web links

Commons : Freisbach  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Hauptstraße in Freisbach from the SWR Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz , accessed on June 16, 2014.
  3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 147 (PDF; 3 MB).
  4. ↑ Erhard Nietzschmann: The free in the country. Former German imperial villages and their coats of arms. Melchior, Wolfenbüttel 2013, ISBN 978-3-944289-16-8 , p. 32.
  5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Freisbach
  6. ↑ a b c Official directory and statistics of the Royal Bavarian Government District of the Palatinate, 1863, p. XII of the appendix
  7. ↑ a b Results of the census in the Kingdom of Bavaria from December 1, 1871 according to individual communities, 1873, p. 64
  8. ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2012
  9. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections Retrieved on April 23, 2020.
  10. ↑ a b Electoral office of the Lingenfeld community administration: Elections for the mayor of the local community of Freisbach since 1994 (PDF; 14 KB) Accessed on January 20, 2014.
  11. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Lingenfeld, Verbandsgemeinde, second line of results. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .
  12. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Gräber, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .