Gehrweiler

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 35 '  N , 7 ° 46'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Donnersbergkreis
Association municipality :	North Palatinate Country
Height :	250 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.09 km 2
Residents:	312 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	76 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67724
Area code :	06302
License plate :	KIB, ROK
Community key :	07 3 33 024
Association administration address:	Bezirksamtsstrasse 7 67806 Rockenhausen
Website :	www.rockenhausen.de
Local Mayor :	Bernhard Kiefer ( SPD )
Location of the local community Gehrweiler in the Donnersbergkreis

Townscape with roof landscape and town center

Gehrweiler is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Nordpfälzer Land , within which it is the most southerly local community.

geography

location

The place is in the North Palatinate Uplands west of the Donnersberg and forms the southern end of the Verbandsgemeinde Nordpfälzer Land between Kaiserslautern and Bad Kreuznach , in a side valley of the Alsenz river . The district of Kaiserslautern connects to the west . In the community area, the Lichtenberg ridge and the lower Lauterhöhen merge.

Gehrweiler has a high proportion of forests and extensive agriculturally used areas in the form of arable and pasture land. Gehrweiler also includes the Gehrweilermühle residential area . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Gundersweiler , Schweisweiler , Höringen and Heiligenmoschel . In the far east of the district there is a so-called quadrangle .

Waters

The Moschelbach flows through the middle of Gehrweiler, initially taking up the Teufelslochgraben from the left and the Höringerbach from the right within the settlement area .

history

Gehrweiler is mentioned for the first time in a document as "novale Jerisonis" in 891 in the prestarie contract between Bishop Theotelach von Worms and Count Erinfrid. The village was later owned by the Electorate of the Palatinate and fell to the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken in 1444 .

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , the municipality was incorporated into the Canton of Winnweiler within the Donnersberg department . In 1815 the place belonged again to Austria as a result of the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna . A year later it was slammed into Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 Gehrweiler was part of the Kaiserslautern Land Commissioner , which was then converted into a district office.

On December 1, 1900, the community moved to the newly created district office Rockenhausen . From 1939 the place was part of the district of Rockenhausen . After the Second World War , Gehrweiler became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In 1961 the community had a total of 391 inhabitants. In the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform , the community moved to the newly created Donnersbergkreis. In 1972 it was added to the newly formed community of Rockenhausen . Gehrbach has been part of the Nordpfälzer Land association since 2020 .

religion

According to an undated document dating from around 1469, Count Palatine Ludwig I of Pfalz-Zweibrücken , Abbot Peter von Münsterdreisen and Father Johann, pastor of Rockenhausen and conventuals of Münsterdreisen state that there has not yet been a chapel in the village of Gehrweiler because there is belong to the parish of Rockenhausen. However, since "a miraculous image of Our Lady " had been brought to the town "a short time ago " , the residents built a chapel which was consecrated three weeks ago . The Count Palatine granted a collective patent for the costs incurred during the consecration, as well as for the purchase of "chalices, chasers, altar decorations, books and other emergency items" and the Münsterdreisen monastery allowed the church to participate fully in the indulgences previously granted to it. Apparently a pilgrimage developed, which also enlarged the village. Later, St. Jacob appears as the chapel patron.

The chapel fell into disrepair during the Reformation, with the exception of a remnant, which was later expanded into a baroque bell tower. Members of the village community worked on their own to design a village center around the tower, which contains a fountain, a guild tree and quiet areas.

The Catholics belong to the Diocese of Speyer and are subordinate to the Donnersberg deanery , the Evangelicals to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate .

politics

Municipal council

The council in Gehrweiler 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.

mayor

The local mayor is Bernhard Kiefer (SPD). In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected in office with 85.92 percent of the vote.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Roughened diagonally in silver and blue."
	Reasons for the coat of arms: The diamonds are reminiscent of the Wittelsbach rule in the form of Pfalz-Zweibrücken and later Bavaria

Cultural monuments

Town center with a listed bell tower, fountain and guild tree

There are a total of four objects on site that are listed as historical monuments .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

House construction on site in 2007

Gehrweiler is characterized by a rural, rural and craft structure. The place is important as a residential area for employees in the nearby Kaiserslautern area. In Gehrweiler, the Paula Best School is a primary school.

traffic

State road 387 runs through Gehrweiler and connects the place with Kaiserslautern and Imsweiler . State road 388 , which leads to Katzweiler , joins this at the northern edge of the settlement area . There is a connection to long-distance traffic via the Winnweiler junction of the A 63 in the southeast.

Local traffic was organized in the West Palatinate Transport Association (WVV) from 2000 , which has been fully integrated into the Rhein-Neckar Transport Association (VRN) since summer 2006 . In the neighboring Imsweiler there is a train station of the Alsenz Valley Railway . Gehrweiler is connected to the local transport network by Behles Bus operated bus route 911, which connects the town with Winnweiler and Rockenhausen .

literature

• Egon Busch: Gehrweiler - Chronicle of a North Palatinate Village . Self-rel. d. Author, Gehrweiler 2006, ISBN 3-926306-50-5 (592 pages).

Web links

Commons : Gehrweiler  - Collection of Images

• Local community Gehrweiler on the pages of the association Rockenhausen
• Literature about Gehrweiler 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. 143 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ Wolfgang Haubrichs: The prestarie contract of Bishop Theotelach von Worms with Count Erinfrid from the year 891. Edition and studies on onomastics and settlement history. In: Yearbook for West German State History 16. 1990, pp. 1–83.
4. ↑ Michael Frey : Attempt of a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal. Bayer. Rheinkreises , Volume 3 ( court district of Kaiserslautern ), Speyer, 1837, p. 154; (Digital scan) .
5. ^ Franz Xaver Glasschröder : Documents on the Palatinate Church History in the Middle Ages , Munich, 1903, page 263, document regist no.643
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Gehrweiler municipal council election 2019. Retrieved August 25, 2019 . 
7. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Nordpfälzer Land, Verbandsgemeinde, ninth line of results. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .