Geiselberg

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

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 20 '  N , 7 ° 42'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southwest Palatinate
Association municipality :	Waldfischbach castle albums
Height :	420 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.33 km 2
Residents:	757 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	120 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67715
Area code :	06307
License plate :	PS , ZW
Community key :	07 3 40 012
Association administration address:	Friedhofstrasse 3 67714 Waldfischbach-Burgalben
Website :	www.geiselberg.de
Mayoress :	Marika Vatter
Location of the local community Geiselberg in the district of Südwestpfalz

Geiselberg is a municipality in the Südwestpfalz district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Waldfischbach-Burgalben .

geography

location

Geiselberg is located in the Palatinate Holzland , in the west of the Palatinate Forest . The Neuhof and Tiefenthalerhof residential areas also belong to Geiselberg . Neighboring communities are Schmalenberg , Heltersberg , Waldfischbach-Burgalben , Steinalben , Horbach , and Schopp .

Waters

The Hirschalbe forms the boundary to Schopp and Schmalenberg in the north, the Moosalbe that to the west of Horbach. Its tributary Seetalbach forms the one to Heltersberg, as does the Haselbach shortly before its confluence with the Hirschalbe.

history

The place was under the Hornbach monastery . With the secularization of the monastery, Geiselberg came to the Electorate of Palatinate , whose fate it shared. Near Geiselberg was the village of Tiefenthal, which was subject to interest for the Lords of Flersheim at the nearby Wilenstein Castle and which went under in the 17th century.

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Geiselberg was incorporated into the canton of Waldfischbach in the Donnersberg department and was subordinate to the Mairie Waldfischbach . In 1815 the place was initially added to Austria . A year later the community moved to the Kingdom of Bavaria and was part of the Rhine district there . From 1818 to 1862 the place was part of the Landkommissariat Pirmasens , which was then converted into a district office. In 1828 the village with the Hirschalber Mill had 352 Protestant and 72 Catholic residents. After the Second World War, the place came to the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

In 1939 Geiselberg was incorporated into the district of Pirmasens (from 1997 district of Südwestpfalz ) . After the Second World War , the municipality within the French occupation zone became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate and the administrative district of Palatinate . In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , the community was assigned to the newly created community of Waldfischbach-Burgalben in 1972 .

Population development

The development of the population of Geiselberg, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 350 1835 460 1871 503 1905 533 1939 555 1950 597 1961 627

year Residents 1970 713 1987 712 1997 840 2005 907 2011 856 2017 790

politics

Municipal council

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

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	FWG	total
2019	by majority vote		12 seats
2014	4th	8th	12 seats
2009	4th	8th	12 seats
2004	4th	8th	12 seats

Mayor of Geiselberg

Term of office mayor 1890-1900 Peter Schaaf II. 1900-1904 Johann Rutz 1904-1920 Daniel Hauck 1920-1921 Gustav Jochum 1921-1924 Jakob Rutz 1925-1945 Wilhelm Stichler

Term of office mayor 1945 Edmund Utzinger 1946-1948 August Weissmann 1949-1974 Kurt Utzinger 1974-1989 Heinz Hauck 1989-2019 Georg Spiess since 2019 Marika Vatter

Marika Vatter (FWG) was elected the first female mayor of Geiselberg in the direct election on May 26, 2019 with 84.17 percent of the vote and took office on August 5, 2019.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was awarded in 1982 by the Rheinhessen-Palatinate district government . The colors gold and black refer to the Electoral Palatinate , which Geiselberg used to belong to. Beech and ears of corn symbolize the structure that used to be dominated by agriculture, the Grünberg the altitude of the place. The letter "T" stands for Tiefenthal , a nearby desert. It is believed that Geiselberg developed from it.

The flag is green and yellow.

Culture

Cultural monuments

There are a total of five objects on site that are listed .

nature

Geiselberg is located in the Palatinate Forest Nature Park , which in turn is part of the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord Biosphere Reserve . There are also three natural monuments in the municipality .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

The Daniel Theysohn Foundation based in Ludwigswinkel supports young people in Geiselberg in their training.

traffic

The district road 31 , which connects to Heltersberg , runs through the village . Federal highway 270 runs on the western edge of the municipality . There is a connection to long-distance traffic via the nearby Weselberg driveway of the A 62 .

Geiselberg is in the area of ​​the Rhein-Neckar transport association . The nearest train station is Steinalben on the Biebermühlbahn ( regional train line 64 ) , alternatively called Moosalbbahn , which connects Pirmasens and Kaiserslautern , is located about four kilometers west of Geiselberg. With the bus lines 246/170 and the call taxi line 2581 (Mon – Fri bus traffic, weekend / public holidays call taxi traffic) there is also a connection to the Waldfischbach train station on the said route. Line 170 also runs a few trips from Geiselberg to Trippstadt / Schmalenberg , Waldfischbach and Kaiserslautern as well as individual trips to Horbach , Linden (Pfalz) and Schopp .

The nearest passenger airport has been the downgrading of the airport two bridges of Saarbrücken Airport at a distance of about 60  kilometers . The closest military airfield, which is reserved exclusively for the military and members of Ramstein Air Base , is Ramstein Airfield .

tourism

The Südwestpfalz-Tour cycle path and a hiking path, which is marked with a blue dot and connects to Hauptstuhl and Leimen, run through the south of the district .

Web links

Commons : Geiselberg  - Collection of Images

• Website of the local community Geiselberg

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 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 109 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Geographical-statistical manual from Rheinbaiern, Zweibrücken, 1828, p. 139 ( Google Books )
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Waldfischbach-Burgalben, Verbandsgemeinde, first line of results. Retrieved March 30, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Andrea Daum: Geiselberg: First mayor in office. Die Rheinpfalz, August 6, 2019, accessed on March 30, 2020 .