Gerhardsbrunn

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kaiserslautern
Association municipality :	Bruchmühlbach-Miesau
Height :	403 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.03 km 2
Residents:	167 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	17 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66894
Area code :	06375
License plate :	KL
Community key :	07 3 35 011
Association administration address:	Am Rathaus 2 ; 66892 Bruchmühlbach-Miesau
Website :	www.gerhardsbrunn.de
Local Mayor :	Jürgen Bohl
Location of the local community Gerhardsbrunn in the district of Kaiserslautern

Gerhardsbrunn is a municipality in the Kaiserslautern district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Bruchmühlbach-Miesau .

geography

The community is located on the Sickinger Höhe . The hamlet Scharrhof and the residential area Scharrmühle also belong to Gerhardsbrunn .

history

Gerhardsbrunn was first mentioned in a document around 1560.

Until the end of the 18th century, the village of Gerhardsbrunn belonged to the so-called small court of the Landstuhl rule , which was owned by the barons of Sickingen of the line to Sickingen.

In 1794 the left bank of the Rhine was occupied in the First Coalition War. From 1798 to 1814 Gerhardsbrunn belonged to the canton Landstuhl in the Donnersberg department .

Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna , the area first came to Austria in June 1815 and was ceded to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 on the basis of a state treaty . Under the Bavarian administration, Gerhardsbrunn belonged to the Landkommissariat Homburg im Rheinkreis from 1817 , from 1862 to the District Office Homburg, moved to the District Office Kaiserslautern in 1929 and has been part of the Kaiserslautern District since 1939 .

After the Second World War , the Gerhardsbrunn community within the French occupation zone became part of the Palatinate government district in the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Population development

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

year	Residents
1815	189
1835	266
1871	255
1905	191
1939	155
1950	221
1961	207

year	Residents
1970	156
1987	156
1997	176
2005	156
2011	174
2017	173
2019	167

religion

At the end of 2014, 65.3 percent of the population were Protestant and 20.8 percent Catholic. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational. The Catholics belong to the Diocese of Speyer , the Evangelicals to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate .

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Gerhardsbrunn consists of six council members who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 .

mayor

Jürgen Bohl is the local mayor of Gerhardsbrunn. Since there was no candidate in 2014, the mayor of the community of Bruchmühlbach-Miesau temporarily administered the community for several years. Even in the direct election on May 26, 2019, no candidate for the post of local mayor ran. After the local elections, however, Jürgen Bohl agreed to take over the office and was elected by the local council on July 3, 2019.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Divided by red and silver, above a black heraldic shield with five silver balls 2: 1: 2, each surrounded by a vertical golden ear of wheat, below a red-cased tubular fountain with flowing silver water in the shield base." It was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1980 .
	Justification of the coat of arms: The balls refer to the former local lords, the Lords of Sickingen .

traffic

The next motorway junction is Bruchmühlbach-Miesau on federal motorway 6 Saarbrücken - Kaiserslautern , about nine kilometers away.

Sons and daughters of the church

Adam Müller (1814–1879), farmer and politician

Web links

Commons : Gerhardsbrunn - Collection of Images

Literature about Gerhardsbrunn in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 149 (PDF; 3 MB).
↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved October 31, 2019 .
↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2014
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.
↑ Gerhardsbrunn has a mayor again. SWR, July 4, 2019, accessed on October 31, 2019 .
^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, 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. 149 (PDF; 3 MB).

[regionaldaten-3] State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved October 31, 2019 .

[4] KommWis, as of December 31, 2014

[5] The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.

[6] Gerhardsbrunn has a mayor again. SWR, July 4, 2019, accessed on October 31, 2019 .

[Wappen-7] Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .