Glan bridges

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kusel
Association municipality :	Lauterecken-Wolfstein
Height :	175 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.65 km 2
Residents:	475 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	102 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66887
Area code :	06387
License plate :	KUS
Community key :	07 3 36 030
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Schulstrasse 6a ; 67742 Lauterecken
Website :	www.glanbruecken.de
Local Mayor :	Guido Hablitz ( SPD )
Location of the local community Glanbrücken in the Kusel district

The former train station in Niedereisenbach

Glanbrücken is a municipality in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Lauterecken-Wolfstein association.

geography

The place is on the Glan in the West Palatinate . It is divided into the districts of Hachenbach south of the Glans and Niedereisenbach north of it. Offenbach-Hundheim is in the northeast and Sankt Julian in the southwest .

history

Hachenbach was first mentioned in a document in 1150. It belonged to the county of Veldenz , later to Pfalz-Zweibrücken and after the French Revolution to Bavaria .

Niedereisenbach was first mentioned in 1336 as Ysenbach . Until the French Revolution, the place belonged to the barons of Kellenbach . In 1816 the place came to the Principality of Lichtenberg , a newly created exclave of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and from 1826 of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha . With this he fell to Prussia in 1834 , which created the St. Wendel district from this area . After the separation of the main part to the newly created Saar area , the remaining district of Sankt Wendel-Baumholder was created in 1920 , to which the place belonged until 1937, when it was incorporated into the Birkenfeld district.

On June 7, 1969, the two communities of Hachenbach (185 inhabitants at the time) and Niedereisenbach (349 inhabitants) became the new community of Glanbrücken in the Kusel district.

Population development

The development of the population of Glanbrücken in relation to today's municipal area; the values from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year	Residents
1815	348
1835	530
1871	510
1905	569
1939	558
1950	615

year	Residents
1961	576
1970	546
1987	535
1997	525
2005	523
2019	475

politics

Municipal council

The council in Glanbrücken 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

Guido Hablitz became the local mayor of Glanbrücken on February 9, 2017. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with 91.37% of the vote. His predecessor Ralf Jöckel died surprisingly in November 2016 after 22 years in office.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Divided by blue and black by a silver wavy bar running from the left. Above a golden waxing moon under a floating golden bridge, below a red-tongued golden lion. "

Economy and Infrastructure

The federal highway 420 runs through the village . From 1904 to 1985 the two districts were connected to the Glantalbahn via the Niedereisenbach-Hachenbach train station . In Lauterecken there is a station of the Lautertalbahn .

literature

Literature about Glanbrücken in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Glanbrücken - Collection of images

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).

↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 177 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.
↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
↑ ^a ^b Guido Hablitz new local mayor. Die Rheinpfalz, February 11, 2017, accessed on April 29, 2020 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Lauterecken-Wolfstein, Verbandsgemeinde, ninth line of results. Retrieved April 29, 2020 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).