Gundersweiler

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '  N , 7 ° 47'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Donnersbergkreis
Association municipality :	North Palatinate Country
Height :	231 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.44 km 2
Residents:	515 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	49 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67724
Area code :	06361
License plate :	KIB, ROK
Community key :	07 3 33 028
Association administration address:	Bezirksamtsstrasse 7 67806 Rockenhausen
Website :	www.rockenhausen.de
Local Mayor :	Helmut Klein
Location of the local community Gundersweiler in the Donnersbergkreis

Gundersweiler is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Nordpfälzer Land association.

Geographical location

Gundersweiler is located in the valley of the Moschelbach in the North Palatinate Mountains southwest of the Donnersberg between Kaiserslautern and Bad Kreuznach .

The Erlenhof and Messersbacherhof residential areas also belong to Gundersweiler .

history

Gundersweiler was first mentioned in 891 (as novale Guntharii ). The name comes from one of the first settlers, Gunthari . Guntzwilre is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1290 . In 1355 Gundersweiler became a fiefdom of the Electoral Palatinate and in 1515 it became part of the Electoral Palatinate sub-district of Rockenhausen , the forerunner of today's Rockenhausen community .

In the 17th century, the area suffered considerably from robber barons , such as the notorious Waldemar von Odenbach, so that the road through the Moschelbach valley had to be guarded by armed knights . In the Thirty Years' War Gundersweiler was like all the villages in the area almost completely destroyed.

After the French Revolution , the place was incorporated into the French Donnersberg department . As a result of the Congress of Vienna , he was Bavarian from 1816 to 1945 . After the Second World War , Gundersweiler was part of the French occupation zone and was incorporated into the newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946.

religion

The population of Gundersweiler is predominantly Protestant . The hall church , built in late Baroque style in 1727, is available for worship . The church was placed under monument protection in 2000 .

politics

Municipal council

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

Local mayor

The local mayor is Helmut Klein. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected in office with 94.97% of the vote.

Culture and sights

• Sandstone block construction, classicist and baroque motifs, inscribed 1911, architect H. Stier
• Protestant parish church, small late Baroque hall building, marked 1727
• Protestant rectory; Classicist hipped roof building, marked 1824, gate pillar marked 1826, parish garden
• Hook yard; Baroque house, partly half-timbered, marked 1731, cattle shed, partly half-timbered, barn and stables 19th century
• representative corner house, sandstone block construction, marked 1905, architect H. Stier, stable with storage floor
• Messersbacherhof: late baroque twin house, probably third quarter of the 18th century
• Messersbacherhof: courtyard-like courtyard area; Residential house, partly half-timbered (partly plastered), probably first half of the 18th century, 19th century farm building; Quarry stone barn, partly half-timbered, marked 1778, Backhaus, Scheune marked 1835
• see also the list of cultural monuments in Gundersweiler

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  Sandstone block construction

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  Protestant parish church

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  Protestant rectory

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  Hook yard

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  representative corner house

Economy and Infrastructure

Gundersweiler has its own kindergarten . School attendance must take place in the surrounding areas.

literature

• Alexander Thon: Gundersweiler . In: Jürgen Keddigkeit (Hrsg.): Palatinate Burgenlexikon (=  contributions to Palatinate history . Volume 12/2 ). Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, Kaiserslautern 2002, ISBN 3-927754-48-X , p. 242 f .

Web links

Commons : Gundersweiler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Local community Gundersweiler on the website of the Nordpfälzer Land association
• Local portrait of Gundersweiler ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on SWR television
• Literature about Gundersweiler 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 2020. S. 138 (PDF; 1 MB).
3. ^ Wolfgang Haubrichs : Winnweiler and surroundings in the year 891. In: Werner Rasche: Local history of Winnweiler with Alsenbrück-Langmeil, Hochstein and Potzbach. Winnweiler 1991, p. 57 ff.
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal Council Election 2019 Gundersweiler. Retrieved August 25, 2019 . 
5. ↑ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. Retrieved on August 25, 2019 (see Nordpfälzer Land, Verbandsgemeinde, eleventh result line). 
6. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Donnersbergkreis. Mainz 2018, p. 21 (PDF; 5.3 MB).