Holy Moschel

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '  N , 7 ° 46'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kaiserslautern
Association municipality :	Otterbach-Otterberg
Height :	297 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.68 km 2
Residents:	599 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	69 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67699
Area code :	06363
License plate :	KL
Community key :	07 3 35 013
Association administration address:	Hauptstrasse 27 67697 Otterberg
Website :	www.otterbach-otterberg.de
Local Mayor :	Willi Mühlberger
Location of the local community Heiligenmoschel in the district of Kaiserslautern

Heiligenmoschel is a municipality in the Kaiserslautern district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Otterbach-Otterberg .

geography

location

Heiligenmoschel is located in the North Palatinate Uplands , about 18 km north of Kaiserslautern . In the south and east of the district there are foothills of the Otterberg Forest, which belongs to the Palatinate Forest . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Gundersweiler , Gehrweiler , Höringen , Otterberg , Schneckenhausen and Schallodenbach .

Surveys

In the west at the district triangle to Schneckenhausen and Schallodenbach the 459.7  m above sea level extends . NHN high Reiserberg , at the foot of which the community is located. In the south on the border with Höringen is the 429.6 meter high Heidenkopf and south of it the Andreasberg .

Waters

The Moschelbach , which leads to Alsenz , flows through the middle of the village . The Horterbach flowing to the Odenbach crosses the southern municipality.

Community structure

Heiligenmoschel also includes the Frankenhof , Horterhof , Rohmühle and Sickingerhof residential areas .

history

Local history

In the late Middle Ages, the place belonged to the Schallodenbach rulership and was first mentioned in a document in 1396 as the “ Village and Court of All Saints Mosseln ”. In the 16th century, the Brenner von Lewenstein shared rulership with Sickingen-Schallodenbach. In 1601/03 Duke Johann von Pfalz-Zweibrücken bought all shares. Heiligenmoschel thereby became a Zweibrücken administrative place of the upper office of Meisenheim .

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Heiligenmoschel was incorporated into the canton of Otterberg . In 1815 the municipality first belonged to Austria . A year later she moved to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 she belonged to the Land Commissioner in Kaiserslautern ; from this the district office of Kaiserslautern emerged.

From 1939 the place was part of the district of Kaiserslautern . After the Second World War , Heiligenmoschel became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , Heiligenmoschel was incorporated into the newly formed community of Otterberg . Since July 1, 2014, it has been part of the Otterbach-Otterberg Association, which was created through the merger of the Otterberg and Otterbach Association .

Place name

Heiligenmoschel is named after a medieval All Saints Church on the Moschelbach. The place name developed as follows:

Surname year Hellgen Mosseln 1405 All Saints' Day Mosque 1429 Holy Moshells 1571

Surname year Holy shell 1601 Holy Moschel 1724; 1837 Holy moschel 1817

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 383 1835 471 1871 524 1905 530 1939 485 1950 548 1961 614

year Residents 1970 610 1987 555 1997 629 2005 706 2011 659 2017 607 2019 599

politics

Municipal council

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

Local mayor

The local mayor of Heiligenmoschel is Willi Mühlberger. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected with 83.76% of the vote, making him the successor to Michael Leppla.

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms of Heiligenmoschel shows a silver pilgrim shell in blue , the castle facing down. It was approved on April 16, 1951 by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of the Interior .

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

Menhir

Are located on site a total of six objects under monument protection standing, including the menhir of Otterberg

nature

With the wetland Das Weiherchen, there is a natural monument within the municipality .

Regular events

On the second weekend in September the people of Heiligenmoschel traditionally celebrate their Kerwe.

traffic

The public transport in the transport association Rhein-Neckar integrated. The state road 388 connects the place with Schneckenhausen and Gehrweiler. The district road 33 connects the Horterhof to the road network. The irregular local roads give way to the fracture terrain of the various streams. The next motorway junction is Winnweiler on the A 63 , around 14 km away, or Enkenbach-Alsenborn on the A 6 , around 20 km away.

Born in Heiligenmoschel

• Gerhard Kurz (* 1943), literary scholar
• Erhard Rahm (* 1959), computer scientist and professor at the University of Leipzig

Web links

Commons : Heiligenmoschel  - Collection of images

• Local community Heiligenmoschel on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Otterbach-Otterberg
• Literature about Heiligenmoschel in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 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. 152 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved January 16, 2020 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: City Council Election 2019 Heiligenmoschel. Retrieved October 27, 2019 . 
5. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. Accessed on October 27, 2019 (see Otterbach-Otterberg, Verbandsgemeinde, second line of results).