Heltersberg

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

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 19 '  N , 7 ° 43'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southwest Palatinate
Association municipality :	Waldfischbach castle albums
Height :	427 m above sea level NHN
Area :	28.15 km 2
Residents:	2020 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	72 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67716
Area code :	06333
License plate :	PS , ZW
Community key :	07 3 40 015
Association administration address:	Friedhofstrasse 3 67714 Waldfischbach-Burgalben
Website :	www.heltersberg.de
Local Mayor :	Ralf Mohrhardt ( SPD )
Location of the local community Heltersberg in the district of Südwestpfalz

Heltersberg is a municipality in the Südwestpfalz district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Waldfischbach-Burgalben , within which it is the second largest in terms of population and the largest in terms of area. Heltersberg is a state-approved tourist destination .

geography

location

Heltersberg lies on the edge of the Middle Palatinate Forest in the center of its sub-area Palatinate Woodland . Most of the district is covered by forest. In the south-east of the municipality there are two forest areas that are called Heltersberger Wald and Wadgasser Wald . The Voltziensandstein dominates geologically in the municipality. Heltersberg also includes the Hundsweihersägemühle , Lindenbrunnerhof and Westrichhof residential areas . Neighboring communities - clockwise - Schmalenberg , Trippstadt , Leimen , Clausen , Waldfischbach-Burgalben , Steinalben and Geiselberg .

Surveys

The place is on a wide hill saddle. The 428.4  m high Kleine Hundsberg and the Dinkelsberg extend southeast of the development , further southeast the Hermerskopf ( 476.2  m ) and the Große Hundsberg ( 447  m ). To the east of the district are the Hahnenberg ( 486.8  m ), the Hornbacher Eck , the Steinhübel and, near the border with Trippstadt and Leimen, the 518.3  m high Hahnenkopf .

Waters

Clausensee

Heltersberg is surrounded by the valleys of the Schwarzbach and Haselbach . The former forms the boundary to Leimen in the south. Directly at the district triangle of Leimen and Trippstadt it flows through the Schwarzbachtalweiher . Then it takes up the Hahnenseybach one after the other from the right , into which the Kieselbach flows, the Bach in the Johannis State Forest , the Bach on the Rappersborner Fels and the Hermersbächel . Further to the west, the Schwarzbach marks the border to Clausen, where the Clausensee is located. This is the eastern starting point of the so-called Schwarzbachtal .

Immediately to the west, the river takes on the Hundsbächel from the right , which rises southeast of the settlement area. Shortly before its mouth, it is dammed up to the Hundsweiher . A little further west, the Dinkelsbächel joins the Schwarzbach - also from the right - which also forms the border with Waldfischbach-Burgalben.

The Haselbach - also called Hembach - rises northeast of the development, flows north and flows into the Hirschalbe after a few hundred meters , which rises in the extreme north of the municipality mark and then flows in a westerly direction.

history

Mentioned for the first time in 1272, the place that emerged from a cleared island, together with Waldfischbach , Geiselberg, Schmalenberg and Schopp , was under the Hornbach Monastery as part of the Holzland . With the secularization of the monastery in 1557, the places came to the Electorate of Palatinate , whose further fate they shared. In the Thirty Years' War largely devastated, the structure was initially very slow and as in other municipalities of the wooden country by immigrants from Switzerland .

Until the end of the 18th century, Heltersberg and the court Waldfischbach belonged to the Upper Palatinate Office of Lautern . In 1794, the Left Bank of the Rhine was occupied in the First Coalition War , during which there was a battle on site.

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Heltersberg was incorporated into the canton of Waldfischbach in the Donnersberg department and was the seat of a mairie , which also included Geiselberg and Steinalben.

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, Heldersberg - as it was then called - belonged to the Pirmasens Land Commissioner in the Rhine District from 1817 , which became the Pirmasens District Office in 1862 .

In 1939 Heltersberg was incorporated into the district of Pirmasens (from 1997 district of Südwestpfalz ) . After the Second World War , the municipality of Heltersberg within the French occupation zone became part of the administrative district of Palatinate in the then newly formed state of Rhineland-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 .

Residents

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 650 1835 772 1871 809 1905 1,034 1939 1,337 1950 1,479 1961 1,831

year Residents 1970 1,982 1987 2,022 1997 2,226 2005 2,216 2011 2,101 2019 2,020

religion

The Catholics belong to the Diocese of Speyer and are subordinate to the Deanery Pirmasens , the Evangelicals to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate . At the end of 2014, 43.4 percent of the population were Catholic and 41.6 percent Protestant. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational.

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Heltersberg consists of 16 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	9	3	4th	16 seats
2014	8th	4th	4th	16 seats
2009	5	9	2	16 seats
2004	6th	10	-	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group Heltersberg e. V.

mayor

Ralf Mohrhardt (SPD) became local mayor of Heltersberg on June 18, 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for another five years with a share of the vote of 87.36%. Mohrhardt's predecessor was Harald Jung (CDU).

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In black on the right a left-facing, red-armored and tongued golden lion, on the left an upright, facing silver fish with golden fins, one of which the lion touches with his right front paw." It was approved by the Ministry of the Interior in Koblenz in 1949.
	Justification of the coat of arms: The golden lion represents the Electorate of Palatinate, to which Heltersberg belonged until the annexation by France in 1793. The fish comes from the coat of arms of Waldfischbach, which had an almost identical coat of arms until it was merged with Burgalben , and indicates the abundance of fish in the Schwarzbach and Moosalb streams.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Heltersberg observation tower

Cultural monuments

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

Other structures

The administration building in the center of the village was equipped with Schweinstaler sandstone . There is also a local museum in Heltersberg . On the western edge of the village is the 10.7 meter high Heltersberg observation tower , which is alternatively called "Tower on the Wall" and offers a panoramic view of Heltersberg and the neighboring towns.

nature

The community is located in the Palatinate Forest Nature Park , which in turn belongs to the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord biosphere reserve . The large and small Hundsberg together form the 81 hectare core Hundsberg of the former. There are also two natural monuments , including the soul rock . Further north there are also the Kasimirfels and the Korbmacherfels . The Langendell is a natural forest reserve that was designated in 1999 and covers 58 hectares.

Knight stones

Ritterstein 244 Hunds-Straße - grave mound field

The knight stones 84 and 244 are located within the municipality . The former is called Weisserstein and represents a point of orientation. The latter has the inscription Hunds-Straße - Grabhügelfeld and refers to the pass of a no longer existing road that already existed in the times of the Celts .

societies

Locally exists TuS Heltersberg that offers, among other athletics and bowling club Tehalit Heltersberg .

Events

In 2019 , the finals of the Südwestpokal between TSV Schott Mainz and TuS Wörrstadt took place on site in women's football .

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy and local businesses

Due to the geographical conditions, which are dominated by mixed forests, forestry and timber management is practiced up to the present day. The local forest areas are subordinate to the Johanniskreuz Forestry Office .

In the 20th century, several shoe factories were initially set up, and a large bakery followed later. In the meantime, Heltersberg has a particularly important plastics processing industry. A significant local company was Tehalit , which is now part of the Hager Group . The Daniel Theysohn Foundation based in Ludwigswinkel supports young people in their training in Heltersberg.

traffic

State road 499 through Heltersberg

State road 499 runs through Heltersberg and leads in an easterly direction to Frankeneck and in a westerly direction to Waldfischbach-Burgalben. The county road 30 connects the community with Schmalenberg and the county road 31 with Geiselsberg.

The community is only indirectly developed through supraregional traffic routes: In the west, the federal highway 270, which runs from Kaiserslautern to Pirmasens, touches the local area. A few kilometers to the west, the single-lane federal motorway 62 leads from Pirmasens via Landstuhl to Trier.

There is also a single-track railway line from Pirmasens to Kaiserslautern in the Moosalbtal to the west . The next train stations are in Waldfischbach and Steinalben. A small airfield is located about 20 kilometers west of the town in the form of the Pirmasens-Pottschütthöhe airfield . In addition, Zweibrücken Airport is only around half an hour away.

tourism

The Zimmerkopfhütte of the Heimat und Pfälzerwaldverein Heltersberg

On the southern edge of the settlement area is the Zimmerkopfhütte operated by the local group of the Palatinate Forest Association . In addition, the Südwestpfalz-Tour cycle path leads through the middle of Heltersberg and tours 1 and 2 of the Palatinate Forest Mountain Bike Park . There are also campsites in the south of the municipality along the Hundsbach and Schwarzbach.

By Heltersberg runs with the Kaiserslautern according to silence law Bach leading forest path Palatine a so-called trail predicate and one which with a blue point is highlighted and a connection to the main chair manufactures and glues. The Saar-Rhein-Main long-distance hiking trail marked with a yellow cross leads through the southern part of the district and the Donnersberg-Donon long-distance hiking trail marked with a red bar , the Nahegau-Wasgau-Vosges long-distance hiking trail marked with a white cross and the with A yellow-red bar marked the path from Lichtenberg Castle to Wachenheim .

The nature trail "Auf der Mauer" with various stations is located on the western edge of the village . A so-called fountain hiking trail has also existed since 2009 .

Educational institutions

The Holzland primary school Heltersberg exists in the village . The closest secondary school is the Daniel-Theysohn IGS in Waldfischbach-Burgalben.

leisure

There is a so-called mountain bath on site.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Udo Bölts (* 1966), racing cyclist

People who have worked in the community

• Wilhelm von Brockhausen (1773-1858), Prussian general, was involved in the battle near Heltersberg in the course of the coalition wars
• Johannes Storck (1829–1914), lived temporarily in Heltersberg
• Jakob Knauber (1869–1950), priest, parish administrator and pastor in town
• Martin Walzer (1883–1958), was a pastor in the village from time to time
• Josef Freiermuth (1901–1994), teacher and politician (CDU), was an assistant teacher on site from 1925
• Daniel Theysohn (1904–1980), entrepreneur, founded Gebr. Theysohn Kunststoff Tehalit GmbH together with his brother ASlbert in 1946 ; The Gebrüder-Theysohn-Strasse was named after them
• Uwe Benkel (* 1960), missing person researcher, was awarded the State's Medal of Merit in 1998, lives in Heltersberg
• Dorothee Martin (* 1978), politician (SPD), grew up in Heltersberg.
• Verena Bechtluft (* 1986), bowler, was with the team of Tehalit Heltersberg German team champion of the A-youth in Sangerhausen
• Matthias Hecktor , athlete, started for TuS Heltersberg from 2007 to 2009
• Tim Könnel , track and field athlete, started for TuS Heltersberg in 2016 and 2019
• Jonas Lehmann , athlete, started for TuS Heltersberg
• Melanie Noll , athlete, started for TuS Heltersberg in 2018

literature

• Municipality of Heltersberg (ed.): Heltersberg 1272–1972. Festival book for the 700th anniversary . Waldfischbach-Burgalben 1972.
• Uwe Benkel: Fallen - missing, the Heltersberg fallen, missing and civilian victims of both world wars. "So that they are not forgotten ..." Heltersberg 2008.
• Reinhold Fremgen (edit.): Bürger- u. Family book from 1798–1850 of the Verbandsgemeinde Waldfischbach-Burgalben with the places: Geiselberg, Heltersberg, Hermersberg, Höheinöd, Horbach, Schmalenberg and Steinalben as well as the community Schopp, which is no longer a part of it, this only until 1818 . Waldfischbach-Burgalben 1998.

Web links

Commons : Heltersberg  - Collection of Images

• Internet presence of the municipality of Heltersberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ↑ 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).
4. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : The rulers of the lower Nahe area: the Nahegau and its surroundings , Bonn: Behrendt, 1914, p. 268 ( dilibri Rhineland-Palatinate )
5. ↑ Municipal statistics KommWis, as of December 31, 2014
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
7. ↑ Appointment of mayor. SPD local association Heltersberg, accessed on March 30, 2020 . 
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Waldfischbach-Burgalben, Verbandsgemeinde, second line of results. Retrieved March 30, 2020 . 
9. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
10. ↑ Nature trail with turrets. Aktivgemeinde Heltersberg, accessed on January 28, 2019 .