Henschtal

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 28 '  N , 7 ° 25'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kusel
Association municipality :	Upper Glantal
Height :	240 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.46 km 2
Residents:	323 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	93 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66909
Area code :	06383
License plate :	KUS
Community key :	07 3 36 037
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Rathausstrasse 8 66901 Schönenberg-Kübelberg
Website :	www.vgog.de
Local Mayor :	Roger Decklar
Location of the local community Henschtal in the Kusel district

Henschtal is a municipality in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Upper Glantal .

Community structure

Henschtal consists of the two districts of Haschbach and Trahweiler and the hamlet of Sangerhof.

history

The community was created on June 7, 1969 through the merger of the communities Haschbach am Glan (district court Waldmohr) and Trahweiler.

It was named after the Henschbach, the brook that flows through the middle of the town. He separated the two former villages of Haschbach and Trahweiler, which now together form Henschtal. Around 1350 Trahweiler belonged to the County of Veldenz , later to the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken , while Haschbach with the Münchweiler Valley , a fief of the Hornbach monastery , was under the Raugrafen von Neu-Baumburg . As a lower fief, the place was Zweibrückisch and came to the von der Leyen by marriage or purchase .

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Roger Decklar became the local mayor of Henschtal in June 2016. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for another five years with 84.13% of the votes.

Decklar's predecessors were Nicole Bültmann, who resigned after a short term in office, and Walter Harth until 2014.

Attractions

At the highest point of the village ( 378.2  m above sea  level ) in Sangerhof there is a 15 m high, disused water tower , which is now accessible as a viewing tower .

Economy and Infrastructure

The B 423 runs through the village . In the northeast is a junction of the A 62 . In Glan-Münchweiler there is a train station of the Glantalbahn .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Henschtal

literature

• Literature about Henschtal in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Henschtal  - Collection of Images

• Local community Henschtal
• Local community Henschtal on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Oberes Glantal
• Henschtal at regionalgeschichte.net

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 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 156 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 165 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
5. ↑ ^{a b} Roger Decklar new local mayor. June 3, 2016, accessed May 5, 2020 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Oberes Glantal, Verbandsgemeinde, tenth line of results. Retrieved May 5, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Absolute newcomer is about to take off. August 30, 2014, accessed May 5, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
9. ↑ Henschtal on www.pfalz.de, accessed on November 17, 2015