Hergersweiler
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Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ' N , 8 ° 5' E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
County : | Southern Wine Route | |
Association municipality : | Bad Bergzabern | |
Height : | 140 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 1.8 km 2 | |
Residents: | 231 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 128 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 76872 | |
Area code : | 06349 | |
License plate : | SOUTH | |
Community key : | 07 3 37 037 | |
LOCODE : | DE HEW | |
Association administration address: | Königstrasse 61 76887 Bad Bergzabern |
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Local Mayor : | Helmut Heib | |
Location of the Hergersweiler parish in the southern Weinstrasse district | ||
Hergersweiler is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstrasse district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Bad Bergzabern community .
Geographical location
The wine village is a street village and lies between the Palatinate Forest biosphere reserve and the Rhine .
history
The place was first mentioned in 1301 in a document from the Eusserthal monastery . From 1410 to 1797 Hergersweiler belonged to Pfalz-Zweibrücken .
religion
At the end of 2013, 53.7 percent of the population were Protestant and 20.5 percent Catholic. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational.
politics
Municipal council
The council in Hergersweiler consists of six council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman. In the 2009 election, the council members were elected in a personalized proportional representation.
mayor
Helmut Heib was again local mayor of Hergersweiler in June 2019. Since there was no candidate for the direct election on May 26, 2019, the upcoming election of the mayor was carried out by the council in accordance with the municipal regulations. He unanimously elected Heib for five years. He had already practiced this before Bernd Hentschel, who was local mayor from 2014 to 2019.
coat of arms
Blazon : "Divided by an oblique left-hand wave line, above a gold-stemmed golden grape in black, roughened with silver and blue below, topped with an upright green tobacco leaf." | |
Foundation for the coat of arms: It was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1982 . The Wittelsbacher diamonds are reminiscent of the former affiliation to the Pfalz-Zweibrücken and the grape and the tobacco leaf symbolize the branches of industry that characterize the place. |
Regular events
The Kerwe always takes place on the 1st weekend in September. The fire brigade festival takes place in July.
traffic
Hergersweiler is on the B 427 . The closest train stations are Barbelroth and Winden . Hergersweiler itself is connected to the local transport network via the 547 bus, which connects the Kandel and Bad Bergzabern train stations .
Web links
- Internet presence of the local community Hergersweiler
- Literature about Hergersweiler in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2013
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
- ↑ Vera Allmann-Stübinger: Hergersweiler: Council elects Helmut Heib as local mayor. Die Rheinpfalz, June 20, 2019, accessed on April 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Gerhard Sommer: On Case II: Which local chiefs in the Bad Bergzabern community are running again. Die Rheinpfalz, October 1, 2018, accessed on April 21, 2020 .
- ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .