Hermersberg

This article deals with the local community of Hermersberg in Rhineland-Palatinate; on the Hermersberg hunting lodge in Baden-Württemberg see Hermersberg Palace .

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 19 '  N , 7 ° 38'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southwest Palatinate
Association municipality :	Waldfischbach castle albums
Height :	427 m above sea level NHN
Area :	13.02 km 2
Residents:	1743 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	134 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66919
Area code :	06333
License plate :	PS , ZW
Community key :	07 3 40 016
Association administration address:	Friedhofstrasse 3 67714 Waldfischbach-Burgalben
Website :	www.hermersberg.de
Local Mayor :	Erich Sommer ( CDU )
Location of the local community Hermersberg in the district of Südwestpfalz

Hermersberg is a municipality in the Südwestpfalz district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Waldfischbach-Burgalben , within which it is the third largest local community in terms of both the number of inhabitants and the area. Hermersberg is the largest place on the Sickinger Höhe .

geography

location

Hermersberg is a so-called "Höhendorf", is located on the Sickinger Höhe on its northeastern edge and is about 10 km from Landstuhl , 13.5 km from Pirmasens and 17 km from Kaiserslautern . Directly to the east, the Palatinate Forest borders the Sickinger Höhe, 2–3 km from Hermersberg. Immediate neighboring municipalities are (starting clockwise from the North): 3 km away Linden , Horbach is located 2 km to the northwest, southeast is Steinalben km to reach in two, Waldfischbach-Burgalben is located 4.5 km south, south-west, 4 km Höheinöd , Schauerberg , 3 km to the northwest is Harsberg, a district of Weselberg , which is 2 km away.

Hermersberg also includes the Fuchshof, Lichtenberger Hof, Riegelsbergerhof, Steinalbermühle and Wasserwerk residential areas .

Waters

The Klapperbach rises in the south of the municipality , which largely forms the boundary with Waldfischbach-Burgalben. On site he takes the Rödelsgraben from the left . In addition, the moss ointment forms the eastern boundary of the municipality.

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  View of the place from the Lichtenberger Hof

history

Early history and Roman times

A barrow in the raw forest in the Hermersberg district was dated to the Hallstatt period (800 to 400 BC); other traces of settlement near Landstuhl, such as stone wreath graves, date from the Latène period, which spans the period from 500 BC to the birth of Christ. In post-Christian times the area was settled by the Romans, as evidenced by coin finds from the first to fourth centuries AD from the Roman settlement near Landstuhl and the Heidelsburg near Waldfischbach-Burgalben .

Middle Ages and Modern Times

The area on which Hermersberg originated belonged to Queidersbach . Between 978 and 983, Emperor Otto II donated this area to Hornbach Monastery . The first written mention of Hermersberg can be found in the copy book of the Falkenstein lordship from 1364 when the tithe rights were divided . Here Hermersberg was mentioned in a document on the “next Thursday after Holy Thursday ” (March 28, 1364). The desert areas of Holzingen , Stranzberg and the Klappermühle are located near Hermersberg .

Hermersberg later belonged to the Landstuhl estate of the Lords of Sickingen until the end of the 18th century . When Landstuhl was divided in 1680, the Grand Court with Hermersberg became part of the Sickingen-Hohenburg line. In 1700, parts of the Grand Court were sold to farmers as Caduc goods , which means fallen land. At that time, the Hermersberg district was around 1300 hectares in size . Hermersberg owned 19½ lots.

Old village well

In 1794 the left bank of the Rhine was occupied in the First Coalition War. From 1978 to 1814 Hermersberg belonged to the canton of Waldfischbach in the Donnersberg department and was subordinate to Mairie Horrbach .

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, Hermersberg belonged to the Pirmasens Land Commissioner in the Rhine District from 1817, to the Pirmasens District Office from 1862 and has belonged to the Pirmasens district since 1939 (renamed the Südwestpfalz district in 1997 ).

After the Second World War , the municipality of Hermersberg within the French occupation zone became part of the Palatinate government district 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 .

Place name

In the defining word of the place name, after the name of the water body Hermannesbach is attested here as early as the 12th century , a personal name Hermann is added. From Hermannsberg and Hermannsperg was then over time Hermes mountain and finally Hermersberg . A Hermann, who officiated as Vogt of the Hornbach monastery in 1100 , can be associated with the place name.

population

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 435 1835 611 1871 794 1905 1,096 1939 1,460 1950 1,556 1961 1,742

year Residents 1970 1.928 1987 1,845 1997 1,855 2005 1,736 2011 1,697 2019 1,743

In addition to the heavy population losses in the Thirty Years' War and in the wars against Napoleon, Hermersberg also had a high number of victims in both world wars. A memorial in front of the mayor's office reminds of this.

religion

With 69% the majority of the Hermersberg population is Catholic, 23% are Protestant.

Services are regularly held in one Protestant and one Catholic church . The interior of the Protestant church, built in 1912, was renovated in July 2007 and serves as a place of worship for the community , which has been combined with Weselberg and Höheinöd since 1972 . The Catholic parish church of St. John the Baptist and St. Joseph in 1903 as a Neo-Romanesque sandstone from New Town architect Wilhelm Schulte I. built, and the bishop on June 27, 1906 Konrad von Busch consecrated . In addition to the church service, it also offers a community center with a library and a kindergarten.

politics

Mayor's office with memorial

Municipal council

The municipal council in Hermersberg 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	6th	10	-	16 seats
2014	5	11	-	16 seats
2009	4th	12	-	16 seats
2004	3	11	2	16 seats

mayor

Erich Sommer (CDU) became mayor of Hermersberg in 1999. 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 51.50%.

The mayor's office is in the center of town, directly opposite the Catholic Church.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Under a lowered black shield head, in it five silver balls (balls) 2: 1: 2, in gold on a rounded green hill a green tree." The coat of arms was approved by the Mainz Ministry of the Interior in 1958.
	Explanation of the coat of arms: The Bollen refer to the former affiliation of the place to the Lords of Sickingen and the tree symbolizes the wealth of forests.

Culture

Churches in Hermersberg

Catholic Church

Protestant church

Cultural monuments

Are located on site a total of ten properties under conservation are, including the two churches and a residential house in the Garden Street .

Events

The Schnapsgassenfest (street festival in August) and the Osterrock (concert at Easter) are known nationwide .

Easter skirt

Every year on Easter Sunday, the Junge Union Hermersberg invites you to a rock concert with local bands. The multi-purpose hall, which has a capacity of 600 people, is rented for this purpose.

Schnapps Alley Festival

The Schnapsgasse Festival is celebrated annually on the third weekend in August with well over 3,000 visitors and has been the unofficial, but largest village festival for years. It is a reminder of the fact that liquor used to be distilled in almost every property. With the participation of all local associations, they offer specialties from the Palatinate , such as suckling pig, hoorische , grumbeer pannekuche or steamed noodles , as well as an open-air disco. The two-day festival traditionally begins on Saturday with the tapping of the keg and on Sundays with an ecumenical service.

societies

The Hermersberg culture is supported by more than 20 associations. Individual associations were founded in the 19th century; For some years now, almost all of them have been united in the "Vereinsring Hermersberg", which organizes larger events such as the Schnapsgasse Festival.

Surname	founding year	description
Hermersberg volunteer fire department	1886	The fire brigade celebrated its 125th anniversary in May 2011 with a large anniversary party; this included a pageant.
Evangelical church choir	1889
Catholic church choir	1900
Country Women's Association	1962
Male choir Frohsinn	1876	The men's choir Frohsinn was founded in 1876 with 46 members at the time. After the decline caused by the war, the club had 118 active singers in 1946. On January 1st, 1998, the Bundeschormeister Karl Sieber took over the choir direction at MGV Frohsinn. For the 125th anniversary of the association, the association had 179 members; 65 of them were active singers. On January 1, 2010, Karl Siebers' son, Wolfgang Sieber, took over the choir direction; he was able to win 20 new, mostly young singers for the club. Also at the beginning of 2010 the project choir “Frohsinn light” was launched, which was composed of around 40 singers. Since May 2018 Selina Schröer, b. Baas, choir director of the MGV "Frohsinn". Under her direction, the formation "Modern Frohsinn" was founded in addition to the large overall choir.
Fruit and horticultural association	1910
Sports club Hermersberg	1931	The Hermersberg sports club is by far the largest local club with currently 470 members. After several successful years with several championships in the seasons 1998/1999 (district league - promotion to the regional league), 2001/2002 (regional league - promotion to the association league ) and 2005/2006 (regional league - again promotion to the association league), as well as another Ascent to the association league in 2010, SV Hermersberg, founded in 1931, is currently playing in the Landesliga West after the 2018/2019 district league championship. The second team of SV 1931 Hermersberg plays, after four years in the A-class Pirmasens / Zweibrücken, now in the B-class Pirmasens / Zweibrücken.
Turnerbund Hermersberg 1891	1890

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Until the last century Hermersberg was a farming village with over 100 farms and almost 30 schnapps distilleries, which is where the Schnapsgasse Festival, which is held up to the present day, goes back. Today only two farms and three smaller distilleries exist. Of the 13 km² community area, 47.3% are still used for agriculture. Hermersberg now has a local commercial infrastructure in the form of a small industrial area, but it is still characterized by many commuters. A special feature is the ostrich farm, which, in addition to raising the animals, also produces ostrich products such as meat and sausage. In April 2012, the first straw heating plant in Rhineland-Palatinate was put into operation on the outskirts , with an output of 880  kW to supply around 80 residential units with heat via a local heating network. The 600 tons of straw burned annually save around 250,000 liters of heating oil . In addition, there are two wind farms on site, one in the northwest and one in the southeast of the municipality.

traffic

State road 473 , which leads from Wallhalben to Steinalben, runs right through Hermersberg . In the middle of the settlement area, the state road 474 branches off from it , which connects the community with Petersberg and Pirmasens , and the district road 25 to Waldfischbach-Burgalben.

Hermersberg is connected to the national road network of Germany and the neighboring countries of Luxembourg and France via the federal motorway 62 (Pirmasens – Nonnweiler) . The federal highway 270 leads south in the direction of Pirmasens and in the north to Kaiserslautern. There is a train stop in the neighboring village of Steinalben. This means that Hermersberg is connected to the Deutsche Bahn network, even if only indirectly. The Steinalben stop is located on the so-called Biebermühlbahn , which connects the cities of Pirmasens and Kaiserslautern.

education

Hermersberg has a primary school with around 60 students.

tourism

In addition, the Südwestpfalz-Tour cycle path leads right through Hermersberg. In addition, the community is on a hiking trail that is marked with a green-yellow bar and that runs from Kirchheimbolanden to Hirschthal , as well as one that is marked with a blue dot and connects to the main chair and glue .

Personalities

Sons of the community

• Johannes Storck (1829–1914), prelate, pastor and dean in Bellheim
• Richard Runck (1868–1922), commander of a volunteer corps in the Boer War, district chief in German South West Africa
• Friedrich Börtzler (1909–1993), federal judge at the Federal Court of Justice
• Erhard Lelle (* 1946), politician (CDU)
• Frank Lelle (* 1965), football player
• Bernd Dudek (* 1968), football player

People who worked on site

• Dieter Weinkauff (1947–2008), football player, temporarily acted as a player-coach at SV Hermersberg
• Rainer Schwartz (* 1983), soccer goalkeeper, played for SV Hermersberg from 2008 to 2010

Web links

Commons : Hermersberg  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Hermersberg website
• Lukas B. (Lubo): Video for the song "Hermersberg" on Youtube, August 2015

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 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 109 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - District of Südwestpfalz. Mainz 2020, p. 20 (PDF; 8.7 MB).
4. ↑ Johann Georg Lehmann : Documented history of the castles and mountain palaces in Western Reich and in the former Bliesgau (=  documented history of the castles and mountain palaces in the former districts, counties and lordships of the Bavarian Palatinate . Volume 5 ). Kaiserslautern 1866, p. 191 Note 47 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
5. ^ Martin Dolch, Albrecht Greule : Historisches Siedlungsnamesbuch der Pfalz , Speyer 1991, p. 206
6. ↑ Wolfgang Haubrichs , in: Hans-Walter Herrmann (Ed.): The old diocese of Metz . Saarbrücken 1993, p. 44 note 45
7. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
8. ↑ EWOIS: Municipal statistics from the national system, municipal data center Mainz.
9. ↑ Evangelischer Kirchenbote: Renovation due to woodworm infestation ( Memento from November 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), No. 26, July 1, 2007 (Internet archive)
10. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate: Informational directory of cultural monuments, district of Südwestpfalz (PDF; 1.9 MB), as of February 4, 2009
11. ↑ Jakob Bisson : Seven Speyer bishops and their time. 1870 to 1950. Contributions to the local church history. Pilger-Verlag, January 1956, p. 181
12. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
13. ↑ Michael Elig: Halle worries. Constituent meeting of the local council. Die Rheinpfalz, June 29, 2019, accessed on March 30, 2020 . 
14. ^ The Regional Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Waldfischbach-Burgalben, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results. Retrieved March 30, 2020 . 
15. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
16. ↑ ^{a b c} Schnapsgasse Festival
17. ↑ Male Choir Frohsinn
18. ^ Sports club Hermersberg
19. ↑ ^{a b} Stat. State Office of Rhineland-Palatinate: Hermersberg
20. ^ Ostrich farm in Hermersberg
21. ↑ Report at Hierzuland, SWR
22. ↑ Commissioning of the straw heating plant in Hermersberg. Verbandsgemeinde Waldfischbach-Burgalben, accessed on February 12, 2012.