Hermersbergerhof
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Hermersbergerhof
Local community Wilgartswiesen
Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 34 ″ N , 7 ° 50 ′ 8 ″ E
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| Height : | 550 m above sea level NHN | |
| Residents : | 151 | |
| Postal code : | 76848 | |
| Area code : | 06392 | |
Location of Hermersbergerhof in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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 View from the west of the Hermersbergerhof
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The Hermersbergerhof is a hamlet in the district of Südwestpfalz in Rhineland-Palatinate , which belongs to the local community Wilgartswiesen . It consists of around a dozen houses in which 151 people live. With a height of 550 m above sea level. NHN is the highest settlement in the entire Palatinate .
geography
location
The Hermersbergerhof is located on a knoll in the middle of the Palatinate Forest in the Upper Franconian Pasture in the middle of a high plateau. It is located in the north-western municipality of Wilgartswiesen not far from the district boundary to Merzalben and a forest enclave belonging to Annweiler am Trifels . It is enclosed by extensive, compact forest areas. With a few exceptions - such as courtyards - these are not populated.
Surveys
The highest elevations in the nearer catchment area are two mountains north of the hamlet that reach a height of more than 600 m, the Weißenberg ( 610 m ) and the Hortenkopf ( 606 m ). To the southwest of the village rise next to each other the peak Boll ( 540.1 m ) and to the north-east of it the width Boll ( 528 m ).
Flowing waters
The route of the road leading from the south and north to the Hermersbergerhof runs on the watershed between the catchment areas of the Queich in the east and the Lauter , which in this area is called Wieslauter in the headwaters , in the west. All the streams that spring around the hamlet flow away from it. These include, for example, the Meißenbach , the Waldbach , the Scheidbach , the Wüstbach and the Modenbach .
climate
The annual precipitation is 1095 mm. This amount of precipitation is relatively high and is in the upper quarter of the values recorded in Germany ; lower values are recorded at 89% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is September, the most precipitation falls in December, namely 1.6 times more than in September. Precipitation varies greatly, with 71% of the measuring stations registering lower seasonal fluctuations .
history
The place represents a clearing island . The original Hofgut was founded by the Benedictine Abbey Hornbach after the noble Wiligarta had given the monastery large estates in the Speyergau in 828 . In 1163 the court came to the Cistercian monastery of Eusserthal, only 10 km away . This operated it for three hundred years and finally sold it in 1467 to Duke Ludwig I of Pfalz-Zweibrücken . The knight's stone with the number 52, erected in the 20th century by the Palatinate Forest Association , reminds of the long period as Eusserthal monastery .
In 1773 the then current border situation between the dukes of Pfalz-Zweibrücken , the Leiningen counts of the Leiningen-Hardenburg-Dagsburg line and the rule of Graefenstein , which belonged to the margraviate of Baden , was carved into the Dreiherrenstein near the Hermersbergerhof, which is recorded as Knight's Stone No. 57 is. A few years later, at the end of the 18th century, which was left bank by French Revolutionary troops occupied and France annexed; like all other ecclesiastical and aristocratic properties, the Hermersbergerhof was secularized .
In 1928, the Hermersbergerhof had 66 residents who lived in twelve residential buildings. The Catholics belonged to the parish of Hauenstein , the Protestants to that of Wilgartswiesen.
Because of the planned construction of wind turbines on the surrounding heights, a demonstration against this project took place on site at the end of 2012 .
politics
The district Hermersbergerhof is one of the two local districts of the local community Wilgartswiesen and has its own local advisory board and a local councilor .
The local advisory board consists of four members who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary mayor as chairwoman.
Vera Schmitt was appointed mayor of Hermersbergerhof on August 14, 2019, after she had been elected for five years in the direct election on May 26, 2019 with 79.55% of the vote. Schmitt's predecessor was Sabine Lanowski.
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
In the past, the residents of the Hermersbergerhof lived mainly from forestry , today tourism is in the foreground. A country inn with a large terrace and a café, the event room of which is located in the former monastery forge, offer Palatinate cuisine and hotel rooms. Hiking and mountain biking are possible all year round . Winter sports can be practiced when snow conditions are favorable; Due to the increasingly mild winter, the ski lift was dismantled in 2000, but a toboggan run is still available.
The Pfälzer Waldpfad hiking trail , which connects with Kaiserslautern and Schweigen-Rechtenbach , runs through the village . There is also a path that is marked with a blue cross and runs from Niederhausen to Sankt Germanshof , as well as the Höcherbergweg , which leads from Niederwürzbach to Böchingen and which is marked with a red and white bar . The path marked with a blue-red bar touches the western edge of the settlement and leads from Kirchheimbolanden to Pirmasens . The place is also a stop for Tour 11 of the Palatinate Forest Mountain Bike Park .
traffic
The Hermersbergerhof can be reached from two sides via Kreisstraße 56 . It is 6 km long from the federal highway 10 ( Pirmasens - Landau ), which runs at a height of 220 m in the south , and has been developed for individual traffic. To the north it connects as a narrower, 10 km long road - past the summit of the Weißenberg, which rises 2 km to the northwest - the hamlet with the state road 496 , which leads from Münchweiler to Hochspeyer . Local traffic was organized in the West Palatinate Transport Association (WVV) from 2000 , which has been fully integrated into the Rhein-Neckar Transport Association (VRN) since summer 2006 . The closest train station is Wilgartswiesen on the Landau – Rohrbach line .
health
The Palatinate Forest Specialist Clinic is operated on site and is sponsored by the Evangelical Home Foundation Palatinate .
Web links
The domain www.hermersbergerhof.de exists, but has been redirected to the website of a commercial company.
Individual evidence
- ↑ quaeldich.de: Hermersbergerhof (540 m) . Retrieved June 7, 2020 .
- ^ Wilgartswiesen community: history
- ↑ a b → History of the Knight Stones .
- ↑ Dreiherrenstein, Luitpold Tower and Kirschfels. Hiking in the Palatinate, accessed on October 16, 2014 .
- ↑ List of localities for the Free State of Bavaria. daten.digitale-sammlungen.de, accessed on June 7, 2020 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Hermersbergerhof. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Hermersbergerhof: Michael Eck elected deputy mayor. Inauguration of Vera Schmitt. In: The Rhine Palatinate. August 21, 2019, accessed April 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Notice. Constituent meeting of the Hermersbergerhof local council. In: Hauensteiner Bote. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH, edition 27/2019, accessed on April 5, 2020 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Hauenstein, Verbandsgemeinde, penultimate line of results. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .