Hinterweidenthal

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 12 '  N , 7 ° 45'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southwest Palatinate
Association municipality :	Hauenstein
Height :	242 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16.9 km 2
Residents:	1559 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	92 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66999
Area code :	06396
License plate :	PS , ZW
Community key :	07 3 40 020
Association administration address:	Schulstrasse 4 76846 Hauenstein
Website :	www.hinterweidenthal.de
Mayoress :	Bärbel Schenk
Location of the local community Hinterweidenthal in the district of Südwestpfalz

View of Hinterweidenthal

The local community Hinterweidenthal is a state-approved resort in the district of Südwestpfalz in Rhineland-Palatinate . Hinterweidenthal belongs to the community of Hauenstein , within which it is the second largest local community in terms of population.

geography

location

Hinterweidenthal is located on the northern edge of the Wasgau , which includes the southern part of the Palatinate Forest and the northern part of the Vosges , about eight kilometers east of Pirmasens and six kilometers west of Hauenstein , in the so-called Dahner Felsenland . The hamlet of Kaltenbach is also located directly north of the main town . Geologically, Hinterweidenthal belongs to the so-called Rehberg strata . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Wilgartswiesen , Hauenstein, Dahn , Lemberg , Ruppertsweiler and Münchweiler an der Rodalb .

Surveys

There are several elevations in the district of Hinterweidenthal. Immediately to the west of the settlement area, the 321  m above sea level extends . NN high Etschberg . Other mountains on site are the Farreneck ( 402  m above sea level ), the Wieselberg ( 397  m above sea level ), the Kleine Mühlenberg ( 391  m above sea level ), the Glockenhorn ( 381  m above sea level ), the Hohe Kopf ( 367  m above sea level ), the round head ( 364  m above sea level ), the Seekopf ( 357  m above sea level ), the Kornfels ( 354  m above sea level ), the eastern flank of the Kleiner Bichtenberg ( 342  m ), the glove -Kopf ( 324  m above sea level ), the Kleine Hellenberg ( 324  m above sea level ) and on the district boundary to Dahn the 274.6  m above sea level. NN high pork spit .

Waters

The Lauter flows through the community . To the northwest of the settlement area, the Salzbach flows into the Lauter, which first joins the Walmersbach from the left, which marks the border with Ruppertsweiler and the Kaltenbach and a little later the Horbach . The latter takes the Pfaffenbach from the right and the Hirtenbach from the left . To the southeast of the development, the Lauter takes on the Seebach from the left ; the latter takes on the Mühlenbach from the right .

history

In 1285 there was a fiefdom that the Lords of Dahn had received from the Hornbach Monastery and the Speyer diocese .

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Hinterweidenthal was incorporated into the canton of Dahn . In 1815 the place Austria was added. Just one year later, Hinterweidenthal moved to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 the place was part of the Landkommissariat Pirmasens , which was converted into a district office in 1862. On June 17, 1849 Hinterweidenthal was partially the scene of the battle near Rinnthal ; a Palatinate Volkswehr battalion had withdrawn from the community to Rinnthal in front of the Prussian troops.

In 1939 Hinterweidenthal was incorporated into the district of Pirmasens (from 1997 district of Südwestpfalz ) . After the Second World War , the municipality within the French occupation zone became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform , the place became part of the newly created community of Hauenstein . On January 1, 1976, the nearby hamlet of Kaltenbach , which had previously belonged to Wilgartswiesen, was reassigned to Hinterweidenthal.

population

Population development

As in the entire region, a population decline can be observed locally. In 2004 the population was 1,719. At the end of 2007 it had dropped to 1,659. In 2019, 1559 people lived in Hinterweidenthal.

religion

Protestant church

There is a Protestant and a Catholic church on site. In 2012, 49.4 percent of the population were Protestant and 37.0 percent were Catholic Christians. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational. The Catholics belong to the Diocese of Speyer and are subordinate to the Deanery Pirmasens , the Evangelicals to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate .

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Hinterweidenthal 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	WGR	total
2019	2	5	9	-	16 seats
2014	-	5	11	-	16 seats
2009	-	7th	9	-	16 seats
2004	-	-	10	6th	16 seats

mayor

Bärbel Schenk (FWG) became local mayor of Hinterweidenthal in 1999. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, she was confirmed in her office for another five years with a share of the vote of 65.84 percent.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Divided and split at the top, awakened by silver and blue on the top right , a silver eagle in red on the top left, a green willow tree in gold below." It was approved by the Mainz Interior Ministry in 1960 .
	Justification of the coat of arms: The Wecken refer to the former affiliation to Bavaria and the eagle to the Lords of Dahn, who once ruled the place. The willow tree turns it into a "speaking coat of arms".

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

Listed half-timbered house

In Hinterweidenthal there are a total of 31 objects that are under monument protection , including the two churches and the war memorials in the local main street. They are reminiscent of various military conflicts such as the German-Danish War , the German War , the German-French War and the First World War .

Planet trail

A planetary hiking trail was laid out along the Wieslauter in 2006 , showing the distances within the solar system as a model. It begins at the end of Hinterweidenthal and ends with the dwarf planet Pluto at the entrance to Bruchweiler, ten and a half kilometers away .

nature

Devil table

The municipality is located in the Palatinate Forest Nature Park , which in turn belongs to the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord Biosphere Reserve . Hinterweidenthal is also part of the Palatinate Forest climbing area . There are a total of five objects on site that are designated as natural monuments, including the Teufelstisch , Rappenfelsen and Heufels rock formations .

folklore

There is a legend about the Devil's Rock .

Festivals

Every year in September, the Franco-German farmer's market is held on the village square, the so-called threshing floor . There you have the opportunity to purchase agricultural products from local producers; historical agricultural machines are also exhibited.

societies

There is SV Hinterweidenthal on site , which offers football, among other things, and which took part in the Southwest Football Cup 2017/18 .

Infrastructure

economy

Due to the geographic conditions, the forest and timber industry dominated the area for centuries. The community is also the seat of a forestry office. In the 1950s, a NATO fuel depot was built in the southwest of the town , which was abandoned in 1992. There is now an industrial park on the site. In addition, there is a brewery on site with the Ehrstein brewery.

traffic

Hinterweidenthal stop on the Landau – Rohrbach railway line opened in 1875

rail

Hinterweidenthal has been connected to the rail network since 1875 via the Landau – Rohrbach railway line. The Hinterweidenthal-Kaltenbach train station was built in the Kaltenbach district, which was then part of Wilgartswiesen , and was later renamed Kaltenbach (Palatinate) and finally got its current name Hinterweidenthal .

In the Hinterweidenthal Ost train station, built in 1911 , the Wieslauterbahn , a single-track branch line that opened in the same year, branches off to Bundenthal-Rumbach , which also has a nearby stop at Hinterweidenthal Ort . Plans to tie the line through to Weißenburg were thwarted by the outbreak of the First World War. Passenger traffic on the Wieslauterbahn ceased in 1966 and 1976; As a result, the branch station for passenger transport was closed. Freight traffic was abandoned in 1995. Since 1997, it has been used for regular excursions on Sundays and public holidays in the summer months. The route was temporarily used by the city of Dahn for an inner-city relief road. Until 2017, however, the route was leased by the Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft .

The Hinterweidenthal stop on the main road is served by regional trains on the RB 55 line, which run between Landau and Pirmasens . The Hinterweidenthal Ost branch station is only operated during the Wieslauterbahn's operating hours, which is recorded as RB 56 .

Street

Bundesstrasse 427 within Hinterweidenthal

As early as the Middle Ages, Hinterweidenthal was connected to the national transport network via a salt road, which led from Château-Salins to the Rhine plain .

The local community acts as a starting point and park-and-ride station for many commuters who travel from the community of Dahner Felsenland towards Pirmasens or Landau in the Palatinate . In addition, branches at the connection point Salzwoog / Hinterweidenthal the Federal Highway 427 , which Dahn and Bad Bergzabern until after Kandel , leads from the national highway 10 from; the latter connects the community with Landau in the Palatinate and Pirmasens.

From the federal highway 427, the state road 486 branch off via Salzwoog to Pirmasens and the state road 487 to Fischbach bei Dahn .

The municipality is also connected to the local transport network via bus route 252 of the Rhein-Neckar transport association , which runs Monday to Friday and runs from Hauenstein to Wissembourg .

tourism

Teufelstisch adventure park

Hinterweidenthal is the starting point for various cycling and hiking trails through the Palatinate Forest, for example the Palatinate Forest Tour to Kaiserslautern and the Pamina Cycle Route Lautertal to Neuburg am Rhein . In addition, the local community is on the Pirminius cycle path , which runs from Wilgartswiesen to Hornbach . Tour 12 of the Pfälzerwald mountain bike park leads through the eastern forest area of ​​Hinterweidenthals. A model playground was also created at the Teufelstisch with the Teufelstisch adventure park .

The Donnersberg – Donon long-distance hiking trail marked with a red bar and several other hiking trails, one of which is marked with a blue-red bar and runs from Kirchheimbolanden to Pirmasens, and the other with a yellow dot from Kettrichhof to Dahn, run through the municipality . There is also one that is marked with a green-yellow bar and that leads from Kirchheimbolanden to Hirschthal .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Wolfgang Leschhorn (* 1950), ancient historian and numismatist

People who worked on site

• Johann Wilhelm Hannitz (~ 1713–1792), chief forester from Hochstift Speyer, died on site
• Heinrich Hartz (1886–1965), Catholic priest, lived in Hinterweidenthal from the spring of 1965
• Hans Jörg Duppré (* 1945), politician (CDU), lives on site

literature

• Ludwig Heinrich Baum: Chronicle of Hinterweidenthal . Jander, Pirmasens 1902 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de [accessed on March 24, 2019]).

Web links

Commons : Hinterweidenthal  - collection of images

• Hinterweidenthal community
• Literature about Hinterweidenthal in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2012
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.
4. ↑ Andrea Daum: Hinterweidenthal: Where the devil wanted to eat. Die Rheinpfalz, January 4, 2019, accessed on April 4, 2020 . 
5. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. Retrieved on April 4, 2020 (see Hauenstein, Verbandsgemeinde, fourth row of results). 
6. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
7. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - District of Südwestpfalz. Mainz 2020, p. 21 f. (PDF; 8.7 MB).