Hirschhorn / Palatinate

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kaiserslautern
Association municipality :	Otterbach-Otterberg
Height :	213 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.32 km 2
Residents:	740 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	223 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67732
Area code :	06308
License plate :	KL
Community key :	07 3 35 014
Association administration address:	Hauptstrasse 27 ; 67697 Otterberg
Website :	www.otterbach-otterberg.de
Local Mayor (executive):	Beate Rudat
Location of the local community Hirschhorn / Pfalz in the district of Kaiserslautern

Hirschhorn / Pfalz is a municipality in the Kaiserslautern district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Otterbach-Otterberg .

geography

Hirschhorn is just under 12 km north-north-west of Kaiserslautern on the Lauter . The Wölhof residential area also belongs to the community.

history

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1233. The place name Hirschhorn has been documented since 1766.

politics

Municipal council

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

Local mayor

Local mayor of Hirschhorn is the managing director Beate Rudat (FWG). Since no candidate had stood in the direct election on May 26, 2019, and the municipal council had not yet been able to find a successor, she agreed to continue the official business temporarily. In the local elections on June 7, 2009, Rudat was the first woman to be elected mayor of this municipality, and in 2014 she was confirmed in office with 63.2 percent.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In silver on a black rocky hill, topped with a silver stag pole, a sitting red squirrel, holding a black double hook." It was approved by the Mainz Interior Ministry in 1955.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Regular events

on May 1st "Maypole Festival"
on the 1st Sunday in August "Car-free Lautertal" (cycling fun between Kaiserslautern and Lauterecken)
on the 3rd weekend in August "Hirschhorner Kerwe "
on the Saturday before the 1st Advent "Christmas market"

traffic

The public transport in the transport association Rhein-Neckar integrated. The Lautertalbahn has a stop in the municipality.

A regional train called "Hirschhorn" has been running since 2009.

The B 270 runs directly through the community and leads from Kaiserslautern via Wolfstein and Lauterecken to Idar-Oberstein . Hirschhorn is connected to the A 6 via the Kaiserslautern-West junction .

Web links

Commons : Hirschhorn / Pfalz - Collection of images

Local community Hirschhorn on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Otterbach-Otterberg
Literature about Hirschhorn / Pfalz in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 152 (PDF; 3 MB).

↑ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Hirschhorn. Retrieved October 27, 2019 .
↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Direct elections 2019. Accessed on October 27, 2019 (see Otterbach-Otterberg, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results).
↑ Hirschhorn: Beate Rudat remains in office as managing director. In: The Rhine Palatinate. June 29, 2019, accessed October 27, 2019 .
^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-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. 152 (PDF; 3 MB).