Hochstein (Winnweiler)
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Hochstein
Local community Winnweiler
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| Height : | 238 m above sea level NHN | |
| Residents : | 499 (Aug 31, 2009) | |
| Incorporation : | 7th June 1969 | |
| Postal code : | 67722 | |
| Area code : | 06302 | |
Location of Hochstein in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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 Cast iron plaque in Hochstein from the 19th century
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Hochstein is a district of the municipality of Winnweiler in the Donnersberg district in Rhineland-Palatinate . From 1797 to 1969 it was an independent community.
location
The place is north of the core community in the eastern North Palatinate Uplands directly on the Alsenz . The Eisenschmelz , Kahlheckerhof and Kupferschmelz residential areas also belong to Hochstein . The Hochsteiner Kreuz rock formation is also a natural monument north of the settlement area .
history
Already at the time of its first documentary mention in 891 as Anabozi the place belonged to Winnweiler. From the 13th century, Hochstein was part of the County of Falkenstein , which from 1782 was in turn part of the Upper Austrian Upper Office of Winnweiler . At the end of the 18th century, Hochstein became an independent municipality.
From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Hochstein was incorporated into the canton of Winnweiler . In 1815 the place belonged again to Austria . A year later it was slammed into Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862, Hochstein was part of the Kaiserslautern Land Commissioner , which was then converted into a district office. On December 1, 1900, the community moved to the newly created district office Rockenhausen .
In 1928 Hochstein had 453 residents who lived in 94 residential buildings. From 1938 the place was part of the district of Rockenhausen . After the Second World War , Hochstein became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone .
In the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform, Hochstein became a district of Winnweiler again on June 7, 1969 and at the same time moved to the newly created Donnersbergkreis .
politics
Hochstein is designated as a local district and therefore has a local advisory board and a local director . The local council consists of five local council members who were elected by majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 . The head of the village is Christiane Demmerle. She was unanimously re-elected on July 25, 2019 in the constituent meeting of the local council.
Infrastructure
Hochstein is on federal highway 48 . Although the Alsenz Valley Railway, which opened in 1870 and 1871, passes the town, it never had a train stop. It passes the place itself by means of the copper smelting tunnel and, until it was blown up in 1970, the Hochstein tunnel . The Alsenz cycle path also runs through the village.
Attractions
With the cemetery and the iron smelter together with the Gienanth early industrial park, there are two monument zones on site ; In addition, there are a total of five individual monuments with the community center, the school building, a crossroads, the Gienanth fountain and a kilometer stone .
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the place
- Ludwig von Gienanth (1767–1848), industrialist
- Carl von Gienanth (1818–1890), industrialist
- Eugen von Gienanth (1846-1893), ironworks and landowner
- Lene Bertelsmann (1903–1981), author
People who worked on site
- Friedrich Euler (1823-1891), engineer, was from 1851 smelter at the Freiherrlich Gienanthschen smelting works in Hochstein
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 92 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
- ↑ daten.digitale-sammlungen.de: List of localities for the Free State of Bavaria . Retrieved March 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 182 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
- ^ The regional returning officer RLP: Local council elections 2019 Hochstein. Retrieved September 1, 2019 .
- ^ Local community Winnweiler: Christiane Demmerle re-elected. July 26, 2019, accessed September 1, 2019 .
- ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Donnersbergkreis. Mainz 2018, p. 56 f. (PDF; 5.3 MB).
