Hohenecken

Hohenecken City of Kaiserslautern
	Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ′ 56 ″ N , 7 ° 41 ′ 46 ″ E
Height :	276 m
Area :	13.25 km²
Residents :	3654 (June 30, 2018)
Population density :	276 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	7th June 1969
Postal code :	67661
Area code :	0631
Location of Hohenecken in Rhineland-Palatinate
	View of Hohenecken from the castle

Hohenecken is a district of Kaiserslautern , which until 1969 belonged to the district of Kaiserslautern as an independent municipality . Hohenecken Castle towers over the district . The place had a stop at the Biebermühlbahn , which opened in 1913 , which has since been abandoned, but came back into operation from 2017.

geography

location

Hohenecken is located in the Palatinate Forest . The following districts or communities in Kaiserslautern border on Hohenecken: Dansenberg , Trippstadt , Stelzenberg , Schopp , and Breitenau . The residential areas Espensteig , Hohenecker Mühle and Jagdhaus also belong to the district . The next larger cities, apart from Kaiserslautern, are Ludwigshafen am Rhein , about 70 km to the east, Mainz about 80 km to the northeast and Saarbrücken about 70 km to the west.

Elevations and waters

Hohenecken, on the right the Schlossberg

Immediately to the east of the village rises the 386.5 meter high Schlossberg . The Hoheneckermühlbach flows through the place in a north-south direction; Two kilometers south of the settlement area, it is dammed up to the Gelterswoog . The Aschbach runs in the very south of the district .

climate

Hohenecken lies within the temperate climate zone with precipitation in all seasons. Compared to other regions in Germany , Hohenecken has a very warm and very sunny climate. Due to the location in the lee of the Hunsrück and Eifel , precipitation is usually withheld in north-west weather conditions.

month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Maximum	04 ° C	05 ° C	10 ° C	13 ° C	19 ° C	22 ° C	25 ° C	25 ° C	20 ° C	15 ° C	09 ° C	05 ° C
Minimal	-1 ° C	-2 ° C	02 ° C	03 ° C	08 ° C	12 ° C	14 ° C	13 ° C	09 ° C	06 ° C	03 ° C	01 ° C

history

Development up to the early modern period

Towards the end of the 12th century the construction of the Hohenecken Castle ( Middle Latin / Middle High German castro hônecke ) began, at the beginning of the 13th century it was given to a Kaiserslautern ministerial family, which from then on called itself "von Hoheneck" . To the castle belonged the rule Hohenecken, which extended over several villages, with the valley community Hohenecken, with Erfenbach , Espensteig, Siegelbach and Stockweiler , which arose at the foot of the castle hill . For centuries, the castle and the lordship were still considered to be imperial fiefs. During the Peasants' War , Hohenecken Castle was taken by rebel farmers.

In 1668 the castle and the Hohenecken estate were sold to the Duke of Lorraine. The castle was destroyed by French troops during the Orleans War in 1688. In 1733, Duke Franz Stephan of Lothringen , the husband of Empress Maria Theresa , ceded the castle and rule in the so-called Falkenstein Treaty in exchange for other parts of the area to the Palatinate. The rule was subordinated to the Oberamt Lautern and lasted until the end of the 18th century.

Younger story

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Hohenecken was incorporated into the Canton of Kaiserslautern and was subordinate to the Mairie Kaiserslautern . In the same year the municipality of Austria was struck. Just one year later, the place, like the entire Palatinate, changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . Hohenecken received an independent mayor's office again in 1818. From 1818 to 1862 the community belonged to the Land Commissioner Kaiserslautern ; from this the district office of Kaiserslautern emerged.

In 1882 the first plans for a road construction between Hohenecken and Kaiserslautern were presented, which were realized in 1892. In addition, in 1888, preparations for the construction of a road to Vogelweh began. In 1897 the St. Rochus Church, built by Ludwig Becker , was inaugurated. The village could be reached by stagecoach from 1900 and from 1905 had a public telephone box. Further technical innovations were added in 1913 with the inauguration of the Biebermühlbahn Biebermühle – Hohenecken – Kaiserslautern line.

From 1939, Hohenecken was part of the Kaiserslautern district . After the Second World War , the place became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . From 1949 the construction of the American plants on the Vogelweh began. The Erfenbacher Sträßchen becomes the main traffic connection from the Kaiserstraße to the country road to Pirmasens. The construction of the bypass road in 1953 and the traffic connections by the municipal transport company from 1957 as well as the inauguration of the Protestant church and the primary school in the same year form further points in the historical development of the village. In 1968 the school gymnasium was built and in 1969 the elementary school was expanded. In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , the community was incorporated into the independent city of Kaiserslautern on June 7, 1969, leaving the district of the same name.

population

religion

Rochus Chapel

St. Rochus

Hohenecken has a Catholic, a Protestant and an Evangelical Free Church parish. The Hohenecken district used to be an almost exclusively Catholic place; today the population is confessionally mixed due to the large number of immigrants. 42.9% of the community are Catholic, 35.4% of the community are Protestant, 4.5% belong to other religions and about 17.2% do not belong to any religion.

Catholics

The Catholic parish has existed as an independent parish since 1878. In addition to Hohenecken, the pastoral care area also includes the Breitenau, Espensteig and the Dansenberg branch community . After the Rochus Chapel (built in 1748) offered too little space for church visitors, today's parish church St. Rochus was built in the neo-Gothic style in 1896/97 according to the plans of the architect Ludwig Becker from Cologne. The chapel and the church together with the castle form the optical center of Hohenecken, a popular motif for painters and photographers. The old rectory was made available to the Hildegardis sisters in 1965 as a nurses' station. For this purpose, a new rectory was built next to the church in the same year. Since 1974 the parish also has a parish home. The community hall offers space for 180 visitors. There are three youth rooms on the ground floor.

Protestants

The Protestant parish arose after the Second World War, because many Protestants came to the town through the new building areas. In the 1950s the congregation was able to build a church, and church services in the primary school have been a thing of the past since then. The Protestants are looked after by the Dansenberg parish office. In the 1990s, the congregation underwent two major changes: Hohenecken was assigned its own pastor through the deanery, and the construction of the congregation house, which was completed in October 1994, opened up new opportunities for congregational work.

Others

The evangelical free church parish, the Hoffnungskirche Kaiserslautern , was only founded in 2004. For five years the services were held in the old flag hall on Friedenstrasse, until it became too small for the constantly increasing number of people attending the service. In 2009 a large building of its own in Landolfstrasse was acquired.

In Unterwald 2a there is a meeting place for Jehovah's Witnesses .

Population development

year	Residents
1815	227
1998	4,320
2001	4,196
2004	4,035
2007	3.810
2013	3,537
2014	3,597
2016	3,654

Population structure (2008)

Proportion of foreigners :	8.4%
Age structure :	0–5 years: 3.7% 6–14 years: 8.2% 15–20 years: 7.0% 21–29 years: 10.0% 30–44 years: 20.5% 45–59 years: 23.8% 60 years and older: 26.8%

politics

Local advisory board

A local district was formed for the district of Hohenecken . The local council consists of 15 members, the chair of the local council is chaired by the directly elected mayor .

For more information on the local council, see the results of the municipal elections in Kaiserslautern .

Mayor

The mayor of Hohenecken Alexander Rothmann belongs to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) . He was re-elected in direct election on May 26, 2019 with a share of 53.50% of the vote.

Rothmann's first deputy is Peter-Andreas Becker and his second deputy is Antje Funck.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In red a silver oblique left-hand wave bar, accompanied above by two golden corner stones placed over one, below by a four-petalled golden rose blossom."

Sights and culture

Cultural monuments

Monument zone Hohenecken Castle

The ruins of the Stauferburg Hohenecken are designated as a monument zone . It was built around 1200 and is enthroned on the Schlossberg above the town. It is still considered by experts to be one of the most remarkable castles of the Staufer era .

In Hohenecken there is the Catholic Parish Church of St. Rochus (Schloßstraße 5) and the Catholic Rochus Chapel (Schloßstraße 7), which is now occasionally used for events.

Other listed objects are the former forester's house "Schlehhof" (Burgherrenstrasse 120) and the former rectory or sister house of the Schönstadt sisters (Schloßstrasse 3).

nature

Gelterswoog

In the area of the district there is the nature reserve valleys and silting zone on the Gelterswoog . In addition, the Gelterswoog is classified as a natural monument. It is a reservoir that was artificially created in the Middle Ages by damming small streams for the purpose of breeding fish. The Gelterswoog is now used as a swimming lake, it is also a training water for canoeists and is used once a year for a canoe regatta. There is a hotel on the south bank of the lake.

Events

In Hohenecken, the Catholic and Protestant parish festivals, the fire brigade festival, the winter burning and always on the last weekend in August, a Kerwe take place.

In addition, the Burgherrenhalle is located in Hohenecken , a multi-purpose hall that can accommodate 1000 visitors. Events are also held there regularly.

societies

Various clubs are based in Hohenecken. The Musikverein Hohenecken 1924 eV, founded in 1924, performs with a big band at events and parades with Dixie music, swing and pop. The Förderverein Burg Hohenecken eV supports the preservation and upgrading of the Stauferburg Hohenecken. There is also the Vereinsring Hohenecken eV for the promotion of culture and sport in the Kaiserslautern-Hohenecken district, the Friends of the Kita Burgkinder eV and the Friends of the Primary School Hohenecken eV

Sports

The soccer club TuS Hohenecken is based in Hohenecken and was promoted to the Oberliga Südwest for the first time in 2006.

Furthermore, there are three table tennis teams that are affiliated to TuS 1904 Hohenecken eV, the first and second teams play in the district league east men and the third team in the district class A east men.

Since 2006, running enthusiasts have been meeting for Nordic walking and jogging at the “Lauftreff Hohenecken” stop.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Hohenecken has several retail and commercial operations.

traffic

Street

Hohenecken is on the B 270 , the main connecting road from Kaiserslautern to Pirmasens . Landesstraße 502 also leads through espensteig . In addition, the A 6 (connecting route from Saarbrücken to Waidhaus on the German - Czech border ) is only a few kilometers away.

There are several stops for buses on the 112 line, which is operated by SWK Verkehrs-AG , a subsidiary of Stadtwerke Kaiserslautern . It runs every hour and every half hour during rush hour. Line N 4 runs at night . Stadtwerke Kaiserslautern (SWK) are integrated into the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN).

rail

The Hohenecken train station was shut down in the 1980s. In the course of the 2017 Rhineland-Palatinate cycle, a new stop on the Biebermühlbahn under the name “Kaiserslautern-Hohenecken” was opened in a different position .

Facilities

Hohenecken has a kindergarten and a primary school with around 200 pupils, divided into 12 classes. There is also a station for the Kaiserslautern fire department on site .

tourism

Hohenecken was a station on the West Palatinate hiking trail .

Personalities

Isidor Markus Emanuel (1905–1991), bishop, took over the local parish in 1939
Karl Mildenberger (1937–2018), European boxing champion
Alexander Müller (* 1969), politician ( FDP ), member of the German Bundestag since September 2017 , was a member of the Hohenecken local advisory council from 1994 to 1998

literature

Heinz Friedel : Hohenecken. Gender - castle - village. Hohenecken 1964 (series of publications: Ortschroniken des Landkreis Kaiserslautern, Volume 1), 218 p. M. Fig.
Heinz Friedel: Hohenecken. Gender - castle - village. A contribution to the city's history. Roch, Kaiserslautern 1984
[Author collective:] Remembering the past - calling for the future. 100 years of the parish church of St. Rochus Hohenecken. 1897-1997. Ed .: Parish Council St. Rochus, Rochusweg 2, 67661 Kaiserslautern-Hohenecken, 1997, 93 p. M. Fig.

Web links

Commons : Hohenecken - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Website via www.kaiserslautern.de
Homepage of TuS 1904 Hohenecken eV
Literature about Hohenecken in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics / core city & districts. City of Kaiserslautern, July 9, 2018, accessed on July 6, 2019 .
↑ FOCUS Online: City of Kaiserslautern: Inauguration of the new Hohenecken train stop . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on June 3, 2018]).
↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 167 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
^ City of Kaiserslautern: main statute. (PDF) § 9 by July 14, 2019, accessed on October 23, 2019 .
↑ City of Kaiserslautern: Announcement of the results of the elections of May 26, 2019 of the local councilors in the city of Kaiserslautern in accordance with Section 65 of the local electoral code (KWO). (PDF) June 6, 2019, accessed October 23, 2019 .
↑ Mayor and local councils. City of Kaiserslautern, accessed on October 23, 2019 .
↑ It is Hohenecken's turn. In: The Rhineland-Palatinate Clock. Retrieved September 26, 2018 .

[1] Statistics / core city & districts. City of Kaiserslautern, July 9, 2018, accessed on July 6, 2019 .

[2] FOCUS Online: City of Kaiserslautern: Inauguration of the new Hohenecken train stop . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on June 3, 2018]).

[3] Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 167 (PDF; 2.8 MB).

[4] City of Kaiserslautern: main statute. (PDF) § 9 by July 14, 2019, accessed on October 23, 2019 .

[5] City of Kaiserslautern: Announcement of the results of the elections of May 26, 2019 of the local councilors in the city of Kaiserslautern in accordance with Section 65 of the local electoral code (KWO). (PDF) June 6, 2019, accessed October 23, 2019 .

[Ortsvorsteher-6] Mayor and local councils. City of Kaiserslautern, accessed on October 23, 2019 .

[7] It is Hohenecken's turn. In: The Rhineland-Palatinate Clock. Retrieved September 26, 2018 .