Hoppstädten-Weiersbach

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '  N , 7 ° 12'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Birch field
Association municipality :	Birch field
Height :	374 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.87 km 2
Residents:	3703 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	207 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55768
Area code :	06782
License plate :	BIR
Community key :	07 1 34 042
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Schneewiesenstrasse 21 55765 Birkenfeld
Website :	www.hoppstaedten-weiersbach.de
Local Mayor :	Peter Heyda ( SPD )
Location of the local community of Hoppstädten-Weiersbach in the Birkenfeld district

Neubrücke (Nahe) Station in the district Neubrücke of Hoppstädten-Weiersbach

Hoppstädten-Weiersbach, view from the industrial area near the Rofu to the wind turbines in the south

Hoppstädten-Weiersbach is a municipality in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Birkenfeld community .

geography

Hoppstädten-Weiersbach is made up of the three districts of Hoppstädten, Weiersbach (with Bleiderdingen) and Neubrücke . The place is close to the border with Saarland .

The local community is located in the Nahe Valley , in the Upper Nahebergland, a part of the Saar-Nahe Mountains . It is an independent landscape area and cannot be incorporated into the Palatinate or the Hunsrück . The landscape around the local community is shaped by the Hoppstädter Nahe valley. This valley is a broad floodplain with extensive meadows and wooded mountain slopes on the two mountains that frame the Nahe valley, the Hoppstädter and the Weiersbacher Berg. Large arable land has been laid out on the higher corridors. The characteristic Nahe valley between Hoppstädten-Weiersbach and Idar-Oberstein still has many natural, sometimes wildly romantic areas. Parts of the Nahe valley in Hoppstädten-Weiersbach were therefore designated as a landscape protection area in 1991 .

history

The villages of Weiersbach and Hoppstädten belonged to the Werdenstein lordship together with Leitzweiler , Heimbach and Freisen in the Middle Ages . A sideline of the Lords of Oberstein was first named after the rule "Lords of Werdenstein" in the 16th century. Jakob von Eberstein married the daughter entitled to inheritance and built the castle of the same name "Werdenstein" around 1550. It was located between the two villages and was completely demolished at the beginning of the 19th century.

In the district of Neubrücke there was a satellite camp of the SS special camp Hinzert from 1944 to 1945 .

The 98th General Hospital of the US Army was opened in 1952 on a 44-hectare site near Neubrücke . The emergency and reserve hospital had 1,000 beds and various medical specialist stations, including for surgery, dentistry, orthopedics, radiology, rehabilitation and ophthalmology. A complete military and hospital train was always ready to leave. In 1994 the hospital was closed.

The former hospital grounds are now home to the Birkenfeld Environmental Campus .

The community of Hoppstädten-Weiersbach was re-formed on June 7, 1969 from the dissolved communities of Hoppstädten (at that time 1855 inhabitants) and Weiersbach (515 inhabitants).

Population development

The development of the population of Hoppstädten-Weiersbach in today's municipal area; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses. The rapid population increase in recent years is due to the targeted settlement of Chinese entrepreneurs and their families on a former US military site. Today around 1,000 Chinese live in Hoppstädten-Weiersbach.

year Residents 1815 681 1835 994 1871 1,195 1905 1.313 1939 1,784 1950 2.023 1961 2,446

year Residents 1970 2,329 1987 2,348 1997 2,546 2005 2,795 2011 2,905 2016 3,415 2019 3,703

Municipal council

The municipal council in Hoppstädten-Weiersbach consists of 20 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	WGR	total
2019	8th	8th	4th	20 seats
2014	7th	10	3	20 seats
2009	6th	11	3	20 seats
2004	5	13	2	20 seats

Infrastructure

Aerial view of the EDRH special landing site, formerly Hoppstädten-Weiersbach airfield

Hoppstädten-Weiersbach

Renatured site of the former Ellweiler uranium plant with waste dump

High-bay warehouse of the cookware manufacturer Fissler , view from the station car park

Hoppstädten-Weiersbach, power plant of OIE AG, a subsidiary of RWE AG

Hoppstädten-Weiersbach is on the motorway 62 Nonnweiler - Landstuhl , junction Birkenfeld and on the railway Saarbrücken - Mainz ( Near Talbahn ) and has on this the regional station Neubrücke (Next) and a further breakpoint Hoppstädten-Weiersbach in Hoppstädten.

Between the two districts of Hoppstädten and Weiersbach, the Hoppstädten-Weiersbach airfield , ICAO code "EDRH", lies parallel to the Nahe riverbank .

Hoppstädten-Weiersbach is the seat of the state collection point for radioactive waste of the State Office for the Environment, Water Management and Trade Supervision (LUWG) of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate.

To the northeast of this is the site of the former Ellweiler uranium ore processing plant . This was built in 1958/59 as a test facility for the Federal Republic of Germany and put into operation in 1961. The aim was to produce a uranium concentrate in the form of ammonium diuranate ( yellow cake ). The production residues were stored on heaps. Following changes in the law, operations were prohibited on May 30, 1989 because the radioactive noble gas radon had clearly exceeded the limit values . The operator of the plant then went bankrupt. The plant was then taken over by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and renovated and renatured by June 2000 for approx. 48 million DM. Today only the spoil dump (opposite the gas station on the road to Birkenfeld) reminds of the former facility.

economy

In Hoppstädten-Weiersbach are the company headquarters and the central warehouse of Rofu Kinderland , a power station of OIE AG and a settlement of the cookware manufacturer Fissler . In addition, since the settlement of Chinese business people in a former barracks of the US military , the place has also been the location for numerous small and medium-sized Chinese companies that are active in the import-export business.

people

• Emanuel Hecht (* 1821 in Nordheim, † February 25, 1862 in Hoppstädten), since 1845 teacher at the Jewish school, educational writer and local history researcher, 1858 member of the provincial council, honorary doctorate from the University of Bonn
• David Einhorn (born November 10, 1809 in Diespeck , † November 2, 1879 in New York ), 1842 to 1847 rabbi of Hoppstädten and regional rabbi in the Principality of Birkenfeld ,
• Alex Lewin (born October 5, 1888 in Adelsheim; † 1942 in the Auschwitz extermination camp ), last rabbi of the Oldenburg region of Birkenfeld, with his seat and apartment in Hoppstädten.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Hoppstädten-Weiersbach

Web links

Commons : Hoppstädten-Weiersbach  - Collection of images

• Local community Hoppstädten-Weiersbach on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Birkenfeld
• US Army website with plans and information about the Neubrücke Hospital
• Neubrücke Hospital at globalsecurity.org
• Jana Gioia Baurmann: Hoppstädten-Weiersbach: The village with the 600 Chinese , Zeit Online , April 11, 2017
• Literature about Hoppstädten-Weiersbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 166 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Population and households. Hoppstädten-Weiersbach community on May 9, 2011 . Bad Ems, 2014. p. 6. Accessed on September 18, 2019
5. ↑ ^{a b} The German village that's home to 1,000 Chinese . In: South China Morning Post . ( scmp.com [accessed October 10, 2018]).
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
7. ↑ geocaching , accessed July 15, 2016.