Kindsbach

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Coat of arms of the local community Kindsbach
Kindsbach
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Coordinates: 49 ° 25 '  N , 7 ° 37'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Kaiserslautern
Association municipality : Landstuhl
Height : 247 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.8 km 2
Residents: 2418 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 275 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 66862
Area code : 06371
License plate : KL
Community key : 07 3 35 018
Association administration address: Kaiserstraße 49
66849 Landstuhl
Website : www.kindsbach.de
Local Mayor : Knut Böhlke ( SPD )
Location of the local community of Kindsbach in the Kaiserslautern district
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Heather cliffs
Celtic reliefs
Roman reliefs

Kindsbach is a municipality in the Kaiserslautern district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Landstuhl Association , within which it is the second largest local community in terms of population.

geography

Kindsbach lies on the edge of the Palatinate Forest twelve kilometers west of Kaiserslautern . The Westrich Moorniederung and the Sickinger step extend to the north . The community also includes the Am Sandweiher residential area . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Ramstein-Miesenbach , Kaiserslautern, Bann and Landstuhl . The Silbersee is also located within the municipality .

history

Directly next to a spring in the forest southwest of Kindsbach are the "Heidenfelsen" with figures in high relief that supposedly come from Celtic times. Kindsbach was first mentioned in 1265 as Kunigesbach .

Until the end of the 18th century, the village of Kindsbach belonged to the so-called Grand Court of the Landstuhl Lordship , which was owned by the Barons von Sickingen of the line to Hohenburg.

In 1794 the left bank of the Rhine was occupied in the First Coalition War. From 1778 to 1814 Kindsbach belonged to the canton Landstuhl in the Donnersberg department .

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Steegen was incorporated into the canton of Landstuhl in the Donnersberg department and was subordinate to the Mairie Landstuhl . Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna , the area first came to Austria in June 1815 and was ceded to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 on the basis of a state treaty . Then Steegen moved to the Kingdom of Bavaria. From 1818 to 1862 he was a member of the Homburg Land Commissioner ; from this the district office of Homburg emerged.

Since part of the district office - including Homburg itself - was added to the newly created Saar area in 1920 , the place moved to the newly created district office of Kaiserslautern and was administered by a district office branch located in Landstuhl until 1938. Since 1939 it has been part of the Kaiserslautern district . After the Second World War , Bann became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate and the administrative district of Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform , the place was incorporated into the newly created community of Landstuhl in 1972 .

population

Population development

The development of the population of Kindsbach, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents
1815 275
1835 528
1871 566
1905 924
1939 1,792
1950 1,945
1961 2,632
year Residents
1970 2,743
1987 2,413
1997 2,547
2005 2,468
2011 2,403
2017 2,402
2019 2,418

religion

Kindsbacher miraculous image with Art Nouveau version based on a design by Rudolf von Perignon , 1912

In Kindsbach there has been a pilgrimage to the Kindsbach Madonna von Pötsch , a copy of the famous Weeping Madonna von Pötsch , in Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral since the beginning of the 18th century . Pope Pius VII granted a special indulgence for this purpose. The oil painting is set in a precious Art Nouveau frame by the sacred architect Rudolf von Perignon .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Kindsbach consists of 16 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman. By 2014 the council had 20 council members.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice SPD CDU FWG total
2019 7th 6th 3 16 seats
2014 8th 6th 2 16 seats
2009 7th 11 2 20 seats
2004 6th 11 3 20 seats
  • FWG = Free Voting Group Kindsbach e. V.

mayor

Knut Böhlke (SPD) is the local mayor of Kindsbach. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with 90.57% of the vote.

coat of arms

Kindsbach coat of arms
 Blazon : "Divided by red and black, above a golden royal crown, below five silver balls (balls)."

Parish partnership

The partner municipality is Grandcamp-Maisy from Normandy in France.

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

Listed residential and commercial building in the center of the village

There are a total of five objects on site that are listed .

nature

There are a total of three natural monuments in the municipality of Kindsbach . The Eastern Palatinate Moorniederung nature reserve extends partially over the municipal marker.

Regular events

The Kindsbacher Kerwe always takes place at the end of August .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Kaiserstraße laid out by Napoleon , which is identical on site to Landesstraße 395 , ran through Kindsbach . The community is connected to the motorway network by the A 6 and the nearby junction 13 Ramstein .

Kindsbach station is on the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line and was built after 1871; it is located in the northwest of the municipality. It belongs to station category 6 and is served by the trains of the S-Bahn RheinNeckar , the Kaiserslautern - Kusel route and the RE 60 Kaiserslautern - Saarbrücken regional express line. An important freight customer from the 1920s was the company Formsandwerke Ludwigshafen am Rhein, which mined molding sand on site and transported it to the train station by cable car. Local public transport is integrated into the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN).

Military use and conversion

Kindsbach is, among other things, the location of a 2.5 hectare NATO bunker ( Air Defense Operations Center - Kindsbach ) which was released for civil use in 1992 as part of the conversion of areas previously used by the military.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Theo Heinz Wilhelm († 2016), appointed 2015

Sons and daughters of the church

People who worked on site

  • Rudolf von Perignon , (1880–1959), designed the Art Nouveau metal frame for the local Madonna von Pötsch
  • Thomas Reiland (* 1967), soccer player, played in his youth for the local soccer club

Web links

Commons : Kindsbach  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, 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. 151 (PDF; 3 MB).
  3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
  4. ^ Official website of the Diocese of Speyer on the pilgrimage in Kindsbach ( Memento from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: City Council Election 2019 Kindsbach. Retrieved November 1, 2019 .
  6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: 2014 Kindsbach municipal council election. Retrieved November 1, 2019 .
  7. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Direct elections 2019. Accessed on November 1, 2019 (see Landstuhl, Verbandsgemeinde, fourth row of results).
  8. ↑ Photo gallery - train stations and stops - Kindsbach. Philip Scherer, accessed January 11, 2014 (private website).
  9. ↑ Conversion in the region. (PDF) In: West Palatinate Information No. 101 November 1999, accessed on February 20, 2020 .