Kirrweiler (near Lauterecken)

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Kirrweiler (near Lauterecken)
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Coordinates: 49 ° 38 '  N , 7 ° 30'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Kusel
Association municipality : Lauterecken-Wolfstein
Height : 270 m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.34 km 2
Residents: 161 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 25 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 67744
Area code : 06387
License plate : KUS
Community key : 07 3 36 050
Association administration address: Schulstrasse 6a
67742 Lauterecken
Website : www.kirrweiler.com
Local Mayor : Ralf Schuster
Location of the local community Kirrweiler in the Kusel district
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Kirrweiler is a municipality in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Lauterecken-Wolfstein association.

geography

Kirrweiler is located in the western Palatinate between the Palatinate Forest and the Hunsrück . 51 percent of the municipal area is forested. In the north is the Schönbornerhof, which belongs to Homberg , in the southeast Deimberg , in the south the Obereisenbach, which belongs to Sankt Julian, and to the west is the Baumholder military training area . When the military training area was built in 1938, 155.5 hectares of forest area were separated from the Kirrweiler district. In the course of disarmament after the Cold War , the community was given 170.21 hectares as a district area in 1993, but the federal government remained the landowner.

history

In 1816 the place came to the Principality of Lichtenberg , a newly created exclave of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and from 1826 of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha . With this he fell to Prussia in 1834 , which created the Sankt Wendel district from this area . After the separation of the main part to the newly created Saar area , the remaining district of Sankt Wendel-Baumholder was created in 1920 , to which the place belonged until 1937, when it was incorporated into the Birkenfeld district. In 1969 it was reclassified to the Kusel district. While Kirrweiler still had over 300 inhabitants until the Second World War , the number of inhabitants has almost halved since then.

Population development

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

year Residents
1815 168
1835 231
1871 274
1905 288
1939 316
year Residents
1950 312
1961 291
1970 308
1987 254
2005 194

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Ralf Schuster became the local mayor of Kirrweiler on July 9, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 51.67% of the vote. His predecessor was Albert Reiss.

Parish partnership

Since 1975 the municipality has maintained partnerships with Kirrweiler in the district of Südliche Weinstrasse , Kirrwiller in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace and Kirviller in the Moselle department in Lorraine (both now in the Grand Est region ).

Economy and Infrastructure

The federal highway 420 runs in the south . In Lauterecken there is a station of the Lautertalbahn .

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Kirrweiler (near Lauterecken)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Rhineland-Palatinate "State law on the dissolution of the Baumholder manor and its municipal reorganization" of November 2, 1993 (GVBl, p. 518) [§ 2 (1) No. 6].
  3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  5. ↑ a b Rundschau for the Glan and Lauter Valley: Announcement. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH, Official Journal, edition 27/2019, accessed on May 1, 2020 .
  6. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Lauterecken-Wolfstein, Verbandsgemeinde, 21st line of results. Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Markus Henz: Kirrweiler: New local mayor Ralf Schuster committed. Die Rheinpfalz, July 11, 2019, accessed on May 1, 2020 .