Kreimbach-Kaulbach

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '  N , 7 ° 38'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kusel
Association municipality :	Lauterecken-Wolfstein
Height :	220 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.03 km 2
Residents:	772 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	85 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67757
Area code :	06308
License plate :	KUS
Community key :	07 3 36 053
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Schulstrasse 6a 67742 Lauterecken
Website :	www.vg-lw.de
Local Mayor :	Werner Gillmann
Location of the local community Kreimbach-Kaulbach in the district of Kusel

Kreimbach-Kaulbach is a municipality in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Lauterecken-Wolfstein association.

geography

The local community is located on the Lauter, southeast of the Königsberg in the North Palatinate Bergland . In addition to the two eponymous districts, the community also includes the Schmeißbacher Mühle, Wallackerhof and Winterbach residential areas .

history

Kreimbach was first mentioned in a document in 1309, Kaulbach in 1437. The places belonged to the Electoral Palatinate .

On June 7, 1969, the community Kreimbach-Kaulbach was formed from the previously independent communities Kreimbach and Kaulbach .

politics

Municipal council

The council in Kreimbach-Kaulbach consists of twelve council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman. In the 2009 election, the council members were elected in a personalized proportional representation.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	Flat share 1	Flat share 2	total
2019	by majority vote			12 seats
2014	by majority vote			12 seats
2009	2	8th	2	12 seats
2004	by majority vote			12 seats

mayor

Werner Gillmann became mayor of Kreimbach-Kaulbach at the end of September 2019. In the re-election on September 8, 2019, he was elected for five years with 69.4% of the vote. This vote had become necessary because in the direct election on May 26, 2019, the previous incumbent and only candidate Karl Barthel did not achieve a sufficient majority for re-election.

traffic

The federal highway 270 runs through Kreimbach-Kaulbach . There is a stop for the Lautertal Railway in the village .

Pilgrimage site

The Kaulbach district is one of the official pilgrimage sites of the responsible diocese of Speyer . On the Kapellenberg (Kapellenweg) there, the long-time Wolfstein pastor Philipp Hammer , who was also a religious writer, donated the Maria Hilf church in 1875 from the royalties on his books and founded a pilgrimage. Dean Hammer, at the time a well-known speaker at major Catholic events (Catholic days, etc.), is buried by the chapel. During his lifetime, his college friend, the Trier bishop Felix Korum , often came there to preach and hold services.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Ernst Christmann (1895–1974), teacher, folklorist, name researcher and dialect poet, author of the Palatinate dictionary

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Kreimbach-Kaulbach
• Heidenburg (Kreimbach-Kaulbach)

Web links

Commons : Kreimbach-Kaulbach  - Collection of images

• Local community Kreimbach-Kaulbach on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Lauterecken-Wolfstein
• Kreimbach-Kaulbach at regionalgeschichte.net
• Literature about Kreimbach-Kaulbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, 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. 154 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 169 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.
5. ^ Sabrina Schreiner: Kreimbach-Kaulbach: Local council elects three councilors. die Rheinpfalz, September 30, 2019, accessed on May 1, 2020 . 
6. ^ Sabrina Schreiner: Kreimbach-Kaulbach: New local mayor Werner Gillmann likes to be a family man. die Rheinpfalz, September 18, 2019, accessed on May 1, 2020 . 
7. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Lauterecken-Wolfstein, Verbandsgemeinde, 22nd line of results. Retrieved May 1, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Kaulbach - Heart of Mary. In: Pilgrimage sites. Diocese of Speyer, archived from the original on April 20, 2012 ; accessed on February 28, 2020 .