Krickenbach

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Coat of arms of the local community Krickenbach
Krickenbach
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Krickenbach highlighted

Coordinates: 49 ° 22 '  N , 7 ° 40'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Kaiserslautern
Association municipality : Landstuhl
Height : 333 m above sea level NHN
Area : 10.02 km 2
Residents: 1162 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 116 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 67706
Area code : 06307
License plate : KL
Community key : 07 3 35 021
Association administration address: Kaiserstraße 49
66849 Landstuhl
Website : www.krickenbach.de
Local Mayor : Uwe Vatter (FWG)
Location of the local community Krickenbach in the district of Kaiserslautern
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Lake in the district of Krickenbach

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

geography

location

Krickenbach is located in the Middle Palatinate Forest . The residential areas Ameisenhof, Bohlenhof, Erkelshäuserhof and Schweinstal also belong to the local community . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Queidersbach , Kaiserslautern , Stelzenberg , Schopp and Linden .

Waters

The moss ointment forms the eastern boundary of the district. From the right it takes on the Engtalbach , which rises in the center of Krickenbach and flows to the southwest. Further north, the moss ointment also picks up the Schweinsbach from the right.

geology

In the north of the district there is the so-called Schweinstaler sandstone .

history

Krickenbach was first mentioned in a document on March 25, 1347, when Siegfried Zeitloss, a merchant, donated a chaplaincy at the altar of St. Nicholas to the church of the Commandery Einsiedel of the Teutonic Order .

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

In 1794 the left bank of the Rhine was occupied in the First Coalition War. From 1798 to 1814 Krickenbach belonged to the canton of Kaiserslautern in the Donnersberg department and was subordinate to Mairie Trippstadt .

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 . Under the Bavarian administration, Krickenbach belonged to the Land Commissioner of Kaiserslautern in the Rhine District from 1817, and to the Kaiserslautern District Office from 1862.

The community has been part of the Kaiserslautern district since 1939 . After the Second World War , Krickenbach 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 administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , the place was incorporated into the newly created community of Kaiserslautern-Süd in 1972 . On July 1, 2019, Krickenbach moved to the Landstuhl Association .

population

Population development

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

year Residents
1815 220
1835 335
1871 356
1905 472
1939 662
year Residents
1950 704
1961 854
1970 949
1987 1.101
1993 1,188
year Residents
1999 1,215
2005 1,204
2011 1,181
2017 1,164
2019 1,162

In Homburg in Saarland there is a residential area that is unofficially called Neukrickenbach . The quarter was created in 1922 by the settlement of railway workers, who had mainly moved from Krickenbach. With the onset of building construction around 1928, the quarter was opened up. The streets of the district were named after musicians, as the local residents cultivated the musical tradition from their hometown.

religion

At the end of 2014, 42.0 percent of the population were Catholic and 39.7 percent Protestant. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational. The Catholics belong to the Diocese of Speyer , the Evangelicals to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate .

politics

In federal elections, Krickenbach has been part of the Pirmasens constituency since 2002 , and before that of the Kaiserslautern constituency . In state elections, the municipality belonged to the Kaiserslautern II constituency from 1991 and to the Kaiserslautern-Land constituency since 2016 .

Municipal council

The municipal council in Krickenbach consists of 16 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 FWG WZK total
2019 3 4th 5 4th 16 seats
2014 4th 3 5 4th 16 seats
2009 4th 2 4th 6th 16 seats
2004 9 5 2 - 16 seats
  • FWG = Free Voting Group Krickenbach e. V.
  • WZK = Voting Group Future Krickenbach e. V.

mayor

Uwe Vatter (FWG) has been the local mayor of Krickenbach since 2015. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with 78.75 percent of the vote. His predecessor in office was Bernd Gemba (WZK), who was in office from 2009. Before that, Udo Seibert (SPD) held the office.

coat of arms

Krickenbach coat of arms
 Blazon : "In gold, an inclined grid made of red strips, covered with a black heart shield, in it five silver balls 2: 1: 2."

It was approved by the Mainz Interior Ministry in 1960 .

Justification of the coat of arms: The Bollen reminds of the former local lords, the Lords of Sickingen .

Culture

nature

The municipality is located in the Palatinate Forest Nature Park , which in turn belongs to the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord Biosphere Reserve .

archeology

In the northeast of the district is the monolith of Breitenau .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

The Carl Picard company exists in the municipality .

traffic

To the east of the municipality is the federal highway 270 which connects Kaiserslautern with Pirmasens. From this the county road 59 branches off to the east , which connects the town to the road network and which leads to Linden. It is ten kilometers to the federal motorway 62 (Landstuhl – Pirmasens) with the Bann junction. The closest train station is Schopp an der Biebermühlbahn .

tourism

Figure on the Schweinstal sculpture trail

Krickenbach is located on a hiking trail that is marked with a green-yellow bar and that runs from Kirchheimbolanden to Hirschthal . The Schweinstal Sculpture Trail was created from 1986 onwards with several international sculpture symposia . It is also part of the Rhineland-Palatinate Sculpture Trail . In addition, the water hiking trail on the Moosalbe runs over the municipal marker .

organization

The community belongs to the judicial district of the Kaiserslautern District Court .

People who worked on site

  • Hartmut Jatzko (* 1938), doctor for internal medicine, psychiatry / psychotherapy and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit, lives in Krickenbach
  • Gerhard Schmidt (* 1940), politician (SPD), from 1989 mayor of Krickenbach
  • Sybille Jatzko (* 1950), talk therapist and recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit , lives in Krickenbach
  • Martin Schöneich (* 1955), sculptor, took part in the 2000 International Sculpture Symposium

Web links

Commons : Krickenbach  - 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. 150 (PDF; 3 MB).
  3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved February 28, 2020 .
  4. ^ Karl Fischer: Geschichte Homburg (=  sheets on the history of the city of Homburg-Saar ). 1958, DNB  451281608 , Chapter 8: From small town idyll to industrial town, p. 125 .
  5. ↑ Neukrickenbach. In: Homburg in the picture. Retrieved February 28, 2020 (private website).
  6. ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2014
  7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local council election 2019 Krickenbach. Retrieved November 1, 2019 .
  8. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal Council Election 2014 Krickenbach. Retrieved November 1, 2019 .
  9. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Direct elections 2019. Accessed on November 1, 2019 (see Landstuhl, Verbandsgemeinde, fifth row of results).
  10. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate . Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .