War field

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 43 '  N , 7 ° 55'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Donnersbergkreis
Association municipality :	Kirchheimbolanden
Height :	340 m above sea level NHN
Area :	26.41 km 2
Residents:	1001 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	38 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67819
Area code :	06358
License plate :	KIB, ROK
Community key :	07 3 33 040
Association administration address:	Neue Allee 2 67292 Kirchheimbolanden
Website :	www.kriegsfeld.de
Local Mayor :	Albert Ziegler
Location of the local community in Kriegsfeld in the Donnersbergkreis

Kriegsfeld is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis ( Rhineland-Palatinate ). It belongs to the Kirchheimbolanden community .

geography

location

Warfield is located right on the border of the Thunder Mountain district to district Alzey-Worms and thus also on the border of the Palatinate to Rheinhessen , on the edge of the North Palatine Uplands belonging Rheinhessen Switzerland The south of the district is part of the Bürgerwald . It is about six kilometers to the district town of Kirchheimbolanden in the southeast, and eight kilometers to the 686.5  m high Donnersberg in the south. Neighboring communities are Oberwiesen , Mörsfeld and Oberhausen an der Appel .

Kriegsfeld has 1001 inhabitants on an area of ​​26.41 km², of which 15.85 km² are forest. The municipality includes the districts Schniftenbergerhof , Geflügelhof Pfalzfeld and Forsthaus Pfalz with Philippenhaus.

Surveys

The 481.3 meter high Große Krehberg extends in the very south of the district . In the southwest of the district, directly on the border to Gerbach, is the 459 meter long Taubernheide .

Waters

The Kriegsbach runs through the middle of the settlement area . To the east of this runs the Oberwiesenbach , which takes in the Ochsenbach and the Salzgraben from the right, before flowing into the Wiesbach from the right , which touches the far east of the municipality marker.

history

In October of the year 900 the place was first mentioned in the Fulda document book as Chrichesfeld . During the time of the tribal duchies, the place belonged to the Duchy of Franconia . From 1579, Kriegsfeld belonged to the Electoral Palatinate , after the local rule had previously been divided. According to the Handbook of Historic Places , Kriegsfeld (next to Mörsfeld ) is described as one of the oldest settlements in the area. Around the year 1100 the old Franconian district constitution was dissolved. Thereafter, a number of independent and hereditary duchies , margraves , wild counties , Rhine counties and rough counties were formed . What you previously held as a fiefdom or office, you now took ownership.

With 24 other villages to the right and left of the Alsenz , Kriegsfeld belonged to the area that the Raugrafen appropriated. For around 200 years, Kriegsfeld belonged to the Raugrafen as an undivided place. The division into two parts, which began in the 13th century, did not end until 1579. By pledging and selling one half of Kriegsfeld in 1376 became the property of the Counts of Bolanden and the Elector Ruprecht . The other half was given to Elector Friedrich I in 1457. In 1579, the whole of Kriegsfeld belonged to the Electoral Palatinate and was subordinated to the Erbes-Büdesheim Office , Oberamt Alzey . It is not known how the two parts of Kriegsfeld were delimited from one another.

After a relatively quiet period, Kriegsfeld was hit hard during the French Revolutionary Wars in the late 18th century . Together with other municipalities in the area, it was assigned to the Donnersberg department in 1798 .

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Kriegsfeld was incorporated into the canton of Kirchheim and was the seat of its own Mairie . In 1815 the community had a total of 826 inhabitants. In the same year it was added to Austria . Just one year later, the place, like the entire Palatinate, changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862, Kriegsfeld belonged to the Kirchheim Land Commissioner - later to Kirchhheimbolanden ; from this the district office of Kirchhheimbolanden emerged.

From 1939 the place was part of the Kirchheimbolanden district . After World War II , Kriegsfeld became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform , in 1969, Kriegsfeld moved to the newly formed Donnersbergkreis ; three years later, the community was incorporated into the also newly created community of Kirchheimbolanden . In 2000, Kriegsfeld celebrated its 1100th anniversary.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Kriegsfeld 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	FWG	total
2019	9	7th	16 seats
2014	9	7th	16 seats
2009	10	6th	16 seats
2004	9	7th	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Community Kriegsfeld e. V.

mayor

The local mayors since 1945:

1945–1952	Alois Werst
1952-1960	Friedrich Fellenberger
1960-1969	Willibald Pirkl
1969-1979	Albert Ostermeyer
1979-1999	Klaus Flörcks
1999-2004	Volker Busam
2004-2014	Uwe Ulrich
2014–0000	Albert Ziegler

In the local elections on May 26, 2019, Albert Ziegler was confirmed in his office with 77.34% of the vote.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In gold, a knight in blue armor , his left hand supported on his hip, holding a green wreath in his right hand." The approval was given on March 15, 1926 by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior in Munich .

Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms is based on the war field seal of 1622. It represents a warrior at the time of the seal production as a folk etymological interpretation of the place name. The wreath provided with thorns on the outside was also interpreted as a pitch wreath . The color scheme is influenced by Hupp and is arbitrary. An alternative interpretation of the war field court seal is that it shows a miner in leather armor with a so-called " ass leather " and a miner's lamp in hand. In the 17th and 18th centuries there was an intensive mining of mercury on the Spitzenberg near Kriegsfeld (numerous tunnel mouth holes are still freely accessible today), so Kriegsfeld was practically a mining community.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Cultural monuments

Listed Catholic Church

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Kriegsfeld

The town center is designated as a monument zone . In addition, there are a total of 17 individual objects that are under monument protection , including the Catholic Church , the Evangelical Church in Obergasse and the Protestant parish hall, which once functioned as a schoolhouse.

Other structures

Other distinctive structures on site are the village square with a fountain, the oldest house in the community and a monument to displaced persons in Kirchheimbolander Strasse

nature

The Wasenbacher Höhe nature reserve is located in the south of the district .

Events

The Kerwe War Fields is celebrated on the weekend of the fourth Sunday in September . Four weeks later, the After Kerwe celebrated.

traffic

Roads 399 , 404 and 405 intersect in the village . The A 63 ( Kaiserslautern - Mainz ) runs south-east . Kirchheimbolanden has a stop on the Donnersbergbahn .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Nicolaus Martin (1780–1869), manufacturer and politician
• Georg Michael Nahm (1803–1834), revolutionary
• Ludwig Schickert (1901–1951), politician (NSDAP)
• Otmar Ludwig (* 1951), football player
• Dieter Uhl (* 1968), paleobotanist

People who worked on site

• Matthias Koeberlin (* 1974), actor, spent his youth in Kriegsfeld.
• Damian Lohr (* 1993), politician (AfD), lives on site.

literature

• Literature on the war field in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Kriegsfeld  - Collection of images

• Internet presence of the local community in Kriegsfeld

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Municipal Council Election 2019 Kriegsfeld. Retrieved August 30, 2019 . 
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections.
4. ↑ List of former mayors of the local community of Kriegsfeld at www.kirchheimbolanden.de ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Kirchheimbolanden, Verbandsgemeinde, ninth line of results. Retrieved August 30, 2019 .