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coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 9 '  N , 7 ° 32'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southwest Palatinate
Association municipality :	Pirmasens land
Height :	325 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.5 km 2
Residents:	674 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	64 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66957
Area code :	06335
License plate :	PS , ZW
Community key :	07 3 40 026
Association administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 19 66953 Pirmasens
Website :	www.pirmasens-land.de
Local Mayor :	Steffen Schwarz
Location of the local community Kröppen in the district of Südwestpfalz

Kröppen is a municipality in the Südwestpfalz district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Pirmasens Land Association .

geography

Kröppen is located on the edge of the Zweibrücken hill country, right on the border with France . It is one of the villages on the chopping knife side . Vinningen is to the northeast , Trulben to the southeast and Walschbronn to the west (on the French side) . The Einöderwiesenhof and Stausteinerhof residential areas also belong to Kröppen .

Local panorama from Kröppen

history

middle Ages

The oldest surviving mention of Kröppen comes from 1267. The village of Kröppen was in the Lemberg office of the County of Zweibrücken-Bitsch and there in the Kröppen official school of the same name .

Early modern age

Count Jakob von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* 1510; † 1570) died in 1570 as the last male member of his family. The Lemberg office was inherited by his daughter, Ludovica Margaretha von Zweibrücken-Bitsch , who was married to the (heir) Count Philipp (V) von Hanau-Lichtenberg . Her father-in-law, Count Philipp IV. Von Hanau-Lichtenberg , gave the strict Roman Catholic Duke Karl III by immediately introducing the Lutheran creed . of Lorraine, the opportunity to intervene militarily, as the latter had suzerainty over the Bitsch rule, which was also part of the inheritance . In July 1572 Lorraine troops occupied the county. Since Philip IV was unable to cope with the overwhelming power of Lorraine, he chose the legal route. In the subsequent process before the Imperial Court of Justice, Lorraine was able to prevail with regard to the Bitsch rule, while the Lemberg office - and thus also Kröppen - was awarded to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg . The treaty that ended the dispute also contained a passage that guaranteed Catholics the freedom to practice their faith in Kröppen.

1736 died with Count Johann Reinhard III. the last male representative of the Hanau family. Due to the marriage of his only daughter, Charlotte (* 1700; † 1726), with the Hereditary Prince Ludwig (VIII.) (* 1691; † 1768) of Hesse-Darmstadt , the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg fell there. In the course of the French Revolution , the left bank of the Hanau-Lichtenberg county - and with it the Lemberg and Kröppen offices - fell to France in 1794. After the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte , Kröppen came to the Bavarian Rhine District .

Until the Schengen Agreement largely eliminated border controls within the European Community , there was a border control and customs station at the Franco-German border crossing Kröppen-Walschbronn for road traffic on the connection between Pirmasens and Bitche .

politics

Municipal council

The council in Kröppen 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.

mayor

Steffen Schwarz was elected mayor of Kröppen for the first time on March 1, 2018 by the local council. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for another five years with a share of 90.00% of the votes. The election in 2018 ended a two-and-a-half-year vacancy that arose after his father, local mayor Ottmar Schwarz, died unexpectedly on September 30, 2015.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Divided into arches of green and gold at the base of the shield, above a silver plow, raised by a silver oak branch with a silver acorn and two silver oak leaves, on the left by a golden fracture letter K, on ​​the right by a continuous golden crook in mistaken tincture, below three red rafters. "
	Reasons for the coat of arms: The rafters come from the coat of arms of Hanau- Lichtenberg. The flag is quartered yellow and red.

Economy and Infrastructure

The L 483 runs through the village . There is a connection to long-distance traffic via the Walshausen driveway of the A 8 in the north .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Kröppen
• List of natural monuments in Kröppen

literature

• Official directory and statistics of the royal Bavarian administrative district of the Palatinate . Speyer 1870.
• Friedrich Knöpp: Territorial holdings of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Hesse-Darmstadt . [typewritten] Darmstadt 1962. [Available in the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , signature: N 282/6].
• Alfred Matt: Bailliages, prévôté et fiefs ayant fait partie de la Seigneurie de Lichtenberg, du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg, du Landgraviat de Hesse-Darmstadt . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (Eds.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480 - 1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 7-9.

Web links

Commons : Kröppen  - Collection of Images

• Kröppen on the side of the Verbandsgemeinde
• Local portrait in SWR-Hierzuland
• Literature about Kröppen 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 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 108 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ↑ Knöpp, p. 9; Matt, p. 9.
4. ^ Fritz Claus: Maria Rosenberg. Legend, saga and history . 3rd edition, Edenkoben 1911, p. 334.
5. ↑ Directory of officials .
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
7. ↑ Steffen Schwarz is the new local mayor. Die Rheinpfalz, March 3, 2018, accessed on April 5, 2020 . 
8. ^ The State Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Pirmasens-Land, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .