District of Kaiserslautern

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Coat of arms of the district of Kaiserslautern Map of Germany, position of the Kaiserslautern district highlighted

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '  N , 7 ° 41'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
Administrative headquarters : Kaiserslautern
Area : 639.88 km 2
Residents: 105,979 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 166 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : KL
Circle key : 07 3 35
NUTS : DEB3F
Circle structure: 50 parishes
Address of the
district administration: 		Lauterstraße 8
67657 Kaiserslautern
Website : www.kaiserslautern-kreis.de
District Administrator : Ralf Leßmeister ( CDU )
Location of the district of Kaiserslautern in Rhineland-Palatinate
Niederlande Belgien Frankreich Luxemburg Baden-Württemberg Hessen Nordrhein-Westfalen Saarland Frankenthal (Pfalz) Kaiserslautern Koblenz Landau in der Pfalz Landau in der Pfalz Ludwigshafen am Rhein Mainz Pirmasens Speyer Trier Worms Zweibrücken Landkreis Ahrweiler Landkreis Altenkirchen (Westerwald) Landkreis Alzey-Worms Landkreis Bad Dürkheim Landkreis Bad Kreuznach Landkreis Bernkastel-Wittlich Landkreis Birkenfeld Landkreis Cochem-Zell Donnersbergkreis Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm Landkreis Germersheim Landkreis Kaiserslautern Landkreis Kusel Landkreis Mainz-Bingen Landkreis Mayen-Koblenz Neustadt an der Weinstraße Landkreis Neuwied Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis Rhein-Lahn-Kreis Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis Landkreis Südliche Weinstraße Landkreis Südwestpfalz Landkreis Trier-Saarburg Landkreis Vulkaneifel Westerwaldkreismap
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The district of Kaiserslautern is a regional authority in Rhineland-Palatinate . The seat of the district administration is the eponymous Kaiserslautern , which as an independent city does not belong to the district; most populous city is Landstuhl .

On December 31, 2017, the district had 105,704 inhabitants.

geography

location

The district of Kaiserslautern is around a third of its area in the Palatinate Forest Nature Park . The western part includes the so-called Sickinger Höhe . In the north, the district has a share of the North Palatinate Uplands . The Kaiserslauter Senke pushes itself as a narrow depression with a width of 3 to 7 kilometers from east to west between the southern layer level country and the northern Palatinate uplands.

The district of Kaiserslautern is located in the middle of the Western Palatinate . Its geographical coordinates are 7 ° 24 'and 8 ° east longitude of Greenwich and 49 ° 18' and 49 ° 36 'north latitude.

The district stretches 43 kilometers from west to east and 32 kilometers from north to south. The highest point is 2 kilometers south of Johanniskreuz at Steinberg at 528  m above sea level. NHN . The lowest point of the district is at Olsbrücken , where the Lauter at 205  m above sea level. NHN leaves the district.

Neighboring areas

The district borders in a clockwise direction in the northwest on the districts of Kusel , Donnersbergkreis , Bad Dürkheim and Südwestpfalz . A small piece of the district in the local community of Bruchmühlbach-Miesau also borders directly on the Saarpfalz district in Saarland . The independent city of Kaiserslautern is almost completely enclosed by the district.

history

The forerunner of the district of Kaiserslautern was the Royal Bavarian Land Commissioner in Kaiserslautern, established in 1818 . From 1840 to 1848, one of the best-known land commissioners (district administrators) was Maximilian Joseph von Lamotte (1809-1887), who also served as director of the Palatinate Ludwig Railway and later became Vice-President of the Palatinate (Bavaria) in Speyer. In 1862, the Kaiserslautern Land Commissioner was transferred to the Kaiserslautern District Office. On December 1, 1900, the district office gave 19 communities to the new Rockenhausen district office . In 1939 the district office, like all Bavarian district offices, was renamed the district .

On March 1, 1920, the city of Kaiserslautern left the district office and became a city ​​directly within the district . On July 1, 1920, the communities of Bann , Bettenhausen , Bruchmühlbach , Fockenberg-Limbach , Gerhardsbrunn , Gimsbach , Hauptstuhl , Hütschenhausen , Katzenbach , Kindsbach , Kottweiler-Schwanden , Landstuhl , Linden , Mackenbach , Matzenbach , Miesenbach , Mittelbrunn , Mühlbach im Bruch , Nanzdiezweiler , Niedermohr , Oberarnbach , Obermohr , Obernheim-Kirchenarnbach , Queidersbach , Ramstein , Reichenbach , Reichenbachsteegen , Reuschbach , Schrollbach , Spesbach , Steinwend , Vogelbach and Weltersbach , which until then had belonged to the district office of Homburg , joined the district office of Kaiserslautern. The reason was the separation of the main part of the Homburg district office to the Saar area . The added area was administered by a district office in Landstuhl, which existed until 1938.

In 1939 the district office, like all Bavarian district offices, was renamed the district .

After the Second World War , the district became part of the French zone of occupation . The establishment of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate was ordered on August 30, 1946 as the last state in the western occupation zones by decree No. 57 of the French military government under General Marie-Pierre Kœnig . It was initially referred to as the "Rhineland-Palatinate Land" or "Land Rheinpfalz"; the name Rhineland-Palatinate was only established with the constitution of May 18, 1947.

The first step of the district reform in Rhineland-Palatinate on June 7, 1969 brought a series of area changes:

On April 22, 1972, the communities Lambsborn , Langwieden and Martinshöhe of the dissolved district of Zweibrücken , the community of Sembach of the Donnersberg district, the community of Miesau of the district of Kusel and the community of Schopp of the district of Pirmasens were added. On the other hand, Obernheim-Kirchenarnbach was ceded to the district of Pirmasens (today the district of Südwestpfalz).

Since 1962, the county has been in partnership with Lancaster County , Pennsylvania . As part of the partnership between Rhineland-Palatinate and Rwanda , the district has had a partnership with Musasa district since 1983. In 2002 a partnership began with the Polish Olesno district . Since 2003 there has also been a partnership with Rapla in Estonia .

prehistory

The district was probably settled permanently for the first time in the Neolithic Age, with settlement being concentrated on the Sickinger Höhe . The remaining parts of the district were populated from south to north with decreasing intensity. In Roman times, the entire district could be settled with a concentration of settlements in the Kaiserslauter Senke and the Landstuhler Bruch . After a settlement vacancy in the 5th and 6th centuries, only the best soils were initially settled in the course of the Franconian conquest . Of the 221 known hamlets in the Palatinate, 85 perished again, which points to foundations in unsuitable locations.

Population development

year Residents source
1864 56,383
1885 75.241
1900 82,413
1910 91,573
1925 67,375
1939 72.171
1950 81.902
year Residents source
1960 100,800
1970 90,200
1980 95,600
1990 99,500
2000 110,100
2010 105,428
2016 105.504

politics

District council

Distribution of seats in the Kaiserslautrer Kreisag 2019
2
4th
10
6th
2
14th
4th
2 4th 10 6th 2 14th 4th 
A total of 42 seats
Election for the Kaiserslautrer Kreisag 2019
Participation: 65.3% (+ 4.2% p)
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
32.1
24.1
15.1
10.6
10.4
3.9
3.8
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
 12
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
-5.2
-9.4
-0.4
+10.6
+4.3
-1.1
+1.2

The district assembly of the district of Kaiserslautern consists of 42 district assembly members elected in a personalized proportional representation and the district administrator as chairman.

Because of the special features of the Rhineland-Palatinate electoral system in local elections (personalized proportional representation), the percentages given are shown as weighted results that only represent the voting behavior in arithmetic.

The district elections led to the following results:

Parties and groups of voters %
2019 		Seats
2019 		%
2014 		Seats
2014
CDU 32.1 14th 37.3 16
SPD 24.1 10 33.5 14th
FWG 15.1 6th 15.5 6th
AfD 10.6 4th - -
GREEN 10.4 4th 6.1 3
THE LEFT. 3.9 2 5.0 2
FDP 3.8 2 2.6 1
total 100.0 42 100.0 42
Voter turnout in% 65.3 61.1

District administrators

Ralf Leßmeister took office on December 8, 2017. In the runoff election on October 15, 2017, he prevailed against Martin Müller (SPD) with a share of 53.2% of the vote, after none of the original three applicants had achieved a sufficient majority in the direct election on September 24, 2017.

badges and flags

  • Hoist flag

  • Banner flag

The district of Kaiserslautern has a coat of arms as well as a hoist and banner flag .

Coat of arms of the district of Kaiserslautern
 Blazon : "Under a golden shield head, inside a growing, red armored black eagle, split in black by a red bordered, silver, topped with a blue fish pole: in front a red armored and crowned golden lion, behind five silver balls."

The coat of arms was approved on December 14, 1959.

Justification of the coat of arms: The eagle emphasizes the realm and the realm forest around the royal court and the royal palace Lautern, the lion stands for the Palatinate, which received rule over Kaiserslautern in 1357. The balls symbolize the Lords of Sickingen , who owned parts of the area in the district, and the fish is taken from the Kaiserslautern coat of arms. It is the coat of arms of the lords of Lautern.

religion

Denomination statistics

According to the 2011 census , 41.4% of the population were Protestant , 35.9% Roman Catholic and 22.7% were non-denominational , belonged to another religious community or did not provide any information. As of January 31, 2020, the majority of the 109,817 inhabitants were 36.0% Protestant, 31.6% Catholic, and 32.4% belonged to other or no religious communities.

Protestant church

The municipalities of the district belong to a total of seven church districts (= deaneries ) of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate , of which the Otterbach deanery is the only one completely in the area of ​​the district. The six church districts (deaneries) are: Homburg , Winnweiler , Kaiserslautern, Otterbach , Kusel , Pirmasens and Neustadt an der Weinstrasse .

Catholic Church

The district of Kaiserslautern is part of the Speyer diocese .

Culture

Almost all of the important cultural institutions are located in the city of Kaiserslautern, while the district has only a few central institutions of this type.

Economy and Transport

The Kaiserslauter Senke has been a main traffic area since ancient times, connecting the Lorraine region with the northern Upper Rhine area. A Roman road ran through it, the Kaiserstrasse, now a railway and motorway.

In the Future Atlas 2016 , the district of Kaiserslautern was ranked 309 out of 402 districts and urban districts in Germany, making it one of the districts with "future risks".

Road traffic

The federal highways 6 (Saarbrücken – Ludwigshafen), 63 (Kaiserslautern – Mainz) and 62 (Pirmasens – Kusel) run through the district . Furthermore, several federal highways run through the district, including the B 39 , B 48 and B 270 .

Rail transport

The construction of the rail network in the Kaiserslautern area began in 1845 with the construction of the Ludwig Railway to Bexbach. Soon after its completion, this line was connected to the north-south route on the left bank of the Rhine and to the French network via Saarbrücken. Branch lines and connecting lines to other main lines were laid out from the Ludwigsbahn. These mostly run in a north-south direction and lead to further traffic on the east-west route. Significant railway junctions in the district were and are Enkenbach , Hochspeyer , Lampertsmühle-Otterbach and Landstuhl .

Only a few railways were built in the 20th century. The railway also lost its dominant role in passenger and freight transport. The location on the railway line is no longer as decisive for a community today as it was in the 19th century, when businesses often settled at the projected train station spaces before the railway construction began. Little by little, unprofitable branch lines are being shut down or at least passenger transport is being stopped.

The most important route through the district is the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway , which emerged from the Ludwig Railway . Further still operated routes are the alsenz valley railway through Enkenbach to Bad Munster, the railway Kaiserslautern Enkenbach that Biebermühl Railway over Schopp to Pirmasens, the Lauter Valley Railway over Otterbach and Olsbrücken after Lauterecken-Grumbach and about Ramstein-Miesenbach , Steinwenden and Niedermohr running railway Landstuhl- Kusel . The Glantalbahn from Homburg to Bad Münster, the Lampertsmühle-Otterbach-Otterberg railway , the Bachbahn to Reichenbach and the Eistalbahn between Eiswoog and Enkenbach have now been discontinued .

Air traffic

After the Second World War, the American airbase Ramstein Air Base , one of NATO's most important air bases , was built in the Landstuhler Bruch area near Ramstein . The majority of the municipalities in the district are under the approach lane .

Waterways

Although the district is the headwaters of numerous strong streams, it has no navigable waterway . The project of a Saar-Palatinate- Rhine canal from the late 1930s, with which the Saar and the industrial area on the Rhine and Neckar should be connected, was not realized.

Pipelines

Several pipelines for natural gas from Creos Deutschland GmbH and the NATO pipeline "Zweibrücken – Fürfeld" with a connection to Ramstein Air Base run through the district .

cities and communes

Association municipalities with their associated cities and municipalities

(Population figures as of December 31, 2019; the seat of each municipality is marked with *)

  1. Bruchmühlbach-Miesau * (7834)
  2. Gerhardsbrunn (167)
  3. Lambsborn (711)
  4. Langwieden (270)
  5. Martinshöhe (1502)
  1. Enkenbach-Alsenborn * (7076)
  2. Fischbach (725)
  3. Frankenstein (926)
  4. Hochspeyer (4587)
  5. Mehlingen (3856)
  6. Neuhemsbach (896)
  7. Sembach (1159)
  8. Waldleiningen (392)
Association communities in KL.svg
  1. Spell (2233)
  2. Main chair (1151)
  3. Kindsbach (2418)
  4. Krickenbach (1162)
  5. Landstuhl , Sickingenstadt * (8368)
  6. Linden (1107)
  7. Mittelbrunn (712)
  8. Oberarnbach (430)
  9. Queidersbach (2824)
  10. Schopp (1480)
  11. Stilt Hill (1188)
  12. Trippstadt (2841)
  1. Frankelbach (293)
  2. Holy Mosque (599)
  3. Hirschhorn / Palatinate (740)
  4. Katzweiler (1909)
  5. Mehlbach (1066)
  6. Niederkirchen (1856)
  7. Olsbrücken (1053)
  8. Otterbach (4092)
  9. Otterberg , City * (5317)
  10. Schallodenbach (849)
  11. Schneckenhausen (566)
  12. Sulzbach Valley (434)
  1. Hütschenhausen (3904)
  2. Kottweiler-Schwanden (1233)
  3. Niedermohr (1466)
  4. Ramstein-Miesenbach , City * (7930)
  5. Stone turning (2466)
  1. Erzenhausen (794)
  2. Owl bis (494)
  3. Kollweiler (544)
  4. Mackenbach (1983)
  5. Reichenbach-Steegen (1367)
  6. Rodenbach (3195)
  7. Schwedelbach (1066)
  8. Weilerbach * (4748)

The following communities have lost their independence to this day:

For lists of the term "area changes" see area reforms in Rhineland-Palatinate

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the KL distinguishing sign when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is still issued today.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Population as of December 31 , 2017 , accessed on January 24, 2018
  3. ↑ www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: Details on the formation of the Rockenhausen district office
  4. ↑ Herbert Finally: Administrative divisions 1818-1972. In: Willi Alter (ed.): Pfalzatlas. Text volume 2. Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science, Speyer 1971, p. 847ff., Here: p. 851.
  5. ^ Official Journal of the French High Command in Germany, No. 35 (1946), p. 292
  6. ^ Full text of the constitution of May 18, 1947
  7. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 162 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
  8. ^ Eugen Hartmann: Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ed .: Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau. Munich 1866, population of the district offices 1864, p. 74 ( digitized version ).
  9. ↑ Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1888, population of the district offices 1885, p. VI ( digitized version ).
  10. ↑ a b c d e f Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. kaiserslautern.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  11. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1972
  12. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1981
  13. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1992
  14. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 2002
  15. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate
  16. ↑ The State Returning Officer: Explanation by the State Returning Officer on weighted results. Retrieved August 17, 2019 .
  17. ^ The State Returning Officer: Election result for the State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate. Retrieved August 17, 2019 .
  18. ^ The Rhine Palatinate: Kaiserslautern: District Administrator Paul Junker hands over office to Ralf Leßmeister. December 8, 2017, accessed December 4, 2019 .
  19. ^ The Rhine Palatinate: District of Kaiserslautern: Leßmeister new district administrator. October 15, 2017, accessed December 4, 2019 .
  20. ^ District of Kaiserslautern Religion , 2011 census
  21. ↑ Landkreis Kaiserslautern population statistics , accessed on March 15, 2020
  22. ↑ Future Atlas 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 23, 2018 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.prognos.com
  23. ^ Friedrich Müller: A major shipping route in Rohrbach? In: Rohrbacher Heimatbuch. Volume 2. Rohrbacher Heimatfreunde e. V., St. Ingbert 1992.
  24. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).