District of Kusel
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Coordinates: 49 ° 33 ' N , 7 ° 28' E |
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| State : | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Administrative headquarters : | Kusel |
| Area : | 573.28 km 2 |
| Residents: | 70,219 (Dec. 31, 2019) |
| Population density : | 122 inhabitants per km 2 |
| License plate : | KUS |
| Circle key : | 07 3 36 |
| NUTS : | DEB3G |
| Circle structure: | 98 parishes |
| Address of the district administration: |
Trierer Strasse 49–51 66869 Kusel |
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| District Administrator : | Otto Rubly ( CDU ) |
| Location of the district of Kusel in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
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The district of Kusel is a regional authority in the southwest of Rhineland-Palatinate . The seat of the district administration is the city of the same name Kusel , Germany's second smallest district town ; the most populous municipality is the local community Schönenberg-Kübelberg . Much of the population lives in villages with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants.
geography
location
The district of Kusel is located in the North Palatinate Bergland . The highest peaks are the Königsberg (568 m), the Potzberg (562 m) and the Selberg (546 m). The largest rivers are the Lauter and Glan . In the south the district has a share in the Kaiserslauterer Senke .
Neighboring areas
The district borders in a clockwise direction in the northwest on the districts of Birkenfeld , Bad Kreuznach , Donnersbergkreis and Kaiserslautern (all in Rhineland-Palatinate) as well as Saarpfalz-Kreis , Neunkirchen and St. Wendel (all in Saarland ).
history
Today's Kusel district was established at the beginning of the 19th century as the Kusel regional commissioner after the Palatinate fell to Bavaria . In 1862 it became the Kusel district office. On December 1, 1900, the district office gave 46 communities to the new district office Rockenhausen .
After the First World War, in 1920 the communities of Altenkirchen , Börsborn , Breitenbach , Brücken , Dietschweiler , Dittweiler , Dunzweiler , Elschbach , Frohnhofen , Glan-Münchweiler , Gries , Haschbach , Kübelberg , Nanzweiler , Niedermiesau , Obermiesau , Sand , Schmittweiler , Schönenberg , Steinbach am Glan and Waldmohr , who had previously belonged to the Homburg district office , joined the Kusel district office. They were administered from Waldmohr, where a district office branch (from 1939 called district administration branch) was set up. The reason was the separation of the main part of the Homburg district office to the Saar area .
In 1939, like all Bavarian district offices, the Kusel district office was renamed the district . On August 1, 1940, the branch office was closed in favor of the administration in Kusel.
After the Second World War, the district was part of the French occupation zone . 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.
In 1947 the Ostertal communities of Osterbrücken , Hoof , Marth , Saal , Niederkirchen and Bubach (today districts of the district town of St. Wendel ) left the district after a referendum and moved to the Saarland district of St. Wendel. The main concern of the Ostertal population was job security for most of the people who work in Saarland . The fears seemed justified, since in 1929 people from the Palatinate were the first to be affected by layoffs in the Saar area, which was then administered by French.
The first step of the district reform in Rhineland-Palatinate on June 7, 1969 brought a series of area changes:
- The communities of Hoppstädten and Medard moved from the Bad Kreuznach district to the Kusel district.
- The communities Pfeffelbach , Reichweiler , Ruthweiler , Thallichtenberg , Buborn , Deimberg , Grumbach , Hausweiler , Herren-Sulzbach , Homberg , Kappeln , Kirrweiler , Langweiler , Merzweiler , Niederalben , Niedereisenbach , Offenbach am Glan , Unterjeckenbach and Wiesweiler moved from the Birkenfeld district to the District of Kusel. These were most of the places north of the Glan in today's district.
- The communities Bettenhausen , Gimsbach , Matzenbach and Nanzdiezweiler moved from the Kaiserslautern district to the Kusel district.
- The communities of Becherbach , Gangloff , Reiffelbach , Roth and Schmittweiler moved from the Kusel district to the Bad Kreuznach district.
- The communities of Albersbach , Frankelbach and Kollweiler moved from the Kusel district to the Kaiserslautern district.
On April 22, 1972 the community of Miesau was reclassified to the district of Kaiserslautern and on March 16, 1974 the communities of Rathskirchen , Reichsthal and Seelen changed to the Donnersberg district. In 1994, through the Rhineland-Palatinate "State Law on the Dissolution of the Gutsbezirks Baumholder and its municipal reorganization" of November 2, 1993 (GVBl. P. 518), parts of the Baumholder military training area , including the former districts of Ilgesheim and Oberjeckenbach , became part of the Kusel district reclassified.
The old boundaries can still be seen today in the divisions of the Protestant and Catholic Church. Parts of the association communities Kusel-Altenglan and Lauterecken-Wolfstein belong to the parish of Obere Nahe , which belongs to the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . The remaining parishes in the district belong to the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate . The border between the dioceses of Trier and Speyer also runs .
On May 25, 2009, the district received the title “ Place of Diversity ” awarded by the federal government .
Population development
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1864 | 40,488 | |
| 1885 | 41,954 | |
| 1900 | 43,590 | |
| 1910 | 46,730 | |
| 1925 | 65,453 | |
| 1939 | 65,770 | |
| 1950 | 69,478 | |
| 1960 | 74,300 | |
| 1970 | 82,700 | |
| 1980 | 75,200 | |
| 1990 | 76,400 | |
| 2000 | 78,700 | |
| 2010 | 72.602 | |
| 2016 | 70,899 |
politics
District council
The district council of the Kusel district consists of 38 district council 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 parties and voter groups achieved the following results:
| Parties and groups of voters | % 2019 |
Seats 2019 |
% 2014 |
Seats 2014 |
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| SPD | 29.0 | 11 | 40.2 | 15th |
| CDU | 25.9 | 10 | 28.6 | 11 |
| FWG | 14.1 | 5 | 14.5 | 6th |
| AfD | 12.0 | 5 | - | - |
| GREEN | 10.6 | 4th | 7.5 | 3 |
| FDP | 4.6 | 2 | 3.6 | 1 |
| THE LEFT. | 3.8 | 1 | 5.7 | 2 |
| total | 100.0 | 38 | 100.0 | 38 |
| Voter turnout in% | 65.6 | 61.0 | ||
District administrators
- 1946–1948 Theodor Henrich
- 1948-1956 Erwin Simon
- 1956–1985 Gustav Adolf Held ( SPD )
- 1985-2017 Winfried Hirschberger (SPD)
- since 2017 Otto Rubly (CDU)
Otto Rubly took up his post on October 18, 2017. In the runoff election on June 25, 2017, he prevailed against Ulrike Nagel (SPD) with a share of 54.7% of the vote, after none of the original five applicants had achieved a sufficient majority in the direct election on June 11, 2017.
badges and flags
Hoist flag
Banner flag
The district of Kusel has a coat of arms as well as a hoist and banner flag .
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Blazon : "Split: Front in black a left-facing, red armored golden lion , behind in silver a red armored, blue lion." |
| Justification of the coat of arms: The two lions stand for the two rulers who used to share the predominant district area, the golden lion of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken rulership and the blue lion of the County of Veldenz . The coat of arms was approved on December 13, 1965. |
traffic
In the district of Kusel, the company of the Palatinate Northern Railways built the railway network. The district town of Kusel was connected to Landstuhl as early as 1868 . Fifteen years later - in 1883 - the Kaiserslautern– Lauterecken line was created . From here in 1896 it went further down the valley towards the Nahe valley to Odernheim. In the opposite direction you could travel from 1904 to Altenglan and using the Kuseler Bahn from Glan-Münchweiler to Homburg.
For military reasons, the Deutsche Reichsbahn continued the Kuseler line to Schwarzerden in 1936 and now owned a network of 81 km in what is now the district. More than half of them were shut down:
- 1951: Kusel - Pfeffelbach (- Schwarzerden), 9 km
- 1981: (Homburg - Jägersburg -) Waldmohr (- Glan-Münchweiler), 12 km
- 1985: Altenglan - Lauterecken-Grumbach , 20 km
- 1986: Lauterecken-Grumbach - Odenbach (- Staudernheim), 8 km
Important train stations in the district are Altenglan , Glan-Münchweiler , Kusel , Lauterecken-Grumbach and Wolfstein .
The federal motorway 62 Pirmasens - Kusel - Birkenfeld runs through the district . A small piece of the federal motorway 6 also runs through the south of the district . In addition, several federal and district roads run through the district, including the B 420 and B 423 .
cities and communes
(Residents on December 31, 2019)
Association municipalities with their association members:
(Seat of the municipal administration *)
The following communities have lost their independence to this day:
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For lists of the term "area changes" see area reforms in Rhineland-Palatinate
License Plate
On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign KUS when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is still issued today.
literature
- Christian Schüler-Beigang (arrangement): Kreis Kusel (= cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 16 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1999, ISBN 3-88462-163-7 .
Web links
- Website of the district of Kusel
- Statistical data for the district of Kusel at the State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate
- Literature about the district of Kusel in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: Details on the formation of the Rockenhausen district office
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : Outline of the German administrative history. 1815-1945. Volume 7: Row A: Rüdiger Schütz: Prussia. Rhineland. Johann Gottfried Herder Institute, Marburg 1978, ISBN 3-87969-122-3 , p. 621.
- ^ Official Journal of the French High Command in Germany, No. 35 (1946), p. 292
- ↑ full text
- ↑ 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 f . (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.
- ↑ for comparison of maps: old community boundary map: Walther Hubatsch (ed.): Outline of German administrative history 1815–1945, Volume 7, Marburg / Lahn, 1978, map annex 8; New community boundary map: Landesvermessungsamt Rhineland-Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Overview map with community boundaries, edition B, ISBN 3-89637-316-1
- ^ 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 ).
- ↑ Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1888, population of the district offices 1885, p. VI ( digitized version ).
- ↑ a b c d e f Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. kusel.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1972
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1981
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1992
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 2002
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate
- ↑ Explanation by the Land Returning Officer on weighted results.
- ^ Result of the election at the regional returning officer Rhineland-Palatinate
- ^ The Rhine Palatinate: District of Kusel: Otto Rubly becomes the new district administrator. June 25, 2017. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
- ^ The Rheinpfalz: Kusel: Official inauguration of District Administrator Rubly. October 19, 2017, accessed December 5, 2019 .
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
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