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This article deals with the Rhineland-Palatinate community of Leisel. For the Bauna tributary of the same name, see Leisel (Bauna) .

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 43 '  N , 7 ° 12'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Birch field
Association municipality :	Birch field
Height :	420 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.82 km 2
Residents:	534 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	61 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55767
Area code :	06787
License plate :	BIR
Community key :	07 1 34 050
Association administration address:	Schneewiesenstrasse 21 55765 Birkenfeld
Website :	www.leisel.net
Local Mayor :	Karlheinz Bittig
Location of the local community Leisel in the Birkenfeld district

Leisel is a municipality in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Birkenfeld community .

geography

The place is on the Leiselbach in the Idarwald in the Hunsrück . 65 percent of the municipal area is forested. In the north-east is Siesbach , southeast Wilzenberg-Hußweiler and southwest is Schwollen . Leisel is a national park community in the Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park .

history

Leisel was first mentioned in 1180 as Lucei when it belonged to the Archbishopric of Trier . In 1328 it came to the County of Sponheim . In 1437 it became a condominium from Pfalz-Zweibrücken and Baden until it came to Baden entirely in 1776.

During the French period in 1801, Leisel became the seat of a Mairie , a mayor's office that continued until 1840. It included the places Siesbach , Leisel, Schwollen , Hattgenstein , Rinzenberg , Hambach , Böschweiler and Heupweiler .

The municipality of Leisel gained national fame because in 1929 one of two well-known citizens' petitions was made in the Birkenfeld part of the Oldenburg region . However, unlike a similar procedure in Kirn-Sulzbach, the referendum in Leisel was probably inadmissible.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 197 1835 321 1871 536 1905 515 1939 475 1950 493 1961 552

year Residents 1970 538 1987 534 1997 592 2005 589 2011 577 2017 533 2019 534

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Leisel consists of twelve council members, who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

Local mayor

Local mayor since 1945:

• 1945–1969: Emil Hey
• 1969–1976: Walter Schüßler
• 1976–1988: Werner Jung
• 1988–2004: Karlheinz Bittig
• 2004–2009: Klaus Bohrer
• 2009–2019: Wolfgang Schüßler
• 2019– 0000: Karlheinz Bittig

coat of arms

	Blazon : "A silver deer antler with grind, inside a golden crown, over a red-silver shield base in green." It was approved by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of the Interior in 1965.

Culture and sights

• List of cultural monuments in Leisel
• List of natural monuments in Leisel

traffic

The federal highway 422 runs in the northeast . In Kronweiler there is a train station on the Bingen – Saarbrücken line .

Personalities

• Karl Heyl (1812–1893), member of the Reichstag and Landtag, born in Leisel

Web links

Commons : Leisel  - Collection of Images

• Website of the local community Leisel
• Local community Leisel on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Birkenfeld
• Literature about Leisel in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Christopher Schmidt: Immediate community democracy in central and southern Germany during the Weimar Republic . Baden-Baden 2007, ISBN 978-3-8329-2607-6 , pp. 103 .
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved February 12, 2020 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.