Lettweiler

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 44 '  N , 7 ° 43'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Kreuznach
Association municipality :	Nahe-Glan
Height :	352 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.28 km 2
Residents:	200 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	32 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67823
Area code :	06755
License plate :	KH
Community key :	07 1 33 058
Association administration address:	Obertor 13 55590 Meisenheim, Germany
Website :	www.lettweiler.de
Local Mayor :	Volker Wagner
Location of the local community of Lettweiler in the Bad Kreuznach district

Lettweiler is a municipality in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Nahe-Glan .

geography

The largely preserved street village is located in the North Palatinate Uplands in a side valley of the Glan . In the north is Odernheim am Glan , in the east Obermoschel , in the south Unkenbach and in the west is Rehborn .

The Mennonite settlement of Neudorferhof, which belongs to Lettweiler, is about three kilometers east of the town center .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document around 1194 under the name "Litwilre". Werner II von Bolanden had the village as a fief from the Archbishop of Mainz . In the following centuries the rulers changed several times.

In 1603 the village of Nassau-Saarbrücken was ceded to Pfalz-Zweibrücken , where it remained until the end of the 18th century.

From 1798 to 1814 the place belonged to the canton of Obermoschel in the Donnersberg department .

After the Congress of Vienna , Lettweiler came to the Rhine District in the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 , where it remained in the Palatinate (Bavaria) until the end of the Second World War . During the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform in 1969, it was reclassified from the Rockenhausen district to the Bad Kreuznach district.

The Protestant and Roman Catholic parishes of Lettweiler (Parish Office Odernheim / Dean's Office Obermoschel) belong to the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate and the Diocese of Speyer . Since 1889 there has been a Mennonite church in the Neudorferhof district , whose congregation belongs to the working group of Mennonite congregations in Germany through the working group of Southwest German Mennonite congregations . In 2013 it had 33 members; This number does not include children and young people, as Mennonites only baptize people or accept them as members who so wish according to their personal decision.

Statistics on population development

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

year Residents 1815 382 1835 466 1871 529 1905 509 1939 380 1950 426

year Residents 1961 339 1970 311 1987 241 2005 249 2011 224 2017 205

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Local mayor is Volker Wagner. No candidate ran in the local elections on May 26, 2019, so his election was made by the local council on June 26, 2019. He is the successor to Hans-Werner Lamb.

Economy and Infrastructure

Lettweiler has an old winemaking tradition. The vineyards belong to the Nahe wine-growing region .

There is a sports field and a multi-purpose hall in Lettweiler. The federal highway 420 runs in the southeast . In Staudernheim there is a train station on the Bingen – Saarbrücken line .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Lettweiler
• List of natural monuments in Lettweiler

Web links

Commons : Lettweiler  - Collection of Images

• Website of the local parish of Lettweiler
• Lettweiler on the website of the Association of Nahe-Glan
• Literature about Lettweiler 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 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 23 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Wilhelm Fabricius : The rulers of the lower Nahe area: the Nahegau and its surroundings. Bonn: Behrendt, 1914, p. 429 ( dilibri.de ).
4. ↑ Mennonite Yearbook 113 (2014), p. 185.
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved March 5, 2020 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal Council Election 2019 Lettweiler. Retrieved September 24, 2019 . 
7. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. Retrieved on September 24, 2019 (see Meisenheim, Verbandsgemeinde, eighth line of results).