Mölschbach

Mölschbach City of Kaiserslautern
Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′ 54 ″  N , 7 ° 48 ′ 59 ″  E
Height :	362 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.67 km²
Residents :	1179  (June 30, 2018)
Population density :	136 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	7th June 1969
Postal code :	67661
Area code :	06306
Location of Mölschbach in Rhineland-Palatinate
The townscape of Mölschbach

Mölschbach is in the Palatinate Forest lying local district of the independent city of Kaiserslautern . Until 1969 it was an independent community.

geography

location

Mölschbach is located in the center of the Palatinate Forest Nature Park at 334 meters above sea ​​level and is the smallest district in Kaiserslautern. The spatial separation from the urban settlements of Kaiserslautern is most pronounced near Mölschbach. The residential area Eulenmühle, south of the core town, also belongs to the district .

Elevations and waters

The 459.8 meter high owl head rises in the southeast of the district . The Aschbach , which is called Rambach in this area, flows through Mölschbach in an east-west direction . On site he takes the Eulenmühlenbach from the left .

history

The place is mentioned for the first time in 1222 in a document from the Paulus monastery in Worms , when its dean left the tithe in Hochspeyer and its Mölschbach branch to the Höningen monastery .

Since the 14th century Mölschbach, as part of the so-called Wirichshube , belonged to the lordship of Wilenstein of the County of Falkenstein .

Wilhelm Wirich von Daun-Falkenstein sold the County of Falkenstein to Duke Charles IV of Lorraine in 1667 , which later made the area part of the Upper Office of Winnweiler in the Upper Austrian part of the Habsburg-Lorraine Empire . Before the sale of the County of Falkenstein to Lorraine, Wilhelm Wirich von Daun-Falkenstein had already ceded the Wirichshube with Mölschbach separately to the Electoral Palatinate in 1664 , which claimed it, took possession of the area and inherited it from Baron Ludwig Anton von Hacke in 1716 transmitted. This established its own territory there with the capital Trippstadt , where the family built a castle . The claims to the Wirichshube remained controversial between Austria and the Electoral Palatinate until the end of the feudal period.

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Mölschbach was incorporated into the canton of Kaiserslautern and was subordinate to the Mairie Trippstadt . In 1815 the community had a total of 358 inhabitants. In the same year, the municipality was again added to Austria . Just one year later, the place, like the entire Palatinate, changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 he was a member of the Land Commissioner in Kaiserslautern ; from this the district office of Kaiserslautern emerged.

From 1939 the town was part of the district of Kaiserslautern . After the Second World War , Mölschbach became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform , Mölschbach was incorporated into the independent city of Kaiserslautern on June 7, 1969, leaving the district of the same name. The place currently has around 1200 inhabitants.

religion

On the Protestant side, Mölschbach forms a parish together with Trippstadt and Stelzenberg.

politics

District

In contrast to the state capital Mainz, for example, Kaiserslautern is not divided into districts , but into local districts . This takes into account the fact that half of these subdivisions are incorporated villages. One of these districts is Mölschbach.

In state elections, Mölschbach belongs to the Kaiserslautern II constituency .

Local advisory board

As a local district, Mölschbach has a local advisory board . It has 15 members of the advisory board, the chair of the local advisory board is chaired by the directly elected mayor .

For more information on the local council, see the results of the municipal elections in Kaiserslautern .

Mayor

The mayor of Mölschbach is Jörg Walter (SPD). He was re-elected in the direct election on May 26, 2019 with a share of the vote of 53.33%.

Parish partnership

Since 1967 there has been a partnership with the town of Douzy in France , which has developed into a friendly relationship over the past 40 years, with regular mutual visits by young people and adults.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Divided by gold and blue, at the top an ax tilted to the left with a red shaft and blue blade, at the bottom a six-spoke silver wheel."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The ax in the upper half of the coat of arms stands for forest and forest work. The wheel in the lower half stands for the County of Falkenstein or for the Counts of Falkenstein .

Culture

Catholic Church of St. Blaise

There are a total of five objects on site that are listed , including the Catholic Church of St. Blaise . The knight stones 115, 123 and 133 are also located in the catchment area of ​​the village .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Most of the working citizens commute either to Kaiserslautern or in the direction of the surrounding cities of Ludwigshafen, Mannheim or Saarbrücken to get to their place of work. In Mölschbach itself there are only a few commercial or handicraft businesses. The only remaining operation in Germany for the production of barrel staves exists on site .

traffic

The place is connected to the city ​​center of Kaiserslautern about 12 km away via the federal highway 48 . In addition, the core city of Kaiserslautern can be reached with the SWK Verkehrs-AG bus line 106 from Mölschbach. There is also the N6 night bus, which also leads to Stelzenberg and Trippstadt.

organization

There is a station of the Kaiserslautern fire department on site .

Personalities

• Christoph Dengel (* 1974), soccer player, grew up there

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics / core city & districts. City of Kaiserslautern, July 9, 2018, accessed on July 6, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Michael Frey : Attempt of a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal. Bayer. Rheinkreises , Volume 3, Page 71, Speyer 1837; (Digital scan)
3. ^ Historical website on the Wilenstein rule ( Memento from February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 167 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
5. ^ City of Kaiserslautern: main statute. (PDF) § 9 by July 14, 2019, accessed on October 23, 2019 . 
6. ↑ City of Kaiserslautern: Announcement of the results of the elections of May 26, 2019 of the local councilors in the city of Kaiserslautern in accordance with Section 65 of the local electoral code (KWO). (PDF) June 6, 2019, accessed October 23, 2019 . 

Web links

• Literature about Mölschbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography