Mosquito meadow

Mosquito meadow Elmstein municipality Coordinates: 49 ° 21 ′ 17 ″  N , 7 ° 53 ′ 2 ″  E
Height :	283 m above sea level NHN
Postal code :	67471
Area code :	06328
Location of Mückenwiese in Rhineland-Palatinate
Kurfürstenstuhl south of Mückenwiese

Mückenwiese is a hamlet that belongs to the Elmstein community in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Bad Dürkheim .

geography

The place is in the middle of the Palatinate Forest in the Elmstein Valley on the Speyerbach . Half a kilometer east of the Weltersbach flows into the Speyerbach and around one kilometer southwest of the Enkenbach . The 516  m high Mückenberg rises to the northwest of the village . South of the settlement area there are two natural monuments : the Stähler fountain - a contained spring - and the Kurfürstenstuhl rock . The closest localities are about five and a half kilometers to the east, the main town of the municipality and one kilometer to the west, the district of Speyerbrunn .

history

The hamlet was built around 1735. The name may indicate wet meadows along the nearby rivers, where numerous mosquitoes live during the summer . The inhabitants were initially employees of the sawmill or forest workers. In 1928 Mückenwiese had 48 residents who lived in seven residential buildings. Both the Catholics and the Protestants belonged to the respective parish of Elmstein at the time.

Culture

At the entrance to the valley of the nearby Weltersbach are the knight stones 109 and 110 . Both are named Welterstal ; the corresponding inscription is carved into the rock in both cases. The former is at the western and the latter at the eastern entrance to the valley. At the entrance to the Enkenbachtal there is also the Ritterstein 112, which indicates the existence of the Mückenwies forester's house , which was closed in 1883 .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

This section contradicts the information in the article Breitenstein (Esthal) . Please take part in the discussion and remove this module if necessary.

Main occupations used to be forestry and the local sawmill , which for a long time obtained its energy from the hydropower of the Speyerbach. With the closure of the Wollmann plant for insolvency , the last one in the Elmstein Valley, at the beginning of 2011, an era of almost three centuries came to an end. Following the related JJ Artmann Holzwerkstatt GmbH the area and stationed there since planks of oak ago.

traffic

Mückenwiese is located on state road  499, which connects the place with Waldfischbach-Burgalben and Frankeneck . The bus route 517 of the Rhein-Neckar transport association , which runs from Neustadt an der Weinstrasse via Lambrecht (Pfalz) to Iggelbach , also runs via Johanniskreuz , Speyerbrunn and Mückenwiese during the summer season . In addition, the place is on the route of a hiking trail, which is marked with a blue-yellow bar and connects with Lauterecken and Sankt Germanshof , among other things .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ rittersteineundmehr.de: R. Forsthaus Mückenwies No. 112 . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 1, 2018 ; accessed on March 12, 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.  
2. ↑ elmstein.de: Elmsteiner districts . Retrieved March 12, 2018 . 
3. ↑ daten.digitale-sammlungen.de: List of localities for the Free State of Bavaria . Retrieved March 12, 2018 . 
4. ↑ The last sawmill in the Elmstein Valley is closed . In: The Rhine Palatinate . Ludwigshafen January 13, 2011, p. 1 .
5. ↑ Deeply rooted in tradition. landhausdielen-artmann.de, accessed on March 12, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Sawing in the Elmstein Valley. rheinpfalz.de, accessed on March 12, 2018 .