Munsterappel

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 44 '  N , 7 ° 53'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Donnersbergkreis
Association municipality :	North Palatinate Country
Height :	199 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.33 km 2
Residents:	479 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density :	76 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67822
Area code :	06362
License plate :	KIB, ROK
Community key :	07 3 33 049
Association administration address:	Schulstrasse 16 67821 Alsenz
Website :	www.alsenz-obermoschel.de
Local Mayor :	Gernot Pietzsch
Location of the municipality of Münsterappel in the Donnersbergkreis

View of Münsterappel

Münsterappel is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Nordpfälzer Land , which has its administrative headquarters in the municipality of Rockenhausen and an additional administrative office in Alsenz .

geography

Münsterappel is located in the Appelbach valley north of the Palatinate Forest . To the north is Niederhausen an der Appel , south is Oberhausen an der Appel . The closest cities are Bad Kreuznach , Rockenhausen , Alzey and Kaiserslautern .

history

The place was first mentioned as Apola in 893 , when it was donated by King Arnulf of Carinthia to the Imperial Abbey of St. Maximin in Trier . At the beginning of the 13th century it is mentioned as a monastery in Apula in the property register of the St. Maximin Abbey.

Münsterappel belonged to the Wild and Rhine County until the end of the 18th century and was subordinate to the Grehweiler office. After the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops (1794), the place belonged to the French canton of Obermoschel in the Donnersberg department from 1798 to 1814 . In October 1789, Alexander von Humboldt , accompanied by the Dutch physician Steven Jan van Geuns, visited the mercury mine northwest of Münsterappel.

Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna , the region first came to Austria in 1815 and to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 on the basis of a state treaty . Münsterappel belonged in the newly created Rhine District from 1818 to the Land Commissioner Kirchheim .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Münsterappel consists of eight council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman. Until 2014, the municipality council had twelve council members.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	WGL	total
2019	3	5	8 seats
2014	by majority vote		8 seats
2009	by majority vote		12 seats

• WGL = Lorenz voter group

Local mayor

Gernot Pietzsch has been the local mayor since 2006. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected in office with a share of 52.48% of the vote.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In gold a red lion, tongued blue, armored in blue and crowned in blue, carrying a blue shield, inside a silver cathedral with two towers, all roofed in red."

Culture and sights

The Münsterappel monastery church was built in 1492 and is now used as a Protestant church. On September 9, 2007, the rededication of the renovated church took place.

The parish fair is held annually on the third weekend in September. The highlight is the big street parade on Sunday. In August the cycling day takes place in the Appelbachtal . The carnival is also traditionally held by the FSV Münsterappel as part of a "cap meeting" on the carnival weekend on Saturdays from 8:11 pm. For many years the meeting has been a popular contact point for friends of the foolish guild far beyond the local borders. In Münsterrappel there is a football club FSV Münsterappel and since the beginning of 2007 the first German kite park, Kite Landboarding. There is also the Münsterappel volunteer fire brigade .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Münsterappel
• List of natural monuments in Münsterappel

Economy and Infrastructure

Münsterappel is the location of a primary school and a kindergarten that can offer all-day care. Both institutions use the new village community hall for school and kindergarten sports. Some craft businesses offer limited numbers of jobs; there are still isolated farms. The majority of those in employment are commuters to the nearby centers in the Bad Kreuznach, Rockenhausen and Kaiserslautern area. Nearest railway station is the Alsenz Station on the alsenz valley railway .

literature

• Literature about Münsterappel in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Münsterappel  - Collection of images

• Local community Münsterappel on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Alsenz-Obermoschel
• “Here in Germany: Alte Neideck in Münsterappel” , SWR TV, January 19, 2014, accessed on January 13, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ List of goods of the St. Maximin Abbey , in: Heinrich Beyer , Leopold Eltester , Adam Goerz (arr.): Document book on the history of the Middle Rhine territories now forming the Prussian provinces Coblenz and Trier. Volume 2: From the year 1169 to 1212. Hölscher, Coblenz 1865, No. 16, p. 455
3. ↑ Steven Jan van Geuns. Diary of a trip with Alexander von Humboldt through Hesse, the Palatinate, along the Rhine and through Westphalia in autumn 1789, ed. by Bernd Kölbel and Lucie Terken with the assistance of Martin Sauerwein et al. Akademie, Berlin, 2007, p. 151.
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Municipal Council Election 2019 Münsterappel. Retrieved August 29, 2019 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Nordpfälzer Land, Verbandsgemeinde, 16th line of results. Retrieved August 29, 2019 .