Maßweiler

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '  N , 7 ° 32'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southwest Palatinate
Association municipality :	Thaleischweiler-Wallhalben
Height :	328 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.89 km 2
Residents:	947 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	87 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66506
Area code :	06334
License plate :	PS , ZW
Community key :	07 3 40 217
Association administration address:	Hauptstrasse 52 66987 Thaleischweiler-Fröschen
Website :	www.massweiler.de
Local Mayor :	Herbert Semmet ( CDU )
Location of the local community Maßweiler in the district of Südwestpfalz

Maßweiler is a municipality in the Südwestpfalz district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Thaleischweiler-Wallhalben , within which it is the fifth largest in terms of population and the fourth largest in terms of area.

geography

location

Maßweiler lies north of the Schwarzbachtal on the Sickinger Höhe . Maßweiler also includes the Faustermühle, Hitscherhof, Kneispermühle and Häselbergerhof residential areas . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Schmitshausen , Herschberg , Thaleischweiler-Fröschen , Höhfröschen , Rieschweiler-Mühlbach and Reifenberg .

Waters

The district extends in the south as far as the Schwarzbach and in the east as far as the valley of the Wallhalb , which flows into the former from the right on the municipality mark . A little further west, the Schwarzbach also joins the Floßbach from the right .

history

In the course of its history, Maßweiler often changed administrative affiliations. Maßweiler was first mentioned in 1304 on the occasion of a dispute between Count Walram I of Zweibrücken and his brother Eberhard. Maßweiler had a common district with Reifenberg and was subject to a tenth obligation towards the Wörschweiler Abbey . The Hitscherhof the south Maßweilers goes on a 1295 First mentioned village Hizhusin back, which in 1563 received was. Also the place Mulenhusin mentioned 1295th In its place, the Müller Faust built today's Faustermühle in 1705 . Knyswilre , mentioned in 1440, is the forerunner of the Kneispermühle.

By the end of the 18th century, Maßweiler belonged to the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken , and in 1760 the place was assigned to the Contwig Mayor's Office . After the Left Bank of the Rhine was taken by French revolutionary troops (1794) and the administration was reorganized based on the French model, the town first belonged to the canton of Contwig and then to the canton of Zweibrücken in the Donnersberg department . During this time he had his own mairie . In 1815 the place had a total of 415 inhabitants.

When the Palatinate came to Bavaria in 1816 after the Congress of Vienna and an exchange of territory with Austria , the community of Maßweiler belonged to the Zweibrücken Land Commissioner , from which the district office of the same name emerged in 1862 .

In 1939 Maßweiler was incorporated into the Zweibrücken district. Maßweiler was the seat of a mayor's office, which was also responsible for the communities of Reifenberg and Rieschweiler . After the Second World War , the community within the French occupation zone became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate. As part of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , she moved to the Pirmasens district in 1972 (from 1997 district of Südwestpfalz ) ; in the same year assigned to the newly created Verbandsgemeinde Thaleischweiler-Fröschen . Since 2014 it has been part of the Thaleischweiler-Wallhalben community .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Maßweiler consists of twelve (up to 2014 16) 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.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	WGR	total
2019	4th	8th	-	12 seats
2014	7th	9	-	16 seats
2009	7th	6th	3	16 seats
2004	6th	7th	3	16 seats

mayor

Herbert Semmet (CDU) became the local mayor of Maßweiler on July 16, 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with a share of the vote of 73.46 percent. Semmet's predecessor was Jürgen Herzog (SPD), who held the office for 19 years.

coat of arms

Blazon : "Divided by black and gold in a wave shape to the left, a golden lily on the top right , a red mill wheel on the bottom left."

Justification of the coat of arms: The colors gold and red come from the coat of arms of the Counts of Zweibrücken , black and gold that of the Wittelsbachers of the Electoral Palatinate and Pfalz-Zweibrücken . The lily is the attribute of St. Anthony , to whom the village church is consecrated. The mill wheel refers to the abandoned Mühlhausen. The coat of arms was awarded in 1978 by the Rheinhessen-Pfalz district government .

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

Evangelical parish church

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Maßweiler

The Josephs-Hof from 1801 is designated as a monument zone . His barn houses a kitchen and farm museum with what is probably Germany's largest waffle iron collection.

In addition, there are a total of 18 individual objects that are under monument protection , including the Kneispermühle and the Protestant parish church with its tower, which dates from around 1200.

nature

There are three natural monuments in the municipality . In addition, the nature reserve Auf dem Hausgiebel with the number 340212 extends over the district of Maßweiler.

Sports

An 18-hole golf course was laid out in 1993 near the hamlet of Hitscherhof in the Schwarzbachtal. This is the scene of Olaf Paust's “Pfalz-Krimi” Handicap 13 (2003).

Events

Since 2008 the annual village festival has not taken place on Brunnenplatz, but on the parking lot in front of the sports center. The “Masswill'rer Curb ” is always held on the fourth weekend in September.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The state roads 466 , 476 and 477 run through the municipality marker .

military

During the Cold War , nuclear weapons of the US Army were temporarily stored in the former Siegfried Line tunnels in “Mühlenser Grund” . The Massweiler Kaserne and the Massweiler Terminal Station (MAS) were located , both of which were given up in 1992.

The site is now owned by the animal welfare association TIERART e. V. , who set up a rescue station for wild animals there and in some cases also housed large game.

tourism

Maßweiler has a share in the heavily frequented Mühlenweg , where the Kneispermühle in particular is a tourist attraction. The Sickinger Mühlenradweg also runs through the far east of the district . The Saar-Rhein-Main long-distance hiking trail, marked with a yellow bar, runs a short distance in the far north over the municipality marker . In addition, the approximately 14-kilometer-long Celtic Path leads across the community. The hiking trail marked with a yellow bar runs right through the center of the village and connects to Contwig and Germersheim .

Institutions

The animal rescue station Tierart was founded in 1999 by Vier Pfoten and the Tierart e. V. and is located 15 kilometers from the city of Pirmasens . The area covers 14 hectares and is open to the public on weekends and public holidays from Easter to the end of October.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Norbert Kohler (1930-2003), wrestler

People who worked on site

• Johann Michael Schang (1757–1842), priest, local pastor from February 1802 to April 1806
• Theo Rörig (* 1940), sculptor, created a chancel in the local church

literature

• Johann Schanne: The local history of Maßweiler. 1952.
• Arnold Schneider: Maßweiler from distant days ... 2004.

Web links

Commons : Maßweiler  - Collection of images

• The local community Maßweiler on the website of the Thaleischweiler-Wallhalben community
• Homepage of the local community Maßweiler
• Literature about Maßweiler 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. 175 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal. bayer. Rheinkreises , Fourth Part, Speier: Neidhard, 1837, p. 11 ( Google Books )
4. ^ Advertisement of civil servants and employees in the state and communal services of the Royal Bavarian Rhine District , Kranzbühler, 1827, p. 78 ( Google Books )
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ↑ 1st meeting of the local council of Maßweiler. Verbandsgemeinde Thaleischweiler-Wallhalben, July 16, 2014, accessed on March 28, 2020 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Thaleischweiler-Fröschen-Wallhalben, Verbandsgemeinde, 14th line of results. Retrieved March 28, 2020 . 
8. ↑ In Maßweiler and Mauschbach the incumbents lose the election. Die Rheinpfalz, May 26, 2014, accessed on March 28, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Former US Army Base Repurposed as Big Cat Sanctuary. (No longer available online.) German Missions in the United States, archived from the original on September 6, 2015 ; accessed on July 28, 2019 (English). 
10. ↑ Animal Rescue species , accessed on August 23, 2020 tierart.de.