Mannweiler

Mannweiler Local community Mannweiler-Cölln Coordinates: 49 ° 41 ′ 46 ″ N , 7 ° 48 ′ 10 ″ E
Height :	165 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	247 (June 3, 2007)
Incorporation :	7th June 1969
Postal code :	67822
Area code :	06362
Location of Mannweiler in Rhineland-Palatinate
	Randeck Museum in Mannweiler

With around 250 inhabitants, Mannweiler is the larger district of the Mannweiler-Cölln community in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . Until 1969 Mannweiler was an independent municipality .

location

Mannweiler is located in the north-western part of the local community directly on the Alsenz in the eastern North Palatinate Uplands . To the northeast of the settlement area, the Morsbach flows into the Alsenz.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1238 as "Manewilere" and was subsequently enfeoffed to the Lords of Randeck . At the beginning of the 15th century, the lords of Flersheim acquired a part and in 1514 the Palatinate acquired part of the Randecker. When the Flersheimers died out in 1655, the Barons von Reigersberg inherited their share. Until the end of the 18th century the place remained with the Electoral Palatinate. From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire was, was Manweiler - in the - as it was then spelled canton Obermoschel incorporated and shelter Mairie Alsenz . In 1815 the place had a total of 204 inhabitants. In the same year, Austria was struck. Just one year later, the place changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 he was a member of the Kirchheim Land Commissioner ; from this the district office of Kirchheim emerged. On December 1, 1900, the community moved to the newly created district office Rockenhausen .

According to a "Localities Directory for the Free State of Bavaria" from 1928, the rural community of Mannweiler had 318 residents (56 Catholics and 262 Protestants) in 68 residential buildings. Both the Catholics and the Protestants belonged to the parish of Oberndorf at the time . There was a Protestant school. The Untermühle with eleven inhabitants belonged to Mannweiler.

From 1939 the place was part of the district of Rockenhausen . After the Second World War , Mannweiler became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , the place was merged on June 7, 1969 with the neighboring community of Cölln to form the new local community of Mannweiler-Cölln . At the same time the place changed to the newly created Donnersbergkreis.

Infrastructure

In 1871, the town received a train station on the Alsenz Valley Railway, which was opened in full that year on the western edge of the town. After the Second World War it was abandoned due to a lack of profitability. The federal road 48 , the district road 16 , which connects it with Schiersfeld , and the Alsenz cycle path also run right through the town . With the town center and Randeck Castle, there are two monument zones in Mannweiler ; there are also a total of ten individual monuments , including the Randeck Museum . The Keiper automotive supplier company has a plant on site.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Walter Giers (born May 10, 1937 in Mannweiler; † April 3, 2016 in Schwäbisch Gmünd), light, sound and media artist

People who worked on site

Jakob Brenneisen (1869–1947), farmer and politician, died on site

Web links

Information about Mannweiler

Individual evidence

^ Regionalgeschichte.net: Mannweiler-Cölln in the Palatinate . Retrieved March 24, 2018 .
^ Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria , according to the census of June 16, 1926 and the territorial status of January 1, 1928, column 788 Digitale-sammlungen.de
↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 171 (PDF; 2.8 MB; see also pages 150 and 200).
^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Donnersbergkreis. Mainz 2018, p. 34 f. (PDF; 5.3 MB).

[1] Regionalgeschichte.net: Mannweiler-Cölln in the Palatinate . Retrieved March 24, 2018 .

[2] Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria , according to the census of June 16, 1926 and the territorial status of January 1, 1928, column 788 Digitale-sammlungen.de

[3] Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 171 (PDF; 2.8 MB; see also pages 150 and 200).

[4] General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Donnersbergkreis. Mainz 2018, p. 34 f. (PDF; 5.3 MB).