Marienthal (Rockenhausen)

Marienthal City of Rockenhausen
Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 6 "  N , 7 ° 53 ′ 11"  E
Height :	340 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.93 km²
Residents :	325  (Dec. 31, 2007)
Population density :	47 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	June 10, 1979
Postal code :	67806
Area code :	06361
Location of Marienthal in Rhineland-Palatinate
Marienthal from the west

Protestant church

Marienthal is a district of the town of Rockenhausen in the Rhineland-Palatinate Donnersbergkreis . Until 1979 it was an independent community.

location

The place is about three kilometers east of the city center in the North Palatinate Uplands not far from the Donnersberg , the highest mountain in the Palatinate at 687 m. The Appelbach flows through the west of the district, but it does not touch the settlement area. The Mordkammertalbach , an orographically left tributary of the Appelbach, runs along the southwestern edge of the settlement . The Königsbach flows into it on site . The local communities Falkenstein , Ruppertsecken and Dannenfels are in close proximity .

history

Around 1145, the Premonstratensian monastery Marienthal was by Count Ludwig III. von Arnstein as " valle sancte Marie ", founded in today's local area and under the supervision of the abbot of Münsterdreisen . Today's village developed in its surroundings. The monastery church was built between 1250 and 1277. In 1541 the property fell to the Electoral Palatinate , the monastery no longer existed at that time and its church served as a parish church. After the Reformation, it was used as a Protestant church in Marienthal and was demolished in 1843 because it was dilapidated. In the period from 1848 to 1850, today's Protestant church was built on the same place, using numerous spoils (tracery windows, pillars, portal) from the old, Gothic monastery church.

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Marienthal was incorporated into the canton of Rockenhausen in the Donnersberg department . After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the place was added to Austria in the same year . A year later, like the entire region, it was assigned to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 Dörnbach was part of the Kirchheim Land Commissioner , later the Kirchheimbolanden Land Commissioner . The latter was then converted into a district office. On December 1, 1900, the community moved to the newly created district office Rockenhausen .

In 1928 Marienthal had 371 residents who lived in 78 residential buildings. From 1939 on, the community was part of the Rockenhausen district . After the Second World War , Marienthal 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, the place changed to the newly created Donnersbergkreis , three years later it also became part of the also newly formed community of Rockenhausen . The local council of Marienthal decided on July 25, 1977 to join the neighboring town of Rockenhausen, which was finally completed on June 10, 1979. In 1990 Marienthal celebrated its 800th anniversary.

religion

From 1827 a synagogue existed on site , which was converted into a barn in 1912. The Jewish cemetery , which was laid out in 1850 and serves the Jews living in Marienthal, is already on the outskirts of the neighboring community of Falkenstein . In 1928 a total of four people of Jewish faith lived in Marienthal. The Protestants belonged to the parish of Rockenhausen, the Catholics to that of Gerbach .

politics

Local advisory board

Marienthal is designated as a local district and therefore has a local advisory board and a local councilor .

The local advisory board consists of five local advisory board members. In the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the advisory board members were elected by majority vote.

Mayor

The mayor is Thomas Bauer. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected in office with 79.01% of the votes.

Culture

With the synagogue, the Protestant parish church and the south-western buttress of the high-Gothic monastery church, there are a total of three objects on site that are listed . The local church, built in 1848/50 on the foundation walls of the early Gothic monastery church, which was built from around 1250 to 1277 and demolished in 1843, is the most important sight. The tracery windows taken over from the previous building are of the same style as those in Hof Iben . Inside the church there are two elaborate Renaissance tombs of the Counts of Daun-Falkenstein from 1575 and 1587.

Economy and Infrastructure

There are several clubs from the fields of sport and culture. In Rockenhausen there is a train station for the Alsenz Valley Railway . The 901 bus of the Rhein-Neckar transport association connects the town with Rockenhausen and Kirchheimbolanden every hour. Marienthal is also located on Landesstraße 386 and Deutsche Schuhstraße . Southeast of the settlement area was formerly with the pit near Marienthal a mine where copper was mined, which in rhyolite was mineralized weak.

Personalities

• Karl Lothar Wolf (1901–1969), chemist and university professor, died on site

Web links

Commons : Marienthal  - Collection of Images

• Marienthal district on the website of the Rockenhausen Association
• Literature about Marienthal in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} daten.digitale-sammlungen.de: List of localities for the Free State of Bavaria . Retrieved March 30, 2018 . 
2. ^ City of Rockenhausen: main statute. (PDF) § 2. City of Rockenhausen, July 12, 2019, accessed on August 24, 2019 . 
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Marienthal. Retrieved August 25, 2019 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Nordpfälzer Land, Verbandsgemeinde, last line of results. Retrieved August 25, 2019 . 
5. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Donnersbergkreis. Mainz 2018, p. 47 (PDF; 5.3 MB).
6. ^ Dieter Krienke (editor), Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 15: Donnersbergkreis , Werner'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Worms 1998, pp. 467, 468; ISBN 3-88462-153-X
7. ^ Georg Dehio , Handbook of German Art Monuments Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland , Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1984, SS 646; ISBN 3-422-00382-7