Martinshöhe

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kaiserslautern
Association municipality :	Bruchmühlbach-Miesau
Height :	403 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.93 km 2
Residents:	1502 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	137 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66894
Area code :	06372
License plate :	KL
Community key :	07 3 35 203
Association administration address:	Am Rathaus 2 ; 66892 Bruchmühlbach-Miesau
Website :	www.martinshoehe.de
Local Mayor :	Hartwig Schneider (FWG Haack)
Location of the local community Martinshöhe in the district of Kaiserslautern

View of Martinshöhe

Catholic Martinskirche

The Fritz Claus Hut of the Palatinate Forest Association Martinshöhe

Martinshöhe is a municipality in the Kaiserslautern district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Bruchmühlbach-Miesau .

geography

The community is located on the Sickinger Höhe . The community also includes the residential areas Schernau, Pletschmühle, Reesberger Hof, Sternbrunnerhof, Ziegelhütte and An der Dümpfelhecke.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1325. Until the end of the 18th century, the place belonged to the Landstuhl rule of the Lords of Sickingen .

After the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops (1794), the place belonged to the canton Homburg in the Donnersberg department from 1798 to 1814 and was administered by Mairie Lambsborn . Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna (1815), the region first became part of Austria and, in 1816, part of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Under the Bavarian administration, Martinshöhe and the canton of Homburg came to the Landkommissariat Homburg in 1818 , from which the Homburg District Office emerged in 1862 . In 1920 it moved from the Homburg district office to the Zweibrücken district office .

religion

At the end of 2014, 68.6 percent of the population were Catholic and 19.6 percent Protestant. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational. The Catholics belong to the Diocese of Speyer , the Evangelicals to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 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	FWGH	total
2019	5	-	11	16 seats
2014	9	3	4th	16 seats
2009	6th	10	-	16 seats
2004	6th	10	-	16 seats

FWGH = Free Voting Group Haack

mayor

Hartwig Schneider (FWG Haack) is the local mayor of Martinshöhe. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, no candidate ran; he was re-elected by the local council on June 27, 2019. Schneider has been the local mayor since August 2018. He succeeded Barbara Schommer (SPD), who had resigned for family reasons on April 30, 2018.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In black, Saint Martin dressed in gold on a red-bridled silver horse (white horse), dividing his cloak with a silver sword, including five silver bolls 2: 1: 2." It was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1977 .
	Justification of the coat of arms: The Bollen refer to the former local lords, the Lords of Sickingen .