Mehlingen

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Mehlingen
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Coordinates: 49 ° 30 '  N , 7 ° 51'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Kaiserslautern
Association municipality : Enkenbach-Alsenborn
Height : 289 m above sea level NHN
Area : 21.95 km 2
Residents: 3856 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 176 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 67678
Area code : 06303
License plate : KL
Community key : 07 3 35 026
LOCODE : DE EHL
Community structure: 4 districts
Association administration address: Hauptstrasse 18
67677 Enkenbach-Alsenborn
Website : www.enkenbach-alsenborn.de
Mayoress : Monika Rettig ( SPD )
Location of the local community Mehlingen in the Kaiserslautern district
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View of Mehlingen

With around 3800 inhabitants, Mehlingen is the second largest local community in the Enkenbach-Alsenborn community in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Kaiserslautern . The community gained fame through the Mehlinger Heide , which is the second largest of its kind in Germany.

geography

Geographical location

The municipality of Mehlingen consists of the municipality parts Baalborn , Neukirchen and Mehlingen as well as the annexes Fröhnerhof and Niedermehlingerhof. Mehlingen and Neukirchen have now grown together structurally. Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Sembach , Enkenbach-Alsenborn , Kaiserslautern and Otterberg .

Mehlingen lies on a plateau that was called "the district" - in Palatine: "Uffm Craiß" - even before the Thirty Years' War . Even then, the Reformed pastors in Alsenborn , who also had to look after Neukirchen, Mehlingen, Baalborn, Sembach and Rohrbach, called themselves “pastors on the Craiß”.

This designation can also be found in the appraisal register of the Lautern Oberamt from 1656 and in other archival documents , which consists of a plateau sloping from southwest to northeast, sloping down on three sides and merging north into the North Palatinate Uplands. Why the area was called Kreis can only be guessed at. There is, for example, the view that the name denotes a clearing island or that the word Craiß is based on the Middle High German ris = rice or twig, so that it would be more correct to write “Gereis”. But rice would mean a multitude of branches. The plateau, now called a circle , would have been an area overgrown with a lot of bushes .

Surveys

The Gerenberg extends directly on the border to Otterberg and the Egersberg in the southeast of the district .

Waters

In the south, the Eselsbach forms the boundary to Enkenbach-Alsenborn and Kaiserslautern over long stretches. The Schwarzbach rises in the middle of the settlement area and flows eastwards and flows into the Alsenz beyond the municipality, just like the Lohnsbach, which rises in the northwest and runs north .

Geology and climate

Within the municipality marker, the Palatinate Forest and its part of the Otterberg Forest merge into the North Palatinate Uplands . Geologically, the area belongs to the Middle or Main Red Sandstone, which is divided into the Trifels, Rehberg and Karlstal layers.

As different as the geological forms of the rock, just as different are the soil types and thus the proportions of forests, meadows and arable land. The plateau is largely free of forests and therefore offers no significant resistance to the wind. Usually the wind comes from the west and brings enough rain for the loamy and loess soil, but not for the light sandy soil.

history

prehistory

First settlement

A Neolithic ax that was found on the military training area near Fröhnerhof allows the conclusion that the area was already walked in the Neolithic . Finds from the Hallstatt and Roman times lead to the conclusion that settlement was very early.

The so-called Krumm-Männches-Grub on the Egersberg, an almost head -high rock cave, was probably one of the earliest dwellings in the area. There is no evidence of settlement from the Paleolithic and Mesolithic , but a find from the Neolithic testifies to the presence of people in the area. A ceramic hammer ax 16 centimeters long and 4 centimeters wide was found near the Fröhnerhof in 1938 .

Iron age

Neolithic burial mound

The Bronze Age hardly left any traces on the circle , but the Iron Age even more . The settlement in the older Iron Age is documented several times. Around 1830 a burial mound was opened near Baalborn , the content of which is no longer known. Three more barrows were discovered on Gerenberg , barrows were also found in the Weinwäldchen and in Diebsdell . There are several grave fields in the Neukirchen-Mehlingen district.

The graves are covered with earth, overgrown with moss and grass, towered over by bushes and pine forest. Around each hill is a wreath of stones so that the location of the graves is easy to see. Some have been excavated earlier. The stones were used to build roads, the additions were ignored.

antiquity

Roman traces

A piece of road embankment in the Baalborner district with a length of 50 meters and a width of 2 meters is reminiscent of Roman times . A 325-meter-long stretch of road running in the same direction was discovered under sandstone rubble. In addition, Roman pottery fragments and the remains of an extensive settlement, probably a pottery , were found in several places in the municipality of Mehlingen .

One of the most valuable finds is a Roman coin that was found in 1967 during the sewer works in Mehlingen. On the obverse it shows the head of Emperor Constantine II with a diadem. The inscription reads: Constantinus P (Pius) F (Felix) Augustus .

The old Roman road leading from Metz via Kaiserslautern- Eselsfürth -Enkenbach-Alsenborn over the stump forest to Worms is an old street . At Eselsfürth, a junction turns north, crosses the Königsstraße between Mehlingen and Baalborn and also runs over Langmeil to the Rhine . Under Napoleon , this street was expanded to become Heerstraße and was given the name Kaiserstraße.

The area was therefore at the intersection of old national roads and often suffered from armies passing through. Her situation was her undoing in the Thirty Years' War.

Great Migration

The retreat of the Romans was followed by the incursion of Germanic peoples who used the old roads from west to east. At that time the previous population was destroyed or displaced. The Alemanni then advanced into the empty space, and in 496 they were pushed back by the Franks . Now the real settlement began. Mehlingen is likely to have been the first village in the district and was possibly created during the time of the Frankish conquest . Baalborn and Neukirchen followed much later.

middle Ages

In Franconian times, the district belonged to Wormsgau . In the High Middle Ages , the Counts of Leiningen were the feudal lords. They were responsible for the Gaugericht, and they also exercised the right of escort conferred by the emperor , which was an important source of income in connection with the customs escort . They passed parts of the area on to other noble families as so-called afterlehen . The district was given to the gentlemen von Wartenberg , who shared management and use with the gentlemen from Dune, Breidenborn and Bilenstein, who were related to them.

With the founding of the monasteries Lautern, Lambrecht, Otterberg and Enkenbach, ecclesiastical landlords soon appeared, who acquired property through purchase, donation and probably also through clearing.

First mention

From 1195 onwards, a place Schwanden was mentioned several times in the Otterberg document book. It is quite certain that this Schwanden was in the southern part of Neukirchen, where the old cemetery was. The name Schwanden was mentioned for the last time in 1491. The memory of it was only preserved in the field name Schwanderhübel .

One can assume that Neukirchen emerged from the former Schwanden when a new church was built in place of the small chapel , which gave the emerging village its name (new church). The oldest piece of news comes from the year 1185, when Rudolph and his brother Johannes, Heinrich and his son von Nunkirchen signed the deed of stone for the Otterberg monastery property.

Mehlingen was first mentioned in a document in 1257 , but the settlement probably goes back to the Alemannic period around 450 and could have been founded in the time of the Franconian conquest in the 6th century . The name probably means settlement of the people of the Maol .

Baalborn originated from a well, a spring. Bale means bad, bad in Middle High German , so Baalborn would have originated from a bad source . But that is precisely not the case, because the spring bubbles clearly and powerfully. Rather, the name balde is based on and means bold, fast . Today's Baalborn developed via Balburnen-Balburn-Balborn . Baalborn was first mentioned together with Neukirchen in 1185, when Albero von Baalbornen signed the certificate of stone for the Otterberg monastery district.

Early modern age

During the Thirty Years' War the village was plundered several times by hordes of soldiers and did not recover from the war damage, so that it subsequently sank into an insignificant shepherd's settlement.

An upward development of the three districts did not begin until the so-called French era at the turn of the 18th to the 19th century, which lasted from 1792 to 1814, with the construction of the Kaiserstraße (today the B 40 ), which led from Kaiserslautern to Mainz . After the old territorial boundaries were removed, the current district of Neukirchen and Enkenbach belonged to the Mairie Alsenborn in the canton of Kaiserslautern until 1814 , while Mehlingen and Baalborn formed a Mairie in the canton of Otterberg .

In the Bavarian period (from 1816) Neukirchen and Baalborn were then subordinated to the Mehlingen mayor as independent communities. In 1939 it was merged into a community , but in 1949 Baalborn left again and remained independent until 1969.

19th century

After Napoleon's lost campaign in Russia in 1812, the owners of the purchased goods feared for their property. After the victory over Napoleon, Bavarian, Prussian, Austrian and Russian soldiers were quartered in the three villages of today's Mehlingen community, who demanded food again. The French administration was abolished, but the auctioned national goods remained with the new owners if they were legally acquired.

While there are hardly any written documents from earlier years, parish files, parish accounts and council minutes have been preserved almost completely since the Napoleonic era.

In 1816 the Palatinate became Bavarian and the laws and ordinances from the French era were gradually abolished or changed. Young men were now drafted into Bavarian military service. Those who could afford it bought themselves free by providing a substitute. Many young men tried to escape conscription by fleeing across the Rhine or secretly emigrated to America . If he was caught, he would face severe penalties. A Peter Hack from Niedermehlingen, for example, was fined 100 guilders in 1816 . In addition, Bavarian officials, the unpopular Zwockel , came to the Palatinate.

In the 1830s, political movements came to the fore, the climax of which was the Hambach Festival , in which not a few locals took part.

In the 1860s, the population in the three municipalities rose sharply. The community council of Neukirchen therefore considered expelling seven named families who had not been resident in the village for long because of the need for support, begging and forest crime, since enough poor people already lived in the village. When North German troops temporarily took quarters in Neukirchen and Mehlingen in August 1870, their unfit military horses remained behind and had to be fed in various stables. Particularly in Baalborn, there was considerable damage to the fields caused by the troops moving through. Despite the shortage of money, the communities of Mehlingen and Baalborn organized a parade with music to mark the victorious end of the war, and each child was given a pretzel as a present.

Times were getting better and better. Now Mehlingen began the long overdue preparatory work for a new school building . In the meantime, the association of schools in Neukirchen and Mehlingen came up again. The local councils had already agreed on the formalities. Then the opponents of the union came on the scene. In order to end the school dispute, the government in Munich decreed in 1878 that the schools in Neukirchen and Mehlingen should not be united. This was the signal to build the school houses in Neukirchen and Mehlingen.

First World War

Right at the beginning of the First World War , 15 active soldiers and 72 reservists, Landwehr and Landsturm men from Neukirchen alone, including the two teachers , had to move in, so that classes had to be canceled for an indefinite period.

In 1915 almost 200 young men from the community were at war, eleven had died so far, six were missing and almost half of those who participated in the war were wounded. In 1916, food became scarce in the villages that make up today's parish. In autumn 1917 the three municipalities had to buy potatoes for the poorer population. At the beginning of 1918 the food situation became more and more difficult, because the obligation to deliver fruit, potatoes, milk and eggs had been tightened so much that the rural population also suffered hardship. At night you could hear the rumbling of the guns and the glow of fire from the front . In the autumn of 1918 several aerial battles took place over the municipality, but no one was injured.

Interwar period

Team of cows with a so-called “potato witch”, 1934

In November 1918, German and Austrian troops passed through day and night. There were billeting almost every day . Soon after, French units, sometimes up to 500 men, came and confiscated barns, stables and sheds. Despite the lack of fodder, oats , hay and straw had to be delivered to the occupation forces.

The year 1922 began with increasing prices. The winter of 1932 seemed to bring an increase in hardship. The mayor's office called on the population to earn their winter potatoes by helping with the potato and beet harvest. In petitions to the government, Mayor Latschar described that the community consists of up to 75 percent of working and now unemployed and taxed citizens and the rest of small businesses and low-income farmers and asked for an increase in the state and state aid.

The community archive does not contain any important documents from these years. However, it is worth mentioning the unification of the elementary schools in Neukirchen and Mehlingen to form a Christian community school and the incorporation of the previously independent communities of Baalborn and Neukirchen in 1939.

In the mid-1930s, Jews no longer lived in the community area , but many citizens witnessed the Jewish pogroms in Kaiserslautern.

As early as autumn 1938, units of the Wehrmacht rolled west on the nearby Kaiserstraße to move into the bunkers on the French border. But a few days later the soldiers returned adorned with flowers, because the impending war had been averted by the Munich Agreement .

Second World War

In February 1939, the unused 1913 class had to enter for a short military exercise. At the end of August, the community servant distributed the drafting orders. At the beginning of October, the population began to be evacuated from the border areas threatened by war, especially in the Pirmasens and Zweibrücken area , which had to be temporarily housed in the community area. The cattle brought with them were sold to local residents. The houses were overcrowded with refugees . During the winter, German soldiers who only marched off in the spring of 1940 were lying in all parts of the district.

In February 1941 Polish prisoners of war came to the community to work. In the spring of 1942 there were around 150 Soviet prisoners of war and Ukrainian girls who were obliged to serve, who were distributed to the three villages and the farms. In the autumn of 1943, more than 100 black prisoners were shipped to Mehlingen and housed in the two dance halls. They were mostly used at night to load ammunition in Enkenbach. As a result of the poor diet and the primitive housing , several died in the cold winters.

With the beginning of the war year 1944, increased air raids began . On January 7th, Kaiserslautern was bombed. There were more and more air raids, even during the day. On November 25, 1944, around 200 explosive bombs fell into the open field, including 20 duds. There were four dead and four wounded in the local area. In the last days of the war, the villagers almost never got out of the bomb shelter. The German army command was forced by the advance of US troops on the Rhine to withdraw the section of the front as far as the Rhine. The evacuation of the Palatinate was therefore carried out in a hurry and without heavy fighting. On March 19, 1945, American tanks moved into Neukirchen, Mehlingen and Baalborn. The anti- tank barriers erected by the Volkssturm had not been closed, which prevented further bloodshed. At the end of the war, 170 soldiers from the Mehlingen community were killed or missing. Nine men, women and children died in air raids.

Post-war years

The first few weeks under the American occupation were difficult. Many families have had to leave their homes or vacate parts of them. All apartments were searched for German soldiers, hidden weapons and souvenirs . Going out was imposed. The Americans were soon followed by the French occupation forces, who now emerged victorious. They demanded from the mayor that all former Wehrmacht property must be brought to a specific place in Mehlingen, otherwise it would be put in a mine in France . They also threatened to be occupied by North Africans and set fire to the houses. That night and the next morning, the Wehrmacht goods were stored in the specified location. It stayed there, but grew less and less every day. No French cared about it anymore.

Due to the food shortage in Kaiserslautern, townspeople came to the farmhouses every day and begged for food . The farmers themselves were in distress. The stocks of potatoes, grain, fodder and seeds were under constant control with an iron rod and tape measure. The smallest quantities were found and made subject to the delivery obligation, the delivery target was often higher than the company's own production. The farmers were hit hardest by the delivery of their field horses.

Immediately after the Second World War , efforts began within the districts of Baalborn and Neukirchen aimed at separating from the 1939 incorporation into the community of Mehlingen. While Neukirchen did not succeed in doing this, Baalborn regained independence in 1949, although the mayor's office in Mehlingen remained the seat of administration and provided the joint mayor. On June 7, 1969, the Baalborn community lost its independence again after the Mehlingen community was reorganized from the Mehlingen and Baalborn communities.

Religions

Protestant church in Mehlingen

The first Christian church in the village was probably built in the 13th century, exact dates are not known.

Protestants

From the Reformation to the Thirty Years War there was a Reformed parish in the village . After the end of the war, the Reformed were part of the church in Rohrbach . The Lutherans were first parish in Sembach , as were the Mennonites . Obviously, after the end of the Reformed parish of Neukirchen, the three villages in the district of Alsenborn belonged to them. In 1721 the reformed parish of Sembach was established, to which Mehlingen, Baalborn and Wartenberg-Rohrbach belonged.

The Lutherans, who only made up a small part of the population, were also parish in various places, such as Neukirchen to Kaiserslautern, Mehlingen to Münchweiler, and Baalborn, which was later looked after from Kaiserslautern and then from Otterberg. From 1776 all three villages, as far as they were Lutheran, belonged to Sembach, which was able to build its own Lutheran church with the support of Count von Wartenberg . Before that, baptisms and weddings had to be held in private houses and funeral services in the open air.

With the unification of the Reformed and Lutherans in 1818, the Protestants from Neukirchen and Enkenbach belonged to the parish Alsenborn, the Protestants from Mehlingen and Baalborn visited the church in Sembach. In 1951, Enkenbach and Neukirchen became its own parish. 1954 resigned from Neukirchen from the church Enkenbach well Mehlingen from the parish Sembach. The new parish of Mehlingen was formed from both of them. Since 1960 Enkenbach has been its own parish with Mehlingen as a daughter parish.

Catholic Church in Mehlingen

Catholics

The Catholics had been parish in Enkenbach since the Reformation . Today's Catholic Church of St. Anton was built in 1898 (architect Wilhelm Schulte I. ). In 1926 the parish built its own parsonage, the prerequisites for the occupation with a pastor. In 1959 the Mehlingen-Neukirchen Curate was created, to which Baalborn, Rohrbach , Wartenberg , Daubenbornerhof , Fröhnerhof and Eselsfürth are assigned. The curate includes 981 parishioners who live among 3072 non-Catholics.

Anabaptist Movement

At the house Maurer since 2017 an information panel under the motto Baptist tracks in the Palatinate attached.

Jews

Jewish cemetery in Mehlingen

Around 1800 there were around 12 to 15 Jewish families in Mehlingen, in Sembach more than twice that number, in Neukirchen and Baalborn, however, none at all. The reason for this was that Neukirchen and Baalborn belonged to the Electoral Palatinate before 1800 , Mehlingen and Sembach to the County of Wartenberg. While the Electoral Palatinate made it more difficult for Jews to move in due to increased collection fees ( head money ) and other disadvantages, they had to endure less harassment among the Wartenbergers.

In the 19th century, up to 80 Jewish residents lived in Mehlingen at times, and they had also built their own school. However, they gradually emigrated to the surrounding cities until 1860 only 24 Jews lived in the village. What remained were the impoverished, elderly citizens. After their death in 1920, the number of Jews dropped to eight, there were no more Jews living in Mehlingen at the beginning of the National Socialist era .

In the present, the Jewish cemetery on the Mehlinger Heide testifies to the earlier existence of the religious community. Its area, which has been largely left to its own devices for decades, is fenced in and not intended for entry. Some of the deceased were also in Winnweiler

politics

Former school and administration building

The local council believed in 1969 that with the merger of the districts of Neukirchen, Mehlingen and Baalborn to form the municipality of Mehlingen, it had made its contribution to the formation of larger administrative units required by the state government. But the state government suggested that the communities Enkenbach-Alsenborn , Mehlingen, Sembach and Neuhemsbach a municipality should form. Despite several concerns (the locals preferred to merge with Sembach and Wartenberg-Rohrbach ) , the Verbandsgemeinde Enkenbach was established on the basis of the Thirteenth State Law on Administrative Simplification in the State of Rhineland-Palatinate of March 1, 1972, with effect from April 22, 1972 -Alsenborn created.

Municipal council

The municipal council in Mehlingen consists of 20 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 FDP FWG total
2019 9 4th 3 4th 20 seats
2014 9 5 2 4th 20 seats
2009 8th 5 3 4th 20 seats
2004 9 5 1 5 20 seats
  • FWG = Free Voting Group Mehlingen e. V.

mayor

Local mayor is Monika Rettig (SPD). In the direct election on May 26, 2019, she was re-elected with 65.98% of the vote.

Local mayors of the Mehlingen community since the Enkenbach-Alsenborn community was founded in 1972:

  • Willi Kafitz from July 20, 1972 to July 10, 1974
  • Werner Urschel from July 10, 1974 to June 30, 1979
  • Willi Kafitz from July 4, 1979 to August 14, 1989
  • Dieter Göttel from August 15, 1989 to January 2, 1995
  • Jürgen Metz from March 28, 1995 to December 28, 2001
  • Barbara Huber-Sehi ( SPD ) from March 26, 2002 to June 7, 2009
  • Horst Brennemann (SPD) from June 7, 2009 to July 4, 2014
  • Monika Rettig (SPD) since July 4, 2014

Municipal coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms, awarded in 1936, shows a blue-clad pointed cap wearer in a golden field on green ground, who raises a white mace in his right hand . This coat of arms is intended to commemorate the lords and later imperial counts of Wartenberg , who, as imperial ministers and followers of the Staufer, maintained a connection with the Alzeyer area in the 12th century .

This noble family was wealthy in all the communities that had been absorbed in today's Mehlingen until the outbreak of the French Revolution . In Mehlingen they even ruled the local area for centuries.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Cultural monuments
Listed Sickingern'scher Hof

The Jewish cemetery is designated as a monument zone .

In addition, there are a total of 20 individual objects that are under monument protection , including the historically significant Sickingen'sche Hof , which was first mentioned in 1285 and has existed in its current form since 1801.

Perfume Museum

The Perfume Museum is located on the premises of Grün Parfüm & Kosmetik Produktions GmbH in the Baalborn district of Mehling. Originally it was supposed to be a "normal" museum, in which the perfume bottles collected over the years can be seen. However, the film "Das Parfum" (adaptation of the book Das Parfum by Patrick Süskind) animated a special character. There were scenes created that will enable one when entering the museum in the era of the 17th and 18th centuries. Damp cellars and the huge distillery in a vaulted cellar and hundreds of dusty bottles in various shapes, filled with essences from around the world underline the atmosphere.

Menhirs

With the Menhir I from Mehlingen there is a monolith on site. There are also two other menhirs .

nature

The Mehlinger Heide is designated as a nature reserve. In addition, there are three natural monuments in the municipality .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Mehlingen is the seat of the waste disposal company Jakob Becker . The Kapeltal wind farm, which was built in 1998 and 2014, is located in the west of the district . The Schnorres brewery has been located in the municipality since 2016 .

military

The Mehlinger Heide, which is located in the municipality, was in parts already laid out as a military training area at the time of the First World War . After the Second World War, the Mehlingen Communications Annex of the United States Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces Africa was stationed there until 1992

traffic

The state road 401 runs through the north-western part of the development ; in this area it is identical to the Kaiserstrasse laid out under Napoleon ; north of the settlement area, this crosses state road 382 , which leads in the middle of the village ; the latter also connects Baalborn. The district road 42 leads over the Niedermehlingerhof to Enkenbach. The federal motorway 63 runs through the west of the district in a north-south direction ; the Sembach junction is partly in the municipality.

tourism

The Palatinate Country Cycle Path runs through Mehlingen .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Friedrich Schmitt, appointed in 1965
  • Jakob Messing, appointed in 1969
  • Karl Ruby, appointed 1991
  • Wilhelm Kafitz, appointed 2001

Sons and daughters of the church

People who worked on site

literature

  • Arnold Ruby: Neukirchen - Mehlingen - Baalborn. History of the villages in the district. Mehlingen: Municipal administration, 1994
  • Lothar Horter, Michael Tilly : Admonishing witnesses of the past. (Ed .: Verbandsgemeinde Enkenbach-Alsenborn), Otterbach 1998, 110 p. M. numerous Fig .; therein: "The Jews in Sembach", "The Jews in Mehlingen" (pp. 19–28) and "The Jewish cemetery in Mehlingen" (pp. 29–73)

Web links

Commons : Mehlingen  - Collection of images
Wikivoyage: Mehlingen  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 . Page 491
  3. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 186 and 187 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
  4. ↑ Catholic Church in Mehlingen , on enkenbach-alsenborn.de, accessed on June 16, 2020
  5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Mehlingen. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .
  6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
  7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Enkenbach-Alsenborn, Verbandsgemeinde, fifth row of results. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .