Mittelbach-Hengstbach
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Mittelbach-Hengstbach
City of Zweibrücken
Coordinates: 49 ° 12 ′ 49 ″ N , 7 ° 20 ′ 22 ″ E
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| Height : | 300 m above sea level NHN |
| Residents : | 1114 (Apr 14, 2005) |
| Postal code : | 66482 |
| Area code : | 06332 |
 Location in Zweibrücken
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Mittelbach-Hengstbach refers to the southernmost district of Zweibrücken in Rhineland-Palatinate with the two localities Mittelbach and Hengstbach .
geography
Mittelbach lies in the valley of the Bickenalb at the confluence of the Rechental, Hengstbach in a side valley. While the floodplain with its rich meadows is suitable for cattle breeding, the valley slopes in the lower part are sandy and water-rich (Upper Buntsandstein ), on the plateau they are marly ( Lower Muschelkalk ) and suitable for arable farming. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the area was known as "cherry country".
history
Grave mounds in Mittelbühl in Mittelbach and the menhir in Hengstbach, which was removed after 1711 and recalled by a field and street name, indicate settlement in prehistoric times. An old Roman road ran up the hill, or in the Middle Ages the so-called "Dusser road", where salt was fetched from Duss . The two place names on “-bach” belong to a place name type that was often chosen during the early medieval development of the country. The written tradition begins in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Mittelbach
Mittelbach is named together with Hengstbach in a detailed Zweibrücker deed of purchase in 1301, which already mentions field names. It seems uncertain whether a document from 1254 can be used for Mittelbach. Mittelbach was a church branch to Ixheim and later to Zweibrücken. In the Thirty Years' War the place died out completely after 1635 and stood desolate for decades. When he was visited around 1685, the ruins could hardly be found for the hedges and thorns.
A new settlement took place at the end of the 17th century. In 1737/38 the church was rebuilt. The bell from 1747 is exhibited in the anteroom of the Protestant State Church Archives in Speyer. With the intensification of agriculture at the end of the 18th century, more fruit trees, especially cherries, were planted. Industrial jobs have been created since the mid-19th century. The Mittelbach company mainly worked in the Roth, Heck & Schwinn wire drawing works in Ixheim. The 20th century hit the residents with the two-time separation of the Saarland , creating a customs border at the end of Mittelbach, the construction of the western wall from 1936/37, the evacuation in 1939/40 and again in 1944/45, finally the passage of the main battle line with the destruction of the Church 1945.
Hengstbach
The place Hengstbach is mentioned in 1274 in a conciliation document of the Zweibrücken counts. In 1357, the place with seven farms had reached a size that corresponded to the size of the ban in the economy of that time. Hengstbach belonged to Mimbach and at times to Wattweiler . In the Thirty Years War everything died out here too. A family (Mattheiß Moschel) lived in the place alone at times. A new settlement took place at the beginning of the 18th century. Hengstbach stayed small and never owned a chapel. In 1745 it became part of the Mittelbach-Ixheim parish. The development in the 19th and 20th centuries ran parallel to the development in Mittelbach. The former "Hengstbacher Mühle" on the Bickenalb and the "Wahlerhof" belong to Hengstbach.
Mittelbach-Hengstbach
On June 7, 1969, the communities Mittelbach and Hengstbach merged to form the new community Mittelbach-Hengstbach, which has been a district of Zweibrücken since it was incorporated on April 22, 1972.
politics
Local advisory board
A local district was formed for the district . The local council consists of 15 members, the chair of the local council is chaired by the directly elected mayor .
For more information on the local council, see the results of the local elections in Zweibrücken .
Mayor
The mayor is Kurt Dettweiler (FWG). In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with 63.05% of the vote.
Economy and Transport
After the decline in agriculture, Mittelbach-Hengstbach has only a few jobs. The working people commute to Zweibrücken and other places. Conversely, the attractive residential area between 1950 and 2000 led to a large number of new buildings.
Leisure and Tourism
- Flower festival on the fairground in Hengstbach from the end of April to the beginning of May
- Village festival in Mittelbach on the first weekend in July
- Hengstbacher Kirchweih (Curb) on the first weekend in September and the Mittelbacher Kirchweih on the third weekend in October
- Advent market on the 1st weekend in December
See also
literature
- Albert Weis: Ortssippenbuch Mittelbach-Hengstbach . German Ortssippenbücher Volume 28, Frankfurt am Main 1962.
- Werner Weber: The history of the villages Mittelbach and Hengstbach. Weber, Zweibrücken 1999.
Web links
- Homepage of Mittelbach-Hengstbach
- Zweibrücken-Mittelbach - Prot. Church - Plenum for the service (video with sound)
- Events and companies from Mittelbach-Hengstbach
- Literature about Mittelbach-Hengstbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography
Individual evidence
- ^ Albert Weis: Ortssippenbuch Mittelbach-Hengstbach . German Ortssippenbücher Volume 28, Frankfurt am Main 1962, p. 5
- ^ Carl Pöhlmann: Document book for the history of the city of Zweibrücken , Zweibrücken approx. 1938 (Ed. Bernhard H. Bonkhoff, Historischer Verein Zweibrücken, Zweibrücken 1990), p. 9, no. 51
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↑ Carl Pöhlmann: Regesten der Graf von Zweibrücken from the Zweibrücken line , edited by Anton Doll, Speyer 1962, p. 41, no. 125. The document mentions a witness name Sifrid von Mitelnbuch , placed in the Mittelbach index.
Cf. Martin Dolch, Albrecht Greule: Historical settlement name book of the Palatinate Speyer, publishing house of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science 1991, p. 310 -
↑ Carl Pöhlmann: Document book for the history of the city of Zweibrücken , Zweibrücken approx. 1938 (Ed. Bernhard H. Bonkhoff, Historischer Verein Zweibrücken, Zweibrücken 1990), p. 5, No. 28
Carl Pöhlmann: Regesten der Graf von Zweibrücken from the Zweibrücken line , edited by Anton Doll, Speyer 1962, p. 71, no. 222 - ^ Albert Weis: Ortssippenbuch Mittelbach-Hengstbach . German local family books Volume 28, Frankfurt am Main 1962, p. 7
- ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 183 (PDF; 2.8 MB; see also footnote 78 on p. 185).
- ^ City of Zweibrücken: Main Statute. (PDF) § 2 and § 5. November 18, 2018, accessed on October 26, 2019 .
- ↑ City of Zweibrücken: Result of the village chief Mittelbach 2019. Accessed on October 26, 2019 .
