Mittelbrunn

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 22 '  N , 7 ° 33'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kaiserslautern
Association municipality :	Landstuhl
Height :	323 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.97 km 2
Residents:	712 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	79 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66851
Area code :	06371
License plate :	KL
Community key :	07 3 35 027
Association administration address:	Kaiserstraße 49 66849 Landstuhl
Website :	www.landstuhl.de
Local Mayor :	Walter Altherr ( CDU )
Location of the local community Mittelbrunn in the district of Kaiserslautern

The remains of the medieval Verena Chapel

Mittelbrunn is a municipality in the Kaiserslautern district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Landstuhl Association .

geography

Mittelbrunn is located on the edge of the Palatinate Forest 17 km southwest of Kaiserslautern . The community also includes the Mittelbrunnermühle and Mühlbergerhof residential areas .

history

middle Ages

The first written mention of the community of Mittelbrunn dates back to 1230, when a knight Volmar took the name "von Mittelburn" according to his possessions or his origins. However, the actual development of the place goes back further.

Evidence of the oldest human life is, on the one hand, the menhir known as the “Langenstein” , a path marking a high road from the oldest pre-Roman times. In addition, the Höhenweg is another testimony to the oldest human settlement. In addition, there is the so-called “chair”, according to various research results, a Franconian one hundred percent thing.

Nanstein Castle was built in Landstuhl around 1160 . Mittelbrunn belonged from the beginning to the new office of Nanstein. In the further course of history, Mittelbrunn was repeatedly used as a pawn by noblemen. Among other things, it was pledged to the Wörschweiler Abbey in 1402 . In 1484 the Junker Walter Blick von Lichtenberg sold his share in the village to the knight Schweickard von Sickingen . However, its share was only one sixth, as the division of villages into different domains was quite common at the time. Other partial owners of Mittelbrunn were, among others, Duke Ludwig I of Zweibrücken and Hartmann Bayer von Boppard . At times, half of the village was owned by the Lords of Oberstein . This part of Mittelbrunn was pledged to Maria Einsiedel , the Teutonic Order , in 1516 . The well-known knight Franz von Sickingen also owned a sixth of the village at that time. It was not until 1589 that Mittelbrunn came as a whole to the Landstuhl estate, owned by the Sickingers .

Modern times

During the Thirty Years' War , the houses in Mittelbrunn, as in all other villages in the West Palatinate, were deserted or burned, their residents perished in need and misery, and only a few escaped.

In the years 1670 to 1680 the Feick, Gerhard, Heintz and Stahl families are again based in Mittelbrunn, names that were represented here earlier.

The second half of the 17th century was characterized by steady upward development under Sicking's suzerainty. In addition, there was always denominational friction between Catholics and Protestants . After the occupation by French troops as part of the French reunification policy, the rights of Protestants were severely restricted. In 1692 there was a decree that all marriages between Protestants and Catholics had to be catholic and all children from such marriages had to be baptized Catholic. When the French had to leave again after the Peace of Ryswick in 1697, the Lords of Sickingen took over and even tightened all religious regulations. The evangelicals were forbidden from any public religious practice, evangelical clergy were no longer allowed to enter Mittelbrunn. This situation led to louder protests from the local Protestants. After numerous letters of complaint to the representation of the Protestant imperial estates at the imperial regiment in Regensburg , an agreement was finally reached in 1790 with the Lords of Sickingen. Mittelbrunn became the seat of a Lutheran pastor for the so-called small court.

Population development

The development of the population of Mittelbrunn, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 180 1835 370 1871 442 1905 456 1939 515 1950 619 1961 603

year Residents 1970 642 1987 575 1997 675 2005 706 2011 662 2017 705 2019 712

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Mittelbrunn consists of twelve council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	2	5	5	12 seats
2014	4th	8th	-	12 seats
2009	3	6th	3	12 seats
2004	3	7th	2	12 seats

mayor

Walter Altherr (CDU) has been the local mayor of Mittelbrunn since 1978. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with 66.17% of the vote.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Above a semicircular bricked red stone fountain with flowing blue water as a shield base, split by black and silver, on the right five silver bolts 2: 1: 2, on the left a continuous black cross." It was approved by the Mainz Interior Ministry in 1960 .
	Justification of the coat of arms: The Bollen reminds of the former local lords, the Lords of Sickingen .

Partner communities

A partnership with the French municipality of Saint-Désir in Normandy has existed since 1980 . Every year, mutual visits take place on the Whitsun weekend.

Culture and sights

Buildings

See the list of cultural monuments in Mittelbrunn

Sports

1. FC Mittelbrunn, founded in 1946, has dedicated itself to football. With its grass pitch “In der Finsterdell” and the associated sports center, the club has one of the most scenic sports facilities in the region. The greatest success of the club was the championship in the B-class Kaiserslautern with the associated promotion to the A-class in 1979.

Regular events

As is customary in southern Germany, Mittelbrunn also celebrates a Kerwe every year . The fixed date for this is always the first weekend in September. In addition, numerous other festivals and events of the local associations take place throughout the year. The highlights here are the “Tanz in den Mai”, which takes place from April 30th to May 1st in the agricultural machinery hall, as well as the “Schnapsbrenner Festival” in the heart of the village on the last weekend in July.

traffic

• The community is connected to the motorway network by the A 62 (junction: Landstuhl-Atzel).
• The public transport in the transport association Rhein-Neckar integrated. The closest train station is Landstuhl .

Sons and daughters of the church

• Theo Gries (* 1961), soccer player

Web links

Commons : Mittelbrunn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Local community Mittelbrunn on the website of the Landstuhl Association
• Literature about Mittelbrunn in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 151 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ^ Theodor Knocke: Ortschronik Mittelbrunn. Repro-Druck Röhricht, 1980.
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved May 10, 2020 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local council election 2019 Mittelbrunn. Retrieved November 1, 2019 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: 2014 municipal council election in Mittelbrunn. Retrieved November 1, 2019 . 
7. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. Retrieved on November 1, 2019 (see Landstuhl, Verbandsgemeinde, eighth line of results). 
8. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate . Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .