Neuhemsbach

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kaiserslautern
Association municipality :	Enkenbach-Alsenborn
Height :	261 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.66 km 2
Residents:	896 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	135 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67680
Area code :	06303
License plate :	KL
Community key :	07 3 35 028
Association administration address:	Hauptstrasse 18 ; 67677 Enkenbach-Alsenborn
Website :	www.neuhemsbach.de
Mayoress :	Silke Brunck ( SPD )
Location of the local community Neuhemsbach in the Kaiserslautern district

South view

Neuhemsbach is a municipality in the Kaiserslautern district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Enkenbach-Alsenborn .

geography

location

The community is located 18 kilometers northeast of Kaiserslautern on the edge of the Lower Palatinate Forest and is part of the Stumpfwald sub-area . In addition to the core town, it includes the residential areas of Bahnhof Neuhemsbach , Hammermühle , Heinzental , Randeckerhof and Rotwiesenhof. Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Sippersfeld , Enkenbach-Alsenborn , Sembach , Münchweiler an der Alsenz and Gonbach .

Waters

The extreme west of the district is traversed by the Alsenz . On site, the Hemsbach, which runs through the middle of the settlement area, flows into this from the right . There the Billesbach flows into it .

history

The current district of Heinzenthal was mentioned in a document as early as 1019. In the 13th century, on the occasion of a donation to the Enkenbach monastery , the place Hemsbach was first mentioned in a document.

The remainder of the Anselburg , located on the "Spitzer Hübel" level, dates from the 14th century .

In 1662, Count Friedrich Wilhelm zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Homburg bought the Neuhemsbach estate. In 1684, Count Friedrich Wilhelm transferred the rule to his brother Count Christian. His son Friedrich Ludwig and his sisters lived in the castle in Neuhemsbach .

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , the village belonged to the French department of Donnersberg and was assigned to the canton of Winnweiler .

Due to the agreements reached at the Congress of Vienna (1815) and an exchange contract with Austria , the region became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 . From 1818 to 1862 Neu-Hemsbach belonged - as it was spelled at the time - to the Landkommissariat Kaiserslautern ; from this the district office of Kaiserslautern emerged. On December 1, 1900, the community moved to the newly created district office Rockenhausen .

From 1939 the place was part of the district of Rockenhausen . After the Second World War , Breunigweiler was part of the French occupation zone and in 1946 became part of the newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate . In the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform , the place moved to the district of Kaiserslautern . In 1972 it was incorporated into the Enkenbach-Alsenborn community , which existed in this form until 2014.

religion

On October 31, 2014, 47.666 percent of the population were Protestant and 22.482 percent Catholic. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational.

politics

Municipal council

The community council in Neuhemsbach 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	FDP	total
2019	4th	3	4th	1	12 seats
2014	4th	5	3	-	12 seats
2009	2	6th	4th	-	12 seats
2004	2	5	5	-	12 seats

Mayoress

The local mayor is Silke Brunck (SPD). In the direct election on May 26, 2019, she was elected with 79.18% of the vote and is the successor to Armin Obenauer (CDU), who did not run again.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Split anddivided twice on the right by blue and silver and red, on the left in red a golden leopard armed and tongued with blue." It was approved by the Mainz Interior Ministry in 1958 .

Culture and sights

Listed castle church

There are a total of five objects on site that are listed , including the castle church . It is a landmark of the place and is located on the hill on which the castle of the Counts of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Homburg stood until the 18th century.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

From 1870 Neuhemsbach was connected to the rail network via the Alsenz Valley Railway; the station was located in the far west of the district partly in the area of Sembach and was called Neuhemsbach-Sembach in the first decades of its existence . After the Second World War this was abandoned due to a lack of profitability.

It is about three kilometers to the federal road 48 , which forms the boundary in the west of the municipality. The state road 393 leads to this, which ends in the state road 394 in the center of the village .

tourism

A hiking trail that is marked with a white and blue bar runs through the municipality .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Friedrich Burgdörfer (1890–1967), population scientist
Karl Bischoff (1897–1950), engineer, head of the SS Central Construction Office in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp

People who have worked in the community

Adolf Müller-Emmert (1922–2011), lawyer and politician (SPD), died in Neuhemsbach.
Friedrich Wittig , 1792/93 member of the Rhine-German National Convention

Web links

Commons : Neuhemsbach - Collection of images

Web presence of the local community Neuhemsbach
Verbandsgemeinde Enkenbach-Alsenborn (Neuhemsbach)
Literature about Neuhemsbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 95 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
↑ Municipal statistics . In: KommWis. October 31, 2014, accessed November 30, 2014 .
↑ Election results 2019 - OG-Rat Neuhemsbach. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
^ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Enkenbach-Alsenborn, Verbandsgemeinde, sixth result line. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .
^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

[2] State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 95 (PDF; 2.2 MB).

[3] Municipal statistics . In: KommWis. October 31, 2014, accessed November 30, 2014 .

[4] Election results 2019 - OG-Rat Neuhemsbach. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .

[5] The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections

[6] The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Enkenbach-Alsenborn, Verbandsgemeinde, sixth result line. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .

[Wappen-7] Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .