Niederhausen an der Appel

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Donnersbergkreis
Association municipality :	North Palatinate Country
Height :	191 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.46 km 2
Residents:	237 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	43 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67822
Area code :	06362
License plate :	KIB, ROK
Community key :	07 3 33 050
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Schulstrasse 16 ; 67821 Alsenz
Website :	www.alsenz-obermoschel.de
Mayoress :	Jutta Kreis
Location of the local community Niederhausen an der Appel in the Donnersbergkreis

Niederhausen an der Appel is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Nordpfälzer Land , which has its administrative headquarters in the municipality of Rockenhausen and an additional administrative office in Alsenz .

Geographical location

Niederhausen is located in the Appelbach valley north of the Palatinate Forest . To the north is Tiefenthal , south Münsterappel and west is Winterborn . The closest cities are Bad Kreuznach , Rockenhausen and Kaiserslautern .

The Freyhof residential area also belongs to the community .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1325 as Niderhusen .

At that time, Niederhausen was part of the bailiwick property of the imperial abbey of St. Maximin in Trier , which was administered by the wild counts , and whose local branch was the provost office in Münsterappel. In the course of the Reformation Niederhausen became Lutheran in 1555, the provost's office was dissolved, and the abbey lost its influence. The place now belonged to the territory of the Rheingrafen , which the Wildgraves had in the meantime inherited from their line after the extinction. In 1775 Niederhausen fell to Nassau-Weilburg as part of an exchange agreement , which means that it now belonged to the Alsenz office.

The old order was ended from 1792 by French revolutionary troops and the Palatinate was annexed by France. From 1798 to 1814 Niederhausen belonged to the Donnersberg department , Kaiserslautern arrondissement , canton Obermoschel . At the Congress of Vienna , the Palatinate on the left bank of the Rhine fell to Austria in 1815 and to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 on the basis of an exchange contract . The place has now been assigned to the Land Commissioner Kirchheim in the Bavarian Rhine District.

After the Second World War , Niederhausen became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . Initially, the place still belonged to the district of Rockenhausen (formed in 1900 as a district office, renamed the district in 1939), in the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform from 1969 to the newly formed Donnersbergkreis . Within the district, Niederhausen and 15 other municipalities formed the Verbandsgemeinde Alsenz-Obermoschel in 1972 , which became the Verbandsgemeinde Nordpfälzer Land on January 1, 2020 .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Niederhausen consists of six council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

Local mayor

Jutta Kreis became mayor of Niederhausen in 2009. Since there was no candidate in the direct election on May 26, 2019, the upcoming election was carried out by the council in accordance with the municipal regulations. In the constituent meeting of the municipal council in July 2019, she was elected by a majority and thus entered her third term of office.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Divided by gold and blue. Above is a growing red lion, tongued with blue, armored in blue and crowned with blue; below a silver, red-roofed church with two red-roofed towers decorated with gold crosses. "

Culture and sights

There is a monument zone around the Protestant church .

Economy and Infrastructure

The L 400 and L 403 intersect in the village . There is a connection to long-distance traffic via the A 63 in the east and the A 61 in the northeast. Closest train station is the Alsenz at the alsenz valley railway .

Web links

Commons : Niederhausen an der Appel - Collection of images

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 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 140 (PDF; 3 MB).

^ Niederhausen ad Appel. Verbandsgemeinde Nordpfälzer Land, accessed on May 21, 2020 .

↑ ^a ^b Juliane Märker: Niedernhausen at Appel. In: regionalgeschichte.net. Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz eV, February 17, 2014, accessed on May 21, 2020 .

^ The regional returning officer RLP: City council election 2019 Niederhausen. Retrieved August 29, 2019 .
^ ^A ^b The Rhine Palatinate: Niederhausen: Jutta Kreis remains local mayor. July 4, 2019, accessed August 29, 2019 .
^ The State Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Nordpfälzer Land, Verbandsgemeinde, 17th line of results. Retrieved May 21, 2020 .

[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 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 140 (PDF; 3 MB).

[3] Niederhausen ad Appel. Verbandsgemeinde Nordpfälzer Land, accessed on May 21, 2020 .

[Märker_Ortsgeschichte-4] Juliane Märker: Niedernhausen at Appel. In: regionalgeschichte.net. Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz eV, February 17, 2014, accessed on May 21, 2020 .