Niederkirchen (West Palatinate)

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Coat of arms of the local community of Niederkirchen
Niederkirchen (West Palatinate)
Map of Germany, position of the local community Niederkirchen highlighted

Coordinates: 49 ° 35 '  N , 7 ° 42'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Kaiserslautern
Association municipality : Otterbach-Otterberg
Height : 256 m above sea level NHN
Area : 23.85 km 2
Residents: 1856 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 78 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 67700
Primaries : 06363, 06308
License plate : KL
Community key : 07 3 35 029
Community structure: 5 districts
Association administration address: Hauptstrasse 27
67697 Otterberg
Website : www.otterbach-otterberg.de
Local Mayor : Wolfgang Pfleger ( SPD )
Location of the local community of Niederkirchen in the Kaiserslautern district
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Niederkirchen is the northernmost municipality in the Kaiserslautern district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Otterbach-Otterberg .

geography

location

Niederkirchen is located 16 kilometers north of Kaiserslautern in the middle of the North Palatinate Uplands and forms the northern end of the Kaiserslautern district. Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Seelen , Reichsthal , Imsweiler , Gundersweiler , Heiligenmoschel , Schallodenbach , Olsbrücken , Kreimbach-Kaulbach , Wolfstein , Relsberg and Hefersweiler .

Community structure

The community of Niederkirchen is divided into four local districts :

District associated living spaces
Home churches Holbornerhof , Karlshöhe and Kreuzhof
Morbach
Niederkirchen Bügenmuhlerhof
Worsbach Amoshof, Neuhof and Rauschermühle

Surveys

In the southeast of the municipality on the border with Schallodenbach and Heiligenmoschel, the 459.7  m above sea level extend . NHN high Reiserberg and to the west of it the 444 meter high gallows . Further north is the 414.7 meter high Buchborn . To the west is the Eichelberg , the 320 meter high Bornberg , the 387 meter high Heidenberg and the 402.9 meter high Buchenknopf . The 396 meter high Eulenberg rises further to the east .

Waters

The Odenbach flows through the middle of the municipality . At the boundary to Schallodenbach it takes the Faulborn from the left , then the Neuhöfer Bach and the Wörsbach and from the right the Finstergraben and the Käsbach . In the middle of the settlement area the Weilerbach flows from the left and the Steinbach from the right into the Odenbach and in the far north of the district the Farsbach , the Kohlengraben , the Morgraben and the Moorbach .

history

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Niederkirchen was incorporated into the Canton of Otterberg . In 1815 the municipality first belonged to Austria . A year later she moved to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 she belonged to the Land Commissioner in Kaiserslautern ; from this the district office of Kaiserslautern emerged.

From 1939 the place was part of the district of Kaiserslautern . After the Second World War , Niederkirchen became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , the neighboring towns of Heimkirchen, Morbach and Wörsbach were incorporated into Niederkirchen. Three years later the community was incorporated into the newly formed Verbandsgemeinde Otterberg . Since July 1, 2014, it has been part of the Otterbach-Otterberg Association, which was created through the merger of the Otterberg and Otterbach Association .

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Niederkirchen consists of 16 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 9 - 7th 16 seats
2014 9 2 5 16 seats
2009 9 2 5 16 seats
2004 9 3 4th 16 seats

Local mayor

The local mayor of Niederkirchen is Wolfgang Pfleger (SPD). In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected with 82.17% of the vote, making him the successor of Marco Schuster (SPD), who did not run for this office again.

Niederkirchen district

The district of Niederkirchen is designated as a local district . The local advisory board consists of nine advisory board members, the chair of the local advisory board is chaired by the directly elected mayor .

In the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the advisory board was elected in a personalized proportional representation. The distribution of seats in the local advisory board:

choice SPD CDU FWG total
2019 6th - 3 9 seats
2014 6th 1 2 9 seats
2009 5 1 3 9 seats
  • FWG = Free Voting Group Niederkirchen e. V.

The mayor is Henry Dinkat (SPD). In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected with a share of the vote of 86.96%.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Niederkirchen
 Blazon : “A black bar in silver, covered with five silver bolls 2: 1: 2, above a blue wave pole, covered with a growing golden reed cob and on the right by a floating blue-roofed red church with golden windows, angled by a blue one on the upper right Rust, below a red-tongued green dragon pierced by a blue lance protruding from the beam. "
Founding of the coat of arms: It was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1988 and contains figures of the historical coats of arms of the four districts.

Parish partnership

Cultural monuments

The old and the new Jewish cemetery are each designated as monument zones. In addition, there are a total of 14 individual objects that are listed .

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Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

People who worked on site

  • Olaf Marschall (* 1966), soccer player and coach, lives in Niederkirchen

Web links

Commons : Niederkirchen  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  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. 152 (PDF; 3 MB).
  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. 190 (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. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: City Council Election 2019 Niederkirchen. Retrieved October 27, 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 Otterbach-Otterberg, Verbandsgemeinde, sixth result line. Retrieved October 27, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Local community Niederkirchen: main statute. (PDF) § 2 and 3 December 18, 2014, accessed on October 27, 2019 .
  8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Niederkirchen. Retrieved October 27, 2019 .
  9. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2014 Niederkirchen. Retrieved October 27, 2019 .
  10. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Otterbach-Otterberg, Verbandsgemeinde, ninth line of results. Retrieved October 27, 2019 .
  11. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .