Niedermoschel

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 44 '  N , 7 ° 48'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Donnersbergkreis
Association municipality :	North Palatinate Country
Height :	156 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.62 km 2
Residents:	473 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	71 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67822
Area code :	06362
License plate :	KIB, ROK
Community key :	07 3 33 051
Association administration address:	Schulstrasse 16 67821 Alsenz
Website :	www.alsenz-obermoschel.de
Local Mayor :	Gunther Keller
Location of the local community Niedermoschel in the Donnersbergkreis

Niedermoschel 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 .

geography

Niedermoschel is located north of the Palatinate Forest . Obermoschel is to the west and Alsenz to the south-east .

history

Niedermoschel was first mentioned in a document in 1362. Nine years earlier it was named in a church document as the lower village near Alsenz. Initially belonging to the County of Veldenz , the place came after the death of Friedrich III. 1444 to Pfalz-Zweibrücken . After the French Revolution , Niedermoschel was part of the Donnersberg department . In 1816 it became Bavarian . After the Second World War , Niedermoschel became part of the newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Niedermoschel 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	WGG	total
2019	5	3	8 seats
2014	3	5	8 seats
2009	by majority vote		12 seats

• WGG = Grünewald voter group

Local mayor

Local mayor is Gunther Keller, who won the runoff election on June 16, 2019 with a share of 52.61% of the votes against the previous incumbent Berthold Grünewald.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided and split above; top right in black a golden lion, tongued, armored and crowned in red; top left white and blue roughened; below a silver scallop shell in blue. "

Culture and sights

The Niedermoschel mining museum is located in the village community center. The castle ruin Löwenstein , built in 1180, is near the village . It was destroyed in the Palatinate War of Succession .

See also:

• List of cultural monuments in Niedermoschel
• List of natural monuments in Niedermoschel

traffic

Nearest train stop is the Alsenz Station on the alsenz valley railway . Between 1903 and 1935 there was a stop on the narrow-gauge Obermoschel-Alsenz feeder line in the center of the village at the level of the former school building .

literature

• Local community Niedermoschel (Ed.): Niedermoschel. Chronicle of a village . Niedermoschel 2012, ISBN 978-3-939512-38-7 .
• Literature about Niedermoschel in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Niedermoschel  - collection of images

• Local community Niedermoschel on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Alsenz-Obermoschel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local council election 2019 Niedermoschel. Retrieved August 28, 2019 . 
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
4. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: Municipal council election 2009 Niedermoschel. Retrieved August 29, 2019 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Nordpfälzer Land, Verbandsgemeinde, 18th result line. Retrieved August 28, 2019 . 
6. ^ The Rhine Palatinate: Niedermoschel: Gunther Keller wins. June 16, 2019, accessed August 28, 2019 .