Niedermoschel
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Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ' N , 7 ° 48' E |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 .
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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
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local council election 2019 Niedermoschel. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
- ^ The regional returning officer RLP: Municipal council election 2009 Niedermoschel. Retrieved August 29, 2019 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Nordpfälzer Land, Verbandsgemeinde, 18th result line. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .
- ^ The Rhine Palatinate: Niedermoschel: Gunther Keller wins. June 16, 2019, accessed August 28, 2019 .