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Low sinters City of Pirmasens Coordinates: 49 ° 10 ′ 34 ″  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 1 ″  E
Height :	299 m above sea level NHN
Postal code :	66955
Area code :	06331
Entrance of the Gersbach valley in Niedersimten, 2018

Niedersimten is a district of Pirmasens .

history

middle Ages

Since the name is probably derived from the Celtic sympeton ( scoop ), research assumes that the place was settled very early. The oldest surviving first mention of the name comes from 1150. The village was in the Lemberg district of the County of Zweibrücken-Bitsch and there in the Vinningen district school .

Early modern age

Count Jakob von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* 1510; † 1570) died in 1570 as the last male member of his family. The Lemberg office was inherited by his daughter, Ludovica Margaretha von Zweibrücken-Bitsch , who was married to the (heir) Count Philipp (V) von Hanau-Lichtenberg . Her father-in-law, Count Philipp IV. Von Hanau-Lichtenberg , gave the strict Roman Catholic Duke Karl III by immediately introducing the Lutheran creed . of Lorraine, the opportunity to intervene militarily, as the latter had suzerainty over the Bitsch rule, which was also part of the inheritance . In July 1572 Lorraine troops occupied the county. Since Philip IV was unable to cope with the overwhelming power of Lorraine, he chose the legal route. In the subsequent process before the Reich Chamber of Commerce, Lorraine was able to prevail with regard to the Bitsch rule, while the Lemberg office - and thus also Niedersimten - was awarded to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg .

1736 died with Count Johann Reinhard III. the last male representative of the Hanau family. Due to the marriage of his only daughter, Charlotte (* 1700; † 1726), with the Hereditary Prince Ludwig (VIII.) (* 1691; † 1768) of Hesse-Darmstadt , the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg fell there.

Modern times

In the course of the French Revolution , the part of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg on the left bank of the Rhine - and with it the office of Lemberg and Lower Simten - fell to France in 1794. After the end of Napoleonic rule in 1815, Niedersimten came to the Bavarian Rhine District .

For a long time united with Obersimten , which was founded during the Landgrave era , it was incorporated into Pirmasens on June 7, 1969.

politics

Local advisory board

A local district was formed for the district of Niedersimten . The local advisory board consists of nine advisory board members, the chair of the local advisory board is chaired by the directly elected mayor .

For more information on the local council, see the results of the local elections in Pirmasens .

Mayor

The mayor of Niedersimten is Timo Völker (CDU). In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected with a share of 62.05% of the vote and is the successor to Kurt Sennewald (CDU).

Culture

The Westwall Museum Pirmasens is located in Niedersimten .

Sons and daughters of the place

• Roland Seffrin (1905–1985), educator and politician (Center Party, later CDU)
• Christof Heringer (* 1961), jazz musician, pianist, teacher and composer

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Niedersimten

literature

• Official directory and statistics of the royal Bavarian administrative district of the Palatinate . Speyer 1870.
• Friedrich Knöpp: Territorial holdings of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Hesse-Darmstadt . [typewritten] Darmstadt 1962. [Available in the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , signature: N 282/6].
• Alfred Matt: Bailliages, prévôté et fiefs ayant fait partie de la Seigneurie de Lichtenberg, du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg, du Landgraviat de Hesse-Darmstadt . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (Eds.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480 - 1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 7-9.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Knöpp, p. 12; Matt, p. 9.
2. ↑ Directory of officials .
3. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 175 (PDF; 2.8 MB; see also footnote 56, p. 184).
4. ^ City of Pirmasens: main statute. (PDF) § 4 and appendix. February 22, 2016, accessed October 25, 2019 . 
5. ↑ City of Pirmasens: Result of the district mayor of Niedersimten 2019. Accessed on October 25, 2019 . 

Web links

• Literature on Lower Sime in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography