Oberbexbach

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Oberbexbach
City of Bexbach
Coat of arms of Oberbexbach
Coordinates: 49 ° 21 ′ 55 "  N , 7 ° 15 ′ 39"  E
Residents : 4266  (Jan. 1, 2020)
Incorporation : 1st January 1974
Postal code : 66450
Area code : 06826
Monument in Oberbexbach
Monument in Oberbexbach
The Steinberghütte of the Palatinate Forest Association

Oberbexbach is a district of Bexbach in the Saarpfalz district .

history

The place belonged to the municipality of Oberbexbach-Frankenholz. On April 1, 1937, the community Höcherberg was re-formed from the previous communities Höchen , Mittelbexbach and Oberbexbach-Frankenholz. It was not until May 1, 1947, when the municipality of Höcherberg was dissolved, Oberbexbach became an independent municipality in the Homburg district . This independence ended on January 1, 1974, when the municipality of Oberbexbach became a district of the city of Bexbach in the course of the regional and administrative reform in the Saarland .

Religions

In the center of Oberbexbach there is a Catholic and a Protestant church.

politics

After the last local election on May 25, 2014, the following distribution of seats in the local council resulted:

  • CDU : 3 seats
  • SPD : 3 seats
  • FWG: 1 seat

Mayor
1999–2007: Lorenz Schley (CDU)
2007–2009: Dieter Kauf (CDU)
2009–2017: Günter Strähl (SPD)
2017 – today: Stefan Schmelzer (SPD)

Stone mountain hut

Outside the village on the southern flank of the Höcherberg in the forest towards Frankenholz , the Oberbexbach local group of the Palatinate Forest Association has been running the Steinberghütte at an altitude of 360 m since 1971 . From here you have a very good view of the surrounding villages.

Web links

Commons : Oberbexbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bexbach: structural data, residents by district , accessed on February 2, 2020
  2. ↑ Official Journal of the Administrative Commission of the Saarland No. 29/1947 (PDF; 536 kB)
  3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 803 .