Obermohr

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Obermohr
Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 27 ″  N , 7 ° 30 ′ 18 ″  E
Height : 225 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.55 km²
Residents : 593  (Jun. 30, 2007)
Population density : 130 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 7th June 1969
Postal code : 66879
Area code : 06371
Obermohr (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Obermohr

Location of Obermohr in Rhineland-Palatinate

Obermohr is a part of the municipality of Steinwend, in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Kaiserslautern . Until 1969, the agricultural town was an independent municipality. However, it does not have legal status as a local district .

location

Obermohr is located in the west of the municipality of Steinwend in Landstuhler Bruch and extends north of the orographically right bank of the Mohrbach . The Reuschbach flows through the village itself before it flows into the former. In addition to the main town, the hamlet of Porbacherhof belongs to Obermohr .

history

middle Ages

The nucleus of the place is the Obermohrerhof - also written Obermohrer Hof - which takes up a third of the district. It was first mentioned in a document in 987 as villa moraha ; Landowner and rights holder was the Lambrecht monastery .

In the 14th century, Obermohr finally passed into the possession of the von Stötern family , who in turn were subordinate to the von Veldenz family before Jeckel von Stötern sold this estate to Agnes von Flörsheim . Since the latter was the widow of Henne Blick von Lichtenberg , his family was the owner until 1612.

Early modern age

In the course of the Thirty Years War , during which the local chapel was destroyed, among other things, Obermohr was abandoned by its residents and was neither repopulated nor rebuilt in the following years. In 1768 Christoph Anton von Hautzenberg became the new owner on site. The property was reallocated on his initiative, which is why numerous farmers had to cede agricultural land belonging to them to him. To this day, several boundary stones that show his coat of arms can be found in Obermohr.

Until the end of the 18th century, Obermohr belonged to the Lautern Oberamt , which was subordinate to the Electoral Palatinate, and below this administrative level to the Ramstein court . In 1793, the French revolutionary government tore the entire aristocratic property on the left bank of the Rhine under the nail, so that Hautzenberg withdrew from Obermohr.

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the First French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the First French Empire, Obermohr was incorporated into the canton of Landstuhl . The Catholic parish was founded in 1803 after the one from Kirchmohr had previously been responsible for the community ; There were branches in Steinwend and Kottweiler-Schwanden .

20th century

In 1928 the place had 460 inhabitants, of which 434 were Catholic and 26 Protestant and lived in 88 residential buildings. As part of the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform, Obermohr was incorporated into the neighboring village of Steinwend on June 7, 1969 . However, there it does not form a local district, so that there is also no local advisory board. In 1981 the place won the competition "Our village should be more beautiful" at the state level and achieved the bronze medal at the federal level. In 1987 Obermohr also celebrated its 1000th anniversary.

Population development

At the time of incorporation in Steinwend in 1969, Obermohr had 674 inhabitants. In the meantime, the trend that has been maintained since the mid-1990s, according to which a population decline has been recorded in the West Palatinate , has also caught up with the town. In 2006 it had 706 inhabitants, two years later it was only 593.

Economy and Infrastructure

Infrastructure

The structure is predominantly agricultural, although some new building areas have emerged in recent decades. Obermohr is the seat of a Catholic parish belonging to the dean's office Homburg, which is subordinate to the central parish office of Hütschenhausen .

There are a total of two cultural monuments on site: the local Catholic church built in 1845 and 1846 and the Obermohrerhof . There is also a community center near the church. In the 20th century, there was also a post office and a Catholic school on site. Every fourth Sunday in July the parish fair takes place in Obermohr.

traffic

The state road 363 , which begins in Glan-Münchweiler and leads to Steinalben , and the district road 11 , which leads to Reuschbach , run through Obermohr .

Although the Landstuhl – Kusel railway line, opened in 1868, touches the southern edge of the Obermohr settlement area, the village initially did not have its own railway stop; instead, its residents had to use the Steinwend train station, two kilometers away. At the beginning of the 1950s, however, the then mayor Hermann Staab advocated a stop on the railway line, as he himself was a full-time wage clerk at the Rammelsbach quarry and was therefore a regular user of this railway line himself. The German Federal Railroad (DB) gave the green light for such a project, but made it a condition that the municipality must bear the costs for construction and maintenance. Staab then founded a citizens' initiative to push ahead with his plan. In voluntary work, a 150 meter long platform was built to the left of an access road. After the work had already progressed well, the Federal Railroad instructed that the platform had to be built to the right of the path, which meant that the previous construction had been in vain. Nevertheless, the platform, which was now 185 meters long, was moved to the location requested by the DB, which was completed in spring 1955.

Commissioning was scheduled for the summer timetable of the year. On May 30th, many residents were on the platform to celebrate the commissioning, but the first train passed without stopping. Only afterwards did the driver recognize his mistake and let the train drive back to the new stop. In the following months, trains often drove through without stopping in Obermohr, as the locomotive staff had only slowly got used to the existence of the new operating location. In contrast to the other, previously existing on-the-go stops, Obermohr did not have a reception building, but only a bus shelter in solid construction that was owned by the municipality. In the 1990s it was replaced by a more modern one.

Personalities

Abbot Benedikt Menges OSB

Sons and daughters of the place

People who worked on site

  • Karl Barth (1896–1962), lawyer, National Socialist, local politician and Protestant senior church councilor, settled in Obermohr after the Second World War
  • Roland Paul (* 1951), historian, published the Ortschronik on the 1000th anniversary

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways on Glan and Lauter . Self-published, Waldmohr 1996, ISBN 3-9804919-0-0 .
  • Roland Paul (Ed.): 1000 years of Obermohr - contributions to local knowledge . 1987.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c daten.digitale-sammlungen.de: List of localities for the Free State of Bavaria . Retrieved March 9, 2013 .
  2. ↑ swr.de: Obermohr - A portrait of Gabi Keller . Retrieved March 9, 2013 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e gemeinde-steinwenden.de Obermohrerhof . Retrieved March 9, 2013 .
  4. ↑ a b c ramstein-miesenbach.de: municipality Steinwenden . Retrieved March 9, 2013 .
  5. ↑ a b c gendi.de: The church books of the Catholic parish of St. John the Baptist - Obermohr / Pfalz . Retrieved March 9, 2013 .
  6. ↑ wahlen.rlp.de/ Ortsbeiratswahlen Landkreis Kaiserslautern - final result . Retrieved March 9, 2013 .
  7. ↑ dorfwettbewerb.de/ Federal competition "Our village should be more beautiful - our village has a future" Results 1961 - 2010 . (PDF; 59 kB) Accessed March 9, 2013 .
  8. ↑ 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. 197 (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.  
  9. ↑ gov.genealogy.net: Obermohr . Retrieved March 9, 2013 .
  10. ↑ a b ramstein-miesenbach.de: Community information - Steinrechen . Retrieved March 9, 2013 .
  11. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - District of Kaiserslautern. Mainz 2019, p. 30 (PDF; 5.4 MB).
  12. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 73 .
  13. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 156 .
  14. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 101 .
  15. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 236 .