Upper moschel

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 44 '  N , 7 ° 46'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Donnersbergkreis
Association municipality :	North Palatinate Country
Height :	206 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.15 km 2
Residents:	1051 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	104 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67823
Area code :	06362
License plate :	KIB, ROK
Community key :	07 3 33 054
Association administration address:	Schulstrasse 16 67821 Alsenz
Website :	www.obermoschel.de
City Mayor :	Ralf Beisiegel
Location of the town of Obermoschel in the Donnersbergkreis

Wilhelmstrasse with the Selberg in the background

The Kanalstrasse with the Landsberg in the background

With around 1000 inhabitants, Obermoschel is the smallest municipality in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate that has city rights. It is also the smallest town in the Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Nordpfälzer Land , which has its administrative headquarters in the municipality of Rockenhausen and an administrative office in Alsenz . According to state planning, Obermoschel is designated as a basic center.

geography

location

Obermoschel is located in the northern Palatinate mountains between Bad Kreuznach in the north-northeast, Rockenhausen in the south-south-east and Bad Sobernheim in the north-west. Obermoschel to additionally include the residential places Kahlforsterhof and Restaurant Waldhaus. Adjacent communities are - clockwise - Hallgarten , Niedermoschel , Sitters , Unkenbach , Lettweiler and Duchroth . Another neighboring community is Schiersfeld , located to the south .

Elevations and waters

The city is framed by the four mountains Steinhübel , Selberg , Moschellandsberg (also Landsberg or Schloßberg ) and Kahlforster Höhe .

The mosque flows through the city ​​in a west-east direction . On site the Unkenbach flows into this from the left .

history

Middle Ages and early modern times

In the Middle Ages, Obermoschel and the Landsburg belonged to the Counts of Veldenz , who both became fiefdoms from the Worms Monastery. The Veldenz family probably inherited this fiefdom from their ancestors, the Emichons , in the early 12th century . A place "Moschel" is first mentioned in 1112. Contrary to what is often assumed, this mention probably does not refer to Obermoschel, but to Niedermoschel . On September 7, 1349, Obermoschel was raised to town by King Charles IV and received market rights.

Text of the document: "The Stat ze Mosscheln under Landspurch with all the rights, freedoms and good habits, in all of the histories and whites, as dez Richs Stat ze Lutter (Kaiserslautern) blessed protégés of keysern and küngen, sinen voruarn at the Riche, and also from him is frozen, and when she had and brought the same right, freedom and habit biz here ".

After the Counts of Veldenz died out, Obermoschel and the Landsburg came to the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken in 1444 , where it remained until the end of the 18th century; there the city was subordinate to the Oberamt Meisenheim and the Amt Landsberg .

Since 1800

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Obermoschel was part of the Donnersberg department and the seat of the canton of the same name and the Mairie of the same name , which also included five other communities. In 1815 Obermoschel had 794 inhabitants. In the same year, Austria was struck. Then the place changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862, Waldfischbach was part of the Kirchheim Land Commissioner , which was then converted into a district office. In June 1849 Victor Schily organized the "first battalion of the Palatinate People's Army" in Obermoschel .

On December 1, 1900, Obermoschel moved to the newly created district office of Rockenhausen . From 1939 the city was part of the Rockenhausen district . In 1943 the silver-mercury ore moschellandsbergite (formerly hard silver ), known from the Middle Ages, was named and recognized after its place of discovery, Moschellandsberg. In 1984 an unknown mineral was found in the oven at the Moschellandsberg and in 1985 it was recognized by the IMA as moschelite . See also: List of mines in the Palatinate .

After the Second World War , Obermoschel became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , the city moved to the newly formed Donnersbergkreis in 1969 ; three years later, Obermoschel was incorporated into the newly created community of Alsenz-Obermoschel . On January 1, 2020, the city moved to the newly created Verbandsgemeinde Nordpfälzer Land .

religion

The portal stones of the synagogue built in 1844 and destroyed in 1938 are exhibited on the church square . The extensive ore processing facilities have all been removed down to the foundations. Only the prayer and colliery house of the "Combined Landsberger Mercury Works" from 1758 has been preserved.

politics

City council

Town hall and market square

The city ​​council in Obermoschel consists of 16 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the city council:

choice	CDU	Flat share 1	Flat share 2	WGR	WGB	total
2019	-	-	-	6th	10	16 seats
2014	by majority vote					16 seats
2009	4th	11	1	-	-	16 seats
2004	4th	9	3	-	-	16 seats

• WGR = Voter Group Ruppert
• WGB = Voting Group Beisiegel

Local mayor

Local mayor is Ralf Beisiegel. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was elected to his office with 57.30% of the vote. He is the successor to Holger Weirich, who after 15 years no longer ran for mayor.

coat of arms

	Reasons for the coat of arms: The coat of arms contains the scallop shell .

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

The Protestant Church on Kirchenplatz

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Obermoschel

The old town, the Jewish cemetery , the Carolina mercury mine and the Landsberg castle ruins are each designated as monument zones. The latter two are located on the Moschellandsberg.

Several old buildings have been preserved in the city. These include the town hall, built around 1510, as well as the old prison and the former district court. Next to the town hall is the Ratskeller restaurant, the oldest inn in the Northern Palatinate. A classic architectural monument of the Renaissance is the Schuck'sches Haus, one of the oldest houses in Rhineland-Palatinate. Only the Peterstürmchen from the 14th / 15th centuries remains of the old city wall. Century preserved.

The Protestant church was built from 1785 to 1789. The Catholic Church of the Assumption dates from 1866.

nature

There are a total of three natural monuments on site . In the north of the district there is also the menhir of Obermoschel .

Leisure and sports facilities

Various sports facilities are available to the residents of Obermoschel. This includes a sports field, a shooting club, several tennis courts as well as an indoor swimming pool and sauna in the Burg-Hotel Kreis. Various hiking and Nordic walking routes are signposted around the city. The Geo-Kulturpfad is located on Landsberg. There is also an educational wind trail, and the award-winning Palatinate High Trail runs through Obermoschel. The large multi-generation area is located in the valley floodplain towards Sitters.

Regular events

Every year on May 1st there is a hiking festival at the castle and a large medieval market on the 1st weekend in June . The Kerwe is always on the 2nd weekend in August and the wine festival on the historic market square on the 1st weekend in September. The big autumn market with Sunday shopping takes place on the second Sunday in October. The Christmas market is held around the market square on the 1st of Advent (Saturday and Sunday) .

Economy and Infrastructure

Viticulture

Vineyards on site

Obermoschel has a long winemaking tradition and belongs to the Nahe wine-growing region . Nowadays there are only a few winemakers left. The vines mostly grow on steep slopes that are difficult to manage, the volcanic slate soils of which give the wines a special character. There is an educational wine trail on the Selberg.

traffic

The local railway Alsenz-Obermoschel was opened on 1 October 1903 and connected it with Alsenz and the local alsenz valley railway . However, due to the low demand, the railway line was closed again in 1935. The closest train station is in Alsenz on the Alsenz Valley Railway .

The B 420 ( Nierstein - Ottweiler ) connects Obermoschel with the national road network.

Facilities

While it was part of France, the city was the seat of a peace court that was subordinate to the Tribunal of First Instance in Kaiserslautern . Until 1966, Obermoschel was also the seat of a local court . The city has a primary school and a kindergarten . The Rhineland-Palatinate regional association of the German Forest Protection Association runs an environmental academy on site.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Maximilian New
• Richard Müller (1861–1924), local poet

sons and daughters of the town

• Johann Schumacher (1812–1858), politician
• Emil Schandein (1840–1888), entrepreneur
• August Rauber (1841–1917), German anatomist
• Richard Müller (1861–1924), local poet
• Ludwig Eid (1865–1936), head of the Catholic teacher training institute in Speyer, knight of the Papal Order of St. New Year and Bavarian-Palatinate historian.
• Fritz Keiper (1881–1961), entrepreneur and founder of the Keiper company
• Ludwig Mader (1883–1956), philologist
• Otto Frank (1900–1963), politician (NSDAP, FDP)
• Otto Rumpf (1902–1984), sculptor
• Werner Hublitz (1926-2004), politician (SPD)

People who worked on site

• Philipp Heinrich Hellermann (1728–1806) designed the Protestant rectory
• Doris Schachner (1904–1988), namesake of the nearby Schachnerite

literature

• Rainer Schlundt (Ed.): 650 years Obermoschel 1349–1999 . Otterbach 1999, ISBN 3-87022-259-X .
• Friedrich Weber: Obermoschel. In: Ludwig Petry (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 5: Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 275). 3rd revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-520-27503-1 , pp. 273f.
• Karl Roth (ed.): Documents from the town of Obermoschel in the former county of Veldenz . Munich 1847, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10625491-1 .
• Literature about Obermoschel in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Obermoschel  - Collection of images

• Website about the city of Obermoschel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 89 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
4. ↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( information ), community boundaries can be activated.
5. ↑ Werner Vogt: Studies on the history of the city of Kreuznach and the neighboring territories in the early and high Middle Ages . Düsseldorf 1956, p. 163, 196 ff .
6. ↑ Eckhard Braun, Jürgen Keddigkeit, Michael Münch: The Moschellandsburg . 650 years of Obermoschel 1349–1999. Ed .: Rainer Schlundt. Otterbach 1999, p. 52-60, therein p. 52 and 59 .
7. ↑ Elfriede Salden-Lunkenheimer: The possessions of the Archdiocese of Mainz in the vicinity (=  local history series of publications of the Bad Kreuznach district . Volume 1 ). 2nd supplemented edition. Bad Kreuznach 1981, p. 67-69 u. 217 .
8. ^ Heinrich Gottfried Philipp Gengler: German city rights of the Middle Ages , 1866, page 330
9. ^ Johann Philipp Becker , Christian Esselen : History of the South German May Revolution of 1849. Geneva 1849. P. 306. Digitized
10. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local council election 2019 Obermoschel. Retrieved August 28, 2019 . 
11. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
12. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Nordpfälzer Land, Verbandsgemeinde, 20th line of results. Retrieved August 28, 2019 . 
13. ^ The Rhine Palatinate: Obermoschel: Mayor Weirich no longer appears. January 7, 2019, accessed August 28, 2019 . 
14. ^ Website of the UmweltAkademie Rheinland-Pfalz SDW