Oberschlettenbach

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Oberschlettenbach
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Coordinates: 49 ° 9 '  N , 7 ° 52'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Southern Wine Route
Association municipality : Bad Bergzabern
Height : 250 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.58 km 2
Residents: 140 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 31 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 76889
Area code : 06398
License plate : SOUTH
Community key : 07 3 37 060
Association administration address: Königstrasse 61
76887 Bad Bergzabern
Website : www.oberschlettenbach.de
Local Mayor : Christian Burkhart
Location of the local community Oberschlettenbach in the southern Weinstrasse district
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The village of Oberschlettenbach

Oberschlettenbach is a municipality in the southern Weinstrasse district in Rhineland-Palatinate , within which it is the smallest municipality in terms of population. It belongs to the Bad Bergzabern community .

geography

location

The place Oberschlettenbach is a forest community and is located in Wasgau , as the southern part of the Palatinate Forest and the adjoining northern part of the Vosges are also called, in the middle of the Dahner Felsenland , which in turn belongs to the Dahn-Annweiler Felsenland . Oberschlettenbach to additionally include the residential places Bühlhof the west and Hahnenhof are Osten.Nachbargemeinden - clockwise - Schwanheim , Darstein , Vorderweidenthal and Busenberg .

Elevations and waters

The Erlenbach flows through the municipal area in a north-south direction and takes in the Kleisterbach from the right . At the district triangle to Busenberg and Vorderweidenthal is the 447.6  m high Puhlstein with its Buhlstein pillars , on the border to Busenberg the Löffelsberg ( 445  m ) and on the border to Schwanheim the Haselberg .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1313 as Slethebach . He belonged to the Lindelbrunn rule and thus to the sphere of influence of the Leininger .

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Oberschlettenbach was incorporated into the canton of Annweiler and was the seat of its own mairie , which at the time also included Darstein, Dimbach and Vorderweidenthal. In 1815 the community had a total of 202 inhabitants. In the same year, Austria was struck. Just one year later, the place, like the entire Palatinate, changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 Ober-Schlettenbach belonged - as it was spelled at the time - to the Land Commissioner Bergzabern ; from this the district office Bergzabern emerged.

From 1939 the place was part of the Bergzabern district . After the Second World War , Oberschlettenbach became part of the Palatinate government district of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . During the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform changed the place on 7 June 1969 in the newly created district Landau-Bad Bergzabern, in 1978 in South County Wine Trail is renamed . 1972 Oberschlettenbach was assigned to the also newly formed community of Bad Bergzabern .

religion

The Catholics belong to the Diocese of Speyer and are subordinate to the Landau deanery , the Evangelicals to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate . At the end of 2013, 50.7 percent of the population were Protestant and 14.2 percent Catholic. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational.

politics

In federal elections, the community has been part of the Südpfalz constituency since 1965 (until 1983: Landau constituency ) , before that until 1961 it was part of the Zweibrücken constituency . In state elections, Vorderweidenthal has been part of the Südliche Weinstrasse constituency since 1991 .

Municipal council

Parish hall

The council in Oberschlettenbach consists of six council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

mayor

Christian Burkhart became the local mayor of Oberschlettenbach on June 22, 2016, after having been the first alderman since 2015. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for another five years with a share of the vote of 87.95 percent. His predecessor Peter Vollmöller, elected by the council in July 2014, resigned from office on September 7, 2015 due to his departure from the community.

In the previous electoral term, the mayor, who had been in office since 2004 , Walter Hunsicker, resigned in 2012. Then three attempts to choose a successor by primary election failed. At the beginning of 2014, the local council elected Karl Walter as local mayor, who had previously been in charge of official affairs as an alderman. Walter did not run again in the 2014 local elections .

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Oberschlettenbach
Blazon : "Split by a wavy line of blue and silver, on the right a red-armored silver eagle, on the left above a blue lily with a golden whorl an octagonal blue chapel."
Foundation for the coat of arms: It was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1982 . The eagle reminds of the earlier rights of the Leininger.

Partnerships

A partnership has been maintained with Geiswiller in Alsace , part of the municipality of Geiswiller-Zœbersdorf , since 1993 .

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

Listed courtyard

The town center is designated as a monument zone . In addition, there are a total of eleven individual objects that are under monument protection .

nature

The community is located in the Palatinate Forest Nature Park , which in turn belongs to the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord biosphere reserve . The only natural monument on site is the Rödelstein . In addition, the place is part of the climbing area Südpfalz and belongs there to the Vorderweidenthaler area .

Regular events

The annual Kerwe takes place regularly on the first weekend in September.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Due to the geographic conditions, the forest and timber industry dominated the area for centuries. The local forest areas that are part of the Annweiler Forest are subordinate to the Annweiler Forestry Office .

traffic

District road 9 within Oberschlettenbach

Oberschlettenbach is connected to the local transport network via the bus line 525 of the Rhein-Neckar transport association, which leads to Bad Bergzabern and Annweiler am Trifels. From May to October there is also bus line 532, which is primarily used for excursions. The closest train station is Bad Bergzabern .

The state road 490 leads past the residential area Hahnenhof on the eastern edge of the village and connects it with Niederschlettenbach and Annweiler am Trifels . From this the Kreisstraße 9 branches off , which leads into the town center.

tourism

The so-called “ Klingbach Cycle Path ” runs right through the settlement area , which starts in Dahn and leads via Klingenmünster to Hördt and a hiking path marked with a yellow-red bar that connects to the Wellbachtal and Rülzheim . A hiking trail, marked with a blue-yellow bar , leads through the west of the district and runs from Lauterecken to Sankt Germanshof . The place is also a stop for Tour 13 of the Palatinate Forest Mountain Bike Park , which starts in Dahn.

dish

The community belongs to the judicial district of the Landau District Court and is looked after by its branch in Bad Bergzabern.

Web links

Commons : Oberschlettenbach  - Collection of Images

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 (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 160 (PDF; 3 MB).
  3. KommWis, as of December 31, 2013
  4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  5. a b Everything boils down to Burkhart. Die Rheinpfalz, June 21, 2016, accessed on April 22, 2020 .
  6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Bad Bergzabern, Verbandsgemeinde, 17th line of results. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
  7. Oberschlettenbach: No OB candidate found. Die Rheinpfalz, October 29, 2015, accessed on April 22, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Local chief right at the first attempt. Die Rheinpfalz, July 5, 2014, accessed on April 22, 2020 .
  9. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .