Ohmbach

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Ohmbach (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '  N , 7 ° 21'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kusel
Association municipality :	Upper Glantal
Height :	260 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.9 km 2
Residents:	796 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	204 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66903
Area code :	06386
License plate :	KUS
Community key :	07 3 36 076
Association administration address:	Rathausstrasse 8 66901 Schönenberg-Kübelberg
Website :	www.ohmbach.com
Local Mayor :	Gerhard purchase
Location of the local community Ohmbach in the Kusel district

Ohmbach is a municipality in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Upper Glantal .

geography

View of Ohmbach from "de Platt"

Ohmbach is about 260  m above sea level. NHN in the North Palatinate Uplands. The community is framed in the southwest and east by wooded heights such as the Wartenstein or the Knechtenberg. At 387  m, the latter is the highest point in the Ohmbach district.

The place is traversed by the Ohmbach of the same name . The next larger cities are Kaiserslautern about 35 km east and Saarbrücken about 40 km southwest.

The following municipalities border on the municipality of Ohmbach and - starting clockwise in the north - are all in the district of Kusel: Herschweiler-Pettersheim , Steinbach am Glan , Brücken (Pfalz) , Dittweiler , Altenkirchen (Pfalz) , Frohnhofen , Krottelbach .

history

Early history

Ohmbach developed from the originally independent communities of Ober- and Niederohmbach (formerly Weitersbach).

Both villages are of Franconian origin and were probably built in the 7th and 8th centuries. The two places were probably named after the elders of the clan, so Witharisbach after Witharis , from which Weitersbach later developed, and Ohmbach after Bach des Ovo and Bach des Obo . Over the centuries this became 977 Ovenbach or Ouenbach, 1256 Ovinbach, 1410 Obinbach, 1477 Obenbach, 1585 Ombach and, since 1592, today's Ohmbach. It should be noted that the different spellings are due to the ignorance of princely writers. Ernst Christmann derives the name from the Old High German auwa , Middle High German ouwe , New High German Aue , and interprets it as a stream flowing through floodplains .

The first inhabitants of the landscape were probably the Celts. Burial mounds from them can be found in Wahnwegen, Krottelbach and Ohmbach.

In addition to Celtic burial mounds, there are also Roman settlements in the district of Ohmbach. Excavations from the 20th century on the Rennweiler hill brought out walls, fragments of architecture and even terra sigillata . The remains of the structure are located directly adjacent to a Roman road that connected Waldmohr with Kusel and crossed the Ohmbach valley here.

Documentary mention

First documentary mention of Ohmbach

Oberohmbach was first officially known as Ouenbach on April 12, 977 . In the certificate of Emperor Otto II., At the request of the Archbishop of Mainz Willigis, the possession of the Salvatorkapelle in Frankfurt am Main was confirmed. Archbishop Willigis arranged for the reconstruction of the Disibodenberg monastery in 975/976 and various donations from Mainz property for its entertainment. This document has not survived, however, the content can be found in later documents from 1108 and 1128.

To 1900

Roman god relief from the Ohmbach church wall

In 1256, Count Gerlach V. von Veldenz bought the goods of the Disibodenberg monastery, including tithes, interest and patronage rights of the church in Ovinbach. 1444, with the extinction of the male line of the Veldenz counts, Ovinbach came by inheritance to the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken . Weitersbach belonged to the Reichsland until 1437, which came to the Electoral Palatinate after changing seizures . This territorial affiliation of both places has remained unchanged for over 300 years. In 1612, the Electoral Palatinate and Pfalz-Zweibrücken agreed in the Landau Treaty to share the income from the assets of the Ohmbach Church, whose real estate was in the districts of both communities, and to give half of the money and grain to the Collectur and half to the Kirchschaffnei Lichtenberg to deliver.

In the Thirty Years War, Ohmbach and its two districts were largely destroyed. From Ohmbach it says in a tax book of the former mayor Hans Müller: Nothing has been built since 1628 and nobody lives there . In 1673 the Palatinate was occupied by the troops of the French King Louis XIV. In 1779 Niederohmbach fell to Pfalz-Zweibrücken by exchanging the sub-office of Kübelberg in the Electoral Palatinate . In 1793 the French revolutionary army conquered the area. In the newly formed Sarre department , the two places were merged for the first time to form the Commune d'Ohmbach . From 1616 Ohmbach was Bavarian . In 1838 Ober-Ohmbach applied to dissolve the Ohmbach municipal association. This separation had existed for almost 100 years. An attempt by the Nieder-Ohmbacher to reunite the two communities in 1877 failed due to the protest of the Oberohmbacher. The reason for this was the fear of the predominantly Protestant Oberohmbach, after the unification of the places that Catholics would use their majority in municipal elections and thus silence the Protestants.

Because of the bad economic and social situation in the Palatinate and because of the special political conditions, many Ohmbachers also put their only hope in emigration to America. From 1841 to 1854, 30 family and individual applications for emigration were made, which corresponds to about 50 people; that was ten percent of the Ohmbach population.

20th century

The First World War claims great sacrifices. The communities mourn 16 deaths. In 1936 Ohmbach was merged again by decree of the National Socialist government. The Second World War left 48 dead and 25 missing.

After the Second World War it became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Now a profound social change also occurred in Ohmbach. The community, which at the beginning of the 20th century mainly consisted of miners and smaller farmers and craftsmen, in addition to a few larger horse farmers, now became an industrial workers' community. The small agricultural part-time businesses were gradually given up in the 50s and 60s.

The Rennweiler new building area was developed and developed in 1955. In 1957, in the Gewanne in the courtyards , the first large new building area was built parallel to the main street on the eastern bank of Ohmbach. The new development areas at Hühnerberg and Laimersbach have been developed since the 1960s . In 1970, after a long effort, the Catholics got their own modern church.

For the 1000th anniversary in 1977, a five-day festival program with a large historical pageant was organized. A new kindergarten was built in the 1990s.

Population development

The independent development of the communities Niederohmbach and Oberohmbach also resulted in their own statistics on the number of inhabitants.

year Niederohmbach Oberohmbach total 1477 - - 70 1592 - 40 - 1609 - 55 - 1628 0 0 - 1656 10 - - 1675 - 25th - 1768 52 - - 1774 66 - - 1787 59 - - 1802 - - 174 1838 171 290 461 1846 - - 522 1852 185 307 492 1867 211 314 525

year Niederohmbach Oberohmbach total 1875 195 318 513 1890 188 336 524 1900 189 336 524 1910 199 330 529 1925 254 439 693 1938 - - 728 1950 - - 712 1961 - - 836 1970 - - 837 1980 - - 788 1990 - - 830 2000 - - 728 2005 - - 910 2010 - - 886 2015 - - 816

religion

The state border between the Electorate of Palatinate and the Duchy of Zweibrücken, which has been running across Ohmbach along the Weitersbach (also called Betzenbach) since medieval times, was not only the political but also the ecclesiastical development of the two districts separate. Oberohmbach was predominantly Protestant, Niederohmbach Catholic. In 2012 around 40% of the population were Catholic and 43% Protestant. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational.

Evangelical Christ Church

The Protestant church is the oldest building in Ohmbach from the 9th century. From 1779 to 1785 the nave of the Romanesque church was replaced by a baroque hall church due to its disrepair. The medieval tower was preserved in the basic principles. The church is home to what is probably the oldest silent organ in the Kusel district.

Catholic Church of Our Lady

The Catholic church was built in 1969/70 and inaugurated on October 18, 1970, the day of the Ohmbacher Kerwe. The church rises as a counterpoint to the old Protestant church above the Ohmbachtalaue. In 2014 the church became the property of the local parish. This now uses the lower church as a community center, known as the “Heimat- und Kulturtreff”. This is one of the rare cases in the Federal Republic of Germany in which a church building becomes the property of a commune, but the worship room and the worship service are retained.

politics

Community leaders

Heads of Niederohmbach 1762: Stephan Michael, mayor 1762: Summer Balthasar, headmaster 1767–1789: Groß Phillip, Lord Mayor 1767: Kirsch Wilhelm, headmaster 1797: Schramm Johannes, headmaster 1840–1848: Kirsch Jakob, adjunct 1850–1866: Sommer Jakob, adjunct 1869–1870: Farmer Jakob, adjunct 1871–1872: Kuhn Jakob, adjunct 1872–1874: Schuck Jakob, adjunct 1875–1884: Brewer Sebastian, adjunct 1884–1889: Schuck Jakob, adjunct 1890–1910: Straßer Paul, adjunct 1910–1918: Jung Jakob, adjunct 1918–1930: Jung Jakob, 2nd mayor 1930–1933: Hemmer Johann, 2nd mayor 1933–1936: Summer Johann, 2nd mayor

Heads of Oberohmbach 1840: Dauber, adjunct 1841–1843: Ludwig Jakob, adjunct 1844–1848: Becker Daniel, adjunct 1849–1857: Dauber, adjunct 1858–1874: Becker Daniel, adjunct 1874–1875: Ludwig Jakob, adjunct 1899–1904: Ohliger Jakob, adjunct 1904–1909: Daniel Jakob, adjunct 1909–1918: Kurz Johann, adjunct 1918–1933: Hartmuth Karl, 2nd mayor 1933–1936: Müller Adolf, 2nd mayor

Heads of Ohmbach 1819–1828: Dauber, Abraham, adjunct 1829–1834: Lensch Johannes, adjunct 1835–1838: Pfaff Peter, adjunct 1838–1840: Dauber, adjunct 1936–1945: Müller Adolf, 1st alderman 1945–1946: Briefly August, acting mayor 1946–1948: Becker Ludwig, 1st alderman 1948–1952: Huber Richard, 1st alderman 1952–1956: Hanß Willibald, 1st alderman 1956–1964: Spang Rudolf, 1st alderman 1964–1969: Heinz Oswald, 1st alderman 1969–1974: Meier Stefan, 1st alderman 1974–1979: Karl Kauf, local mayor 1979–1999: Jacquard Willi, local mayor 1999–2004: Körbel Karl-Heinz, local mayor 2004–2019: Mayer Jochen, local mayor since 2019: Purchase of Gerhard, local mayor

Gerhard Kauf became local mayor of Ohmbach on August 16, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 67.79% of the vote.

Municipal council

The local council in Ohmbach consists of twelve council members who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman. Until 2009, the council members were elected in a personalized proportional representation.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	by majority vote			12 seats
2014	by majority vote			12 seats
2009	4th	7th	1	12 seats
2004	3	7th	2	12 seats

coat of arms

Split by black and gold, on the right a red-armored and tongued golden lion, on the left a growing, left-curved red abbot, covered by a blue wavy bar below. Ohmbach and its two districts belonged to the Electoral Palatinate in the Old Kingdom, which is expressed by the left half of the shield and the shield colors. The church used to belong to the Disibodenberg monastery, which is what the crook stands for. The wavy bar indicates the Ohmbach corresponding to the place name. This coat of arms was approved by the Rheinhessen-Palatinate district government in 1971.

Culture and sights

Watch tower

View of Ohmbach from the watch tower

Watch tower

The Ohmbacher watch tower was built in 2005 a little below the 375.8  m above sea level southwest of Ohmbach in the district of Dittweiler . NHN high Wartenstein and serves as a lookout point. The 8.2 m high tower is part of the "Walk-in History Book", which leads through the community of Schönenberg-Kübelberg with three circular hiking trails and many sights.

See also : List of cultural monuments in Ohmbach

Clubs and associations

Leisure club Volunteer firefighter Fire department support association Youth fire brigade Catholic women's community Kindergarten Friends' Association Country Women's Association

Fruit garden nature and culture association Pensioners' Association Reservist fellowship Sports club Sports club sponsoring association Chess club Gymnastics club

Economy and Infrastructure

The state road 350, which connects Konken with bridges , runs through Ohmbach . The A 6 runs south- east and the A 62 to the north-east . In Glan-Münchweiler there is a train station on the Landstuhl – Kusel railway line . Südwest Mobil GmbH bus lines connect Ohmbach with the Homburg and Kusel train stations .

literature

• Literature about Ohmbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Ohmbach  - Collection of Images

• Website of the local community Ohmbach
• Local community Ohmbach on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Oberes Glantal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Ernst Christmann: The settlement names of the Palatinate . Speyer 1952, p. 449
3. ↑ Nils Bantelmann: The prehistory of the Kusel district. Speyer 1972, p. 57
4. ^ Ruthardurkunde, in Mainzer Urkundenbuch, Die Urkunde up to the death of Archbishop Adalbert I (1137). Edited by Manfred Stimming, Darmstadt 1932, doc. 436, p. 342
5. ^ Adalberturkunde, Manfred Stimming, MUB Vol. 1, Doc. 553, p. 461
6. ^ Local council Ohmbach elects three councilors. Die Rheinpfalz, August 19, 2019, accessed on May 8, 2020 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Oberes Glantal, Verbandsgemeinde, 16th line of results. Retrieved May 8, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Local election Rhineland-Palatinate 2019, local council
9. ↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
10. ↑ Wartturm Ohmbach on warttuerme.de.
11. ↑ New line network for bus traffic in the Kusel district. (No longer available online.) In: www.vrn.de. Archived from the original on May 19, 2016 ; Retrieved July 6, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.