Schwedelbach

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kaiserslautern
Association municipality :	Weilerbach
Height :	258 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.4 km 2
Residents:	1066 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	127 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67685
Area code :	06374
License plate :	KL
Community key :	07 3 35 043
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Rummelstrasse 15 ; 67685 Weilerbach
Website :	www.schwedelbach.de
Local Mayor :	Henning slotted spoon ( SPD )
Location of the local community of Schwedelbach in the Kaiserslautern district

Landscape within the district of Schwedelbach

Schwedelbach is a municipality in the Kaiserslautern district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Weilerbach .

geography

Schwedelbach is located 14 km northwest of Kaiserslautern on the southern edge of the North Palatinate Uplands . The district of Pörrbach belongs to the local community of Schwedelbach. The Rischbach flows through the middle of the municipality .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1342. Until the end of the 18th century, Schwedelbach belonged to the Electoral Palatinate .

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , was the place was in Canton Landstuhl incorporated Mairie Reichenbach . In 1815 the place had 350 inhabitants. In the same year, Austria was struck. A year later he moved to the Kingdom of Bavaria . In 1817 the community moved to the canton of Kaiserslautern. From 1818 to 1862, Schwedelbach was a member of the Kaiserslautern regional commissioner ; from this the district office of Kaiserslautern emerged.

The community has been part of the Kaiserslautern district since 1939 . After the Second World War , Olsbrücken became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform , the place was added to the newly created community of Weilerbach in 1972 . On March 16, 1974, the previously independent municipality of Pörrbach was incorporated into Schwedelbach.

politics

Municipal council

The municipality council in Schwedelbach 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 municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	8th	1	7th	16 seats
2014	9	2	5	16 seats
2009	9	3	4th	16 seats
2004	9	3	4th	16 seats

FWG = Free Voting Group Schwedelbach e. V.

mayor

Henning Schaumlöffel (SPD) is the local mayor of Schwedelbach. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected with a share of 71.83% of the vote and is the successor to Dieter Hirsch (SPD), who had not run again after 20 years in office.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In gold a blue diagonal wave bar, at the top left an upright blue ploughshare, at the bottom right a green fir branch with a green cone."

Culture

Cultural monuments

Listed Catholic Church

There are a total of six objects on site that are listed .

nature

There are two natural monuments in the municipality .

Association

In Schwedelbach there is the dialect and popular sports club "Pälzer Sandhase", which organizes its annual popular hike in June.

media

In the US action comedy Knight and Day , the place name Schwedelbach appears in a scene when Fitzgerald is on the way to Ramstein . However, the scene was not shot in Schwedelbach, but in Grödig near Salzburg .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

The place itself is justified at the Reichswald .

traffic

Memorial at the former Schwedelbach station

rail

From 1920 to 1972 Schwedelbach was connected to the rail network via the so-called Bachbahn , which ran from the Lampertsmühle-Otterbach station to Reichenbach.

The station was on the southern outskirts of Schwedelbach. After ticket sales at the station had been given up in 1962, it took place in the private house of the employee previously responsible at the station. There was a goods shed right next to the reception building. In the 1950s, Schwedelbach was no longer an independent freight tariff point, but officially only a siding. 1983 ended the service of the station in freight traffic.

Street

The public transport in the transport association Rhein-Neckar integrated (VRN). State road 367 , which runs from Altenglan to Rodenbach, and state road 369 , which leads to Kaiserslautern and Eßweiler, run through the middle of Schwedelbach . The county road 13 connects to Weilerbach. The community is connected to the motorway network by the A 6 (junction: Kaiserslautern-West).

tourism

The Palatinate Country Cycle Path runs through Schwedelbach .

Personalities

Dieter Hirsch, owner of the Freiherr vom Stein plaque since 2013

literature

Gerold Scheuermann : Schwedelbach with the district of Pörrbach. 1342-1992. Schwedelbach 1991

Web links

Commons : Schwedelbach - Collection of Images

Official website of the local community of Schwedelbach
Literature about Schwedelbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

↑ 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. 195 (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.
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal Council Election 2019 Schwedelbach. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Weilerbach, Verbandsgemeinde, sixth result line. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).