Queidersbach

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 22 '  N , 7 ° 38'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kaiserslautern
Association municipality :	Landstuhl
Height :	321 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.78 km 2
Residents:	2824 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	191 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66851
Area code :	06371
License plate :	KL
Community key :	07 3 35 037
Association administration address:	Kaiserstraße 49 66849 Landstuhl
Website :	queidersbach-pfalz.de
Local Mayor :	Ralph Simbgen ( CDU )
Location of the local community Queidersbach in the district of Kaiserslautern

Forest landscape at the transition from the Palatinate Forest to Sickinger Höhe on the Queidersbach district

Queidersbach is a municipality in the Kaiserslautern district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Landstuhl Association , within which it is the third largest local community in terms of both the number of inhabitants and the area. Its history goes back to the 10th century .

geography

location

The community is located 10 km southwest of Kaiserslautern in a natural meadow valley on the western edge of the Palatinate Forest , which merges into the Sickinger Höhe in this area . Almost two thirds of the 1500 hectare area is covered with forest. Queidersbach also includes the Forsthaus Stempelberg, Schweinstal and Zuckerhof residential areas . The neighboring communities are - clockwise - Bann , Kaiserslautern, Krickenbach , Linden , Weselberg and Obernheim-Kirchenarnbach .

Waters

The stream of the same name flows through Queidersbach , which is popularly known as the Steinalb. Its right tributary, Gabelsbach, forms the border to Weselberg and Linden in places. In the north-east of the district, the Hoheneckermühlbach forms the district boundary in places.

history

Local history

The community was first mentioned in a document in 976 when Emperor Otto II donated land on the Quideresbach to his vassal Biso .

Until the end of the 18th century, the village of Queidersbach belonged to the so-called Grand Court of Landstuhl , which was owned by the Barons von Sickingen of the line to Hohenburg. In 1794 the left bank of the Rhine was occupied in the First Coalition War.

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Queidersbach was incorporated into the canton of Landstuhl in the Donnersberg department and was the seat of a mairie that also included linden trees. Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna , the area first came to Austria in June 1815 and was ceded to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 on the basis of a state treaty . Under the Bavarian administration, Queidersbach belonged to the Landkommissariat Homburg im Rheinkreis from 1817 on , which was converted into a district office in 1862.

Since part of the district office - including Homburg itself - was added to the newly created Saar area in 1920 , the place moved to the district office of Kaiserslautern and was administered by a district office branch located in Landstuhl until 1938 . The community has been part of the Kaiserslautern district since 1939 . After the Second World War , Trippstadt became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate and the administrative district of Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , the place was incorporated into the newly created community of Kaiserslautern-Süd in 1972 .

In the competition Our village should become more beautiful, the municipality won the silver medal in 1977 and the bronze medal four years later. Queidersbach has been part of the new Landstuhl Association since July 1, 2019 , which arose from the merger of the old Landstuhl Association with the Kaiserslautern-Süd Association.

Surname

The place name is derived from the old German nickname "Quidhari". The name “Quidhari” is made up of the two components “quid” (= “to talk”) and “hari” (today's “army”). “Quidhari” therefore means “warriors” or “herald”. It should be noted that Germanic and old German names were usually put together arbitrarily and therefore do not always make a clear sense. A man named "Quidhari" gave the brook its name at this point, later a settlement was built there, which was named after the water. Queidersbach thus joins the group of numerous places that end in "-bach" and that arose everywhere in the western or northern Palatinate and far beyond at the time of the state expansion.

The place name established in the present is first mentioned in writing in 1535. Other traditional place names or spellings are: "Quideresbach" (976), "The court of Quidersbach" (1347), "Henze von Quidersbach" (1374), "Quiderspach" (1434), "Queiderspach" (1456), "Queyderßbach "(1457) and" Queidersbacher Hof "(1487).

population

Population development

The development of the population of Queidersbach, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year	Residents
1815	318
1835	647
1871	693
1905	960
1939	1,523
1950	1,709
1961	2,053

year	Residents
1970	2,311
1987	2,422
1997	2,814
2005	2,842
2011	2,815
2017	2,806
2019	2,824

religion

The Catholics belong to the Diocese of Speyer and are subordinate to the Dean's Office in Kaiserslautern , the Evangelicals to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate .

Queidersbach gained national fame in April 2020 when the Roman Catholic pastor Patrick Asomugha left. The Nigerian clergyman has been the target of a number of attacks over a long period of time. After a racially motivated death threat, he gave up his post as parish administrator of the local Catholic community. The Vicariate General of the Diocese of Speyer said about the process: "The concern for the protection and health of Pastor Asomugha makes this step inevitable."

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Queidersbach consists of 20 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	MfQ	total
2019	2	8th	7th	3	20 seats
2014	4th	7th	9	-	20 seats
2009	-	8th	12	-	20 seats
2004	1	8th	11	-	20 seats
1999	1	7th	12	-	20 seats

• FWG = Free Voter Group Queidersbach e. V.
• MfQ = Together for Queidersbach e. V.

mayor

Local mayor is Ralph Simbgen from the CDU. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with a share of the vote of 52.56 percent. His predecessor was Hedwig Füssel from the FWG, who held office until 2014.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In red a blue armored and tongued, gold-crowned silver lion, carrying a black shield with its front paws, in it five silver balls 2: 1: 2, covered by a golden crook placed at an angle to the left."
	Explanation of the coat of arms: The Bollen refer to the former membership of the Barons of Sickingen.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Listed Catholic Church of St. Antonius with rectory

Cultural monuments

In the village there are a total of six objects that are under monument protection , including the Catholic parish church of St. Antonius .

Museum Sickinger Höhe

For the millennium in 1976, the " Museum Sickinger Höhe " was created. The collection is housed in the old school house built in 1836. The history of the place is presented. Numerous exhibits testify to the life and work of the ancestors. Changing special exhibitions complement the permanent offer.

nature

The only natural monument in the village is the Falkenstein to the north of the development, which is a red sandstone rock. In addition, the nature reserve "Täler und Verlandungszone am Gelterswoog" is partly in the Queidersbach area. The part of the municipal park east of the Queidersbach is part of the Palatinate Forest Nature Park , which in turn belongs to the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord Biosphere Reserve .

regional customs

Queidersbach at the place on the feast of St. Gallus on October 16 following Sunday the church fete held on the second weekend in July, the cock hard, the second weekend of August, the village festival to Corpus Christi Corpus Christi and during the festive season of Antonius market.

Sports

The Katzenhalde ski area is located in the village and includes a lift and a total of 300 meter long slopes. There is also the RV Queidersbach on site .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Interior of a former restaurant in Queidersbach

Due to the geographic conditions, the forest and timber industry dominated the area for centuries. The local forest areas are subordinate to the Kaiserslautern Forestry Office , as is the forester's house Stempelberg, located in the northeastern municipal area .

The community also has a hotel, a guest house, restaurants, a kindergarten, schools, a pharmacy and doctors, the Ewoton music publisher and numerous retail outlets and craft businesses.

traffic

Queidersbach is located on Landesstraße 363, which runs from Landstuhl to Steinalben in a north-south direction . In the center of the village it crosses the state road 472 , which leads from Weselberg to Kaiserslautern.

The community is located 5 km west of the federal highway 270 running from Kaiserslautern to Waldfischbach-Burgalben ; It is two kilometers east of the federal motorway 62 running from Landstuhl to Pirmasens and 6 km south of the federal motorway 6 running from Kaiserslautern to Saarbrücken .

The public transport is in the since 2006 transport association Rhein-Neckar integrated (VRN), before that was the community since 2000 part of the West Palatinate Transport Association (WVV). There is also the N 4 night bus operated by SWK Stadtwerke Kaiserslautern Verkehrs-AG , which also leads to Bann and Hohenecken .

The next DB - railway stations are the Kaiserslautern central station , the breakpoint Kaiserslautern Hohenecken at the Biebermühl Railway and the railway stations Landstuhl and Schopp .

organization

The community belongs to the judicial district of the Kaiserslautern District Court .

education

There is a regional school in Queidersbach.

tourism

The Palatinate Forest Tour cycle path leads along the eastern edge of the settlement area and connects with Hinterweidenthal and Kaiserslautern. The Franconia-Hessen-Kurpfalz long-distance hiking trail marked with a red cross , the one with the so-called Saar-Rhine hiking trails marked with a black point on a white bar and one marked with a green-yellow bar run through the north-east of the district and which runs from Kirchheimbolanden to Hirschthal .

The Schweinstal Sculpture Trail , which in turn is part of the Rhineland-Palatinate Sculpture Trail , also partly leads through the east of the municipality.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Alois Schmitt (1940–2018), long-time mayor and member of the district council.

Born in Queidersbach

• Raimund Bayer (* 1950), politician (SPD)

Connected with Queidersbach

• Walter Becker (1932–2012), cyclist, died in Queidersbach
• Hieronymus Bock (1498–1554), known as Tragus, is said to have been born in Queidersbach - which has not been proven with certainty.
• Paul Falk (1921–2017), figure skater, Olympic champion in pair skating with Ria Baran , died in Queidersbach
• Jannick Geisler (* 1992), racing cyclist, took fifth place in the 2017 German cyclocross championship in the "Men Elite" age group
• Marco King (* 1995), cyclist, participated in the specifications for the RV Queidersbach 2013 UCI Road World Championships in part
• Felix Rehberger (* 1986), road cyclist, was German champion in road racing in the junior class in 2004
• Martin Schöneich (* 1955), sculptor created on site in 1986, the work procedure
• Elmar Wolf (1939–2006), music publisher and composer, ran a local music publisher
• Patrick Asomugha , a clergyman from Nigeria, worked in the village from 2017 to 2020. He left Queidenbach because of racist death threats.

Web links

Commons : Queidersbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Local community Queidersbach. In: Website of the Landstuhl Association. 
• Literature about Queidersbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, 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. 150 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved August 3, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Pastor from Nigeria leaves the Palatinate community after hostility. In: Zeit.de. April 17, 2020, accessed August 3, 2020 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: City Council Election 2019 Queidersbach. Retrieved November 1, 2019 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: 2014 Queidersbach municipal council election. Retrieved November 1, 2019 . 
7. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. Retrieved on November 1, 2019 (see Landstuhl, Verbandsgemeinde, tenth line of results). 
8. ↑ Obituary. In: Official Journal edition 15/2018. Verbandsgemeinde Kaiserslautern Süd, accessed on July 7, 2019 .