Rammelsbach

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

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '  N , 7 ° 27'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kusel
Association municipality :	Kusel-Altenglan
Height :	212 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.64 km 2
Residents:	1472 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	558 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66887
Area code :	06381
License plate :	KUS
Community key :	07 3 36 079
Association administration address:	Marktplatz 1 66869 Kusel
Website :	www.rammelsbach.de
Local Mayor :	Thomas Danneck
Location of the local community Rammelsbach in the Kusel district

The Rammelsbach Quarry (1998)

Aerial photo of Rammelsbach, 2009

Rammelsbach is a municipality in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Kusel-Altenglan .

geography

The place is in the Kuseler Musikantenland in the West Palatinate . To the west is Kusel , in the east Altenglan and south is Haschbach am Remigiusberg .

The residential areas Haus Menges, Kreuzhof, Rechenhäuschen and Schlichterhof also belong to Rammelsbach .

history

Finds from the younger Stone Age and Roman times indicate an early settlement of the place.

Rammelsbach belonged to the so-called Remigiusland and was first mentioned in a document from Count Heinrich II. Von Veldenz from 1364. In 1444, the County of Veldenz fell to Count Palatine Stephan , Rammelsbach has since belonged to Pfalz-Zweibrücken and until the end of the 18th century was subordinate to the Altenglan mayor in the Oberamt Lichtenberg .

After 1792 French revolutionary troops occupied the region and annexed it after the Peace of Campo Formio (1797) . From 1798 to 1814 Rammelsbach belonged to the French Saardepartement and was assigned to the canton of Cusel . Due to the agreements reached at the Congress of Vienna (1815) and an exchange contract with Austria , the region became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 . From 1818 the municipality of Rammelsbach was assigned to the Kusel regional commissioner in the Bavarian Rhine District, later to the Kusel district office, from which the Kusel district emerged in 1938 .

After the Second World War , the municipality within the French occupation zone became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate and belonged to the administrative district of Palatinate .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 290 1835 343 1871 574 1905 1,575 1939 2.006 1950 1,987

year Residents 1961 2,102 1970 2.139 1987 1,881 1997 1,869 2005 1,732 2019 1,472

politics

Municipal council

The council in Rammelsbach consists of 16 council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	LEFT	WGR	total
2019	by majority vote				16 seats
2014	-	-	2	14th	16 seats
2009	9	7th	-	-	16 seats
2004	9	7th	-	-	16 seats

mayor

Thomas Danneck became mayor of Rammelsbach on July 13, 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for another five years with a share of 91.53% of the votes.

Danneck's predecessor Xaver Jung had held the office for ten years.

Economy and Infrastructure

The industrial town is known for its 50 hectare melaphyr quarry , in which hard stones have been extracted and processed for over 100 years. Everyday work is illustrated in the quarry museum.

The place has a train station on the Landstuhl – Kusel railway line and is connected to the federal highway 420 , which leads to the A 62 motorway after 10 km .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Hartwig Bartz (1936–2001), modern jazz drummer
• Rudolf Bühler (* 1939), member of the state parliament in Baden-Württemberg
• Matthias Arnold (* 1968) was Germany's youngest choir director at the age of 14 and was named in the Guinness Book of Records or Book of Superlatives
• Dieter Niebergall (* 1950) Bundesliga referee, 1980/81 season to 1984/85 season, a total of 47 Bundesliga appearances

People who have worked in the community

• Xaver Jung (* 1962), member of the German Bundestag, was local mayor at times
• Hans Werner Moser (* 1965), Bundesliga football player and coach, played as a teenager at SV Rammelsbach.

literature

• Literature about Rammelsbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Rammelsbach  - Collection of Images

• Internet presence of the local community Rammelsbach
• Local community Rammelsbach on the website of the association community Kusel-Altenglan
• History of Rammelsbach on regionalgeschichte.net

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. 158 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ Wilhelm von der Nahmer: Handbuch des Rheinischen Particular-Rechts: Development of the territorial and constitutional relations of the German states on both banks of the Rhine: from the first beginning of the French Revolution up to the most recent times . tape 3 . Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1832, p. 325 ( online at Google Books ).
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ↑ New meeting point in the quarry village. Constitution of the municipal council 2014. Die Rheinpfalz, July 15, 2014, accessed on May 16, 2020 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Kusel-Altenglan, Verbandsgemeinde, 28th line of results. Retrieved May 15, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Wolfgang Pfeiffer: Now together. Die Rheinpfalz, February 15, 2014, accessed on May 16, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Tiefenbachstraße in Rammelsbach from the SWR Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed on March 28, 2014.