Ramstein-Miesenbach
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Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ' N , 7 ° 33' E |
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State : | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
County : | Kaiserslautern | |
Association municipality : | Ramstein-Miesenbach | |
Height : | 238 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 43.02 km 2 | |
Residents: | 7930 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 184 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postcodes : | 66877, 66851 | |
Area code : | 06371 | |
License plate : | KL | |
Community key : | 07 3 35 038 | |
City structure: | 2 districts | |
Association administration address: | Am Neuen Markt 6 66877 Ramstein-Miesenbach |
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City Mayor : | Ralf Hechler ( CDU ) | |
Location of the city of Ramstein-Miesenbach in the Kaiserslautern district | ||
Ramstein-Miesenbach is a Rhineland-Palatinate city in the Kaiserslautern district and the administrative seat of the association of the same name , to which it also belongs. Ramstein-Miesenbach is a state-approved tourist resort and designated as a medium-sized center according to state planning .
The district of Ramstein gained national fame through the Ramstein Air Base, which is located in its district, and through the flight conference accident there in 1988.
From June 26 to 28, 2015, Ramstein-Miesenbach was the venue for the 2015 Rhineland-Palatinate Day .
geography
Geographical location
Ramstein-Miesenbach is about 15 kilometers west of Kaiserslautern on the edge of the Palatinate Forest biosphere reserve .
Landscape image
South of Ramstein lies the West Palatinate Moorniederung . Peat was extracted here in the 19th century. The Mohrbach flows through Ramstein-Miesenbach and flows into the Glan at Glan-Münchweiler .
City structure
Ramstein-Miesenbach is divided into two districts, which include a number of residential areas and hamlets :
- District Miesenbach : 2147 inhabitants, 591 hectares of municipal area, with the residential areas Dansenbergerhof, Hebenhübelerhof, Langdellerhof, Rundwieserhof and Trifthof
- Ramstein district : 5613 inhabitants, 3710 hectares of municipal area, with the residential areas Am Elteweg, Am Köhlwäldchen, Am Wackenberg, An der Schwarzbach, motorway maintenance facility Ramstein im Wart, Breuntaler Hof, hunting lodge, forester's lodge Kindsbach, Kingdom, Langgewannerhof, Forsthaus Mackenbach, dairy, Moordammühle and Brick hut
history
Ramstein was first mentioned in a document from Emperor Friedrich II in 1215. The certificate transfers the patronage over the parish church of Ramstein and the daughter parishes of Weilerbach and Spesbach to Reinhard von Lautern. In 1253 the patronage came to the Teutonic Order Commandery in Einsiedeln . Miesenbach is first mentioned in 1255. A Johannes von Ramstein is documented in 1366 as a ministerial of Count von Veldenz . Later in the 14th century, Ramstein was integrated into the Electoral Palatinate . Ramstein became a court and administrative district in the Electoral Palatinate, Miesenbach belonged to the Steinrechen court .
In the Thirty Years' War the place was abandoned and only repopulated in 1684. The Palatinate court district of Ramstein existed until the French invaded in 1793. From 1798 to 1814 Ramstein belonged to the canton of Landstuhl . In the late 19th century the textile industry settled in the village and the farming village gradually transformed into a working class community. By 1900 the population was around 2000 people.
In 1951 the Ramstein Air Base was built, which is now the largest US base in Europe . The air base in Ramstein originally used part of the Mannheim-Saarbrücken motorway as a flight runway. The German Wehrmacht set up an airfield on this stretch of motorway as early as World War II . The eastern and western entrances to this airbase were the former motorway. The latter approach is still shown on the maps as a closed motor vehicle road. The airbase is the seat of the "435th Air Base Wing" and the heavy air transport unit "86th Airlift Wing", which also provides tanker aircraft. The American air forces in Europe are commanded from here.
On August 28, 1988, during an air show by the Frecce Tricolori aerobatic team, an accident occurred at the airbase in which 70 people died and 345 were injured.
The municipality of Ramstein-Miesenbach was newly formed on June 7, 1969 from the municipalities of Ramstein and Miesenbach, which were dissolved in the course of the regional reform . On April 5, 1991 it was granted city rights .
religion
In 2015, 41.2 percent of the population were Catholic and 26.9 percent Protestant . The remainder belonged to another religion or were non-denominational . The Catholics belong to the Diocese of Speyer , the Evangelicals to the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate .
politics
City council
The city council in Ramstein-Miesenbach consists of 24 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary city mayor as chairman.
The distribution of seats in the city council:
choice | SPD | CDU | FWG | total |
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2019 | 4th | 15th | 5 | 24 seats |
2014 | 5 | 13 | 6th | 24 seats |
2009 | 5 | 14th | 5 | 24 seats |
2004 | 5 | 15th | 4th | 24 seats |
- FWG: Free voter group City of Ramstein-Miesenbach e. V.
mayor
Mayor of Ramstein-Miesenbach is Ralf Hechler (CDU). In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with a vote of 86.13%.
coat of arms
Blazon : “In gold a rising, curved black tip, inside a looking red-armored and tongued golden lion, with the front paws encompassing a square, upright silver stone, top right a blue imperial orb with a golden trefoil cross and bow, top left a blue knight's helmet. "
It was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1973 and combines the figures of the historical coats of arms of Ramstein and Miesenbach. |
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Justification of the coat of arms: The Palatinate Lion also reminds of the former affiliation of both places to the Electoral Palatinate . |
Twin cities
Culture and sights
Theater performances, concerts and cabaret by various artists take place regularly as guest performances in the town house of the citizen .
In the Ramstein district, the Westrich carnival parade takes place every year on Shrove Tuesday .
The townscape is characterized by medieval buildings, especially in the townscape of Ramstein. There is a Protestant and a Catholic church.
Economy and Infrastructure
Authorities
As the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde , the city houses its administration.
traffic
The public transport in the transport association Rhein-Neckar integrated. Ramstein-Miesenbach has two train stops, one in Ramstein and one in Miesenbach, on the Landstuhl – Kusel railway line , and there is a connection in Landstuhl towards Saarbrücken and Mannheim .
Ramstein-Miesenbach is connected to the motorway network by the federal motorways 6 with the Ramstein-Miesenbach junction and 62 with the Hütschenhausen junction.
Industry
Ramstein has a large industrial area in which numerous companies are located. It is located outside the city on the road towards Hütschenhausen / Spesbach. The industrial area bears the name "Westrich". The wood processing company Rettenmeier operates a plant here.
education
The city is home to the Reichswaldgymnasium , whose catchment area is very large. In addition, there is the Wendelinus elementary school and a Realschule plus , formerly a dual secondary school , in Ramstein .
The municipal library, which is housed in the citizen's house, loaned out around 35,000 items in 2004.
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Richard Mund (1885–1968), impressionist painter
- Adolf Müller (1886–1974), lawyer
- Edgar John (1913–1996), artist
- Lothar Bossle (1929–2000), university professor for sociology in Würzburg
- Berthold Budell (1929–2010), politician (CDU), 1984–1985 Minister for the Environment of the Saarland
- Michael Weber (* 1959), computer scientist, President of Ulm University since 2015
- Andreas Hilbert (1966–2019), business IT specialist
People who worked on site
- Markus Conrad , from 1997 to 1999 chairman of the local JU
- Rolf Meyer , from 1970 to 1972 contract soldier in Ramstein
- Jakob Knauber , parish administrator in Ramstein
- Nicole Kneller , comes from the location
- Johannes Kriebitzsch , painted the glasses of the Ramsteiner St.-Nikolaus-Kiurche
- Vincent Kympat , Indian bishop, took over a vacation replacement in Ramstein between 1986 and 1989
- Hans Müller , died on the spot
- Victor E. Renuart junior , worked at Ramstein Air Base from 1984 to 1986
Web links
- Website of the city and the municipality of Ramstein-Miesenbach
- The town hall of Ramstein
- Literature about Ramstein-Miesenbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate : Regional data.
- ↑ State Chancellery Rhineland-Palatinate : Over 30 years of the Rhineland-Palatinate Day - a success story continues. Retrieved July 21, 2015 .
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 96 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
- ↑ a b City of Ramstein-Miesenbach: Information from the residents' registration office as of December 31, 2015 . Retrieved August 18, 2016.
- ^ City of Ramstein-Miesenbach: From history.
- ↑ a b Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 176 (PDF; 2.8 MB; city: see p. 187).
- ↑ Central Integration System Ewois new: community statistics.
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: City Council Election 2019 Ramstein-Miesenbach. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections.
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Ramstein-Miesenbach, Verbandsgemeinde, fourth line of results. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
- ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
- ↑ Westrich Carnival Parade in Ramstein - Find events. In: Veranstaltungenfind.com. January 29, 2012, accessed February 13, 2018 .