Riedelberg

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 11 '  N , 7 ° 27'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southwest Palatinate
Association municipality :	Zweibrücken-Land
Height :	317 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.23 km 2
Residents:	468 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	89 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66484
Area code :	06339
License plate :	PS , ZW
Community key :	07 3 40 221
Association administration address:	Landauer Strasse 18-20 66482 Zweibrücken
Website :	www.riedelberg.com
Local Mayor :	Christian Black
Location of the local community Riedelberg in the district of Südwestpfalz

View from the north-west of Riedelberg

Riedelberg is a municipality in the Südwestpfalz district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Zweibrücken-Land .

geography

Riedelberg is located directly on the French border. The place is in the Zweibrücken hill country roughly in the center of a triangle, with the cities of Zweibrücken in the west, Pirmasens in the east and the French Bitche in the south forming the corner points. All three locations are approximately 15 km away.

The residential areas Riedelbergermühle and Jakobshof belong to Riedelberg.

history

middle Ages

The oldest surviving mention of Riedelberg comes from 1295. The village of Riedelberg was in the Lemberg office of the County of Zweibrücken-Bitsch and there in the Riedelberg official school of the same name .

Early modern age

Count Jakob von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* 1510; † 1570) died in 1570 as the last male member of his family. The Lemberg office was inherited by his daughter, Ludovica Margaretha von Zweibrücken-Bitsch , who was married to the (heir) Count Philipp (V) von Hanau-Lichtenberg . Her father-in-law, Count Philipp IV. Von Hanau-Lichtenberg , gave the strict Roman Catholic Duke Karl III by immediately introducing the Lutheran creed . of Lorraine, the opportunity to intervene militarily, as the latter had suzerainty over the Bitsch rule, which was also part of the inheritance . In July 1572 Lorraine troops occupied the county. Since Philip IV was unable to cope with the overwhelming power of Lorraine, he chose the legal route. In the subsequent process before the Imperial Court of Justice, Lorraine was able to prevail with regard to the Bitsch rule, while the Lemberg office - and thus also Riedelberg - was awarded to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg .

1736 died with Count Johann Reinhard III. the last male representative of the Hanau family. Due to the marriage of his only daughter, Charlotte (* 1700; † 1726), with the Hereditary Prince Ludwig (VIII.) (* 1691; † 1768) of Hesse-Darmstadt , the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg fell there.

Modern times

After 1792 French revolutionary troops occupied the region and annexed it after the Peace of Campo Formio (1797) . From 1798 to 1814 the village belonged to the French department of Donnersberg and was assigned to the canton of Neuhornbach . 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 Riedelberg was assigned to the Zweibrücken regional commissioner in the Bavarian Rhine district , later to the Zweibrücken district office, from which the Zweibrücken district emerged in 1938 . Since 1972 Riedelberg has belonged to the then newly formed community of Zweibrücken-Land and since 1997 to the district of Südwestpfalz .

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Christian Schwarz became the mayor of Riedelberg on July 4, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he prevailed against the previous incumbent Peter Lethen with a share of 50.71% of the votes.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Under a lowered blue shield, in it on the right a silver lily, on the left a silver mill wheel, in gold under red rafters a red brick with an uncial capital letter R in silver." It was awarded in 1982 by the Rheinhessen-Pfalz district government .

religion

The place is predominantly Roman Catholic , belongs to the parish of Großsteinhausen and has its own church, which was built after the Second World War .

Culture and sights

The place has a table tennis club , the TTC Riedelberg, which can look back on some remarkable successes. There is also a fishing club in town . This club is characterized above all by its cooperation with the fishing club in the neighboring French community of Rolbing , for which the club was awarded a European prize for cross-border cooperation. Once a year the fishing festival organized by the fishing club takes place in Riedelberg.

Another highlight of the year is taking place in October " notch represents" which is organized by the youth, the so-called "Staußbuwe".

Sons and daughters of the church

• Josef Werner Bauer (1926–2013), politician (CSU)

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Riedelberg

literature

• Official directory and statistics of the royal Bavarian administrative district of the Palatinate . Speyer 1870.
• Friedrich Knöpp: Territorial holdings of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Hesse-Darmstadt . [typewritten] Darmstadt 1962. [Available in the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , signature: N 282/6].
• Alfred Matt: Bailliages, prévôté et fiefs ayant fait partie de la Seigneurie de Lichtenberg, du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg, du Landgraviat de Hesse-Darmstadt . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (Eds.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480 - 1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 7-9.

Web links

Commons : Riedelberg  - Collection of Images

• Local community Riedelberg on the website of the association community Zweibrücken-Land
• Literature about Riedelberg in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 110 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ↑ Knöpp, p. 11; Matt, p. 9.
4. ↑ Directory of officials .
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ^ Report on the constituent meeting of the Riedelberg local council. Verbandsgemeinde Zweibrücken-Land, July 4, 2019, accessed on March 25, 2020 . 
7. ^ The State Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Zweibrücken-Land, Verbandsgemeinde, 14th line of results. Retrieved March 25, 2020 .