Ruppertsecken

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Donnersbergkreis
Association municipality :	North Palatinate Country
Height :	498 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.43 km 2
Residents:	349 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	37 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67808
Area code :	06361
License plate :	KIB, ROK
Community key :	07 3 33 065
Association administration address:	Bezirksamtsstrasse 7 ; 67806 Rockenhausen
Website :	ruppertsecken.de
Local Mayor :	Siegmar Portz
Location of the local community Ruppertsecken in the Donnersbergkreis

Ruppertsecken is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Nordpfälzer Land association.

geography

Geographical location

The place is in the North Palatinate Uplands not far from the Donnersberg in the sub-area Westliche Donnersbergrandhöhen between Kaiserslautern and Bad Kreuznach on the southwestern edge of the Bürgerwald . At 498.5 m above sea level NHN , Ruppertsecken is the highest independent village in the Palatinate .

Community structure

Ruppertsecken also includes the Ober-Gerbacherhof , Ober-Tierwasen, Schwarzengraben, Talhof, Unter-Gerbacherhof , Unter-Tierwasen and Vollethof residential areas .

Surveys

The Schlossberg extends directly within the settlement area. In the north-west of the district is the 488.4 meter high Große Kahlenberg and to the west of this is the 492.3 meter Höfer-Köpfchen .

Waters

The Steindellerbach flows to the east of the district . The Hofer Bach forms the border with Kirchheimbolanden before it from the right in the control stream flows. The latter flows from southeast to northwest through the middle of the northeast of the municipality. The Gerbach , which for the most part forms the border with the Kriegsfeld, rises in the Ruppertsecker district .

climate

The annual precipitation is 660 mm. The precipitation is in the lower third of the values recorded in Germany. Lower values are registered at 32% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is February, with the most rainfall in June. In June there is 1.7 times more rainfall than in February. The rainfall is distributed fairly evenly over the year. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at 31% of the measuring stations .

history

Ruppertsecken was in 1401 in a document from King Ruprecht - at the same time Elector Ruprecht III. von der Pfalz - mentioned for the first time. Until the end of the 18th century the place belonged to the Electoral Palatinate and was subordinate to the Oberamt Alzey .

After the French Revolution , the place was incorporated into the French Donnersberg department and the canton of Kirchheim in 1798 . There he was subordinate to Mairie Gerbach . In 1815 Ruppertsecken had 410 inhabitants. As a result of the Congress of Vienna , the place came to Austria in the same year and from 1816 belonged to Bavaria . In 1817 the community moved to the canton of Rockenhausen . From 1818 to 1862 Ruppertsecken was part of the Kirchheim Land Commissioner , which was then converted into a district office. On December 1, 1900, the community moved to the newly created district office Rockenhausen

From 1939 the place was part of the district of Rockenhausen . After the Second World War , Gerbach was part of the French zone of occupation and was incorporated into the newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946. In the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform , the community moved to the newly created Donnersbergkreis. In 1972 it was added to the newly formed community of Rockenhausen . Ruppertsecken has been part of the Nordpfälzer Land association since 2020 .

politics

Municipal council

The council in Ruppertsecken consists of eight council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019Template: future / in 3 years in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Local mayor

The local mayor is Siegmar Portz. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected in office with 82.08% of the vote.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In black, a golden, red-crowned and armored lion striding to the right on a three-pinned golden wall, holding a shield roughened in silver and blue in its paws."
	Founding of the coat of arms: It was awarded in 1955 by the Rhineland-Palatinate State Ministry and goes back to a seal from 1727. The lion and diamond come from the coat of arms of the Wittelsbach family , the ruling family of the Electoral Palatinate .

Buildings

Cultural monuments

Monument zone Burg Ruppertsecken

The Ruppertsecken Castle is designated as a monument zone . In addition, there are a total of three individual objects that are under monument protection .

nature

The Frauenstein Castle , which has since been abandoned and whose castle rock is classified as a natural monument , was located in the municipality .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The community is connected to the road network via Kreisstraße 34 . The county road 35 binds to the upper Gerbacherhof and sub-Gerbacherhof. There is a connection to long-distance traffic via the A 63 in the southeast. In Rockenhausen there is a train station of the Alsenz Valley Railway . The bus line 901 operated by Behles Bus leads from Ruppertsecken , which runs in an easterly direction to Kirchheimbolanden .

tourism

The Palatinate High Trail runs right through the village . The Donnersberg-Donon long-distance hiking trail, marked with a red bar, runs through the east of the district .

Personalities

Jolande Lischke-Pfister (* 1932), artist, designed a local metal crucifix

literature

Alexander Thon: Frauenstein . In: Jürgen Keddigkeit (Ed.): Palatinate Castle Lexicon. Contributions to the history of the Palatinate . tape 12/2 . Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, Kaiserslautern 2002, ISBN 3-927754-48-X , p. 130-1324 .
Alexander Thon: Once a fiefdom of the knight Wernher (sic!) Von Hohenfels. The unknown Burghaus Frauenstein in Ruppertsecken . In: Donnersberg yearbook . tape 23 , 2000, pp. 95-99 .
Alexander Thon: ... they lead from the broken vest. Genesis and fall of the late medieval Ruppertsecken Castle . In: Communications of the Historical Association of the Palatinate . tape 97 , 1999, pp. 411-434 .
Literature about Ruppertsecken in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Ruppertsecken - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 144 (PDF; 3 MB).
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved July 30, 2019 .
^ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Nordpfälzer Land, Verbandsgemeinde, 23rd line of results. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-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 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 144 (PDF; 3 MB).

[3] The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved July 30, 2019 .

[4] The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Nordpfälzer Land, Verbandsgemeinde, 23rd line of results. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .