Ruschberg

This article deals with the local church in Rhineland-Palatinate. For the mountain of the same name in North Rhine-Westphalia see Ruschberg (Weserbergland) .

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '  N , 7 ° 17'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Birch field
Association municipality :	Baumholder
Height :	410 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.45 km 2
Residents:	782 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	105 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55776
Area code :	06783
License plate :	BIR
Community key :	07 1 34 075
Association administration address:	Am Weiherdamm 1 55774 Baumholder
Website :	www.ruschberg.de
Local Mayor :	Alfred Hay ( SPD )
Location of the local community of Ruschberg in the Birkenfeld district

Ruschberg is a municipality in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Baumholder community .

geography

Ruschberg is located on Baumholder Bach southwest of the 563 meter high Feldberg. To the north and east are the military training area and the town of Baumholder , to the west is the Heimbach community and to the north is the Reichenbach community .

The local community Ruschberg is also located in Westrich .

The residential areas Clarashall ( Schwerspatgrube ), Haus Mohrenmühle, Im Inkelrech, Lauersmühle and Seibertsmühle also belong to Ruschberg .

history

Until the end of the 18th century, Ruschberg belonged to the part of the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken that came from the county of Veldenz and was assigned to the Baumholder mayor in the Lichtenberg district . In 1790 60 families lived in the village. The district of Ruschberg covered 771 hectares .

In 1794 the Left Bank of the Rhine was taken by French revolutionary troops. From 1798 to 1814 Ruschberg belonged to the canton Baumholder in the Saar department . Due to the agreements reached at the Congress of Vienna (1815), the region came to the Saxon-Coburg principality of Lichtenberg in 1816 , to which it belonged until 1834. The community of Ruschberg initially belonged to the Reichenbach mayor, and from 1823 to the Baumholder mayor (see also the list of communities in the Principality of Lichtenberg ). After the sale to Prussia and the dissolution of the Principality of Lichtenberg, Ruschberg came to the newly established St. Wendel district in the Rhine province . Ruschberg has been part of the Birkenfeld district since 1937 and part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 344 1835 473 1871 514 1905 528 1939 743 1950 785

year Residents 1961 970 1970 962 1987 861 1997 909 2005 870 2019 782

Municipal council

The municipal council in Ruschberg consists of twelve 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	Flat share 2	total
2019	-	1	3	8th	12 seats
2014	7th	3	2	-	12 seats
2009	8th	4th	-	-	12 seats
2004	8th	4th	-	-	12 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Community Ruschberg e. V.

Economy and Infrastructure

Public facilities

• Evangelical Church, Baumholder Parish
• Catholic Church, Baumholder Parish
• Ruschberg kindergarten
• Ruschberg youth club
• Ruschberg community center

traffic

• Federal Autobahn 62 runs a few kilometers to the south .
• In Ruschberg itself there has been no regular passenger traffic on the Heimbach – Baumholder railway since May 1981, but this was resumed in 2014 by the Vlexx .

Web links

Commons : Ruschberg  - Collection of Images

• Ruschberg website
• Local community Ruschberg on the website of the Baumholder community
• Literature about Ruschberg 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 1, 2017 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 18 (PDF; 1.9 MB).
3. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province, Die Karte von 1789 (2nd volume), Bonn 1898. S. 400
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections