Ruthweiler

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '  N , 7 ° 22'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kusel
Association municipality :	Kusel-Altenglan
Height :	264 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.31 km 2
Residents:	457 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	138 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66869
Area code :	06381
License plate :	KUS
Community key :	07 3 36 088
Association administration address:	Marktplatz 1 66869 Kusel
Website :	www.ruthweiler.de
Local Mayor :	Sven Dick
Location of the local community Ruthweiler in the Kusel district

Ruthweiler

Ruthweiler is a municipality in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Kusel-Altenglan community , within which it is the eighth smallest local community in terms of area.

geography

location

The local community is located in the North Palatinate Bergland within its sub-area Kuseler Bergland . Lichtenberg Castle, which towers above the village , is the largest castle complex in the Palatinate and is already on the border of the neighboring village. Neighboring communities are Thallichtenberg and Körborn in the north, the city of Kusel (districts Diedelkopf and Bledesbach ) in the east and south, and Pfeffelbach in the west.

Elevations and waters

Ruthweiler is located in the narrow valley of the Pfeffelbach , which is alternatively called Aalbach in this area in the lower reaches. The hills reach up to 442.5 meters to the right of the brook with the wooded Niederberg, and to the left of the brook about 350 meters above sea level. Behind Ruthweiler the brook breaks through the mountain plateau and flows in a rocky gorge towards Thallichtenberg.

history

The place originally consisting of Niederruthweiler and Oberruthweiler was first mentioned in 1271 as Nyderrudewilre . He belonged to the truce of Lichtenberg Castle. During the early modern period, the community was part of the County of Veldenz and from 1733 the Electoral Palatinate .

After the Left Bank of the Rhine was taken by French revolutionary troops (1794), Ruth belonged to the Saar department from 1798 to 1814 and was incorporated into the canton of Baumholder during this time .

In 1816 Ruthweiler came to the Principality of Lichtenberg , a newly created exclave of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and from 1826 of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha . During this time it was subordinate to the mayor's office in Burglichtenberg . With the said duchy it fell to Prussia in 1834 , which created the district of Sankt Wendel from this area . After the main part was separated from the newly created Saar area , the remaining district of Sankt Wendel-Baumholder was created in 1920 , to which the place belonged until 1937, when it was incorporated into the Birkenfeld district.

After the Second World War , Ruthweiler became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , the community was reclassified to the Kusel district on June 7, 1969 . Three years later, the place became part of the newly created Kusel Association , and Ruthweiler has been part of the Kusel-Altenglan Association since 2018 .

politics

Municipal council

The council in Ruthweiler 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

Sven Dick was elected mayor on June 7th, 2009. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for another five years with a share of 93.47% of the votes.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Divided by silver and blue, above a growing, red-armored and tongued, blue lion, below two horizontally superimposed, silver mill irons ." It was approved by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of the Interior in 1962 .
	Reasons for the coat of arms: The lion comes from the coat of arms of the Counts of Veldenz . The mill iron symbolize the two former stately ban mills.

Culture

Cultural monument

There are a total of two properties on site that are listed .

nature

With a linden tree there is a natural monument in the municipality .

Sports

Most of the facilities of the SG Blaubach-Diedelkopf soccer club are already in the Ruthweiler district.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

The former agricultural community has been transformed into a residential community from around 1995 . Ruthweiler has developed four new development areas. The “Borrech” development area was the first community of the then Kusel association to be developed by a private investor.

traffic

Street

Landesstraße 176 runs right through the village . The A 62 is in the south . Ruthweiler is connected to the public transport network of the Rhein-Neckar (VRN) public transport network, which connects to Kusel and Freisen , through two bus stops on the 292 bus line .

rail

From 1936 Ruthweiler owned a stop on the full length of the Türkismühle – Kusel railway that was opened that year . The station was not far from the center of Ruthweiler. The station was closed as early as 1959, against which there was resistance on site. His reception building now serves as a residential building. Bahnhofstrasse reminds of him. The east portal of the Niederberg tunnel through which it crosses is also located in the Ruthweiler district. In Kusel there is a train station on the Landstuhl – Kusel railway line .

Institutions

An inn, a midwife, a village community center, a boules pitch, a playground and hiking trails are available in the community at the foot of Lichtenberg Castle. Community life is shaped by associations. There is a village archive, which is set up and maintained by a group of citizens appointed by the municipality. A curiosity is that the Kusel district hospital, with the exception of the pathology, is completely located in the municipality of Ruthweiler.

tourism

The Fritz-Wunderlich-Weg runs through Ruthweiler . The Franconia-Hessen-Kurpfalz long-distance hiking trail marked with a red cross also leads through the north of the district .

Personalities

• Otto Walzel (1919–1991), politician (SPD, CDU), died on the spot
• Katrin Green (* 1985), Paralympics athlete, gold medalist in Beijing 2008 and bronze medalist in London 2012, born in Ruthweiler

literature

• Literature about Ruthweiler in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Ruthweiler  - Collection of Images

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Jakob Weingarth, Ernst Schworm: Ruthweiler. Location. In: regionalgeschichte.net. Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz eV, accessed on May 17, 2020 . 
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
4. ↑ Barbara Scheifele: Even from the cemetery view of the castle. Die Rheinpfalz, April 30, 2015, accessed on May 17, 2020 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Kusel-Altenglan, Verbandsgemeinde, 31st line of results. Retrieved May 17, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 55 .
7. ↑ verkehrsrelktionen.uue.org: Nahetal, Pfälzer Bergland, Weinstrasse, Pfälzer Wald, Wasgau ... Accessed on July 6, 2015 . 
8. ↑ Gerd Stein: Secondary and narrow-gauge railways in Germany then and now . 1998, p. 6 .