Schönenberg-Kübelberg

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 25 '  N , 7 ° 23'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kusel
Association municipality :	Upper Glantal
Height :	250 m above sea level NHN
Area :	18.68 km 2
Residents:	5618 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	301 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66901
Area code :	06373
License plate :	KUS
Community key :	07 3 36 092
Community structure:	4 districts
Association administration address:	Rathausstrasse 8 66901 Schönenberg-Kübelberg
Website :	www.schoenenberg-kuebelberg.de
Local Mayor :	Thomas Wolf ( CDU )
Location of the local community Schönenberg-Kübelberg in the Kusel district

The station sign of the former train station

Schönenberg-Kübelberg is the largest local community in terms of population in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate . Schönenberg-Kübelberg is the administrative seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Oberes Glantal , to which it also belongs. The town center, which has now grown together, forms an economic and transport focus in the south of the Kusel district. According to state planning, the local community is designated as the basic center.

geography

The place is in the West Palatinate near the border with Saarland . In the north there are the places Brücken and Gries / Pfalz , in the east Bruchmühlbach-Miesau , in the south Waldmohr and to the west is Dunzweiler . The following larger towns can be reached quickly: the Saarland district town of Homburg and the regional center of Kaiserslautern .

history

In the district of Kübelberg there was a medieval tower hill castle , the Kübelberg Castle .

Today's local community Schönenberg-Kübelberg was re-formed on June 7, 1969 as part of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform from the previously independent communities Kübelberg , Sand , Schmittweiler and Schönenberg .

Population development

The development of the number of inhabitants in relation to the area of ​​today's community Schönenberg-Kübelberg; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 1193 1835 1774 1871 1778 1905 2306 1939 3313 1950 3787 1961 4416 1970 4708

year Residents 1987 4765 1997 5484 2005 5775 2010 5632 2015 5543 2019 5618

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Schönenberg-Kübelberg consists of 22 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	GREEN	Flat share	total
2019	10	10	-	2	22 seats
2014	9	12	-	1	22 seats
2009	7th	12	1	2	22 seats
2004	7th	12	-	3	22 seats

mayor

Thomas Wolf (CDU) became the local mayor of Schönenberg-Kübelberg on August 22, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 50.21% of the vote.

Wolf's predecessor Josef Weis (CDU) had held the office for 15 years, but did not start again in 2019.

Economy and Transport

Schönenberg-Kübelberg

Schönenberg-Kübelberg has grown into a local supply and service center due to its central location in the southern district of Kusel. There are several supermarkets and discounters as well as numerous specialty stores for house and handicraft-related needs, a few car dealers with car workshops, a large car scrapping and recycling company, craft businesses for construction and building services, a construction company, a building materials wholesaler as well as lawyers, doctors and Bank branches.

Schönenberg-Kübelberg is connected to national road traffic via the federal highway 423 ( Mandelbachtal - Altenglan ). The federal motorway 6 (AS Waldmohr ) runs about five kilometers south, and the A 62 (AS Kusel ) about 13 km northeast .

The former station of the disused Glantalbahn in town has been abandoned. In Homburg and in Bruchmühlbach-Miesau , which is even closer, there are stations on the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway . Public transport is guaranteed with numerous bus connections in almost all directions.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Theo Carlen (1928–1994), politician (CDU)
• Otto Rubly (* 1957), politician (CDU)

Connected with Schönenberg-Kübelberg

• Sina Mayer (* 1995), athlete

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Schönenberg-Kübelberg

literature

• Literature about Schönenberg-Kübelberg in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Schönenberg-Kübelberg  - Collection of images

• Official website of the local community Schönenberg-Kübelberg
• Local community Schönenberg-Kübelberg on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Oberes Glantal
• Schönenberg-Kübelberg at regionalgeschichte.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 195 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
5. ↑ ^{a b} Public record. Local community Schönenberg-Kübelberg, August 22, 2019, accessed on May 8, 2020 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Oberes Glantal, Verbandsgemeinde, 18th line of results. Retrieved May 8, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Dennis Bachmann: “On-site editorial staff” on Friday, June 7th. Die Rheinpfalz, June 3, 2019, accessed on May 8, 2020 .