Schopp

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Schopp
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Coordinates: 49 ° 21 '  N , 7 ° 41'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Kaiserslautern
Association municipality : Landstuhl
Height : 220 m above sea level NHN
Area : 11.35 km 2
Residents: 1480 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 130 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 67707
Area code : 06307
License plate : KL
Community key : 07 3 35 204
Association administration address: Kaiserstraße 49
66849 Landstuhl
Website : www.gemeinde-schopp.de
Local Mayor : Benjamin Busch ( CDU )
Location of the local community of Schopp in the Kaiserslautern district
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Place view

Schopp is a municipality in the Kaiserslautern district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Landstuhl Association .

geography

location

The community lies on the edge of the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord biosphere reserve in the Palatinate Woodland sub-area . The Finsterbrunnertal and Pulvermühle residential areas also belong to Schopp . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Stelzenberg , Trippstadt , Schmalenberg , Geiselberg , Horbach and Krickenbach .

Waters

The Moosalb flows to the west of the village and forms the municipal boundary to Krickenbach in this area. Its left tributary Hirschalbe forms the border with Geiselberg in the south.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1345. In the Middle Ages, Schopp was under the Hornbach monastery together with Waldfischbach , Geiselberg, Schmalenberg and Heltersberg . With the secularization of the monastery in 1557, the places came to the Electorate of Palatinate .

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Schopp was incorporated into the canton of Waldfischbach in the Donnersberg department and was subordinate to the Mairie Waldfischbach . In 1815 the place was initially added to Austria . A year later the community moved to the Kingdom of Bavaria and was part of the Rhine district there . From 1818 to 1862 the place was part of the Landkommissariat Pirmasens , which was then converted into a district office.

In 1939 Schopp was incorporated into the Pirmasens district. After the Second World War , the municipality within the French occupation zone became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , Schopp moved to the Kaiserslautern district in 1969 . Three years later, the place was incorporated into the newly created Verbandsgemeinde Kaiserslautern-Süd , which merged with the Verbandsgemeinde Landstuhl on July 1, 2019 to form the new Verbandsgemeinde Landstuhl .

population

Population development

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

year Residents
1815 140
1835 211
1871 379
1905 495
1939 758
1950 892
year Residents
1961 1,113
1970 1,318
1987 1,381
1997 1,530
2005 1,513
2019 1,480

religion

In 1828 the village had 186 Protestant and 19 Catholic residents. At the end of 2014, 47.9 percent of the population were Protestant and 28.0 percent were Catholic. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational. The Catholics belong to the Diocese of Speyer , the Evangelicals to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate .

politics

town hall

Municipal council

The municipal council in Schopp consists of 16 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 BfS total
2019 4th 6th 6th - 16 seats
2014 4th 4th 6th 2 16 seats
2009 6th 4th 6th - 16 seats
2004 6th 6th 4th - 16 seats
  • FWG = Free Voter Group Schopp e. V.
  • BfS = Citizens' Alliance for Schopp e. V.

mayor

Benjamin Busch (CDU) is the local mayor of Schopp. In a runoff election on June 16, 2019, he prevailed against the previous incumbent Bernd Mayer (FWG) with a share of 60.63% of the vote, after none of the original three applicants had achieved the necessary majority in the direct election on May 26, 2019.

coat of arms

Schopp coat of arms
 Blazon : "Divided by green and gold, above a golden oak branch with two leaves and two acorns above, right and left, below on a curved green background a red scales."

It was approved by the Mainz Interior Ministry in 1955 .

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

In the municipal area, the tombs of the Jacob family including the war memorial in the local cemetery , the school in Hauptstrasse (No. 11a / b), the town hall (No. 13) and the houses No. 8 and No. 13 as well as are under monument protection the Naturfreundehaus Finsterbrunnertal .

Regular events

Schopper Kerwe in 2008

Once in summer and in winter there is a fun run in and around Schopp. An international cycle race takes place on the cycling track at Whitsun.

Sports

Schopp is on the edge of the Palatinate Forest mountain bike park . The community is the starting point for tours of various levels of difficulty. In 1998 and 2002 the German Mountain Bike Championship in the "Cross Country" discipline was held here. At times the cycling track was part of a racing series.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

After the Second World War, the place was part of the Pirmasens Military Community, which has now been dissolved .

traffic

rail
Schopp station in 2011

The place can be reached by train via the Biebermühlbahn from Kaiserslautern and Pirmasens; the heritage-protected train station is on the north-western outskirts.

Street

A road ran through Schopp that connected Kaiserslautern with Bitsch in Lorraine and from which today's federal highway 270 was created. The place is connected to the national road network by the latter, which runs from Fischbach (near Idar-Oberstein) to Pirmasens . the district road 72 connects the community with the nearby district of Südwestpfalz and the district road 73 connects the train station with the federal road. On weekends and public holidays the community is also served by the Kaiserslautern night bus. There is also a local citizen bus .

education

Schopp has a kindergarten and a primary school.

tourism

The Palatinate Forest Trail , the Schweinstal Sculpture Trail and the Water Trail on the Moosalbe lead across the municipality . Schopp is also on the route of a hiking trail that is marked with a green and yellow cross . This connects the community with Bexbach , Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and Ludwigshafen am Rhein, among others .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • 2017, Walburga Bayer (* 1938), awarded for her commitment during her 30 years as head of the Schopp community library.

Sons and daughters of the church

People who worked on site

literature

  • Heinz Friedel : Schopp. The story of a village in the Palatinate Holzland. Ed .: Community administration Schopp, 1964

Web links

Commons : Schopp  - Collection of Images

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 2018 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 95 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
  3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  4. ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2014
  5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: City Council Election 2019 Schopp. Retrieved November 1, 2019 .
  6. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal Council Election 2014 Schopp. Retrieved November 1, 2019 .
  7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Landstuhl, Verbandsgemeinde, last line of results. Retrieved November 1, 2019 .
  8. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate . Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
  9. ^ Geographical-statistical handbook from Rheinbaiern , Zweibrücken, 1828, p. 139 ( Google Books )
  10. ↑ Discovered the adventure of reading early on. In: The Rhine Palatinate . March 7, 2017, accessed April 5, 2019 .