Schmittweiler

This article deals with the community of Schmittweiler in Rhineland-Palatinate. Schmittweiler is also the German name of a village in the French department of Moselle in Lorraine, see Schmittviller , and a district of the German community Schönenberg-Kübelberg, see Schmittweiler (Schönenberg-Kübelberg) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 41 '  N , 7 ° 42'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Kreuznach
Association municipality :	Nahe-Glan
Height :	273 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.48 km 2
Residents:	195 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	36 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67829
Area code :	06753
License plate :	KH
Community key :	07 1 33 090
Association administration address:	Obertor 13 55590 Meisenheim, Germany
Website :	www.meisenheim.de
Mayoress :	Ute Ammann
Location of the local community Schmittweiler in the Bad Kreuznach district

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Schmittweiler is a municipality in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Nahe-Glan .

geography

The street village is located in the Eschelbachtal, a narrow side valley, the entrance and exit of which is in Callbach . The landscape around Schmittweiler lies in the southern part of the Bad Kreuznach district, the district borders on the Donnersbergkreis in the southeast and belongs to the North Palatinate Uplands .

Aerial view of the town of Schmittweiler

history

Until the end of the 18th century, Schmittweiler belonged to the Oberamt Meisenheim in Zweibrücken .

After 1792 the region was occupied by French troops in the First Revolutionary War and annexed after the Peace of Campo Formio (1797) . From 1798 to 1814 Schmittweiler belonged to the French department of Donnersberg and was assigned to the canton of Lauterecken . Due to the agreements reached at the Congress of Vienna (1815) and an exchange contract with Austria , the region became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 . From 1818 the community of Schmittweiler was part of the Kusel Land Commissioner in the Bavarian Rhine District, later assigned to the Kusel District Office, from which the Kusel District emerged in 1938 . To distinguish it from Schmittweiler (Schönenberg-Kübelberg) the place had the official addition "District Court Lauterecken".

After the Second World War , Schmittweiler became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone and belonged to the administrative district of Palatinate until 1968 . In the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform in 1969 Schmittweiler was the Kusel district in the district of Bad Kreuznach reclassified. From an ecclesiastical point of view, Schmittweiler still belongs to the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate and the Diocese of Speyer .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 199 1835 219 1871 369 1905 311 1939 292 1950 295

year Residents 1961 243 1970 231 1987 194 1997 233 2005 246 2019 195

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Schmittweiler consists of six council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

mayor

Ute Ammann is the local mayor. They were elected by the local council on June 18, 2019, after no candidate had run in the local elections on May 26, 2019. She is the successor to Willi Haas, who was no longer a candidate.

Culture and sights

Every year on October 3rd, the day of German unity , the Schmittweiler autumn festival with farmers' market takes place.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Schmittweiler

Economy and Infrastructure

The federal highway 420 runs two kilometers north of Schmittweiler .

The nearest train stations are Alsenz (14 kilometers east of Schmittweiler at the alsenz valley railway Bingen - Kaiserslautern ), Staudernheim (15 km north of the Nahe Valley Railway Bingen- Saarbrücken ) and Lauterecken-Grumbach (15 km south-west of the Lauterbrunnen Valley Railway to Kaiserslautern).

Web links

Commons : Schmittweiler  - Collection of Images

• Literature about Schmittweiler 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. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. kusel.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Schmittweiler. Retrieved September 28, 2019 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Meisenheim, Verbandsgemeinde, penultimate line of results. Retrieved September 28, 2019 . 
6. ^ Citizens' newspaper Meisenheim, official announcements: Report on the constituent meeting of the Schmittweiler municipal council on June 18, 2019. p. 10, edition 26/2019. June 27, 2019, accessed September 28, 2019 .