Schneckenhausen

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Schneckenhausen
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Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '  N , 7 ° 45'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Kaiserslautern
Association municipality : Otterbach-Otterberg
Height : 330 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.72 km 2
Residents: 566 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 152 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 67699
Area code : 06301
License plate : KL
Community key : 07 3 35 042
Association administration address: Hauptstrasse 27
67697 Otterberg
Website : www.otterbach-otterberg.de
Mayoress : Hanna-Lore Scharding
Location of the local community Schneckenhausen in the Kaiserslautern district
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Schneckenhausen is a municipality in the Kaiserslautern district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Otterbach-Otterberg , within which it is the third smallest in terms of population and the second smallest in terms of area.

geography

location

Schneckenhausen is located in the Lower Lauterhöhen sub-area of the North Palatinate Uplands, eleven kilometers north of Kaiserslautern . In the far south the town district extends to the foothills of the Palatinate Forest belonging Otterberger Forest approach. The Sonnenhof residential area also belongs to Schneckenhausen .. Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Heiligenmoschel , Otterberg , Mehlbach and Schallodenbach .

Surveys

In the north at the district triangle to Heiligenmoschel and Schallodenbach the 459.7  m above sea level extends . NHN high Reiserberg . The Andreasberg is located in the extreme southeast of the district on the border with Heiligenmoschel .

Waters

The place is located at the source of the Odenbach , which flows into the Glan after about 22 kilometers in the Odenbach town of the same name . It flows in a northerly direction through the middle of the settlement area, where the Steidelbach flows from the left . On the north-western edge of the settlement it takes up the Horterbach from the right, which grazes the northern edge of the development. In the west of the municipality, the stream rises from Gorrhof , which temporarily translates to the area of ​​Schallodenbach.

history

Until the end of the 18th century, Schneckenhausen belonged to the Schallodenbach rulership , which was owned by the Counts of Sickingen as an electoral inheritance .

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 Schneckenhausen belonged to the French department of Donnersberg and was assigned to the canton of Otterberg . 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 Schneckenhausen was part of the Kaiserslautern regional commissioner in the Bavarian Rhine District, later to the Kaiserslautern district office, from which the Kaiserslautern district emerged in 1939 .

After the Second World War , Schneckenhausen 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 course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , Schneckenhausen was incorporated into the newly formed community of Otterberg . Since July 1, 2014, it has been part of the Otterbach-Otterberg Association, which was created through the merger of the Otterberg and Otterbach Association .

population

Population development

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

year Residents
1815 344
1835 496
1871 357
1905 401
1939 425
1950 472
year Residents
1961 506
1970 510
1987 548
1997 631
2005 630
2019 566

religion

The Catholics belong to the Diocese of Speyer and are subordinate to the Dean's Office in Kaiserslautern , the Protestants to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate .

politics

Municipal council

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

Local mayor

Hanna-Lore Scharding ( FWG ) is the local mayor of Schneckenhausen . In the direct election on May 26, 2019, there was no candidate, she was elected by the local council to succeed Konrad Schiwek. Before the latter, Gerhard Schohl held this office until 2014.

coat of arms

Schneckenhausen coat of arms
 Blazon : " Divided by black and silver, above five silver balls 2: 1: 2, below a red snail with a snail shell."

It was approved by the Mainz Interior Ministry in 1960 .

Justification of the coat of arms: The Bollen reminds of the former local rulers , the Lords of Sickingen , and the snail refers to the place name while speaking .

Culture and sights

  • Protestant bell tower

  • Former school house

  • Catholic Church

  • Catholic church, altar

There are a total of four objects on site that are listed , including the following:

The Protestant bell tower is an open bell with an iron construction from 1895. The former school from 1913 is a cube under a pyramid roof with a vestibule, which also includes a staggered toilet extension. The Catholic Church of St. Wendelin is a hall building in the arched style, which was built in the years 1843 and 1844; The architect was the civil building inspector August von Voit from Speyer.

traffic

Local transport

The public transport in the transport association Rhein-Neckar integrated. The lines 6506 and 6509 of the Regionalbus Saar-Westpfalz GmbH connect the place with Kaiserslautern . The nearest train station is Katzweiler on the Kaiserslautern - Lauterecken-Grumbach Lautertalbahn , about seven kilometers southwest of Schneckenhausen.

Street

State road 382 runs through Schneckenhausen and connects the communities to the north with Odenbach and to the south with Otterberg, Mehlingen and Enkenbach-Alsenborn . In the northern municipality area branches off from this the state road 388 leading via Heiligenmoschen to Gehrweiler and in the settlement area the district road 33 , which connects the hamlet Horterhof belonging to Heiligenmoschel . The next federal highway, federal highway 270, runs parallel to the Lautertalbahn

Web links

Commons : Schneckenhausen  - 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 1, 2017 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 97 (PDF; 1.9 MB).
  3. ↑ Michael Frey : Attempt of a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal. bayer. Rheinkreises , Volume 3, Neidhard, 1837, pp. 132, 134 ( Google Books )
  4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  5. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: Municipal council election 2019 Schneckenhausen. Retrieved October 27, 2019 .
  6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Otterbach-Otterberg, Verbandsgemeinde, penultimate line of results. Retrieved October 27, 2019 .
  7. ^ The Rheinpfalz: Schneckenhausen: FWG politician Hanna-Lore Scharding is the new local mayor. August 13, 2019, accessed October 27, 2019 .
  8. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate . Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
  9. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments in the Kaiserslautern district (PDF; 5.6 MB). Mainz 2017.