Souls

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Coat of arms of the local parish of Seelen
Souls
Map of Germany, position of the local community Seelen highlighted

Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '  N , 7 ° 43'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Donnersbergkreis
Association municipality : North Palatinate Country
Height : 388 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.16 km 2
Residents: 139 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 44 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 67744
Area code : 06363
License plate : KIB, ROK
Community key : 07 3 33 203
Association administration address: Bezirksamtsstrasse 7
67806 Rockenhausen
Website : www.rockenhausen.de
Local Mayor : Rainer Degen
Location of the local community of Seelen in the Donnersbergkreis
Obermoschel Niedermoschel Unkenbach Finkenbach-Gersweiler Waldgrehweiler Schiersfeld Sitters Alsenz Oberndorf (Pfalz) Mannweiler-Cölln Winterborn (Pfalz) Kalkofen (Pfalz) Niederhausen an der Appel Münsterappel Oberhausen an der Appel Gaugrehweiler Seelen Rathskirchen Teschenmoschel Bisterschied Ransweiler Stahlberg Bayerfeld-Steckweiler Sankt Alban (Pfalz) Gerbach Würzweiler Ruppertsecken Dielkirchen Katzenbach (Donnersbergkreis) Schönborn (Pfalz) Dörrmoschel Reichsthal Gundersweiler Gehrweiler Imsweiler Rockenhausen Höringen Schweisweiler Falkenstein (Pfalz) Winnweiler Lohnsfeld Wartenberg-Rohrbach Münchweiler an der Alsenz Gonbach Sippersfeld Breunigweiler Imsbach Börrstadt Steinbach am Donnersberg Ramsen (Pfalz) Kerzenheim Eisenberg (Pfalz) Göllheim Dreisen Standenbühl Lautersheim Biedesheim Ottersheim Bubenheim (Pfalz) Zellertal Einselthum Immesheim Albisheim (Pfrimm) Rüssingen Weitersweiler Marnheim Bennhausen Jakobsweiler Dannenfels Bolanden Kirchheimbolanden Mörsfeld Kriegsfeld Oberwiesen Orbis Morschheim Ilbesheim (Donnersbergkreis) Bischheim (Donnersberg) Rittersheim Stetten (Pfalz) Gauersheim Landkreis Bad Kreuznach Landkreis Alzey-Worms Landkreis Kusel Landkreis Kaiserslautern Landkreis Bad Dürkheimmap
About this picture

Seelen is a local church in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Nordpfälzer Land association.

geography

The place is on the Sattelberg in the North Palatinate Uplands west of the Donnersberg between Kaiserslautern and Bad Kreuznach .

history

Until the French Revolution , Seelen belonged to the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken (Schultheisserei Berzweiler ). After the French Revolution, the place was incorporated into the French Donnersberg department . As a result of the Congress of Vienna , he was Bavarian from 1816 to 1945 . After the Second World War , Seelen was part of the French zone of occupation and was incorporated into the newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946.

politics

Municipal council

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

Local mayor

Local mayor is Rainer Degen. He was elected by the local council on August 16, 2019, succeeding Jürgen Walk, who was no longer in office after 25 years.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of souls
Blazon : “Split over a green mountain of three and split on the left; on the right a red chapel in silver, roofed in blue, with stairs, door and windows all gold; on the top left a fallen silver anchor in green, below in silver a green willow tree. "

Culture and sights

Sattelberg Tower near Seelen

The Sattelberg Tower on the Sattelberg , southwest of Seelen, is a roofed observation tower built by the municipality in 2000 and inaugurated on June 2, 2002 , which has been equipped with a cellular antenna since 2008 and with it reaches a height of 19.65 m. From a height of 457  m above sea level. From NHN you have a panoramic view of the districts of Kusel, Kaiserslautern and the Donnersbergkreis up to the Hunsrück . Every year, on the first weekend in June, the tower festival is celebrated with a hobby artist market and vintage tractor exhibition.

Economy and Infrastructure

There is a connection to long-distance traffic via the A 63 in the southeast. In Rockenhausen there is a train station of the Alsenz Valley Railway .

literature

Web links

Commons : Souls  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Municipal Council Election 2019 Seelen. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
  3. The Rhine Palatinate: Souls: Rainer Degen is the new local mayor. August 12, 2019, accessed August 25, 2019 .
  4. Lookout tower on the Sattelberg on the website of the community of Seelen