Sembach

This article deals with the Sembach community in Rhineland-Palatinate. For further meanings see Sembach (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 31 '  N , 7 ° 52'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kaiserslautern
Association municipality :	Enkenbach-Alsenborn
Height :	261 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.49 km 2
Residents:	1159 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	211 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67681
Area code :	06303
License plate :	KL
Community key :	07 3 35 205
Association administration address:	Hauptstrasse 18 67677 Enkenbach-Alsenborn
Website :	www.enkenbach-alsenborn.de
Local Mayor :	Fritz Hack ( SPD )
Location of the local community of Sembach in the Kaiserslautern district

Sembach is a municipality in the Kaiserslautern district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Enkenbach-Alsenborn community , within which it is the fourth largest local community in terms of population.

geography

The community is located on the edge of the Palatinate Forest Nature Park, almost ten kilometers northeast of the city of Kaiserslautern in the Lower Palatinate Forest in the northeast of the Kaiserslautern district, right on the border with the Donnersbergkreis. The area in the catchment area of ​​the municipality is called Sembacher Platten and is not forested. Immediately to the north is the North Palatinate Uplands . The Lohnsbach grazes the western edge of the settlement area. The Alsenz runs for a few hundred meters over the northeast of the district; in this area it takes up the Stinkentalbach from the left . Adjacent communities are - clockwise - Wartenberg-Rohrbach , Münchweiler an der Alsenz , Gonbach , Neuhemsbach , Enkenbach-Alsenborn , Mehlingen and Otterberg .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in the 13th century when it was donated to Enkenbach Abbey. Before the French Revolution , the place belonged to the Kolb von Wartenbergs . At the end of the 18th century, Sembach was occupied by France and was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire . During this time, Sembach was incorporated into the canton of Winnweiler .

The community benefited from the construction of Napoleon's Imperial Road from Paris to Mainz , which meant that the place was on a supra-regional traffic route and became a post office in 1809. Due to the resolutions at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Sembach first came to Austria and a year later to the Rhine District in the Kingdom of Bavaria , later the Palatinate . From 1818 to 1862 Sembach belonged to the Land Commissioner in Kaiserslautern ; from this the district office of Kaiserslautern emerged. On December 1, 1900, the community moved to the newly created district office Rockenhausen .

From 1939 the place was part of the district of Rockenhausen . After the Second World War , Sembach became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone , which ended its membership in Bavaria . In the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform , the place changed to the newly created Donnersbergkreis . On April 22, 1972, another change of district took place; since then the community has been part of the Kaiserslautern district . In the same year it was incorporated into the Enkenbach-Alsenborn community , which existed in this form until 2014.

religion

Sembach Mennonite Church

On October 31, 2014, 44.61 percent of the population were Protestant and 23.58 percent were Catholic. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational.

There have been Mennonites in Sembach since the 17th century . In 1960 there were around 280 members in the Sembach congregation, and there are currently around 158 members. The Jews who once lived in the village were buried in Mehlingen .

politics

Former mayor's office

Protestant Church

Municipal council

The municipal council in Sembach consists of 16 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	7th	4th	5	16 seats
2014	7th	4th	5	16 seats
2009	9	3	4th	16 seats
2004	7th	4th	5	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voters Group Sembach e. V.

mayor

The local mayor is Fritz Hack (SPD). In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with 51.25% of the vote.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Divided by silver and red, covered with a silver heart shield with a red bar, with two from above, a red ball below, growing above a blue-clad man in a pointed cap, his left hand on his hip, holding a red piston in his right , below a golden post horn. "
	Justification of the coat of arms: It was approved by the Mainz Ministry of the Interior in 1954 and was borrowed from the coat of arms of the former local rulers, the Kolb von Wartenberg .

Culture and sights

Community center

In Sembach there are a total of eleven objects that are under monument protection .

The Mennonite Church was built in 1777. A modern community center has been built next to it since 2011.

The foundation stone for the Protestant Church was laid on May 13, 1773. Due to a lack of money, the building dragged on until it was finally inaugurated in 1791.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Sembach is located on Landesstrasse 393 and on the former Kaiserstrasse , which is now known as Landesstrasse 401 ; Until the construction of the nearby motorway, it was federal highway 40 . One kilometer away is the federal motorway 63 (Kaiserslautern – Mainz) with the Sembach junction; From 1999 it formed the southern end before the connection to Kaiserslautern was completed in 2004. It is 107 kilometers to Frankfurt and around eleven kilometers to downtown Kaiserslautern. In the far north-east runs for a few hundred meters like federal road 48 over the district of Sembach.

The Neuhemsbach-Sembach station was built on the Alsenz Valley Railway, which was opened in 1870 and 1871 , the name of which was later shortened to Neuhemsbach and whose facilities are partly located in the Sembach district. Due to lack of profitability, it was abandoned after the Second World War.

American plants

In 1951 the American Sembach Air Base was built and the Heuberg housing estate laid out. The headquarters of the 17th Air Force (17th Air Force) was disbanded in 1994. Private schools in grades K-3 (Sembach Elementary School) and 4-8 (Sembach Middle School) as well as some administration buildings and residential accommodation are still in US ownership. This area was called "Sembach Annex", which has now been renamed "Sembach barracks". The only military prison in Europe has been moved from the Coleman Barracks in Mannheim to Sembach.

The airfield is no longer American property.

economy

On the area of ​​the former military airfield, the Sembach industrial park was created with an area of ​​226 hectares, which is one of the largest conversion projects in Rhineland-Palatinate. A total of around 450 people work for various companies that have settled there.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Richard Müller-Mattil (1873–1961), lawyer, politician and regional synod president

People who worked on site

• Christian Schütze, 1792/93 member of the Rhine-German National Convention
• Daniel Ritter (1822 – after 1871), politician, was for a time local mayor
• Thomas Wansch (* 1960), politician (SPD), lives on site
• Patrick Wittich (* 1982), soccer player, played for ASV Sembach at times

literature

• Lothar Horter u. Michael Tilly : Admonishing Witnesses of the Past. (Ed .: Verbandsgemeinde Enkenbach-Alsenborn), Otterbach 1998, 110 p. With numerous illustrations; therein: "The Jews in Sembach" (pp. 10-18), "The Jews in Mehlingen" and "The Jewish cemetery in Mehlingen"
• Winfried Herget and Walter G. Rödel: US Air Base Sembach: From the first land confiscation to withdrawal and conversion . 1995
• Karlheinz Schauder: Churches of the district of Kaiserslautern - 2nd volume: 18th and 19th centuries . Otterberg 1994

Web links

Commons : Sembach  - Collection of Images

• Verbandsgemeinde Enkenbach-Alsenborn (Sembach)
• Literature about Sembach in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Municipal statistics . In: KommWis. October 31, 2014, accessed November 30, 2014 . 
3. ^ Hein, Gerhard: Art. Sembach , in: Mennonitisches Lexikon , Vol. IV (1967), p. 151.
4. ↑ Mennonite Yearbook 117, 2018, p. 180.
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Municipal Council Election 2019 Sembach. Retrieved October 26, 2019 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
7. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Enkenbach-Alsenborn, Verbandsgemeinde, last line of results. Retrieved October 26, 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 - District of Kaiserslautern. Mainz 2019, p. 29 (PDF; 5.4 MB).
10. ^ SWR regional news March 4, 2010
11. ^ Website of the Sembach Business Park, accessed on October 21, 2010