Silz (Palatinate)

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southern Wine Route
Association municipality :	Annweiler am Trifels
Height :	216 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.51 km 2
Residents:	743 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	87 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	76857
Area code :	06346
License plate :	SOUTH
Community key :	07 3 37 074
Association administration address:	Messplatz 1 ; 76855 Annweiler am Trifels
Website :	www.silz.de
Mayoress :	Elke Mandery ( FWG )
Location of the local community Silz in the district of Südliche Weinstrasse

Silz is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstrasse district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Annweiler am Trifels . It gained supraregional fame through the Südliche Weinstrasse wildlife and hiking park within its boundaries .

geography

location

The state-approved resort is located in Wasgau , as the southern part of the Palatinate Forest and the adjoining northern part of the Vosges are also called, between Annweiler am Trifels and Bad Bergzabern . The rock layers consist of fine-grain sandstones. Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Waldrohrbach , Münchweiler am Klingbach , Klingenmünster , Gleiszellen-Gleishorbach , Bad Bergzabern, Birkenhördt , Vorderweidenthal and Gossersweiler-Stein .

Elevations and waters

The 487-meter-high Abtskopf extends along the boundary between Klingenmünster and Gleiszellen-Gleishorbach . The central flowing water is the Klingbach, which runs in a west-east direction . To the west of the Silzer settlement area it is dammed up to the Silzer See ; Shortly before reaching the development, it takes the Sandwiesenbach from the right .

history

The place name Silz indicates a salty, i.e. salty, cloudy water in the area of the local community. In fact, there are at least four such saline springs in Silz. Until the end of the 18th century, the place belonged to the Unteramt Landeck , which was jointly owned by the Electoral Palatinate and the Hochstift Speyer .

After the Left Bank of the Rhine was taken by French revolutionary troops (1794), Silz was assigned to the canton of Annweiler in the Donnersberg department from 1798 to 1814 and was administered by the Mairie in Schwanheim . In 1815 the place had a total of 385 inhabitants. In 1815 the place had a total of 257 inhabitants. Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna in the same year, the Palatinate and thus also the municipality of Silz were initially assigned to Austria . In a state treaty concluded in 1816 , Austria ceded the region to the Kingdom of Bavaria . The now Bavarian canton Annweiler belonged in the newly created Rhine district for the time being to the district of Zweibrücken formed from the previous arrondissement and came to the district of Landau on August 1, 1816. After the subdivision of the districts into Landkommissariate (1818) Sülz - as it was then called - belonged to the Landkommissariat Bergzabern ; The Bergzabern district office emerged from this .

From 1939 the place was part of the Bergzabern district . After the Second World War , Silz became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . During the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform changed the place on 7 June 1969 in the newly created district Landau-Bad Bergzabern, in 1978 in South County Wine Trail is renamed . 1972 Silz was assigned to the also newly formed community of Annweiler am Trifels .

religion

There is a church on site.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Silz consists of twelve 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	CDU	FWG	WGR	total
2019	3	9	-	12 seats
2014	2	8th	2	12 seats
2009	by majority vote			12 seats

mayor

Elke Mandery (FWG) became mayor of Silz on June 24, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, she was elected for five years with 68.97% of the vote. Her predecessor Peter Nöthen (FWG) had held the office for ten years.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In black a slanting left golden arrow with a rising tip, accompanied at the top right by a floating isosceles silver cross, at the bottom left by a silver salt crystal in the shape of a diamond."

Culture

Cultural monuments

There are a total of six objects on site that are listed ; almost all of them are crosses.

Knight stones

Ritterstein 34 Silzer Linde

The knight stones 34 and 206 are located in the southern area of the municipality . The former is named Silzer Linde and indicates the location of an old linden tree. The latter has the inscription cats oak and is located southwest of Abtskopfes; the name of the corresponding oak gives an indication of wild cats.

Infrastructure

tourism

The wildlife and hiking park Südliche Weinstrasse in Silz has 15 different types of larger animals. In addition to a restaurant , kiosk and barbecue hut , there is an observation tower , a petting zoo , a children's and an adventure playground . The leisure facility is used by around 100,000 visitors annually.

traffic

Silz is on the state roads 493 and 494 . The former comes from Vorderweidenthal and heads east via Herxheim and Rülzheim to Hördt . The latter begins in Völkersweiler and leads via Gossersweiler-Stein, before it flows into the former in the center of Silz. The bus line 531 of the Rhein-Neckar transport association connects the community with Landau in the Palatinate and Annweiler am Trifels. The closest train stop is Annweiler am Trifels station .