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	Coordinates: 49 ° 10 '  N , 7 ° 35'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southwest Palatinate
Association municipality :	Pirmasens land
Height :	410 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.26 km 2
Residents:	624 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	276 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66957
Area code :	06331
License plate :	PS , ZW
Community key :	07 3 40 036
Association administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 19 66953 Pirmasens
Website :	www.pirmasens-land.de/vg_pirmasens_land/Ortsgemeinden/Obersimten
Local Mayor :	Thorsten Höh ( CDU )
Location of the local community Obersimten in the district of Südwestpfalz

Obersimten is a municipality in the district of Südwestpfalz in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Pirmasens Land Association .

geography

Obersimten is located west of the Palatinate Forest on the edge of the Zweibrücker hill country between Pirmasens in the northeast and Vinningen in the southwest.

history

middle Ages

The village of Obersimten was in the Lemberg district of the County of Zweibrücken-Bitsch and there in the Vinningen district school .

Early modern age

Count Jakob von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* 1510; † 1570) died in 1570 as the last male member of his family. The Lemberg office was inherited by his daughter, Ludovica Margaretha von Zweibrücken-Bitsch , who was married to the (heir) Count Philipp (V) von Hanau-Lichtenberg . Her father-in-law, Count Philipp IV. Von Hanau-Lichtenberg , gave the strict Roman Catholic Duke Karl III by immediately introducing the Lutheran creed . of Lorraine, the opportunity to intervene militarily, as the latter had suzerainty over the Bitsch rule, which was also part of the inheritance . In July 1572 Lorraine troops occupied the county. Since Philip IV was unable to cope with the overwhelming power of Lorraine, he chose the legal route. In the subsequent process before the Reich Chamber of Commerce, Lorraine was able to prevail with regard to the Bitsch rule, while the Lemberg office - and thus Obersimten - was awarded to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg .

1736 died with Count Johann Reinhard III. the last male representative of the Hanau family. Due to the marriage of his only daughter, Charlotte (* 1700; † 1726), with the Hereditary Prince Ludwig (VIII.) (* 1691; † 1768) of Hesse-Darmstadt , the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg fell there.

Modern times

In the course of the French Revolution , the part of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg on the left bank of the Rhine - and with it the Office of Lemberg and Obersimten - fell to France in 1794. After the end of Napoleonic rule, Obersimten came to the Bavarian Rhine District .

For a long time united under the name of Simten with Niedersimten to form a municipality, the municipality lost this district on June 7, 1969 to the city of Pirmasens. On the same day the community was renamed Obersimten .

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Obersimten 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	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	4th	8th	-	12 seats
2014	4th	8th	-	12 seats
2009	4th	8th	-	12 seats
2004	4th	6th	2	12 seats

mayor

Thorsten Höh (CDU) became the local mayor of Obersimten on August 20, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 84.88% of the vote. Höhs predecessor Bernd Gehringer (CDU) did not run again.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Divided by a silver goblet cut of red and green and green, top right three golden rafters, top left a sloping golden crook with the golden letters A and S and a silver plow below."
	Reasons for the coat of arms: The rafters come from the coat of arms of Hanau- Lichtenberg.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Obersimten

literature

• Official directory and statistics of the royal Bavarian administrative district of the Palatinate . Speyer 1870.
• Friedrich Knöpp: Territorial holdings of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Hesse-Darmstadt . [typewritten] Darmstadt 1962. [Available in the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , signature: N 282/6].
• Alfred Matt: Bailliages, prévôté et fiefs ayant fait partie de la Seigneurie de Lichtenberg, du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg, du Landgraviat de Hesse-Darmstadt . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (Eds.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480 - 1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 7-9.

Web links

Commons : Obersimten  - Collection of Images

• Literature on Obersimten 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. ↑ Knöpp, p. 12; Matt, p. 9.
3. ↑ Directory of officials .
4. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 205 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ^ Daniela Schröder: Obersimten: New trio starts at the top of the community. Handover. Die Rheinpfalz, August 22, 2019, accessed on April 6, 2020 . 
7. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Pirmasens-Land, Verbandsgemeinde, ninth line of results. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .