Speyerbrunn

Speyerbrunn Elmstein municipality Coordinates: 49 ° 20 ′ 59 ″  N , 7 ° 52 ′ 16 ″  E
Height :	312–337 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	100
Incorporation :	January 1, 1976
Postal code :	67471
Area code :	06328
Location of Speyerbrunn in Rhineland-Palatinate
Ritterstein 254 Speyerbach origin in the center of Speyerbrunn

Speyerbrunn is part of the Elmstein municipality in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Bad Dürkheim . Before that, it was part of the Wilgartswiesen community until the end of 1975 .

geography

location

It is located in the middle of the Palatinate Forest within the Frankenweide sub-area about three kilometers west of the core community in the Elmsteiner Tal . The closest localities are the annexes Erlenbach and Schwarzbach , which also belong to Elmstein, and the hamlet of Johanniskreuz, which belongs to Trippstadt, and the Wilgartswieser district of Hofstätten .

Elevations and waters

The 516  m high Mückenberg and the 514  m high Riesenberg extend north of the village .

The source pond of the Speyerbach is located on site, which nominally rises on site. In the former, the Erlenbach flows from the south , which from a hydrological perspective is considered to be the source of the Speyerbach. In addition, the Schwarzbach flows into the source pond from the west . Half a kilometer further east, the Enkenbach flows into the Speyerbach from the left .

history

Speyerbrunn was founded by loggers around 1754.

According to the official register of localities for the Free State of Bavaria from 1928, 78 inhabitants lived in Speyerbrunn. The village belonged to the rural community Wilgartswiesen-Hofstätten in the Bergzabern district office , Palatinate administrative district . There was a Catholic school.

In the course of a regional reform, the place was incorporated into the municipality of Elmstein on January 1, 1976 together with the neighboring places Schwarzbach and Erlenbach .

Attractions

Cultural monuments

The church, the old schoolhouse and the Speyerbach-Trift facilities have been under monument protection since 1997 . Other listed objects are a house on Johanniskreuzer Straße and the forester's house.

In earlier times the Catholic services were held in a hall of the school house. The sandstone church St. Wendelinus and Hubertus with onion domes was built according to plans by the church builder Josef Kuld from Mannheim. After the foundation stone was laid in May 1932 by Bishop Ludwig Sebastian von Speyer , he was able to consecrate the church on November 27th in the names of Saints Wendelinus and Hubertus. The small church also serves the residents of the villages of Mückenwiese, Erlenbach and Schwarzbach.

nature

The pond at the Speyerbach spring is designated as a natural monument .

Knight stones

Knight stone 121

There are several knight stones in the catchment area of ​​Speyerbrunn . Ritterstein 121, bearing the inscription Frh. Haacke Holsriese is reminiscent of an earlier wooden giant . Ritterstein 254 Speyerbach-Ursprung - Floßwoog with lock is located at the source of the Speyerbach.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

State road 499 runs through Speyerbrunn and connects the town with Frankeneck and Waldfischbach-Burgalben . On site, the district road 40 branches off from this , which leads to the Annexe Erlenbach.

The bus route 517 of the Rhein-Neckar transport association , which runs from Neustadt an der Weinstrasse via Helmbach, Appenthal and Elmstein to Iggelbach, also runs via Johanniskreuz, Speyerbrunn and Mückenwiese during the summer season. There are also school buses on the Elmstein – Mückenwiese – Speyerbrunn – Schwarzbach route.

tourism

By Speyerbrunn a lead trail that with a blue-yellow bar is highlighted and the blue marked forestry historical trail 3 tracing the Forstamtes locust cross.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Peter Marx (* 1956), politician (NPD)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria , according to the census of June 16, 1926 and the territorial status of January 1, 1928, column 726 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de )
2. ↑ 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. 175 (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.