Stein (Gossersweiler-Stein)
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Local community Gossersweiler-Stein
Coordinates: 49 ° 9 ′ 26 ″ N , 7 ° 56 ′ 15 ″ E
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| Height : | 277 m above sea level NHN | |
| Residents : | 499 (Jun 30, 2007) | |
| Incorporation : | March 1, 1970 | |
| Postal code : | 76857 | |
| Area code : | 06346 | |
Location of Stein in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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 View from Rötzenberg to Gossersweiler (left) and Stein (right)
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With around 500 inhabitants, Stein is the smaller of two districts of the local community Gossersweiler-Stein in the southern Weinstrasse district in Rhineland-Palatinate . Until 1970 it was an independent community.
location
The place is located in the southeastern municipality in the middle of Wasgau , as the southern part of the Palatinate Forest and the adjoining northern part of the Vosges are also called, in the so-called Gossersweiler Valley . Immediately to the west of the settlement area rises the 406 meter high Eichelberg . In the closer catchment area there are several rock formations classified as natural monuments such as the Engelmannsfelsen immediately northwest of the settlement area as well as the Dreifelsen and the Krimhildenstein , both of which are further south-west. As the Steiner Nadel, the latter is also part of the Südpfalz climbing area . The Klingbach , which runs in an east-west direction, rises around two kilometers southwest of the village , but does not touch the settlement area.
history
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 . From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Gossersweiler was incorporated into the canton of Annweiler and was subordinate to the Mairie Schwanheim . In 1815 the place had a total of 257 inhabitants; in the same year the place Austria was struck.
Then the place changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 he was a member of the Bergzabern Land Commissioner ; The Bergzabern district office emerged from this . In 1928 Stein had 451 residents who lived in 100 residential buildings. The then without exception Catholic population belonged to the parish of Goßersweiler at that time . From 1939 the place was part of the Bergzabern district . After the Second World War , Stein became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate, Stein moved to the newly created Landau-Bad Bergzabern district in 1969, which has been called the Southern Wine Route since 1978 . A year later, on March 1, 1970, the place was merged with the neighboring community of Gossersweiler to form the new local community of Gossersweiler-Stein .
traffic
State road 494, which connects it with Völkersweiler , Silz and federal road 48 , runs through the town . The bus line 531 of the transport association Rhein-Neckar connects the place with Landau in der Pfalz and Annweiler am Trifels.
Infrastructure
With the Catholic Church of St. Martin , the cemetery crosses, a tobacco shed and two crossroads, there are a total of five objects on site that are listed . Half a kilometer south of the settlement area, not far from the border with Silz, is the chapel of the Holy Cross . The Eichwald holiday village, built in the early 1970s, is also to the southwest of the village. After the Second World War, the SV Stein 1957 e. V. on site a football club; Immediately after the merger with the neighboring town of Gossersweiler in 1970, the idea of joining forces came up, which in December of the same year led to the merger with TuS Gossersweiler to form SV Gossersweiler-Stein . Since then it has been based in Gossersweiler. There is also a tennis court south of the settlement area. With Cellavita GmbH , Stein is the location of a company that sells health products.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the place
- Philipp Hammer (1837–1901), Catholic priest, nationally known preacher and popular speaker
People who worked on site
- Eva Justin (1909–1966), racial researcher, carried out field research for National Socialist racial studies on site in the 1930s.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stone. In: gov.genealogy.net. Retrieved May 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Steiner Nadel. In: pfaelzer-kletterer.de. Archived from the original on February 10, 2018 ; accessed on May 2, 2020 .
- ↑ List of localities for the Free State of Bavaria. In: daten.digitale-sammlungen.de. Retrieved October 23, 2015 .
- ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 164 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
- ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Southern Wine Route district. Mainz 2020, p. 44 (PDF; 10 MB).
- ↑ Imprint. (No longer available online.) Cellavita, archived from the original on June 6, 2017 ; accessed on February 9, 2018 .