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	Coordinates: 49 ° 19 '  N , 7 ° 39'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southwest Palatinate
Association municipality :	Waldfischbach castle albums
Height :	273 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.54 km 2
Residents:	382 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	150 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66851
Area code :	06333
License plate :	PS , ZW
Community key :	07 3 40 050
Association administration address:	Friedhofstrasse 3 67714 Waldfischbach-Burgalben
Website :	www.vgwaldfischbach-burgalben.de
Local Mayor :	Klaus Reischmann ( CDU )
Location of the local community Steinalben in the district of Südwestpfalz

Steinalben is a municipality in the district of Südwestpfalz in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Waldfischbach-Burgalben , within which it is the smallest local community in terms of population.

geography

The place is at the transition from the Sickinger Höhe to the Palatinate Holzland in the Moosalb valley within the Palatinate Forest . To the north is Horbach , east Geiselsberg , south is Waldfischbach-Burgalben and west Hermersberg .

Steinalben is about 12 km south of Kaiserslautern . At Steinalben the Queidersbach , which rises on the Sickinger Höhe, flows from the right into the Moosalb, ​​as does the Seetalbach from the left .

history

The village of Steinalben originally belonged to the Waldfischbach court in the county of Pfeffingen , which was owned by the Counts of Hohenburg ( Homburg ) as an Electoral Palatinate fief . In 1451 the county of Pfeffingen and with it the town of Steinalben fell back to the Count Palatine. Up until the end of the 18th century, Steinalben and the Waldfischbach court belonged to the Upper Palatinate Office of Lautern . In 1794 the left bank of the Rhine was occupied in the First Coalition War.

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Heltersberg was incorporated into the canton of Waldfischbach in the Donnersberg department and was subordinate to the Mairie Heltersberg .

Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna , the area first came to Austria in June 1815 and was ceded to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 on the basis of a state treaty . Under the Bavarian administration, Steinalben belonged from 1817 to the Pirmasens Land Commissioner in the Rhine District , which in 1862 became the Pirmasens District Office .

In 1939 Steinalben was incorporated into the district of Pirmasens (from 1997 district of Südwestpfalz ) . After the Second World War , the municipality within the French occupation zone became part of the Palatinate administrative district in the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate . In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , the community was assigned to the newly created community of Waldfischbach-Burgalben in 1972 .

population

Population development

The development of the population of stone albums, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 75 1835 119 1871 162 1905 150 1939 225 1950 256

year Residents 1961 314 1970 309 1987 364 1997 439 2005 462 2019 382

religion

The Catholics belong to the diocese of Speyer and are subordinate to the deanery of Pirmasens , the Evangelicals to the Protestant regional church of the Palatinate .

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Steinalben consists of eight 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	Flat share	total
2019	5	3	16 seats
2014	by majority vote		16 seats

mayor

Klaus Reischmann (CDU) became the local mayor of Steinalben on August 6, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 65.55% of the vote. Reischmann's predecessor was Hans-Peter Peifer (WG Pechtl), who was in office from 2009. Before that, Werner Baumann held the office.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Divided by black and blue by a slanting silver bar, above a red-armored and tongued golden lion, below a golden mill wheel."

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

There are a total of four objects on site that are listed , including the Schneider Mühle.

nature

The community is part of the Palatinate Forest Nature Park , which in turn belongs to the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord biosphere reserve . There are two natural monuments in Steinalben , including the “Thick Oak”.

Events

A summer festival takes place every year on the first weekend in August.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

The shoe manufacturer Berkemann had a factory on site from 1970.

traffic

Street

The B 270 runs through the village . There is a connection to long-distance traffic via the nearby Weselberg driveway of the A 62 . In addition, the community is the southern end point of the state road 363 beginning in Landstuhl and the state road 473 beginning in Wallhalben

rail

Steinalben has been connected to the rail network since 1913 via the Biebermühlbahn with trains on the Kaiserslautern - Pirmasens route . The former train station is on the northern outskirts. During the time of the Bavarian State Railways, it was listed as station type 2, which meant that it had "passenger, luggage and express goods traffic" . In the meantime, it was dismantled at the breakpoint.

tourism

The Pfälzerwald-Tour cycle path from Kaiserslautern to Hinterweidenthal leads through the middle of Steinalben. In addition, there is a hiking trail through the municipality that is marked with a blue dot and connects to the main chair and glue .

Web links

Commons : Stone albums  - collection of images

• Stone albums on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Waldfischbach-Burgalben

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : The rulers of the lower Nahe area: the Nahegau and its surroundings , Bonn: Behrendt, 1914, p. 268 ( dilibri Rhineland-Palatinate )
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
5. ↑ Andrea Daum: Stone albums: Maybe soon two councilors. Constituent municipal council meeting. Die Rheinpfalz, August 7, 2019, accessed on March 31, 2020 . 
6. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Waldfischbach-Burgalben, Verbandsgemeinde, penultimate line of results. Accessed March 31, 2020 . 
7. ↑ kbaystb.de: The Stations of the Royal Bavarian State Railways - linksrheinisch (Bavarian Palatinate) - Pirmasens to Steinwenden: . Retrieved January 27, 2014 .