Stilt mountain

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Stelzenberg (disambiguation) .

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 23 '  N , 7 ° 44'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kaiserslautern
Association municipality :	Landstuhl
Height :	375 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.23 km 2
Residents:	1188 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	129 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67705
Area code :	06306
License plate :	KL
Community key :	07 3 35 045
Association administration address:	Kaiserstraße 49 66849 Landstuhl
Website :	www.stelzenberg.de
Local Mayor :	Fritz Geib (FWG)
Location of the local community Stelzenberg in the district of Kaiserslautern

Stelzenberg is a municipality in the Kaiserslautern district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Landstuhl Association .

geography

location

The community is located in the Palatinate Forest Biosphere Reserve . Stelzenberg is located roughly between the city of Kaiserslautern (distance to the beginning of the village and thus to the Technical University of Kaiserslautern about ten kilometers) and the municipality of Trippstadt (distance to the beginning of the town about six kilometers). Stelzenberg also includes the residential areas and hamlets of Alte Schmelz, Breitenau , Eisenschmelz, Forsthaus Horst and Walzwerk. Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Kaiserslautern , Trippstadt, Schopp and Krickenbach . The Aschbachtal-Jagdhausweiher nature reserve is partly within the boundaries of the local community.

Waters

The Moosalbe forms the southern boundary of Schopp. Your left tributary Aschbach marks the border with Kaiserslautern in the north and then flows through the west of the district; there it flows through a woog with the whale pond .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1534. The Stolzenburg in Stelzenberg, which was built by the "Lords of Stelzenberg", was mentioned for the first time in 1293. The castle, built in 1244, was completely destroyed in the Thirty Years War . Stelzenberg later belonged to the lordship of Wilenstein in the county of Falkenstein and was purchased in 1719 by the Palatinate colonel hunter Freiherr Ludwig Anton von Hacke (1682–1752); it remained in the possession of his family, who lived at Schloss Trippstadt , until the end of the feudal era. At times the place was also subordinate to the Oberamt Winnweiler .

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Stelzenberg was incorporated into the Canton of Kaiserslautern and was subordinate to the Mairie Trippstadt . In 1815 the municipality of Austria was added. Just one year later, the place, like the entire Palatinate, changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 he was a member of the Land Commissioner in Kaiserslautern ; from this the district office of Kaiserslautern emerged.

The community has been part of the Kaiserslautern district since 1939 . After the Second World War , Stelzenberg became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . As part of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , the place was incorporated into the newly created community of Kaiserslautern-Süd in 1972 , which merged with the Landstuhl community on July 1, 2019 to form the new Landstuhl community .

population

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 329 1835 471 1871 521 1905 534 1939 605 1950 687

year Residents 1961 811 1970 909 1987 1.106 1997 1,316 2005 1,226 2019 1,188

religion

At the end of 2014, 46.7 percent of the population were Protestant and 21.3 percent Catholic. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational. The Catholics belong to the Diocese of Speyer , the Evangelicals to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate . On the Protestant side, Stelzenberg forms a parish together with Trippstadt and Mölschbach .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Stelzenberg consists of 16 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	GREEN	FWG	total
2019	5	-	-	11	16 seats
2014	9	0	-	7th	16 seats
2009	7th	1	1	7th	16 seats
2004	7th	2	1	6th	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group Stelzenberg e. V.

mayor

The local mayor of Stelzenberg is Fritz Geib (FWG). In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected with 71.20% of the vote, making him the successor to Reiner Demuth (SPD), who did not run again.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Divided by red and silver, at the top a battlements with two towers and a locked gate, at the bottom two upright rainbows arched against each other, striped with red and gold and blue." It was approved by the Ministry of the Interior in Koblenz in 1950 .
	Justification of the coat of arms: The lower part of the local coat of arms with the two rainbows is the family coat of arms of the Barons von Hacke.

Culture and sights

Village square with village fountain

The village square with the village fountain (Lindenbrunnen) is a central point within the community right at the entrance to the village.

In Stelzenberg there are a total of six objects that are under monument protection as well as two natural monuments with the valley fountain and the sycamore maple at the lime fountain . The Stolzenburg , which can no longer be precisely located, was located in the parish of the municipality .

Regular events

Every year on the last Sunday in August, the traditional oven festival is celebrated around the bakery with music and tarte flambée .

traffic

To the west of the municipality is the federal highway 270 which connects Kaiserslautern with Pirmasens. It is 15 km to the federal motorway 62 (Nonnweiler-Pirmasens) with the Bann junction. Stelzenberg is served by a VRN bus line, with buses running regularly from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekdays and at least once an hour. The line runs between Trippstadt and Kaiserslautern. District roads 53 and 55 also run through Stelzenberg .

The closest train station is Schopp an der Biebermühlbahn ; after the Karlsthal stop located in the west of the municipality marker had been abandoned for lack of profitability in the meantime.

In addition, the Rhineland-Palatinate Sculpture Trail and the Water Trail on the Moosalbe lead through Stelzenberg.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Karl Huber (1886–1963), teacher, writer and publisher
• Marcel Cordes (1920–1992), opera and concert singer

People who worked on site

• Dieter Prätzel-Wolters (* 1950), mathematician, lives on site
• Jürgen Franke (* 1952), mathematician, professor of applied mathematical statistics at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and scientific advisor to the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics in Kaiserslautern, lives in Stelzenberg
• Winni Schaak (* 1957), sculptor, created the sculpture Schneid'ger Kopfkarton VI on site in 2005
• Uli Gsell (* 1967), sculptor, created the Schweinstäler Kopf on site in 2005

Web links

Commons : Stelzenberg  - collection of images

• Website of the local community of Stelzenberg
• Literature on Stelzenberg in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 1, 2017 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 95 (PDF; 1.9 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2014
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal Council Election 2019 Stelzenberg. Retrieved November 1, 2019 . 
6. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal Council Election 2014 Stelzenberg. Retrieved November 1, 2019 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Landstuhl, Verbandsgemeinde, eleventh line of results. Retrieved November 1, 2019 . 
8. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate . Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .