Sulzbachtal

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kaiserslautern
Association municipality :	Otterbach-Otterberg
Height :	327 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.71 km 2
Residents:	434 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	65 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67734
Area code :	06308
License plate :	KL
Community key :	07 3 35 046
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Hauptstrasse 27 ; 67697 Otterberg
Website :	www.otterbach-otterberg.de
Local Mayor :	Ero Zinßmeister
Location of the local community Sulzbachtal in the Kaiserslautern district

Sulzbachtal is a municipality in the Kaiserslautern district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Otterbach-Otterberg .

geography

Sulzbachtal is twelve kilometers north of Kaiserslautern on the Lauter .

The districts of the community are Obersulzbach and Untersulzbach . The Hirschhorner Bordenmühle residential area also belongs to Untersulzbach .

history

On January 29, 1379, the current districts were first mentioned in a deed of Veldenz as Obersulzbach and Untersulzbach . They belonged to the Electoral Palatinate until the French Revolution . Michael Frey describes the population development as follows: While in 1600 just ten families were named as residents, in 1802 there were already 376 inhabitants. The Brambach desert lies within the district . In earlier times this was an old farm belonging to the Benedictine abbey in Offenbach am Glan.

On June 7, 1969, the community Sulzbachtal was formed from the previously independent communities Obersulzbach (131 inhabitants at the time) and Untersulzbach (275 inhabitants).

religion

In 2012, 62.7 percent of the population were Protestant and 13.3 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 .

politics

Municipal council

The council in Sulzbachtal consists of eight council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Local mayor

The local mayor of Sulzbachtal is Ero Zinßmeister (FWG). In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with 81.90% of the vote.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In silver, a blue oblique left-hand wave bar covered with three silver salt crystals, a green acorn with green stems and leaves on the upper right, a black blackberry with green stems and leaves on the lower left." It was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1976 .

Culture and sights

Buildings

See the list of cultural monuments in Sulzbachtal

Regular events

The Sulzbachtaler Kerwe always takes place on the third weekend in September .

traffic

The public transport in the transport association Rhein-Neckar integrated. The Lautertal Railway from Kaiserslautern to Lauterecken has the Sulzbachtal stop , which was called Untersulzbach until summer 2018 .
The federal highway 270 from Kaiserslautern via Wolfstein and Lauterecken to Idar-Oberstein is nearby . On the A6 , there is a connection point Kaiserslautern West.

Web links

Commons : Sulzbachtal - collection of images

Local community Sulzbachtal on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Otterbach-Otterberg
Literature about Sulzbachtal in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 97 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
↑ 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. 197 (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.
↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2012
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal Council Election 2019 Sulzbachtal. Retrieved October 27, 2019 .
↑ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Otterbach-Otterberg, Verbandsgemeinde, last line of results. Retrieved October 27, 2019 .
^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

[2] State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 97 (PDF; 2.2 MB).

[3] 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. 197 (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.

[4] KommWis, as of December 31, 2012

[5] The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal Council Election 2019 Sulzbachtal. Retrieved October 27, 2019 .

[6] The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Otterbach-Otterberg, Verbandsgemeinde, last line of results. Retrieved October 27, 2019 .

[Wappen-7] Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .