Verbandsgemeinde Bad Bergzabern
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Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ' N , 8 ° 0' E |
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| State : | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| County : | Southern Wine Route | |
| Area : | 164.62 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 24,222 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 147 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| License plate : | SOUTH | |
| Association key : | 07 3 37 5002 | |
| Association structure: | 21 municipalities | |
| Association administration address : |
Königstrasse 61 76887 Bad Bergzabern |
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| Mayor : | Hermann Bohrer ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the Bad Bergzabern community in the southern Weinstrasse district | ||
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The Verbandsgemeinde Bad Bergzabern is an administrative unit in the legal form of a regional authority in the southern Weinstrasse district in Rhineland-Palatinate . The association community includes the spa town of Bad Bergzabern and 20 independent local communities , the administrative seat is in the eponymous town of Bad Bergzabern.
geography
location
The area of the Verbandsgemeinde extends over three landscape areas. The east is part of the Upper Rhine Plain and includes part of the Bienwald and the cattle line . The middle part is in the Weinstrasse region . The west protrudes into the Wasgau , as the southern part of the Palatinate Forest and the adjoining northern part of the Vosges are also called. This area is also part of the Upper Mundat Forest .
Association members communities
| Local parish, city | Area (km²) | Residents |
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| Bad Bergzabern , city | 10.71 | 8,285 |
| Barbelroth | 4.05 | 668 |
| Birkenhördt | 8.58 | 632 |
| Böllenborn | 4.11 | 231 |
| Dierbach | 5.48 | 547 |
| Dörrenbach | 10.14 | 932 |
| Gleiszellen-Gleishorbach | 5.32 | 810 |
| Hergersweiler | 1.80 | 231 |
| Kapellen-Drusweiler | 5.77 | 951 |
| Kapsweyer | 8.27 | 931 |
| Klingenmünster | 10.72 | 2,281 |
| Niederhorbach | 4.32 | 471 |
| Niederotterbach | 3.58 | 348 |
| Oberhausen | 4.50 | 459 |
| Oberotterbach | 15.37 | 1.109 |
| Oberschlettenbach | 4.58 | 140 |
| Pleisweiler-Oberhofen | 5.05 | 842 |
| Schweigen-Rechtenbach | 16.04 | 1,362 |
| Schweighofen | 11.23 | 588 |
| Steinfeld | 14.88 | 1,821 |
| Vorderweidenthal | 10.12 | 583 |
| Verbandsgemeinde Bad Bergzabern | 164.16 | 24,222 |
(Residents on December 31, 2019)
Surveys
In the north are the 503.7 meters high Treutelsberg , the Abtskopf (487 meters), the Vorderweidenthaler Schloßberg (437.6 meters) and the Eulenkopf (315 meters). In the south-west rise the Farrenberg ( 489.3 m ), the Stäffelsberg (480.8 meters), the Oberotterbacher Schloßberg (503 meters) and the Hohe Derst (561 meters); The latter is also the highest elevation in the area of the Verbandsgemeinde. The 402 meter high Steinbühl extends further south .
Waters
In the extreme south the Wieslauter runs in a west-east direction , which receives several left tributaries such as the Erlenbach , the Reisbach and the Rußbach , which at least flow through the area of the Verbandsgemeinde.
Further north, the Otterbach also runs from west to east , which rises in Rothenbrunnen and which includes the Dierbach from the left and the Bruchbach from the right . The Erlenbach flows centrally in a west-east direction , which initially absorbs the Böllenborn from the right and the Anbach from the left shortly before Bad Bergzabern . East of the spa town comes the Horbach from the left . In the far north the Klingbach and for a short stretch its left tributary Kaiserbach runs over the territory of Klingenmünster. The Martha spring is also within the boundaries of the latter municipality .
history
The Verbandsgemeinde Bad Bergzabern was formed as part of the Rhineland-Palatinate functional and territorial reform that began in the 1960s on the basis of the “Thirteenth State Law on Administrative Simplification in the State of Rhineland-Palatinate” of March 1, 1972, which came into force on April 22 1972.
Previously, the administrative structures originating from the Bavarian Palatinate (1816–1946) essentially applied in the then administrative district of Palatinate .
Population development
The development of the number of inhabitants in the area of today's Verbandsgemeinde Bad Bergzabern; the values from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:
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politics
Association municipal council
The local council Bad Bergzabern consists of 36 honorary council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation were elected, and the full-time mayor as chairman.
The distribution of seats in the municipal council:
| choice | SPD | CDU | AfD | FDP | GREEN | FWG | total |
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| 2019 | 9 | 10 | 4th | 2 | 5 | 6th | 36 seats |
| 2014 | 11 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6th | 36 seats |
| 2009 | 11 | 12 | - | 3 | 3 | 7th | 36 seats |
| 2004 | 10 | 14th | - | 2 | 2 | 8th | 36 seats |
- FWG = Free Voting Group of the Bad Bergzabern e. V.
- In 2015 a council member switched from the AfD to the ALFA , and in 2016 to the FWG.
mayor
Hermann Bohrer (SPD) has been the mayor of the association since 1999. In the direct election on April 26, 2015, he was confirmed in office for a further eight years with a share of the vote of 59.18%. Bohrer's predecessor in office was Ottmar Klein , who had been in office from 1980 ; Wilhelm Wallmann had previously been the association's first mayor.
coat of arms
The description of the coat of arms reads: “In a four-fold shield border divided by red and gold, top right in gold, a red key with the beard facing downwards, crossed diagonally with a red cross lance, top left in black a red covered silver lock, bottom right in black a growing left-facing red armored one and tongued golden lion, lower left in silver a green sloping bar, top left by a sloping green chair , bottom right by a sloping green vine leaf. "
The coat of arms was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1982 . The first three fields represent the former territorial lords of the Klingenmünster and Weißenburg monasteries , the Guttenberg rule and the Electoral Palatinate . The fourth field shows the defining importance of viticulture for the association.
Infrastructure
economy
Most of the local communities are part of the Palatinate wine-growing region .
traffic
Steinfeld, Kapsweyer and Schweighofen are located on the Neustadt – Wissembourg railway line , which lost passenger traffic in this area in 1975, but was reactivated in 1997. Barbelroth, Kapellen-Drusweiler and Bad Bergzabern are located on a branch line that begins in Winden .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
- ^ The regional returning officer RLP: Association council election 2019 Bad Bergzabern. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Candidates in the state list ... (PDF; 1025 kB) (No longer available online.) Weekly journal ALFA RLP, November 15, 2015, archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; Retrieved December 19, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Pfalz-Express: Hermann Bohrer remains mayor of Bad Bergzabern. April 26, 2015, accessed December 8, 2019 .
- ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate . Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
