Landstuhl Association (1971–2019)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 25 '  N , 7 ° 34'  E
Basic data (as of 2019)
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kaiserslautern
Area :	56.12 km 2
Residents:	15,269 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	272 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	KL
Association key :	07 3 35 5005
Association structure:	6 municipalities
Location of the Landstuhl Association in the Kaiserslautern district

The Verbandsgemeinde Landstuhl was an administrative unit in the legal form of a regional body in the district of Kaiserslautern in Rhineland-Palatinate . The municipality of the association included the town of Landstuhl and five independent local communities , the administrative seat was in the eponymous town of Landstuhl. On July 1, 2019, the merger with the Kaiserslautern-Süd community took place to form the new Landstuhl community .

Association members communities

Local parish, city	Area (km²)	Residents
spell	12.94	2,294
Main chair	5.00	1,214
Kindsbach	8.80	2,492
Landstuhl , city	15.34	8,870
Mittelbrunn	8.97	744
Oberarnbach	5.08	434
Landstuhl Association	56.14	16,048

(Residents on May 30, 2018)

Population development

The development of the number of inhabitants in relation to the area of ​​the Landstuhl Association at the time of its dissolution; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses :

year Residents 1815 2,075 1835 3,985 1871 5,298 1905 7,481 1939 12,611 1950 12,358 1961 15,847

year Residents 1970 16,150 1987 14,849 1997 16,456 2005 16,255 2016 16.003 2017 15,994 2018 16,048

politics

Association municipal council

The last Verbandsgemeinderat Landstuhl consisted of 32 honorary council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 25, 2014 , and the full-time mayor as chairman. Their term of office ended on June 30, 2019 by state law.

The distribution of seats in the former municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FDP	FWG	total
2014	11	15th	-	6th	32 seats
2009	9	16	3	4th	32 seats
2004	8th	19th	1	4th	32 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group Verbandsgemeinde Landstuhl eV

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In a shield border divided by silver and black, divided by black and silver in a wave shape, above five silver bolls 2: 1: 2, below a black gate system with two tin towers and a closed red portcullis." The coat of arms was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1979 .
	Justification for the coat of arms: The Bollen reminds of the Lords of Sickingen , to whose domain all communities used to belong.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Population on May 31, 2018. City of Landstuhl , accessed on August 5, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Population on December 31, 2016. City of Landstuhl , accessed on July 22, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Population on December 31, 2017. Stadt Landstuhl , accessed on January 17, 2018 . 
4. ^ State of Rhineland-Palatinate: State law on the merger. Section 2 (1) November 27, 2015, accessed on August 17, 2019 . 
5. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, Verbandsgemeinderatswahlen
6. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .