Verbandsgemeinde Otterberg
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Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ' N , 7 ° 46' E |
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| Basic data (as of 2014) | ||
| Existing period: | 1972-2014 | |
| State : | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| County : | Kaiserslautern | |
| Area : | 75.8 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 9317 (Jun. 30, 2014) | |
| Population density : | 123 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| License plate : | KL | |
| Association key : | 07 3 35 5007 | |
| Association structure: | 5 municipalities | |
| Association administration address : |
Hauptstrasse 27 67697 Otterberg |
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| Mayor : | Ulrich Wasser (–2009), Martin Müller (2009–2014) | |
| Location of the Verbandsgemeinde Otterberg in the Kaiserslautern district | ||
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The Verbandsgemeinde Otterberg was an administrative unit in the legal form of a regional authority in the district of Kaiserslautern in Rhineland-Palatinate . The municipality of the association included the town of Otterberg and four independent local communities , the administrative seat was in the eponymous town of Otterberg.
On 1 July 2014, the municipality Ottersberg with was Verbandsgemeinde Otterbach to otterbach-otterberg merged.
Association members communities
| Local parish, city | Area (km²) | Residents |
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| Holy Moschel | 8.68 | 644 |
| Niederkirchen | 23.85 | 1,972 |
| Otterberg , city | 32.10 | 5,225 |
| Schallodenbach | 7.46 | 879 |
| Schneckenhausen | 3.71 | 597 |
| Verbandsgemeinde Otterberg | 75.80 | 9,317 |
(Resident on June 30, 2014)
history
The Verbandsgemeinde Otterberg was established in 1971 as part of the Rhineland-Palatinate functional and territorial reform .
In the course of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipal and administrative reform that began in 2010 , the municipalities of Otterberg and Otterbach were to be merged on the basis of the so-called "voluntary phase" that ran until June 30, 2012.
On December 14, 2010, the municipal councils of the two municipalities decided in separate but simultaneous meetings to merge the neighboring municipalities in 2014. The merger agreement was signed by the two mayors, Martin Müller (Verbandsgemeinde Otterberg) and Harald Westrich (Verbandsgemeinde Otterbach) on signed the same day.
According to the "State Law on the Voluntary Formation of the New Association of Otterbach-Otterberg" enacted on December 20, 2011, a new community with the name of " Otterbach-Otterberg " was formed on July 1, 2014 . The administrative seat is the city of Otterberg , a second administrative office is to remain in Otterbach. The election to the municipal council and the mayor of the new municipality took place on the day of the general municipal elections in 2014.
Population development
The development of the population of the Verbandsgemeinde Otterbach in relation to the administrative area at the time of dissolution; the values from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:
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politics
Association municipal council
The Verbandsgemeinderat Otterberg consisted of 24 honorary council members elected in a personalized proportional representation and the full-time mayor as chairman.
The distribution of seats in the municipal council:
| choice | SPD | CDU | FDP | FWG | total |
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| 2009 | 11 | 8th | 1 | 4th | 24 seats |
| 2004 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 4th | 24 seats |
mayor
The last mayor was Martin Müller (SPD).
coat of arms
The blazon of the former coat of arms reads: "In a shield border divided four times by gold and black, four-sided by black and silver, a silver leopard on a gold-clad field at the top right , three red squirrels 2: 1 at the top left, a red diagonal bar at the bottom right with three golden belt buckles (inclined grid), lower left five silver bolts 2: 1: 2 “.
It was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1980 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gesellschaft für Kommunikation und Wissenstransfer mbH - rlpDirekt ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ State law of December 20, 2011 (PDF; 3.6 MB)
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2009, Verbandsgemeinderatswahlen
- ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate . Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3
