Verbandsgemeinde Pirmasens-Land

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Coordinates: 49 ° 12 '  N , 7 ° 36'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Southwest Palatinate
Area : 143.02 km 2
Residents: 12,032 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 84 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : PS , ZW
Association key : 07 3 40 5003
Association structure: 10 municipalities
Association administration address
: 		Bahnhofstrasse 19
66953 Pirmasens
Website : www.pirmasens-land.de
Mayor : Silvia Seebach ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Pirmasens-Land in the district of Südwestpfalz
Darstein Dimbach (Pfalz) Hauenstein (Pfalz) Hinterweidenthal Lug (Pfalz) Schwanheim (Pfalz) Spirkelbach Spirkelbach Wilgartswiesen Wilgartswiesen Clausen Donsieders Leimen (Pfalz) Merzalben Münchweiler an der Rodalb Rodalben Bottenbach Eppenbrunn Hilst Kröppen Kröppen Lemberg (Pfalz) Obersimten Ruppertsweiler Schweix Trulben Vinningen Bobenthal Bruchweiler-Bärenbach Bundenthal Busenberg Dahn Erfweiler Erlenbach bei Dahn Fischbach bei Dahn Hirschthal (Pfalz) Ludwigswinkel Niederschlettenbach Nothweiler Rumbach Schindhard Schönau (Pfalz) Biedershausen Herschberg Hettenhausen (Pfalz) Knopp-Labach Krähenberg Obernheim-Kirchenarnbach Saalstadt Schauerberg Schmitshausen Wallhalben Weselberg Winterbach (Pfalz) Geiselberg Heltersberg Hermersberg Höheinöd Horbach (Pfalz) Schmalenberg Steinalben Waldfischbach-Burgalben Althornbach Battweiler Bechhofen (Pfalz) Contwig Dellfeld Dietrichingen Großbundenbach Großsteinhausen Hornbach Käshofen Kleinbundenbach Kleinsteinhausen Mauschbach Riedelberg Rosenkopf Walshausen Wiesbach (Pfalz) Höheischweiler Höhfröschen Maßweiler Nünschweiler Petersberg (Pfalz) Reifenberg Rieschweiler-Mühlbach Thaleischweiler-Fröschen Pirmasens Zweibrücken Saarland Saarland Frankreich Landkreis Südliche Weinstraße Kaiserslautern Landkreis Kaiserslautern Landkreis Kaiserslautern Landkreis Kusel Landau in der Pfalz Landkreis Bad Dürkheimmap
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The Verbandsgemeinde Pirmasens-Land is an administrative unit in the legal form of a regional authority in the district of Südwestpfalz in Rhineland-Palatinate . The municipality includes ten independent local churches to, the administrative headquarters is in the former district office building in the eponymous independent town Pirmasens , but not even a member of the community association.

Association members communities

Local parish Area (km²) Residents
Bottenbach 6.15 741
Eppenbrunn 34.02 1,308
Help 3.38 315
Crops 10.50 674
Lviv 58.19 3,759
Topsimps 2.26 624
Ruppertsweiler 4.78 1,503
Schweix 3.73 294
Trulben 7.36 1,124
Vinningen 12.65 1,690
Verbandsgemeinde Pirmasens-Land 143.03 12,032

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

history

The Verbandsgemeinde Pirmasens-Land was re-established in 1972, like all the association communities in the then administrative district Rheinhessen-Pfalz , on the basis of the "Thirteenth State Law on Administrative Simplification in the State of Rhineland-Palatinate". Until then, the administrative structures originating from the Palatinate (Bavaria) (1816-1946) existed.

Population development

The development of the number of inhabitants in relation to the area of ​​today's Verbandsgemeinde Pirmasens-Land; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents
1815 4,590
1835 6,452
1871 6.318
1905 8,431
1939 9,478
1950 8,790
year Residents
1961 10,043
1970 11,521
1987 12,356
1997 13,488
2005 13,143
2019 12,032

politics

Association municipal council

The Verbandsgemeinderat Pirmasens-Land consists of 28 voluntary council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the full-time mayor as chairperson.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice SPD CDU FDP FWG total
2019 10 10 1 7th 28 seats
2014 10 11 - 7th 28 seats
2009 11 11 - 6th 28 seats
2004 10 13 - 5 28 seats
  • FWG = Free Voting Community Pirmasens-Land e. V.

mayor

The later mayor of Pirmasens, Bernhard Matheis , was elected mayor of the association in 1994. His successor was Roland Haag (FWG), who was confirmed in an election at the beginning of 2000, after Matheis moved to Mayor of Pirmasens in 1999. The current mayor of the association is Silvia Seebach after the election on November 4, 2007, who was sworn in on March 15, 2008. Silvia Seebach was the first female mayor of an association municipality in the district of Südwestpfalz. In the election on November 22, 2015, she was confirmed in her office with 83.59% of the votes.

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: "In a shield border in blue divided eight times by silver and red, a lion divided nine times by silver and red, holding a golden shield with three red rafters in his paws."

The coat of arms was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1978 and, with the rafters of the Counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg and the Hessian lion, refers to the historical rule.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  3. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: Association council election 2019 Pirmasens-Land. Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
  4. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, Verbandsgemeinderatswahlen
  5. ↑ http://www.wahlen.rlp.de/kw/dw/archiv/direkt_bis_2008/VGBuergermeister.html , accessed on September 23, 2017
  6. ^ Verbandsgemeinde Pirmasens-Land: Mayoral election VG PS-Land 2015. Accessed on August 24, 2019 .
  7. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate . Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3