Waldfischbach
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Waldfischbach
Local community Waldfischbach-Burgalben
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| Height : | 280 m above sea level NHN | |
| Residents : | 3950 (Jun. 30, 2007) | |
| Incorporation : | 7th June 1969 | |
| Postal code : | 67714 | |
| Area code : | 06333 | |
Location of Waldfischbach in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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 View of Waldfischbach
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WALDFISCHBACH is just under 4000 population of larger district of the Rheinland-Pfalz district Sudwestpfalz lying municipality waldfischbach-burgalben . Until 1969 it was an independent community.
location
The place is on the western edge of the Palatinate Forest , in the so-called Palatinate Woodland . West to the closing Westrich Plateau belonging Sickingerhöhe on. The Moosalb flows through the middle of Waldfischbach and flows into the Schwarzbach a little later . The latter acts as the namesake for the Schwarzbachtal in which the place is located. The 399 meter high Galgenberg extends east of the settlement area . At Waldfischbach also include residential places Forsthaus Rohwald and Wappenschmiede (beach).
history
On the one hand, the nearby Heidelsburg and the finds made there point to a settlement of the district in Roman times . On the other hand, a Dianar relief from around 200 AD, which was discovered in 1847 and is in the Roman collection of the Historisches Museum der Pfalz zu Speyer , points to traces of ancient settlement.
Waldfischbach was first mentioned in a document in 1182.
From 1559 to 1592 Waldfischbach belonged to Palatinate-Lautern , then to the Electoral Palatinate until the end of the 18th century . From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire was, was Waldfischbach seat of the canton of the same , which belonged to 20 other municipalities, as well as the eponymous Mairie , in addition Burgalben , Schmalenberg and Schopp included . In 1815 Waldfischbach had 350 inhabitants. In the same year, Austria was struck. Then the place changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 Waldfischbach was part of the Pirmasens Land Commissioner , which was then converted into a district office.
In 1939 the place was incorporated into the Pirmasens district. After the Second World War , the place became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , Waldfischbach, which had 4,336 inhabitants at the time, was merged on June 7, 1969 with the subsequent community of Burgalben to form the new community of Waldfischbach-Burgalben.
politics
mayor
- ???? - 1800: Nicolaus Infert
- 1800–1815: Heinrich Stein
- 1815–1817: Ludwig Lanz
- 1817–1849: Heinrich Schaaf
- 1849–1850: Peter Stein
- 1850–1850: Jakob Riedinger
- 1851–1852: Heinrich Kieborz
- 1852–1853: Jakob Riedinger
- 1853–1868: Heinrich Laudemann
- 1864–1874: Jakob Schaaf
- 1875–1883: Adam Wahl
- 1883–1901: Jakob Jochum
- 1902–1903: Martin Schaaf
- 1903–1910: Friedrich-Wilhelm Jentzer
- 1910–1921: Carl Stöß
- 1921–1921: Karl Kieborz
- 1921–1923: August Stöß
- 1923–1927: Daniel Woll
- 1927–1929: Friedrich Stöß
- 1930–1945: Philipp Rothhaar
- 1945–1946: August Bauer
- 1946–1950: August Bauer
- 1950–1962: Ludwig Stein
- 1963–1969: Emil Dietrich
coat of arms
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Blazon : "In black on the right a left-facing red armored and tongued golden lion, on the left an upright, facing silver fish with golden fins."
The fish depicted in the coat of arms was incorporated into the coat of arms of the newly formed community Waldfischbach-Burgalben. |
| Justification of the coat of arms: The lion indicates that it once belonged to the Electoral Palatinate |
Culture
Cultural monuments
With the Heidelsburg there is a monument zone on site . In addition, there are a total of 21 individual objects that are under monument protection ; below is the Catholic Church of St. Joseph . Most of the properties are on the local main street.
nature
With the three rocks , the barley rock and the gallows rock , there are a total of three natural monuments on site .
societies
The SG Waldfischbach exists on site .
Events
On May 13th and 14th, 2000, the annual general meeting of the Gnadau Trumpet Covenant took place on site .
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
As in the entire Pirmasens region , the shoe industry in Waldfischbach developed into an important branch of the economy in the course of the 19th century. A major employer in this industry was the local Mattil company .
Institutions
While it was part of France, the place was the seat of a peace court , which was subordinate to the Tribunal of First Instance Zweibrücken . Until 1966, Waldfischbach was also the seat of a local court .
traffic
- rail
The place has had a railway connection since 1904. The station is located on the northwestern edge of the settlement. It has a station building, which is no longer of any importance for rail operations.
After he first endpoint of Biebermühl Railway from the station Biebermühle - since 1938 Pirmasens Nord - was the route was 1913 and after Kaiserslautern by bound. It has a mechanical signal box called Wf , which was built in 1955 and was manned by a dispatcher until autumn 2017 .
The station is now the only way to cross between Pirmasens Nord and Schopp . It is served every hour by trains on regional train line 64, which connects it with Pirmasens and Kaiserslautern. Like the whole of the West Palatinate , the station was initially part of the West Palatinate Transport Association (WVV), before it was merged into the Rhein-Neckar Transport Association (VRN) six years later .
- Road links
A road already existed in Roman times that ran from Kaiserslautern to Waldfischbach.
The B 270 from Pirmasens to Kaiserslautern runs right past the village as a bypass road. There are a total of three runs from this: one into the industrial area, one into the neighboring village of Burgalben and one into the center of Waldfischbach. It is connected to the place with the state road 501 . The state road 498 leads via Donsieders and Clausen to Merzalben . The state road 499 connects Waldfischbach with Heltersberg and Johanniskreuz . The circuit road 24 leads direction Höheinöd and the circuit road 25 after Hermersberg . The district road 32 establishes a connection to Leimen .
tourism
The Saar-Rhein-Main long-distance hiking trail marked with a yellow cross runs through Waldfischbach . In addition, the place is on the route of a hiking trail, which is marked with a green-yellow bar and which runs from Kirchheimbolanden to Hirschthal . In addition, the station is the starting point for Tour 2 of the Palatinate Forest Mountain Bike Park .
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the place
- Albert Zapf (1870–1940), German politician and industrialist, member of the Reichstag and chairman of the supervisory board of Südzucker AG
- Friedrich Wenner (1876–1955), administrative lawyer
- Albert Zwick (1890–1958), German statistician and political scientist
- Hermann Zwecker (1905–1987), doctor and professional official
- Gerd Hornberger (1910–1988), track and field athlete
People who worked on site
- Friedrich Aulenbach (1810–1882), poet, worked for a time at the Waldfischbacher Friedensgericht
- Walter Bertram (1901–1993), painter and curator of monuments, furnished the Church of St. Joseph with paintings
- Karl Foltz (1865–1961), pastor in Waldfischbach, prelate, donated the Church of St. Joseph from his own fortune
- Willi Müller (1911–2004), shoe manufacturer, owned a factory on site
- Klaus Heinrich Keller (1938–2018), painter, was an art teacher at the state secondary school in Waldfischbach
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 109 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
- ^ Yearbooks of the Association of Friends of Antiquity in the Rhineland , 1873, p. 171; (Digital scan of the Diana relief)
- ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 181 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
- ↑ stellwerke.de: list German interlockings - items W-We . Retrieved January 27, 2014 .
- ↑ stellwerke.de: list German interlockings - abbreviations . Retrieved January 24, 2014 .