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Coat of arms of the local community Waldfischbach-Burgalben
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Coordinates: 49 ° 17 '  N , 7 ° 39'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Southwest Palatinate
Association municipality : Waldfischbach castle albums
Height : 257 m above sea level NHN
Area : 17.6 km 2
Residents: 4688 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 266 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 67714
Area code : 06333
License plate : PS , ZW
Community key : 07 3 40 054
Association administration address: Friedhofstrasse 3
67714 Waldfischbach-Burgalben
Website : www.waldfischbach-burgalben.de
Local Mayor : Michael Oestreicher (BWB)
Location of the local community Waldfischbach-Burgalben 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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Red sandstone rocks near Heidelsburg

Waldfischbach-Burgalben is a municipality in the district of Südwestpfalz in Rhineland-Palatinate , which was created in 1969 by merging the municipalities of Waldfischbach and Burgalben . It is the seat of the association of the same name , to which it also belongs. Measured by the number of inhabitants, it is the third largest local community in the district of Südwestpfalz and the second largest that has no town charter. Waldfischbach-Burgalben is a state-approved tourist destination and designated as a basic center according to state planning .

geography

location

The community Waldfischbach-Burgalben is located on the western edge of the Palatinate Forest , a sub-region of the Palatinate , between the cities of Kaiserslautern and Pirmasens , in the so-called Palatinate Woodland . The Sickinger Höhe connects to the west . The community consists of the district Burgalben in the south and the Waldfischbach in the north. Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Steinalben , Geiselberg , Heltersberg , Clausen , Donsieders , Höheinöd and Hermersberg .

Surveys

The Dreisommerberg rises in the southeast of the district and the Galgenberg further north.

Waters

The Schwarzbach , which crosses the valley named after it, and the Moosalbe flowing into it, flow through Waldfischbach-Burgalben . Other tributaries of the Schwarzbach are the Dinkelsbächel , which marks the border to Heltersberg, the Dietersbach and the Klapperbach .

history

Waldfischbach

Waldfischbach is mentioned as Vispach in 1182 . After the Thirty Years' War it became extinct and later an insignificant farming village. It shared the history of the wood country .

After the Palatinate was annexed to France as a result of the French Revolution , Waldfischbach became the seat of the canton of Waldfischbach with 21 municipalities. Even under the subsequent Bavarian administration, the status of the canton capital was initially retained and Waldfischbach developed into an economic sub-center.

Castle albums

In 1152 Burgalba was mentioned. At times it belonged to Hessen-Darmstadt with Pirmasens . After the death of Landgrave Ludwig in 1790, Burgalben lost many inhabitants as a result of the dissolution of the Darmstadt garrison . At the beginning of the 19th century, Burgalben became a place for picture dealers who traveled through Germany with images of saints and other naive art. When this was no longer profitable, basket-making flourished , so that even foreign basket-makers moved to Burgalben.

Waldfischbach castle albums

In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , the local community Waldfischbach-Burgalben was newly formed on June 7, 1969 from the previously independent communities Burgalben with 2019 residents and Waldfischbach with 4336 residents. Three years later, the latter became the seat of the newly created association of the same name . The newly created municipality initially had the postcode 6757, since 1993 this has been 67714.

population

religion

In 2012, 42.2 percent of the population were Protestant and 41.0 percent Catholic. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational. The Catholics belong to the Diocese of Speyer , the Evangelicals to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate .

Population development

The development of the population of Waldfischbach-Burgalben in relation to today's municipality; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

Population development of Waldfischbach-Burgalben from 1815 to 2017 according to the adjacent table
year Residents
1815 760
1835 1,217
1871 1,468
1905 2,188
1939 4,535
1950 5.123
1961 6,026
1970 6,197
year Residents
1987 5,295
1997 5,383
2005 5,144
2007 5,026
2010 4,851
2011 4,888
2017 4,654
2018 4,683

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Waldfischbach-Burgalben consists of 20 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman. Up to 2014 the council had 22 councilors.

town hall

The elections to the municipal council have produced the following results since the municipality was formed in 1969:

choice SPD CDU FWG BWB total
2019 6th 6th 3 5 20 seats
2014 6th 7th 3 4th 20 seats
2009 7th 9 4th 2 22 seats
2004 6th 9 4th 3 22 seats
1999 8th 9 5 - 22 seats
1994 9 9 4th - 22 seats
1989 8th 10 6th - 22 seats
1984 7th 12 3 - 22 seats
1979 9 10 3 - 22 seats
1974 8th 9 5 - 22 seats
1969 7th 7th 8th - 22 seats
  • FWG = Free Voting Group Waldfischbach-Burgalben e. V.
  • BWB = Citizens for Waldfischbach-Burgalben e. V.

Mayor of Waldfischbach-Burgalben

Term of office Surname Political party
1969-1972 Emil Dietrich WGR
1972-1979 Kurt Däuber SPD
1979-1992 Erich Rutz CDU
1992-2004 Fritz Sopp CDU
2004-2009 Andreas Peiser SPD
2009-2014 Sigrun Klotz-Bischoff CDU
2014-2019 Anna Silvia Henne SPD
since 2019 Michael Oestreicher BWB

Michael Oestreicher was able to prevail in the runoff election on June 16, 2019 with a share of 51.73% of the vote against the previous incumbent after none of the original three applicants had achieved a sufficient majority in the direct election on May 26, 2019.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Waldfischbach-Burgalben
Blazon : "Split by black and gold, on the right an upright silver fish turned to the left, on the left a red armored and tongued red lion."
Justification of the coat of arms: It was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1980 and shows the lion of the County of Zweibrücken from the old coat of arms of Burgalben and the talking fish from the former coat of arms of Waldfischbach.

Community partnerships

There is a partnership with the French town of Carentan in the Manche department in Normandy.

Culture

Cultural monuments

The original Maria Rosenberg pilgrimage chapel, which is essentially Romanesque
Local museum

The Heidelsburg and the pilgrimage site Maria Rosenberg are designated as monument zones. According to coins found on site, the Heidelsburg was presumably built before 350 AD as a defensive structure; possibly an older Celtic system precedes it. According to various finds - inscription and grave slab - it is the oldest evidence of forest administration in late antiquity on Germanic soil. Only remnants of the curtain wall and the gate made of large sandstone blocks are left of the largely destroyed complex.

The core of the Maria Rosenberg Chapel in Burgalben dates back to the 12th century. The original Romanesque building is extended by a choir from the 13th century and two additional nave axes from the 15th century. A new pilgrimage church with a donor house was built between 1901 and 1912. The pilgrimage site also contains a Lourdes grotto.

In addition, there are a total of 25 individual objects that are listed , including the following buildings:

A church in Burgalben was first mentioned in 1197. The - meanwhile Protestant - church has a massive brick tower with attached sundial, which comes from the Romanesque building dedicated to Saint Adelfus. The nave dates from 1740.

The two churches in Waldfischbach are more recent. The Protestant church is a neo-Romanesque hall building that was built from 1849 to 1854. The Catholic parish church of St. Joseph is a three-aisled basilica with a double tower facade and a choir rotunda. It was designed by Wilhelm Schulte II in neo-Romanesque forms.

The local history museum has been showing typical rural tools of the Palatinate Forest since 1987 - for example cabbage slicers and cabbage slicers - a kitchen, a bedroom and a living room as well as a complete village pharmacy. Another topic is shoe production from 1920 to 1960. In the so-called “Heidelsburgzimmer” finds from the destroyed late Roman Heidelsburg are on display.

nature

The part of the community east of the Schwarzbach-Moosalbe line is part of the Palatinate Forest Nature Park , which in turn belongs to the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord biosphere reserve . With the three rocks , the barley rock and the gallows rock , there are a total of three natural monuments on site .

Sports

The football department of SG Waldfischbach was a founding member of the Southwest Amateur League in 1952 . The now defunct handball department played in the 2nd Bundesliga from 2000 to 2002.

Golf course

There is an 18-hole golf course on the northern edge of the village. There are also tennis and riding facilities as well as an indoor swimming pool

Events

The Eurochoir performed in Waldfischbach in 1999. The Esperanto meeting Printempa Semajno Internacia took place on site in 2011; 171 people from 19 countries took part.

Infrastructure

economy

The Waldfischbach-Burgalben wind farm has been located in the municipality since 2007 .

traffic

District road 24 at the entrance to Waldfischbach

Waldfischbach-Burgalben is connected to the national road network via the federal road  270 , which runs from Idar-Oberstein via Kaiserslautern to Pirmasens . The state roads  498 , 499 and 501 as well as the district roads  24 and 32 run through the municipality ; the latter leads to Leimen .

The Biebermühlbahn Kaiserslautern - Pirmasens has been connecting the municipality to the rail network since 1904. Initially, Waldfischbach station formed the northern end point before the line was tied through to Kaiserslautern nine years later. The Burgalben stop was abandoned in the 1980s due to a lack of profitability.

Authorities

As the seat of the association of the same name , Waldfischbach-Burgalben is home to its administration. Also exists on site police station Waldfischbach-Burgalben that the police headquarters Westpfalz subordinate.

tourism

Two cycle paths run through the community: the Palatinate Forest Tour , which leads from Kaiserslautern to Hinterweidenthal , and the Southwest Palatinate Tour , which runs from Johanniskreuz to the Saarland border . It is also the starting point for the tour 2 - 48 kilometers, 833 meters in altitude - of the Palatinate Forest Mountain Bike Park .

Hiking trail in the area of ​​Waldfischbach-Burgalben

By Waldfischbach-Burgalben runs with Kaiserslautern until after silence law Bach leading forest path Pfaelzer a so-called predicate trail, also is the village on with a yellow cross marked distance footpath Saar-Rhein-Main . In addition, the route of a hiking trail that is marked with a green and yellow bar and that runs from Kirchheimbolanden to Hirschthal and a path marked with a yellow and red bar from Lichtenberg Castle to Wachenheim lead through the municipality .

On the boundaries of the municipality there are several local marked hiking trails that are between ten and 15 kilometers long and the forests, valleys, red sandstone around integrate -Felsgruppen and other natural monuments to Waldfischbach-Burgalben and former mills and neighboring communities. They lead, for example, into the Schwarzbachtal, Galgenberg and Heidelsburg, into the Klappertal and the Moschelmühle.

In addition, the German Shoe Road runs through the community.

schools

The local community is the seat of Daniel-Theysohn IGS Waldfischbach-Burgalben , the Volkshochschule Waldfischbach-Burgalben , the elementary school Waldfischbach-Burgalben and the Jakob-Reeb-Schule ; the latter is a special school with a focus on "social-emotional development".

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

  • 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

Personalities who worked in the church

literature

  • 800 years of Waldfischbach. 1182-1982. Home book for the 800th anniversary. (Ed .: Ortgemeinde Waldfischbach-Burgalben by the Festschrift working group), Waldfischbach-Burgalben 1982, 632 p. M. numerous Fig.

Web links

Commons : Waldfischbach-Burgalben  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ^ Infothek statistics RLP: Waldfischbach-Burgalben . March 2nd 2020.
  3. a b State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  4. Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 199 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
  5. KommWis, as of December 31, 2012
  6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
  8. Michael is "totally flashed". In: The Rhine Palatinate . June 17, 2019, accessed July 4, 2019 .
  9. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
  10. Golf club , as of August 20, 2010