Waldrohrbach

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 10 '  N , 7 ° 58'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southern Wine Route
Association municipality :	Annweiler am Trifels
Height :	241 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.9 km 2
Residents:	374 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	63 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	76857
Area code :	06346
License plate :	SOUTH
Community key :	07 3 37 081
Association administration address:	Messplatz 1 76855 Annweiler am Trifels
Website :	www.vg-annweiler.de
Local Mayor :	Thomas Wick ( CDU )
Location of the local community Waldrohrbach in the district of Südliche Weinstrasse

Waldrohrbach is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstrasse district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Annweiler am Trifels , within which it is the third smallest local community in terms of population.

geography

location

The place is in Wasgau , as the southern part of the Palatinate Forest and the adjoining northern part of the Vosges are also called. Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Annweiler am Trifels , Ilbesheim near Landau in the Palatinate (exclave), Waldhambach (Palatinate) , Münchweiler am Klingbach , Silz (Palatinate) , Gossersweiler-Stein and Völkersweiler .

Surveys

The place is at the foot of the Rehberg , the highest mountain in the German part of Wasgau at 577  m above sea level . Other elevations in the district of Waldrohrbach next to the Rehberg are the Kleine Hahnstein ( 451  m above sea level ), the Great Hahnstein ( 411  m above sea level ), the Lebersteine ​​( 391  m above sea level ), the Kahle Knopf ( 368  m above sea level) . NHN ), the Bichelberg ( 338  m above sea level ), the Försthöhe ( 334  m above sea level ) and the Brandhöhe ( 319  m above sea level ).

Waters

The municipality is traversed by the Kaiserbach , a left tributary of the Klingbach , from west-northwest to east-southeast. The Assenthalbach and the Heimbach, which is about one kilometer long, are located along the entire length of the municipality , the former is a left and the latter a right tributary of the Kaiserbach, which flows into it at the southeastern edge of the settlement. The Rehberg spring is also located in the northwest of the municipality .

history

In the 13th century the community was under the sovereignty of Count Emich IV of Leiningen . Until the end of the 18th century, Waldrohrbach belonged to the Madenburg rule .

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , the municipality was incorporated into the canton of Landau . In 1814 she moved to the canton of Annweiler . A year later it was added to Austria . Just one year later, the place, like the entire Palatinate, changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 the "Wald-Rohrbach" - as it was spelled at the time - belonged to the Bergzabern Land Commissioner ; The Bergzabern district office emerged from this .

From 1939 the place was part of the Bergzabern district . After the Second World War , Waldrohrbach became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . During the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform changed the place on 7 June 1969 in the newly created district Landau-Bad Bergzabern, in 1978 in South County Wine Trail is renamed . 1972 Waldrohrbach was assigned to the also newly formed community of Annweiler am Trifels .

Population development

The development of the population of Waldrohrbach, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1814 235 1835 277 1871 264 1905 295 1939 350 1950 360

year Residents 1961 379 1970 406 1987 362 1997 373 2005 409 2019 374

politics

Municipal council

The council in Waldrohrbach consists of eight council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

mayor

Thomas Wick (CDU) became the local mayor of Waldrohrbach on August 20, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 57.41% of the vote. His predecessor Werner Kempf had held the office for 20 years.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Divided by a silver oblique wave bar of blue and green, top left under a floating isosceles patted silver cross a silver lily, bottom right under a golden fir tree with roots a golden reed."

Culture

Cultural monuments

St. Aegidius in Waldrohrbach

With the Rehbergturm , the local Catholic Church of St. Giles , four crosses and a kilometer stone , there are a total of seven objects on site that are under monument protection .

nature

There are a total of three natural monuments in the area around Waldrohrbach . The community is also part of the Südpfalz climbing area .

Economy and Infrastructure

Infrastructure

There is also a cemetery, a village community center and a fire station on site.

traffic

The main road from Waldrohrbach is the B 48 , which runs from Bingen am Rhein to Bad Bergzabern .

The closest train station is Annweiler am Trifels on the Landau – Rohrbach railway line . Waldrohrbach is connected to the local transport network via bus line 524 of the Rhein-Neckar transport association , which runs from the Pfalzklinikum via Waldhambach and Annweiler to Albersweiler. The closest motorway junction is Rohrbach on the A 65 . Waldrohrbach itself is part of the Rhein-Neckar transport association; for trips to Karlsruhe , however, the tariff of the Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund applies .

tourism

A hiking trail that is marked with a white and blue bar runs through the municipality .

Personalities

• Johannes Kriebitzsch (1857–1938), glass painter, painted the glasses of the local church in 1894

literature

• 700 years of Waldrohrbach. Festschrift for the 1999 local anniversary. Local community, Waldrohrbach 1999
• Alfons Helfrich, Bernhard Braun, Emil Bernhard: Family registers for the Catholic church records of Waldhambach and Waldrohrbach. 1735-1875. Pirmasens Working Group for Family Research, Pirmasens 2002

Web links

Commons : Waldrohrbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Local community Waldrohrbach on the website of the association community Annweiler am Trifels
• Literature about Waldrohrbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of 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 Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Annweiler am Trifels, Verbandsgemeinde, twelfth line of results. Retrieved April 18, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Gerhard Sommer: On Case II: Which local chiefs in Trifelsland are running again. Die Rheinpfalz, September 14, 2018, accessed on April 18, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Verkehrsverbund Rhein Neckar: VRN | Home page. Retrieved June 30, 2018 .