Wallhalben

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southwest Palatinate
Association municipality :	Thaleischweiler-Wallhalben
Height :	265 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.88 km 2
Residents:	861 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	176 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66917
Area code :	06375
License plate :	PS , ZW
Community key :	07 3 40 225
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Hauptstrasse 52 ; 66987 Thaleischweiler-Fröschen
Website :	www.vgtw.de
Mayoress :	Christine Burkhard
Location of the local community Wallhalben in the district of Südwestpfalz

Wallhalben town center

Wallhalben is a municipality in the district of Südwestpfalz in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Thaleischweiler-Wallhalben community . Wallhalben is designated as a basic center according to state planning .

geography

Wallhalben is on the Sickinger Höhe . In the middle of the place flows the eponymous Wallhalb , which is created by the confluence of Stuhlbach and Arnbach . From the right it takes on the Marbach . To the west is Biedershausen , east Saalstadt .

The community is divided into the districts of Wallhalben and Oberhausen . The Seitershof residential area also belongs to the Oberhausen district .

history

Wallhalben was first mentioned in a document in 1270. Until the end of the 18th century, the place belonged to Leiningen-Dagsburg .

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Wahlalben - so the name at the time - was incorporated into the canton of Waldfischbach and was subordinate to the Mairie Herschberg . In 1815 the place had a total of 300 inhabitants. In the same year the place was initially added to Austria . A year later the place changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 the place was part of the Landkommissariat Pirmasens , which was then converted into a district office.

In 1939 Wallhalben was incorporated into the Pirmasens district. After the Second World War , the municipality within the French occupation zone became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , the new community Wallhalben-Oberhausen was formed on April 1, 1968 from the communities Wallhalben and Oberhausen ; This was accompanied by a change to the district of Zweibrücken before it was dissolved in 1972 and the community from then on again belonged to the district of Pirmasens (from 1997: district of Südwestpfalz) On August 1 of the same year, the new community was renamed Wallhalben.

From April 22, 1972 to June 30, 2014, Wallhalben was the administrative seat of the Wallhalben community , to which, in addition to Wallhalben, eleven other independent local communities belonged. Since July 1, 2014 Wallhalben has been part of the new Thaleischweiler-Wallhalben association ; whose provisional name until December 31, 2015 was "Verbandsgemeinde Thaleischweiler-Fröschen - Wallhalben".

population

Population development

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

year	Residents
1815	548
1835	604
1871	695
1905	674
1939	601
1950	720
1961	757

year	Residents
1970	781
1987	873
1997	901
2005	850
2011	853
2017	864

religion

The local Jewish community once owned a synagogue that no longer exists.

At the end of 2014, 47.0 percent of the population were Catholic and 41.1 percent Protestant. 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 . The so-called Brother Konrad Ride also takes place on the first Sunday in May .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Wallhalben consists of twelve council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	WGL	total
2019	1	4th	5	2	12 seats
2014	3	2	7th	-	12 seats
2009	2	4th	6th	-	12 seats
2004	2	4th	6th	-	12 seats

FWG = Free Voting Community Wallhalben e. V.
WGL = voter group Lauer

mayor

Christine Burkhard (FWG) became the local mayor of Wallhalben on August 12, 2019. In the runoff election on June 16, 2019, she was elected for five years with a share of 51.85% of the vote, after none of the original three applicants had achieved a sufficient majority in the direct election on May 26, 2019. Burkhard's predecessor Berthold Martin (FWG) had held the office for 20 years.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Split by blue and black, on the right half a red-armored silver eagle at the gap, on the left a red-armored and tongued golden lion turned to the left."
	Foundation for the coat of arms: It was approved in 1974 by the Neustadt district government . The eagle reminds of the former affiliation of Oberhausen to the Leiningen family and the Palatinate lion of that of Wallhalben to Pfalz-Zweibrücken .

Cultural monuments

Ludwig Katz House

The Jewish cemetery is designated as a monument zone .

In addition, there are a total of 16 individual objects that are under monument protection , including the Ludwig Katz House and a wash fountain .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The state roads 469 , 473 and 475 cross in Wallhalben . There is a connection to long-distance traffic via the nearby Weselberg driveway of the A 62 .

tourism

In addition, the Südwestpfalz-Tour cycle path leads right through Wallhalben. In addition, there is a Mühlenweg through the Wallhalbtal , a path marked with a yellow-red bar from Lichtenberg Castle to Wachenheim across the municipality, as well as a path marked with a blue dot that connects to the main chair and glue .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Theodor Lipps (1851–1914), philosopher and psychologist
Friedrich-August Poth (1840–1905), beer baron

People who worked on site

Conrad Wießner , died on the spot

Web links

Commons : Wallhalben - Collection of images

Local community Wallhalben on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Thaleischweiler-Wallhalben
Literature about Wallhalben in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

↑ ^a ^b State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data

↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 111 (PDF; 2.2 MB).

↑ 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, 205 (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.
↑ Municipal statistics KommWis, as of December 31, 2014
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
↑ Norbert Schwarz: Berthold Martin apologizes and hands over his office. Pfälzischer Merkur, August 14, 2019, accessed on March 29, 2020 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Thaleischweiler-Fröschen-Wallhalben, Verbandsgemeinde, penultimate line of results. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
↑ Mayoral election: Berthold Martin "probably does not" run. Die Rheinpfalz, March 9, 2017, accessed on March 29, 2020 .
^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .