Walshausen

This article deals with the municipality of Walshausen in Rhineland-Palatinate. For the former Walshausen monastery in Northern Hesse see Wilhelmshausen . For the property of the same name in Hildesheim, see Walshausen (Hildesheim) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '  N , 7 ° 29'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southwest Palatinate
Association municipality :	Zweibrücken-Land
Height :	260 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.63 km 2
Residents:	306 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	66 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66484
Area code :	06339
License plate :	PS , ZW
Community key :	07 3 40 226
Association administration address:	Landauer Strasse 18-20 66482 Zweibrücken
Website :	www.derwalshauser.de
Local Mayor :	Gunther Veith
Location of the local community Walshausen in the district of Südwestpfalz

Walshausen is a municipality in the Südwestpfalz district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Zweibrücken-Land .

geography

Walshausen is located on the Felsalb in the Zweibrücker hill country between Zweibrücken in the west and Pirmasens in the east.

history

Walshausen was first mentioned as Walshusen in 1463 . The submerged village of Felsalben was named Felsalbia as early as 888 in a deed of donation from the Frankish King Arnulf .

In 1730 Walshausen bought the ban on the village of Felsalben from Duke Gustav Samuel Leopold von Pfalz-Zweibrücken . After lawsuits with neighboring communities, the purchase was finally recognized on November 28, 1735 and the land was distributed among the Walshausen families.

Until the end of the 18th century, the place belonged to the duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken .

After 1792 French revolutionary troops occupied the region and annexed it after the Peace of Campo Formio (1797) . From 1798 to 1814 the village belonged to the French department of Donnersberg and was assigned to the canton of Neuhornbach . Due to the agreements reached at the Congress of Vienna (1815) and an exchange contract with Austria , the region became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 . From 1818 the municipality of Walshausen was assigned to the Zweibrücken regional commissioner in the Bavarian Rhine district , later to the Zweibrücken district office, from which the Zweibrücken district emerged in 1938 . Since 1972 Walshausen has belonged to the then newly formed community of Zweibrücken-Land and since 1997 to the district of Südwestpfalz .

The formerly important Walshauser mill was demolished during the construction of the West Wall in 1938.

religion

In 2012, 60.0 percent of the population were Protestant and 16.4 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 .

politics

Municipal council

The council in Walshausen 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

Gunther Veith became mayor of Walshausen in 2009. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with a share of 93.82% of the votes.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Divided by a wavy line of red and gold, top right a silver mill wheel, top left three vertical ears of wheat, below a growing red-armored and tongued red lion." It was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1982 .

traffic

Walshausen is connected to the national road network by the federal autobahn 8 ( Merzig - Pirmasens ) and the federal road 10 ( Saarbrücken - Karlsruhe ).

Walshausen, Mühlstrasse

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Walshausen

Web links

Commons : Walshausen  - Collection of Images

• Local community Walshausen on the website of the Zweibrücken-Land association
• Literature about Walshausen in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2012
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
4. ↑ Veith gets two new deputies. Die Rheinpfalz, August 7, 2019, accessed on March 25, 2020 . 
5. ^ The State Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Zweibrücken-Land, Verbandsgemeinde, penultimate line of results. Retrieved March 25, 2020 . 
6. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .