Wartenberg-Rohrbach

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '  N , 7 ° 51'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Donnersbergkreis
Association municipality :	Winnweiler
Height :	266 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.46 km 2
Residents:	439 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	98 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67681
Area code :	06302
License plate :	KIB, ROK
Community key :	07 3 33 080
Association administration address:	Jakobstrasse 29 67722 Winnweiler
Website :	www.wartenberg-rohrbach.de
Mayoress :	Dagmar Schneider-Heinz
Location of the local community Wartenberg-Rohrbach in the Donnersbergkreis

Wartenberg-Rohrbach is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Winnweiler community , within which it is the fourth smallest local community based on the number of inhabitants.

geography

The local community Wartenberg-Rohrbach is located in the North Palatinate Uplands in the southwest of the Donnersberg district on the border with the Kaiserslautern district . It consists of the districts of Wartenberg in the north and Rohrbach in the south. The spatial separation of the two sub-locations is less than a hundred meters. Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Lohnsfeld , Münchweiler an der Alsenz , Sembach , Mehlingen and Otterberg . The Lohnsbach , which is a left tributary of the Alsenz , flows through the settlement area . The former takes on the Lanzenbach from the left , into which the Ellenbach also flows from the left .

history

Wartenberg Castle, destroyed in 1522, was the ancestral seat of the Kolb von Wartenberg family . Towards the end of the 18th century until the French Revolution , Rohrbach belonged to half of the rule Kirchheim and Stauf ; there the place was subordinate to the Office Alsenz.

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , the community was incorporated into the French Donnersberg department and the canton of Winnweiler . As a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the place initially belonged to Austria . A year later it was slammed into Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 Wartenberg and Rohrbach were part of the Kaiserslautern Land Commissioner , which was then converted into a district office. On December 1, 1900, the community moved to the newly created district office Rockenhausen .

From 1939 Wartenberg-Rohrbach was part of the Rockenhausen 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 1961 the community had a total of 286 inhabitants. In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , the community moved to the newly created Donnersbergkreis on June 7, 1969, together with most of the other places in the district . Three years later it became part of the Winnweiler Association .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Wartenberg-Rohrbach consists of eight 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. Until the 2014 election, the council had twelve council members.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	CDU	WGE	WGK	total
2019	2	3	3	8 seats
2014	by majority vote			8 seats
2009	by majority vote			12 seats
2004	by majority vote			12 seats

• WGE = Eichenauer voters group
• WGK = Krispin voters group

mayor

Dagmar Schneider-Heinz is the local mayor. In the local election on May 26, 2019, she was confirmed in office with a share of the vote of 52.38%.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Split by silver and red; on the right a red bar accompanied by three balls (2: 1), on the left a silver cattail crossed with a silver club. "

Culture

The mill on the Schloßberg is designated as a monument zone; With the Protestant church there is also a single property that is under monument protection. With the lime tree avenue to the church, there is also a natural monument on site .

Economy and Infrastructure

Under Napoleon the Kaiserstraße Paris – Mainz was led through the place; the name was retained as a street name within the municipality and is now part of state road 401 . Directly to the south-east is the Sembach junction of the A 63 , which leads from Kaiserslautern to Mainz and which runs in a north-south direction through the district of the local community. In Münchweiler an der Alsenz is located since 1999 a breakpoint of alsenz valley railway .

Personalities

• Wilhelm Kaufheld , 1792/93 member of the Rhine-German National Convention
• Martin Scharff (* 1963), cook and entrepreneur, worked in the local Wartenberger Mühle from 2001
• Peter Scharff (* 1969), cook, entrepreneur and non-fiction author, was head chef at the Wartenburger Mühle from April 2001 to July 2007

Web links

Commons : Wartenberg-Rohrbach  - Collection of images

• Wartenberg-Rohrbach
• Local community Wartenberg-Rohrbach on the website of the Winnweiler community
• Literature about Wartenberg-Rohrbach 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. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Municipal Council Election 2019 Wartenberg-Rohrbach. Retrieved September 2, 2019 . 
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Winnweiler, Verbandsgemeinde, twelfth line of results. Retrieved September 2, 2019 . 
5. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Donnersbergkreis. Mainz 2018, p. 53 (PDF; 5.3 MB).