Weselberg

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 20 '  N , 7 ° 36'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southwest Palatinate
Association municipality :	Thaleischweiler-Wallhalben
Height :	435 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.65 km 2
Residents:	1293 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	88 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66919
Primaries :	06333, 06375
License plate :	PS , ZW
Community key :	07 3 40 055
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Hauptstrasse 52 66987 Thaleischweiler-Fröschen
Website :	www.vgtw.de
Local Mayor :	Michael Schmitt ( CDU )
Location of the local community Weselberg in the district of Südwestpfalz

Weselberg is a municipality in the Südwestpfalz district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Thaleischweiler-Wallhalben , within which it is the largest in terms of area and the fourth largest in terms of population.

geography

location

Weselberg is located on the Sickinger Höhe , on its northeastern edge and is about eight kilometers from Landstuhl , 15.5 kilometers from Pirmasens and 15 kilometers from Kaiserslautern . Immediately to the east, the Palatinate Forest borders the Sickinger Höhe at a distance of three to five kilometers from Weselberg. Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Queidersbach , Hinden , Horbach , Hermersberg , Schauerberg , Saalstadt , Hettenhausen and Obernheim-Kirchenarnbach . The Schauerbach forms the boundary to Schauerberg in the south-west and the Gabelsbach in the north-east that of Queidersbach.

Community structure

The community is divided into the districts of Harsberg, Weselberg and Zeselberg. The center of Weselberg has now grown together with that of the Zeselberg district . The local industrial area and the district of Harsberg are separated from the rest of the municipality by the federal highway 62 .

climate

The annual precipitation is 936 mm. The rainfall is high. They are in the upper quarter of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 81 percent of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is April, with the most rainfall in December. In December there is 1.6 times more rainfall than in April. The rainfall varies moderately. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at 37 percent of the measuring stations .

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  Weselberg, view from Hermersberg

history

The earliest traces of settlement near Landstuhl, such as stone wreath tombs, date from the Latène period , which lasted from 500 to 100 BC. In the period from the first to the fourth century AD, the area was settled by the Romans, as evidenced by coin finds from the Roman settlement near Landstuhl and the Heidelsburg near Waldfischbach-Burgalben . The three current districts of Harsberg, Weselberg and Zeselberg belonged to the so-called Grand Court in the Landstuhl rule .

From 1798 to 1814 Weselberg belonged to the canton of Waldfischbach in the Donnersberg department and was subordinate to Mairie Zeselberg . Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna , the area first came to Austria in June 1815 and was ceded to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 on the basis of a state treaty . Under the Bavarian administration, Weselberg belonged to the Pirmasens Land Commissioner in the Rhine District from 1817, and to the Pirmasens District Office from 1862 .

In 1939, Horbach was incorporated into the district of Pirmasens (from 1997 district of Südwestpfalz ) . After the Second World War , the Weselberg became part of the Palatinate administrative district within the French occupation zone in the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate . As part of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform , the neighboring towns of Harsberg (then 323 inhabitants) and Zeselberg (521 inhabitants) were incorporated into Weselberg on June 7, 1969. Three years later the community was assigned to the newly created community of Wallhalben . Weselberg has been part of the Thaleischweiler-Wallhalben community since 2014 .

population

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 623 1835 846 1871 922 1905 1,170 1939 1,302 1950 1,308 1961 1,342

year Residents 1970 1,446 1987 1,368 1997 1,433 2005 1,409 2011 1,345 2019 1,293

religion

As of December 31, 2014, 79.1 percent of the residents of Weselberg were Catholic and 13.4 percent Protestant. The rest of them belonged to another religion or were unspecified or without community. The Catholics belong to the Diocese of Speyer , the Evangelicals to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate .

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Weselberg consists of 16 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	total
2019	2	7th	7th	16 seats
2014	2	5	9	16 seats
2009	-	7th	9	16 seats
2004	1	9	6th	16 seats

• FWG = FWG Bürgerblock Wesel-Zesel-Harsberg e. V.

mayor

Michael Schmitt (CDU) became local mayor of Weselberg on August 20, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 58.51 percent of the vote. He prevailed against his predecessor Hans-Peter Mangold (FWG), who had held the office for ten years.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Divided by a silver bar of black and blue, split at the top by a silver rod, at the top right five silver balls 2: 1: 2, at the top left three horizontal golden ears, at the bottom an octagonal silver chapel with black windows."
	Foundation for the coat of arms: It was approved in 1983 by the Neustadt district government . The five Bollen remind of the former local rulers , the Lords of Sickingen .

Parish partnership

Lucka in Thuringia is twin town of Weselberg.

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

A listed war memorial

There are a total of ten objects on site that are listed buildings.

Churches, schools, kindergartens

In the Catholic Church, built in 1800 and considerably expanded from 1929 to 1931 according to plans by architect Albert Boßlet, services are held regularly . The Protestant community uses their churches together with the neighboring communities of Hermersberg and Höheinöd . In addition, Weselberg also has a primary school with around 40 students (as of 2011) and a kindergarten with 72 places including all-day and day care places.

societies

The local music association “Laetitia”, founded in 1927, has several orchestras divided according to age groups. Since 2016, “Laetitia” has organized the “Sicking High Rock” festival every year - on the penultimate weekend in June. The shooting club, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2007, is also located here. There is also a sports club in Weselberg and Harsberg ( Sportclub Weselberg , SCW and Sportgemeinschaft Harsberg-Schauerberg , SGH), a rural women’s club, a choir (Catholic church choir and "Cäcilia" Harsberg ) and a fruit and horticultural club. Every year at the beginning of June the bell tower festival takes place in Harsberg, with a regional rose exhibition of the Harsberg fruit and horticultural association being shown at regular intervals. The annual village festival in Weselberg takes place on the penultimate weekend in August.

Economy and Transport

economy

Until the last century Weselberg was a pure farming village. In 2010, 65.5 percent of the 14.65 km² community area was still used for agriculture; another 21.8 percent is forest area. Weselberg now has a local commercial infrastructure in the form of a small industrial area between the districts of Harsberg and Weselberg. There are wind turbines in the south-west and north-east of the municipality.

traffic

The place is connected to the national road network by the federal motorway 62 (Pirmasens-Nonnweiler). The federal highway 270 leads south in the direction of Pirmasens and in the north to Kaiserslautern. The state road 472 running through the town provides a connection to Kaiserslautern. At the southern edge of the village it joins the state road 473 , which runs through Harsberg and runs from Wallhalben to Steinalben .

tourism

The Sickinger Mühlenradweg , which connects to Thaleischweiler-Fröschen and Ramstein-Miesenbach , runs right through the settlement area . The Südwestpfalz tour touches the southern outskirts of Weselberg and Harsberg. There is also a hiking trail marked with a green and yellow cross , which runs from Bexbach to Ludwigshafen am Rhein , through the community.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Ludwig Müller (1892–1972), infantry general in World War II
• Nadine Keßler (* 1988), soccer player

People who worked on site

• Oskar Martin-Amorbach (1897–1987), painter, made three altarpieces in the parish church in 1931
• Frank Dressler-Lehnhof (* 1976), racing cyclist, owns a bike shop in Weselberg

Web links

Commons : Weselberg  - Collection of Images

• Local community Weselberg on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Thaleischweiler-Wallhalben
• Literature about Weselberg 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. ↑ 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).
3. ↑ 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. 200 (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.  
4. ^ ^{A b c} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
5. ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2014
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
7. ↑ Minutes of the constituent meeting of the local council of Weselberg on August 20, 2019. Verbandsgemeinde Thaleischweiler-Wallhalben, September 26, 2019, accessed on March 29, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Direct elections 2019. In: District of Südwestpfalz. State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate, accessed on May 27, 2019 . 
9. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
10. ↑ Churches and religious institutions ( memento of April 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at www.wallhalben.de
11. ↑ Evangelischer Kirchenbote: Renovation due to woodworm infestation ( Memento from November 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), No. 26, July 1, 2007 (Internet archive)
12. ^ MV Laetitia Weselberg , accessed on June 13, 2013.
13. ↑ Sicking High Rock homepage , accessed on March 13, 2017.
14. ↑ Associations ( memento of October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on weselberg.de, accessed on June 13, 2013.
15. ↑ www.ogv-harsberg.de