Wiesweiler

The title of this article is ambiguous. Wiesweiler is also the German name of the French community Wiesviller in the Moselle department.

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 38 '  N , 7 ° 34'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Kusel
Association municipality :	Lauterecken-Wolfstein
Height :	160 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.32 km 2
Residents:	396 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	119 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67744
Area code :	06382
License plate :	KUS
Community key :	07 3 36 104
Association administration address:	Schulstrasse 6 a 67742 Lauterecken
Website :	www.wiesweiler.de
Local Mayor :	Ingfried Klahr
Location of the local community Wiesweiler in the district of Kusel

Wiesweiler is a municipality in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Lauterecken-Wolfstein association.

geography

Wiesweiler is located on the Glan in the West Palatinate . In contrast to the neighboring towns on the Glan, the community was not laid out on a confluent side valley, but directly on the slopes of the Glan valley. Lauterecken is to the northeast and Offenbach-Hundheim to the southwest .

history

The place developed from the two originally independent villages Berschweiler, east of the Glans, and Wiesweiler, on the west side. They were first mentioned in 1336 as Winsewilre and 1364 as Bernswilre . While Wiesweiler was part of the County of Veldenz , Berschweiler belonged to the Rhine Counts . In the 15th century the villages were united. In 1558 Ludwig Count Palatine von Pfalz-Veldenz bought the place.

In 1816 the place came to the Principality of Lichtenberg , a newly created exclave of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and from 1826 of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha . With this he fell to Prussia in 1834 , which created the district of Sankt Wendel from this area . After the main part was separated from the newly created Saar area , the remaining district of Sankt Wendel-Baumholder was created in 1920 , to which the place belonged until 1937, when it was incorporated into the Birkenfeld district. In 1969 it was reclassified to the Kusel district.

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Ingfried Klahr became the local mayor of Wiesweiler in 1994. Since there was no candidate for the direct election on May 26, 2019, the upcoming election of the mayor was carried out by the council in accordance with the municipal regulations. This confirmed Klahr for another five years in his office.

Economy and Infrastructure

The federal highway 420 runs through the village . The Glantalbahn in the Wiesweiler section is closed. There is a trolley service on it for day trippers . In Lauterecken there is a station of the Lautertalbahn .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Wiesweiler

literature

• Literature about Wiesweiler in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Wiesweiler  - Collection of Images

• Website of the local community Wiesweiler
• Local community Wiesweiler on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Lauterecken-Wolfstein
• Wiesweiler at regionalgeschichte.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
3. ↑ ^{a b} Markus Henz: Wiesweiler: Ingfried Klahr elected mayor for the sixth time. Die Rheinpfalz, August 8, 2019, accessed on May 3, 2020 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Lauterecken-Wolfstein, Verbandsgemeinde, penultimate line of results. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .