Windsberg (Pirmasens)

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Windsberg
City of Pirmasens
Coat of arms of the former community of Windsberg
Coordinates: 49 ° 12 ′ 43 ″  N , 7 ° 32 ′ 2 ″  E
Height : 323  (290–355)  m above sea level NHN
Residents : 787  (March 23, 2011)
Incorporation : April 22, 1972
Postal code : 66954
Area code : 06331
Windsberg (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Windsberg

Location of Windsberg in Rhineland-Palatinate

Windsberg is a district and a local district of Pirmasens .

location

Windsberg is located in the northwest of the independent city of Pirmasens at the transition from the Palatinate Forest to the Zweibrücken hill country . The Blümelsbach , which forms the boundary between Pirmasens and Nünschweiler in this area, runs northwest of the settlement area in an east-west direction . Opposite Windsberg, the Kohlbach flows into it, which, however, is entirely within the Nünschweiler district. Windsberg also includes the Langenbergerhof, Rothmühle and Trifterhof residential areas .

history

Between Gersbach and Windsberg, Celtic structures were discovered on the Emmersberg in 1830 , which were dedicated to the god Vosegus (also Vosagus ).

Similar to the neighboring town of Winzeln , Windsberg was first mentioned in a document in the 15th century, at that time still under the name "Wulmersberg". Until the end of the 18th century the place belonged to the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken . From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Windsberg was incorporated into the canton of Pirmasens . During this time, the place was the seat of a Mairie , which also included Hengsberg . In 1815 the place had 328 inhabitants. From 1816 Windsberg belonged to Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862, Ort - still as part of the canton of Landau , which now belongs to Bavaria - belonged to the Pirmasens Land Commissioner , which was then converted into a district office.

During the Nazi era , 96 bunkers and 20 tunnels were built in and around the community as part of the West Wall , which is why the site was exposed to several bombings during the Second World War . From 1938 the place was part of the district of Pirmasens . After the war, Hengsberg became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform, the place was incorporated into the independent city of Pirmasens on April 22, 1972, within which it has since formed a local district.

politics

Local advisory board

A local district was formed for the Windsberg district . The local advisory board consists of seven advisory board members, the chair of the local advisory board is chaired by the directly elected mayor .

As in the previous elections, the CDU again achieved an absolute majority in the council in 2019. For more information on the local council, see the results of the local elections in Pirmasens .

Mayor

The mayor of Windsberg has been Stefanie Eyrisch (CDU) since 2009, who was called Stefanie Phillips until her marriage in 2019. She was re-elected in direct election on May 26, 2019 with 78.77% of the vote.

Infrastructure

The Windsburg was once located in the catchment area to the west of its settlement area, but its exact location has not yet been localized. From 1958 onwards the water supply came from the Fehrbach water tower for a period of several decades . The place is connected to the local traffic via the bus line 203 of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar operated by Stadtwerke Pirmasens Verkehrs GmbH , which connects it with Gersbach , Winzeln and the Pirmasens parade ground. The federal motorway 8 runs northwest of Windsberg and shortly afterwards it becomes the federal motorway 62 in a northerly direction . With a tombstone and the bell tower, there are two objects on site that are under monument protection .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage city of Pirmasens
  2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 129 f . (PDF; 3 MB).
  3. ^ Pirmasens.de: Pirmasens - Windsberg
  4. ^ JE Fischer: The introduction of Christianity in the current Kingdom of Bavaria. A. Volkhart'sche Buchdruckerei, 1863.
  5. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 155 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
  6. ^ City of Pirmasens: main statute. (PDF) § 4 and appendix. February 22, 2016, accessed October 25, 2019 .
  7. ^ City of Pirmasens: Result of the mayor of the Windsberg district 2019. Accessed on October 25, 2019 .
  8. ^ Report from the constituent meeting of the Windsberg Local Advisory Board on August 13, 2019. In: Die Rheinpfalz. August 14, 2019, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  9. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Pirmasens. Mainz 2020, p. 10 (PDF; 6.3 MB).

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