Bruchweiler-Bärenbach

Bruchweiler Bear creek is a municipality in the southwest, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Dahn, which has its headquarters in the town of Dahn. Bruchweiler Bear creek is a nationally recognized resort.

Geographical location

Bruchweiler- Bear Creek is located in the southern part of the Palatinate Forest, the German part of the Wasgau, right in Dahn. Right through the site flows in a north-south direction, the Lauter, a left tributary of the Rhine. Complete in the field of Bruchweiler- Bear Creek is also located the Wöllmersbach, a right tributary of the Lauter, together with its two source rivers. Surveys on boundaries of the community include the On button (335 m), the bag stone (312 m), the Dretschbergfelsen (280 m) and the snake mountain ( 280 m). In addition, located in the municipality of several rock formations such as the Geierstein the Käskamer, the Napoleon rocks, the narrow stone rock stone rock Zwick

The municipality also includes the living space Reinigshof.

Neighboring municipalities are - clockwise - Dahn, Schindhard, Busenberg, Erlenbach bei Dahn, Bundenthal, Rumbach and Fischbach bei Dahn.

History

The first documentary mention is Bear Creek in the year 760 as Berenbach. Bruchweiler is first mentioned in 1465 as Bruchwilre. In 1828 both sites were pooled. During the administrative reform created by the merger with the community Bundenthal on June 7, 1969, the municipality of Kaiserslautern Wiesbaden, which was terminated at the protests Bundenthaler population again on 17 June 1989.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Bruchweiler- Bear Creek consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman. The 16 seats in the municipal council are divided into two groups of voters.

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " In split- front plate in silver from blue waves growing four natural Schilfkolben, two left diagonal and right diagonal crossed, back in blue a golden, rotbewehrter, border to the right bear".

Attractions

The place is known for its melodious Mühleisen organ from 1994 in the Catholic parish church of the Holy Cross. The instrument has 32 ​​registers on three manuals and pedal. At the organ made ​​guest appearances already organists such as Pierre Pincemaille, Michelle Leclerc, Pascal Reber and Christian Ott. Every year, worth listening to organ concerts, mostly in connection with organ trips, instead.

Natural Monuments

In the immediate vicinity of Bruchweiler- Baerenbach there are numerous natural monuments from the prevailing here Bunter. There are shaped by erosion of rock formations around which many myths and where the population has partly given its own name. These include the vulture stones, the pulpit rock on the mountain Recently, the Käskammerfelsen the Zwick rock, the Dretschbergfelsen, the Wöllmersbergfelsen and the smoke mountain rocks. Particularly worth seeing is the Napoleon rock, reminiscent in shape to the commander Napoleon with his characteristic hat.