Hauenstein (Verbandsgemeinde)

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The community association Hauenstein is an administrative unit in the form of a local authority in the district of West Palatinate in Rhineland- Palatinate. The municipality belong to eight independent local churches, the council is based in the eponymous municipality Hauenstein.

Association members of communities

(Population at 31 December 2012)

Population Development

The development of the population based on the territory of the present municipality Hauenstein; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Association of municipal

The association council Hauenstein consists of 24 volunteer council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the full-time mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the federation council:

Mayor

On November 12, 2006, emerge in the first ballot no new mayor, as the CDU candidate Ulrich Lauth and his running mate, the Mayor of the municipality Hinterweidenthal Barbara Schenk, were located close to each other with the results. In the runoff election on 26 November Ulrich Lauth had a small lead over Bärbel Schenk.

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " Eight times out of silver and green split sign board, top right in red a silver eagle, top left in silver a floating blue cross, bottom right in silver, a green juniper branch with blue juniper berries, bottom left in blue with a silver eagle. "

It was approved in 1979 by the district government Neustadt and contains figures of the coat of arms of the eight local churches.

Traffic

• Rail: The local churches Hauenstein, Hinterweidenthal and Wilgartswiesen lie en route Karlsruhe-Landau/Pfalz-Saarbrücken
• Street: The municipality Hauenstein is located on the main road 10 The motorways A 8 and A 62 are in Pirmasens, to reach the A 65 near Landau.