Kirrweiler, Kusel

Kirrweiler is a municipality in the district of Kusel, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Lauter corners.

Geography

Kirrweiler is located in the western Palatinate between the Palatinate Forest and the Hunsrück. 51 percent of the district area is forested. To the north is the Schönbornerhof that belongs to Homberg, in the southeast Deimberg, in the south to the St. Julian belonging Obereisenbach and west is the Baumholder military training area. During the construction of the training area 1938 155.5 hectares of forest area of ​​the district Kirrweiler were separated. In the course of disarmament after the Cold War, the community was 170.21 hectares in 1993 as a district area but landowners remained the federal government.

History

1816 the place with the Principality of Lichtenberg, a newly exclave of the duchy of Saxe -Coburg -Saalfeld, respectively in 1826 the duchy of Saxe -Coburg and Gotha. With this he fell to Prussia in 1834, which the district Sankt Wendel created from this area. After separation of the main part of the newly created Saar was built in 1920 the remainder circle St. Wendel - Baumholder, to which the place belonged until 1937, when he was incorporated into the circle Birkenfeld. In 1969, he was reclassified in the district of Kusel. While Kirrweiler until the Second World War was still one of more than 300 inhabitants, the population has almost halved since then.

The development of the population of Kirrweiler, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Kirrweiler consists of six council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Community partnership

Since 1975, the municipality has entered into partnerships with Kirrweiler in the district of Southern Wine Route, Kirrwiller in Alsace Bas-Rhin and Moselle Kirviller in Lorraine.

Economy and infrastructure

In the south, the highway runs 420 In Lauterecken is a railway station of Lauterbrunnen Valley Railway.