Kleinkarlbach
Kleinkarlbach is a municipality in the district of Bad Durkheim Palatinate. The village is located about 18 kilometers west of Ludwigshafen on the edge of European Metropolitan Region Rhine -Neckar. It belongs to the municipality green town and country.
Geography and Geology
The community is a wine-growing village in the Vorderpfalz on the hilly western edge of the Rhine Valley. Until 1969 it belonged to the ( extinct ) Landkreis Frankenthal. Kleinkarlbach located at the entrance of the valley Leininger at Corner Brook, which flows east to the Rhine. The names related Großkarlbach located 5 km to the east in the Rhine valley.
Geologically, the environment, the interface between the low mountains of the Palatinate forest ( which expires in here to the northeast ) and the deep grave breach of the Rhine Valley. Kleinkarlbach sits exactly at the end of this Edge Mountains - the Leininger spur - just above the green city dwellers or Eisenberger basin in the north. On the eastern slopes of this spur those fault line where the former base of the Upper Rhine Graben over 10 km sank into the deep and was filled with younger sediments to the current plane. Some of these unconsolidated rocks also benefit the wine on the slopes.
History
Kleinkarlbach 770 was first mentioned in the Lorsch Codex. 873, the village belonged to the monastery Murbach. In 1309 he went as a fief to the Leininger. After the French Revolution, he belonged to the Thunder Mountain Department, and from 1814 to 1816 was Kleinkarlbach under Austro- Bavarian administration, before it was knocked down as part of the Rhine circle the Kingdom of Bavaria.
Religion
1555 the Reformation was introduced in Leiningerland and Kleinkarlbach became Lutheran. In 2007, 52.9 percent of the population Protestant and 23.8 percent Catholic. The other belonged to a different religion or no religious affiliation were.
Policy
Parish council
The local council in Kleinkarlbach consists of twelve council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
Allocation of seats in the elected local council:
Coat of arms
The blazon of the arms is: " In gold, a green wave beams ".
It was approved in 1982 by the district government Neustadt and goes back to a court seal from 1452, in which the wave beam was still cant figure shown on the right.