Kottweiler-Schwanden

Kottweiler - Schwanden is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Landstuhl.

  • 5.1 Cultural Monuments
  • 5.2 Sports
  • 5.3 Regular events
  • 6.1 traffic

Geography

The village lies on the edge of the biosphere reserve Palatinate Forest. The municipality is the Schwander stream, a tributary of the Mohr Bach, drained.

Kottweiler - Schwanden consists of the two districts Kottweiler and Schwanden.

History

The place was first mentioned in documents in 1349.

Religion

2012 were 42.7 percent of the population Catholic and 41.0 percent Protestant. The other belonged to a different religion or no religious affiliation were. Catholics belong to the diocese of Speyer, the Evangelical Lutheran Church for Protestant Palatinate.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Kottweiler - Schwanden consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Allocation of seats in the local council:

Mayor

  • Roland Palm (CDU )

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " In green with a golden orb a silver Waldaxt, diagonally crossed with a silver ax ."

It was established in 1960 approved by the Mainz Ministry of Interior. The ax and the hoe remember that Kottweiler - Schwanden emerged as Rodungsort.

Partner community

With Rambervillers in France, a partnership is maintained since 1979.

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

  • See list of cultural monuments in Kottweiler - Schwanden

Sports

  • Sports club Kottweiler - Schwanden

Regular events

  • International Silvester road race on 31 December
  • Kerwe on the 3rd weekend in September
  • Christmas market on the first weekend of Advent

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

  • The public transport system is integrated into the transport association Rhein- Neckar.
  • The community is through the federal highways 6 (Saarbrücken - Waidhaus ) (Exit: Landstuhl ): connected to the motorway network and 62 ( Hütschenhausen junction ).
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