Mörsfeld

Mörsfeld is a municipality in the Thunder Mountain district in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Kirchheimbolanden.

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Coat of Arms

• 4.1 traffic
• 4.2 Agriculture

Geography

Location

Mörsfeld is located about 15 kilometers north from the summit of Mount Thunder. The cities Kirchheimbolanden, Bad Kreuznach and Alzey are both 15 km away. Due to the location of the Palatinate belonging to most of the inhabitants, however, are based Rheinhessen, due to the better transport links.

Between Mörsfeld and stone - block home stems from the Dunzelbach flowing through the protected landscape area of ​​Rheinhessen Switzerland.

To Mörsfeld includes the residential places Daimbacherhof, Pfaffenloch Palatinate and views.

Climate

The annual rainfall is 594 mm. Rainfall is low. They are located in the lower quarter of the detected values ​​in Germany. At 20% of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values ​​are registered. The driest month is January, most precipitation falls in June. In June, falling 2 times more precipitation than in January. Precipitation varies moderately. At 45% of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.

History

Presumably, the place is named after a settler named " Moro ". At the end of the 9th century to have been settled around Mörsfeld the country, but Mörsfeld was first mentioned in documents in 1381. Until the 19th century, mercury was mined in Mörsfeld.

Oldest Notes on Palatine mercury mining go back to a documentary message that was written around the year 1100. It is a " pit stop " (today Daimbacher Hof bei Mörsfeld ) mentioned in Daimbach. On the farm Daimbacher a Cistercian monastery was built in the second half of the 13th century. In Palatine Peasants' War, the monastery was destroyed several times and then leave altogether. Until 1993 the U.S. Army in Bad Kreuznach was located in the forest between Mörsfeld and stone -Bockenheim the Mörsfeld Storage Point, adjoining conventional ammunition storage. The property was abandoned in the wake of European troop reduction as a result of the first Gulf War.

Policy

Parish council

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

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " divided from black and silver, above a border rotbewehrter, bezungter - and - crowned golden lion, down from blue Wellenschildfuß ascending three natural Schilfkolben with green leaves next to each other ."

It was in 1950 awarded by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Interior and is based on a seal dating from 1536. It points up on the Kurpfälzer lions. Below the city name is shown talking.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

The motorway A 63 ( Kaiserslautern Mainz ), junction -Büdesheim heritage, is about 15 km.

Agriculture

In Mörsfeld there are four farms which cultivate a total area of ​​650 hectares.

Personalities

• Monika Böss (* 1950), writer, lives in Mörsfeld

Culture and sights

• List of cultural monuments in Mörsfeld
• The History Workshop eV has 2010 Local heritage book published with all the families from 1650 to 1930
• Mörsfelder notch on the third weekend in July