Münchweiler an der Alsenz

Münch Alsenz is a municipality in the Thunder Mountain district in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Winnweiler.

• 4.1 Cultural Monuments
• 4.2 Museum
• 4.3 Club Life
• 4.4 Associations / Groups
• 4.5 Regular events

• 5.1 traffic
• 5.2 Tourism
• 5.3 educational institutions

Geography

The community Münch Alsenz is surrounded by forest, fields and meadows in the Thunder Mountain district in Rhineland -Palatinate directly to the removed as bypass national highway 48

To Munchweiler includes the residential places Kuhwiese, Neumühlestrasse and brick cottage.

History

The first written mention of the village Munchweiler takes place in the year 1019, as by the Archbishopric of Mainz tithes and spell from surrounding villages of the Church of the Holy Bothadus be allocated in " Minchwillare ". Already 891 was mentioned in a document of the Bishop of Worms on a land swap a " monastery of Gerhard", which is the nucleus of the later small village " Munihhowilari " settlement of monks. In the early Middle Ages Munchweiler made ​​to the Thirty Years' War, together with the small villages Bautweiler ( no longer inhabited after the Thirty Years War and no longer mentioned, situated in the valley of the present county road from the B 48 towards Sembach ) and Gonbach ( not synonymous with today's Gonbach, before 1600 as Niedergonbach Garrenbach or in the immediate vicinity of today's Langmeil located ), " a court ", that is, a community association, which was owned by two landlords, the abbot of Hornbach and the Counts of Leiningen.

In the period following the rule changed hands by passing as a fief of the Leininger to the holders of the rule Neuhemsbach on the edge Ecker ( 15th century ) to the Flörsheimer (up to 1655). At the same time Kloster Hornbach has the respective Ritter appointed as overseers of his rights and his possessions. With the Reformation, the monastery lost its rights and possessions of Duke Wolfgang of Zweibrücken, the screen Vogt of the monastery of Hornbach. This they exchanged for other lands with the " Lords of Neuhemsbach " Tibertius Bechtholf of Florsheim, a. After 1655, the Counts of Leiningen- Westerburg themselves seem to have taken control, since the two villages in 1705 fell as a dowry to Count Ferdinand Andreas von Wiser whose spouse was a daughter of Count Philipp Ludwig von Leiningen again. The counts of Wiser, which resided in the castle Wiser to Hirschberg on the mountain road, at Mannheim, the men remained until the transition to the left of the Rhine German territories to France.

From 1798 to 1814 Munchweiler under French rule. Than Mairie Munchweiler, which included the communities Sippersfeld, Neuhemsbach and Gonbach, part of the Département du Mont- Tonnerre with the city of Mainz, the district of Kaiserslautern and the Canton Winnweiler

Over the centuries, the spelling of the place name - obviously depending on the knowledge of the author - inferior to constant changes, but without losing the reference to the founding monks: from 891 it went over Munihhowilari, Minchwillare, Mönchwyller, Menchwiller, mynchwyller, Minchweiler to today's place names.

At the old local court under the leadership of a mayor and later a Rentmeisters to collect taxes also reminds the village coat of arms, which emerged from the former court seal, which was proven in the years 1670 and 1686 in use.

Policy

Parish council

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

Allocation of seats in the local council:

Coat of arms

Blazon: Azure, a silver lamb, gold reinforced and a gold cross bar holding with golden aura, with the raised left foreleg, because a silver flag with a red cross bar.

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

• See list of cultural monuments in Münch Alsenz

Museum

• The Radio Museum Munchweiler shows the history of broadcasting in its operations with many visual, written and audio information. The association has set itself the task of exhibits to be restored professionally and make a wider public to the museum.

Club Life

Munchweiler is characterized by an active club life with a wide variety of activities.

Clubs / groups

• Firemen patrons Munchweiler
• Firemen Munchweiler
• Young Firefighters Munchweiler
• Strauss Borsch
• Club ring
• Friends of primary school
• Friends of kindergarten
• German Red Cross Munchweiler

Regular events

• Maypole Festival on May 1 at the village well in the village center
• Kerwe with Münch Weiler clubs on the second weekend in September with Kerwe Moving and Kerweredd
• Christmas market on the first Saturday in December with Münch Weiler clubs
• " Christmas Party " at the community center on the first Christmas Day, organized by the Gymnastics and Sports Association Munchweiler
• Theater performances on the first weekend in November through the theater district Munchweiler
• Live oldies music on various occasions with the famous Munch Weiler oldies band " Timeless"
• Hiking bistro table from mid-June
• Every two years, Bulldog regional meetings, aligned by the Bulldog Club, with up to 10,000 visitors
• Advent meetings on all Sundays of Advent in various places in the village

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

The place has since 1999 on a breakpoint of Alsenztalbahn that connects the Greater Kaiserslautern in Bad Kreuznach and Bingen with the Rhineland-Palatinate state capital Mainz and thus the entire Rhine -Main area easily accessible (to the direct accessibility of the airport Frankfurt by train ) makes. Previously, the Langmeil (Pfalz ) Bahnhof was the closest train stop, which was for this reason in the first decades of its existence Langmeil - Munchweiler.

Since 15 October 2004, the site via the exit Winnweiler is connected to the A 63. This Kaiserslautern is reachable in less than ten minutes and Mainz in about half an hour.

Tourism

The community is making great efforts to make the appearance of the place presentable and attractive, for example by redesigning the village center and road works in the older local areas. The development of two new residential areas in recent years has led not only to an increase in the number of inhabitants; by an appropriate design of public traffic areas also an essential contribution was made to the village beautification.

The southern Donnersbergkreis is suitable due to its well-developed hiking and trail network and a comprehensive signage good for walking tours of all kinds (including Nordic walking, cycling or wagon rides ); here Munchweiler inserts. In the hollow of the local stone Palatinate Forest Association operates the very popular with walkers hollow stone hut.

Three different themed walking trails have either Munchweiler their starting point or guide you through the site:

• Donnersberger Bauer path
• Dr. Strasbourg Kneipp footpath
• Walderlebnispfad of teaching and research institute for livestock LVAV Neumühlestrasse.

Furthermore, both the Alsenz Valley Trail and the Great Western Palatinate trail by Münch Alsenz leads.

Educational institutions

• Kindergarten
• Primary school Astrid Lindgren to grade 4
• The Training and Research Institute for Livestock Husbandry ( LVAV ) Hofgut Neumühlestrasse is responsible for education and training in animal husbandry in Rhineland -Palatinate and Saarland since its founding in 1951. Since 2003 the estate Neumühlestrasse the district of the Palatinate is in the service center of rural space ( DLR) Westpfalz integrated and responsible for the inter-company initial and master training in the areas of dairy cows, cattle rearing, sheep and pigs. Their duties also include education and training in animal production, also the practical experimentation in the fields of dairy cows, cattle rearing and sheep as well as consumer education through the medium of agricultural contexts.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Bernhard Felsenthal (1822-1908), American rabbi