Pfeffelbach

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

Geography

Pfeffelbach is a small community in the western Palatinate. In the district Pfeffelbach there is the highest with 585 meters elevation in the district of Kusel, Herzer the mountain. There is both a small viewing platform from which one can look at weather permits up to Kaiserslautern, as well as a ski jump takeoff for hang gliders.

The name derives from the location is the same stream that originates below chernozems (Saarland) and empties into the Diedelkopf Kuselbach after almost six kilometers in the district of Kusel.

To Pfeffelbach includes the residential places Altmühle, Bremm Mill, Black Borner Muhle and waterworks.

History

By the end of the 18th century belonged to the Duchy of place Palatinate -Zweibrücken. Once inside the office Lichtenberg he was the eponymous capital of an Schultheißerei, which included 19 villages. After taking the left bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops (1794 ) Pfeffelbach belonged from 1798 to 1814 to the Saar Department. 1816 Pfeffelbach 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, it fell to Prussia in 1834, which created the circle St. Wendel 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.

Policy

Parish council

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

The distribution of seats in the local council:

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: divided from silver and silver above a growing, rotbewehrter and bezungter, blue lion, down a rooted cutting, brown tree with green leaves.

Culture and sights

Two times a year there will be a autocross race in a disused quarry site. Kirmes is always on the fourth Sunday in September.

Economy and infrastructure

In Pfeffelbach there is a kindergarten, a primary school, a bakery and a multipurpose hall. In the resort also include a small heating engineers, a locksmith, a kitchen studio, a plasterer shop, a carpentry shop, a doctor, several massage clinics, as well as foot care and beauty salons.

In the southwest of the A 62 runs from 1936 to 1970 had Pfeffelbach a station on the railway line Türkismühle - Kusel. In Kusel is a station on the railway line Landstuhl - Kusel.