Schmitshausen

The Rose Village Schmitshausen is a municipality in the southwest, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Wallhalben.

Geography

Schmitshausen is on the Sickinger Höhe. The distance to the city of Zweibrücken is 15 km.

To Schmitshausen includes the living spaces on Ochsenberg and Light Borner Hof.

History

The town was first mentioned in 1685.

The development of the population of Schmitshausen, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Religion

2012 were 61.0 percent of the population Catholic and 31.5 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 Schmitshausen consists of eight 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: " Azure, a silver horseshoe with swept down cleats, the middle of it a silver rose with blue slug ".

It was approved in 1981 by the District Government Neustadt.

Community partnerships

In 1971 graduated Schmitshausen a triple municipal partnership in the sign of the rose with Limana in Italy, in France and Longuyon Walferdange in Luxembourg. Godfather of these partnerships is the Saarland in Saarbrücken Radio. Starting from 1979, the schools were brought into this partnership with. 1981 did the Euro Europe in Strasbourg of the local church the title " community in Europe " associated with the presentation of the European flag.

Culture and sights

1967 awarded the Association of German friends the Rose flower-filled place the title of Rose Village. At the village square, in the so-called Rosengärtchen, in plants as well as in private property are in the heyday still all kinds of roses to see. In 1976, a climbing rose on the name "Rose village Schmitshausen " was baptized at the 4th Festival of Roses.

In addition to a youth center and a community library, the community has several recreational facilities (youth campground, forest trail, picnic hut with barbecue).

See also: List of cultural monuments in Schmitshausen

Economy and infrastructure

By Schmitshausen leads the L 466 The nearby A 6, A 8 and A 62 is connected to the long-distance transport.