Waldmohr

Forest Moor is a municipality in the district of Kusel, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It is the seat of the administration of the municipality forest Mohr, who also belongs. Forest Moor is a nationally recognized tourist and reported as basic center according to state planning.

• 3.1 municipal

• 4.1 Sport
• 4.2 Music
• 4.3 Structures
• 4.4 Natural Monuments

• 5.1 traffic
• 5.2 rail
• 5.3 street
• 5.4 Public bodies

• 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
• 6.2 People who have worked on site

Geography

Geographical location

Forest Moor is located at the western end of West Palatine Moorniederung, right on the Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate border. Right through the settlement area flows der Glan, which was straightened in 1933 on site at the instigation of the community.

Local structure

To the local community forest Mohr include the districts Eichelscheiderhof and the 1763 stallion Walder Ziegelhuette first mentioned hamlet forest brick hut.

History

Forest Moor is the first time 830 in the Lorsch codex, mentioned as "villa Moraha ", so the village at the bottom of the stream. 1449 the place came under the rule of the Dukes of Pfalz- Zweibrücken and subject to these to the duchy in the consequences of the French Revolution in 1794 goes down. 1798 Forest Mohr is under French rule capital of the canton of the same name in the Saarland Department. Thus the history of the site begins as the administrative headquarters. After the French occupation of the Palatinate comes to the Kingdom of Bavaria, Forest Moor remains cantonal capital for 57 villages between Kirkel and Glan- Münchweiler. This position will lose it until after the separation of the Saarland after the First World War. 1920, the city is the county Kusel subordinated and relegated to the district office branch. In 1946, he was incorporated into the newly created state of Rhineland -Palatinate and receives 1971 as the seat of the municipality Waldmohr one of its former powers back.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Forest Moor consists of 22 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Allocation of seats in the local council:

Culture and sights

Sports

The local handball club called HSV forest Mohr and heard despite its location in Rhineland- Palatinate to the handball Saar.

Music

It is known the Westricher Madrigal Choir. This is a 1998 which originate from the Sängervereinigung mixed chorus.

The Musikverein forest Mohr eV - founded on October 8, 1922 - in this form. The initial official mention of a " music club Forest Moor " was the occasion of the 4th Palatine Music Festival, which took place in Speyer in January 1830. Today, the Musikverein Forest Moor consists of a youth band and a saxophone quartet.

Structures

See list of cultural monuments in Forest Moor

Natural Monuments

The municipality is the natural area " Bruchwiesen Forest Moor ', is renatured in the field of Glan.

Economy and infrastructure

Forest Mohr lives mainly of industrial and craft enterprises. It is the largest industrial site in the district of Kusel. Largest employers are a Möbelfrabrik (approximately 590 employees) and an engineering plant, which also deals in aluminum profiles (about 260 employees).

Traffic

Rail

The public transport system is integrated into the transport association Rhein- Neckar ( VRN). The Glantalbahn that drove earlier by forest Mohr is shut down in this area. At their forest Mohr had Together with the neighboring Jägersburg a station whose name had always taken care of due to its location for dispute. So he was indeed on the boundary of Jägersburg, but closer to the settlement area of forest Mohr. Until 1905 it was called Jägersburg Forest Mohr, 1905-1912 and 1936-1947 forest Mohr- Jägersburg and 1912-1921 forest Mohr and from 1921 to 1936 and from 1947 Jägersburg. For passenger transport, this mid-1950s has been abandoned. In 1967, the Waldmohrer industrial area a siding.

After the passenger ended up in this area in 1981, in 1989 the dismantling of the track route between forest Mohr and Schoenberg Kübelberg two years later. The driving force was the community forest Mohr was because they wanted to demolish an overpass at its entrance to allow trucks to pass through. Meanwhile, located on the railway line from Waldmohr to Glan- Münchweiler the Glan- Blew - way. Even before the Glantalbahn was officially opened in 1903 was the so-called northern light railway in operation, the glanaufwärts ran from said station right through the building forest Mohr to pit North field. The Glantalbahn section Homburg Jägersburg has already been taken in this regard, with the opening of this rail freight unofficially in operation. Lack of profitability had to close said pot, and the railway line was also halted after only two years of operation. In the Waldmohrer center was during this time the so-called Country Debit station, which was responsible for the land sales of the pit.

The nearest railway line is now the approximately six kilometers south of Forest Moor extending railway line Mannheim- Saarbrücken. Bus lines of the regional bus company Saar- Western Palatinate Forest Mohr connect to the stations Homburg, Bruchmühlbach -Miesau and Landstuhl to this track. The county town of Kusel and Glan- Münchweiler on the railway line Kusel - Kaiserslautern are directly accessible by bus.

Road

Forest Moor has a connection point (and a rest area, with motel) of the Federal Highway 6 (Saarbrücken - Waidhaus ) - also called " Via Carolina " - and is thus connected, but also to France and the Czech Republic not only to the German supra-regional road. In addition, the federal highway 423 ( Mandelbachtal - Altenglan ) leads through the town and thus provides a regional connection in the area of ​​the Saar and Palatinate. In forest Mohr also ends the provincial road 354, which has its starting point in Frohnhofen well as district roads 2 and 3, starting at the border of the Saarland.

Public institutions

Forest Moor houses the administration of the municipality of the same name.

The Rothfeld school is a connected Elementary and junior high school plus. Since the school year 2007/2008, it offers the only school in Rhineland -Palatinate, even during the holiday continuous full-time care to.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Theodor Berkmann (1802-1870), lawyer, politician and revolutionary
• Ludwig Ritter Pacher (1883-1964), politician ( CDU)
• Fritz Schwitzgebel (1888-1957), politician ( NSDAP)
• Kurt Eichner (1898-1969), politician ( NSDAP)

Those who worked on site

• Berdel Adolf (1860-1925), lawyer, was on site royal Upper magistrate
• Guenther Fuchs ( b. 1947 ), football player, grew up in Forest Moor
• Joseph Heine (1803-1877), physician, applied locally as Canton doctor
• Jacob Knissel (1905-1940), politician ( NSDAP), was from January 1, 1938 district leader of Landstuhl Forest Moor
• Shlomo Lewin (1911-1980), worked before the Second World War on the spot as a teacher
• Hippolytus August Schaufert (1834-1872), author, was from 1864 to 1866 a police inspector in Forest Moor