Abentheuer

Abentheuer is a municipality in the district of Birkenfeld, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Birkenfeld. Abentheuer is a nationally recognized resort.

Geography

The town lies on Traun river in the Black Forest High Forest in the Hunsrück. On the outskirts the Trauntalschleife, award-winning hiking trail of the Saar- Hunsrück- Steig starts. 71.5 percent of the district area is forested. To the north is Börfink, in the east Buhlenberg and south bridges.

To Abentheuer includes the residential places Arthenberg and Hujetsägemühle.

History

Abentheuer has grown together from the two formerly separate districts of Leyen and Abentheuer or Abentheuerhütte beginning of the 20th century. Leyen, which lay to the southeast of the modern village on Traunbach was first mentioned in 1367. The north of this location Abentheuer can be detected at the earliest in 1580. Both places contributed to the 18th century yet different names.

The territory of the municipality belonged to the County of Sponheim gorgeous country. The Traunbach acted as the boundary between the hunolsteinischen, from 1598 Zweibrücken Office Achtelsbach the west and the Sponheim Office Birkenfeld in the east. Throughout its history, the place of either the parish or the parish Achtelsbach in Birkenfeld belonged to - today the parish bridges.

From the mid- 16th century, the processing of iron began in Abentheuer first from the mines in Buhlenberg and Elchweiler, later of Thalfang and Schwarzenbach. 1763 was the Abentheuerer Hut to economic difficulties in the possession of the family of entrepreneurs silent about that already had other cabins and hammer mills in the region. After this change, the production increased in Abentheuer significantly, since 1770, made ​​it especially cast iron goods from imported pig iron manufactures. 1835 Abentheuerer hut to the brothers Böcking was inherited. After 1870, the business was more and more restricted as a result of the transition from charcoal to coke blast furnace operation and the fresh fire for Puddelofenbetrieb and 1875 the production was discontinued. The owners moved to Halbergerhütte to the Saar.

In the late 17th century, moved east of the village in the wooded valley of the Traun to the Hujetssägemühle. End of the 19th century, a furniture factory has developed from her with several production buildings, which was abandoned in the 1960s, and today no longer run guest house.

In 1797 the became known as Schinderhannes robber John Buckler committed in Abentheuer a horse theft.

Helene Kahn, nee Marx was born in 1864 in adventures. She lived in Abentheuer until immediately after the so-called " seizure of power" by the National Socialists in 1933 emigrated to France. Helene Kahn was deported to Auschwitz on November 3, 1942 by transit camp Drancy and murdered. She is the only person of Jewish descent from Abentheuer, who was deported and murdered by the Nazis.

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Abentheuer 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.

Mayor

The municipality had since 1857 following community leaders and local mayor:

Coat of arms

Blazon: " About two rows of red and silver geschachtem sign foot in green, a conical silver crucibles, accompanied by two inclined toward (diagonally opposite and inclined ) Golden Ears of rye. "

The coat of arms of the municipality Abentheuer 1965 approved by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Interior.

Attractions

In the list of cultural monuments in Abentheuer are registered in the list of monuments of Rhineland- Palatinate cultural monuments. On the boundaries of the municipality of several trees and rock formations are also designated as natural monuments.

Economy and infrastructure

In the east, the highway runs 41 and to the south the Federal Highway 62 is a station on the railway line Bingen -Saarbrücken In Neubrücke.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Braß Otto (1887-1945), member of the Reichstag.
• Klaus Rueter ( born 1940 ), former Secretary of State of the state government of Rhineland -Palatinate.