Annweiler am Trifels
Annweiler am Trifels is a town in the district of Southern Wine Route in Rhineland- Palatinate. It is also the administrative seat of the municipality of the same name. Annweiler am Trifels is a nationally recognized health resort and reported as a secondary center in accordance with state planning.
- 2.1 Amalgamations
- 3.1 City Council
- 3.2 Coat of Arms
- 3.3 twinning
- 4.1 Attractions
- 4.2 Regular events
- 5.1 Economics
- 5.2 traffic
- 5.3 Formation
- 5.4 religions
- 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
- 6.2 People who have worked on site
Geography
Geographical location
Annweiler located in the southern Palatinate Forest, the German part of the Wasgau, near its eastern edge and is drained by the river Queich. On three mountains south of the city, the latter two are the castles Trifels Anebos and coin, but already on the district municipality Leinsweiler. The municipality also includes a 14.71 km ² Waldexklave in the northwest to the forester's house Annweiler.
Districts
To Annweiler include the districts Binder Bach, Sarnstall, Gräfenhausen and Queichhambach. To Queichhambach include the hamlet Rothenhof and Neumühlestrasse.
Climate
The annual precipitation is 910 mm. Rainfall is high. They are located in the upper quarter of the detected values in Germany. At 79% of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values are registered. The driest month is April, the most rainfall comes in December. In December, falling 1.5 times more rainfall than in April. Precipitation varies only slightly and are distributed extremely evenly throughout the year. At only 4% of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.
History
The first mention of Annweilers goes back to the year 1086. It was founded, like other settlements with the ending- weiler, probably in the 7th or 8th century. Annweiler was named probably after a Franken called Anno or Arno.
In the years 1125-1298 the imperial regalia, including the imperial crown were kept on the Empire Trifels. 1193, possibly to 1194, the English King Richard the Lionheart was held as a prisoner on the Trifels.
Annweiler got in 1219 by Emperor Frederick II granted town rights. In the 18th century Annweiler was the smallest of all the imperial cities.
Incorporations
On April 22, 1972 and was Queichhambach on June 10, 1979 Gräfenhausen was incorporated into Annweiler am Trifels.
Policy
City council
The council Annweiler consists of 22 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman city.
Allocation of seats in the elected City Council:
Coat of arms
The blazon of the arms is: " split of gold and black, on the right, a growing red castle in the shape of Trifels with black windows, the left a blue- covered golden church in Romanesque style with blue windows and golden tower crosses ".
It was established in 1950 approved by the Ministry of Interior and Mainz goes back to the big city seal from the year 1230.
Twinning
A partnership with the French town of Ambert in the Puy -de- Dôme ( Auvergne region ) was concluded in 1988 with gorgonzola in the Italian region of Lombardy in 2008.
Since the late 1980s, a partnership between the volunteer fire department and the Annweiler Sapeur - Pompiers Jargeau in the Loiret.
Culture
Attractions
The historical city center with the old mill and Tanners' Quarter ( including the passage " Shipka " ) is a landmark of Annweiler, as well as the imperial castle situated above the town Trifels, which is partially restored and is managed. The museum below Trifels is housed in three half-timbered houses and displays on the history of the town, the castle and the Annweilerer Gerber in the 16th - 17th Century, the city dominated economically. Below the 493 m high Sonnenberg is the museum of the castle ruins Trifels, in the center of the Protestant church, the symbol of the former imperial city. The rest are the spa and the Ambertpark.
See also: List of cultural monuments in Annweiler am Trifels
Regular events
In 2005 was held in the historic center for the first time the Richard the Lionheart hard. This medieval market, a " medieval spectacle with knights, jugglers, precious and minstrels ," has developed, with well over 10,000 visitors at once the biggest event in the city.
Other regular events in the city Annweiler include Summer of Culture, which concerts on the Town Hall Square and in the park area of the city, an Keschdefescht around the chestnuts in October of each year and markets like the annual artisans or Christmas market.
In the imperial hall of the castle Trifels be offered as concerts the Trifels serenades.
Economy and infrastructure
Economy
The largest employer in Annweiler is the cardboard factory Buchmann. They produced - mainly from recycled paper - folding boxboard as starting material for packaging, especially in the consumer goods industry. Stabila The company manufactures precision measuring instruments. There are also suppliers to the automotive industry.
Traffic
Annweiler is accessible via the B 10 ( Landau - Pirmasens ), which is linked to Landau -Nord to the A 65 (Ludwigshafen am Rhein -Karlsruhe ). From Annweiler B 10 leads towards Pirmasens through four tunnels ( from east to west: Barbarossa tunnel, Lionheart tunnel, tunnel Staufer and costs rock tunnel ). The B 48 ( Bingen- Bad Bergzabern ) Annweiler connects with the national road network.
Annweiler is attached in the form of the railway station and the breakpoint Annweiler - Sarnstall along the railway Landau -Rohrbach to the rail network.
Education
Annweiler has a primary and a secondary school plus. Furthermore, there is a school for children with learning difficulties as well as a vocational school. The Trifels High School is under church-run, it is organized in part as a boarding school. Annweiler is the seat of the company founded by Jean Firges Sonnenberg Press, which focuses particularly on the literature by authors writing in French.
Religions
In 2007, 40.4 percent of the population Protestant and 38.1 percent Catholic. The other belonged to a different religion or no religious affiliation were.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Friedrich Gerhard Wahl (1748-1826), engineer and architect
- Matthias Kern (1750-1793), journalist and publisher
- Aulenbach Friedrich (1810-1882), poet
- Bolza Moritz (1828-1891), lawyer and politician (NLP )
- Eugen Jäger (1842-1926), a Catholic publisher and publicist, state assembly and member of the Reichstag
- August Naegle (1869-1932), Catholic theologian, church historian, politician, rector of the Prague German University
- Otto Seel (1907-1975), professor in Erlangen
- Hans -Ulrich Pfaff (b. 1956), Bavarian Landtag (SPD )
- Horst Christill (* 1959), church musician
- Theo Black Müller ( b. 1961 ), historian
- Markus Becker (born 1971 ), pop singer
- Nicole Fessel (* 1983), cross-country skier
Those who worked on site
- Mark Ward of Annweiler († 1202), Margrave of Ancona and Count of Abruzzo, Regent of Sicily, educators of the Hohenstaufen Emperor Henry VI. and Frederick II
- David Pareus (1548-1622), Reformed theologian, during the Thirty Years' War, 1621 as a refugee in Annweiler
- August von Voit (1801-1870), architect, planner of the Old Town Hall
- Johann Lukas Jäger (1811-1874), 1840-1858 practitioner in Annweiler, conservative Catholic writer, 1849-1858 Bavarian Landtag.
- Gustav Ullrich (1860-1938), entrepreneur, Privy Counselor, founder of MASS WORKS Gustav Ullrich (1889 ) with branch plants in Albersweiler and Chalons sur Marne ( France) as well as establishing the Annweiler email and metal - works (1890) with an additional plant in Home Bell, founder of the workers' Home
- Heinrich Ullmann (1872-1953), architect, planner of the district court
- Rudolf Kaffka (1923-1985), theologian and politician (SPD ) 1956-1961 pastor in Annweiler
- Rudolf Werner (* 1941), journalist and filmmaker