Bennhausen

Bennhausen is a municipality in the Thunder Mountain district in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Kirchheimbolanden.

Geography

The place is located in the north- Palatinate mountains at the foot of Thunder Mountain, which rises about 3 km to the west. Neighboring municipalities are Weitersweiler the southeast, Jakobsweiler in the West, Danne rock in the northwest and Bolanden in the east. In a westerly and northerly direction of the sloping landscape are mainly orchards and almost to the outskirts reaching forest, south and east mainly agricultural cropland.

History

Bennhausen was first mentioned in 1252 as Benni Husen documented. 1376 reached the place where the Palatinate. In the Thirty Years' War Bennhausen was completely destroyed. 1706 was the church to the Counts of Nassau -Weilburg. From 1816 to Bennhausen belonged to the mayor's office Dannenfels.

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Bennhausen consists of six 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 mayor since 1960:

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " From Red and Silver divided diagonally, upper left sechsspeichiges Silver Wheel, bottom right one from a red arrow pierced red deer ".

It was established in 1976 approved by the district government Neustadt.

The Mainzer Rad refers to its affiliation to the diocese of Mainz. The doe is the attribute of Saint Giles, one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, an earlier chapel was consecrated.

Economy and infrastructure

As is typical of similar villages the place was dominated until the 1960s by agricultural holdings; today dominate economically commuters. There are two development areas, which were developed about 1980 and 2005. In the original center are some renovated by both locals and newcomers houses and former agricultural estate.

The former, operated until 1960 former elementary school was completely renovated and greatly expanded, it now serves as a community center for different purposes. Bennhausen has a volunteer fire department includes Youth Fire Brigade, a community development association organizes cultural events, festivals and fairs (3rd weekend in August ).

Through the village runs the L 397 is approximately 3 km away is south-east to the exit Göllheim a connection to the A 63 (Kaiserslautern - Mainz). After Kaiserslautern in the south-west is about 30 km, to Mainz in the north about 50 km away. By 4 km away place Dreisen performs a disused railway line, which is operated only in the summer months on weekends from the Zeller Valley Railway. The nearest railway stations are regular in Kirchheimbolanden with connection to Alzey and Mainz, as well as in connection with Winnweiler to Kaiserslautern and Bad Kreuznach.