Bolanden

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

  • 4.1 traffic
  • 4.2 Education

Geography

In addition to the nucleus, the municipality consists of the villages Bolanderhof and Weierhof.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Bolanden consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local council:

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " Azure, beseiteter of each one sechsspeichigen golden wheel silver oblique beams, assigned to the beseiteten of three red diamond stones red capital letters B and L".

It was granted in 1844 by King Ludwig I of Bavaria.

Culture and sights

The village has good infrastructure, which is why a small industrial park was built.

The biggest attraction is the Werner -von- Bolanden Hall. The biggest festival of the village is the church fete, which takes place every year on the first weekend of September. It is dug up on the ruins of the church fete Borsch Bolanden the church fete.

In the village there are a Catholic, a Protestant church as well as in the district Weierhof a Mennonite Church (also House of Prayer ). The oldest house in the village dates from the Gothic period.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

At a short distance east is the A 63 ( Kaiserslautern Mainz). In Kirchheimbolanden a railway station of thunder mountain railway and a Marnheim is such Zellertalstraße the web.

Education

There are the following facilities:

  • 2 kindergartens
  • 1 Elementary School
  • The gymnasium Weierhof. This is a full-day G8 Gymnasium ( G8GTS ) with boarding facilities.

Personalities

Joseph Eduard Konrad Bischoff, writers of the 19th century, chose as a priest in the northern Palatinate be Schriftstellerpseudonym " Conrad of Bolanden ", according to village and castle Bolanden.

Clubs

One of the local clubs include, inter alia, the Musikverein Bolanden, TuS Bolanden and the men's choir in 1848 Bolanden.

Of national importance is the Mennonite Historical Society, which operates the Mennonite Research Centre in the district Weierhof.

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