Breitenbach, Rhineland-Palatinate

Breitenbach is a municipality in the district of Kusel, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality forest Mohr and is one of the eight largest municipalities of the district of Kusel.

Geography

The place is in Kusel Musicians country on the border of Saarland. To the north is Frohnhofen, in the eastern Old churches in the south of Lautenbach ( Ottweiler ), in the southeast and west is Dunzweiler Fürth in Ostertal.

History

Breitenbach was first documented in 1303. The place belonged to Palatinate -Zweibrücken.

Policy

Parish council

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

Allocation of seats in the elected municipal council:

Mayor

On May 29, 2011, Jürgen Knapp, great-grandson of the former mayor Daniel Knapp, was elected mayor. He succeeded Wolfgang Steigner - Wild, who had resigned prematurely from his office. In this resignation was followed by a choice therefore was remarkable because six candidates competed for the office, one for the size of the place unusually high number.

Existing community leaders:

Culture and sights

Breitenbach is a miner Farmer's Museum. Shown is the work and life at the coal mines. Was built the museum using the Christian scouts, in particu-lar the collecting passion of tribal elders Günter S. The museum is housed in the former schoolhouse south, which served as an elementary school until 1990, but which was then rebuilt on the Wilcher. The former schoolhouse north, the no school was much longer, was used for two purposes: The old building is now used as a community center, where the mayor's office and the meeting room is set for the local council, in the cultivation of the municipality kindergarten is located today.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Breitenbach (Pfalz )

Clubs and youth

Breitenbach has a variety of sports clubs and leisure facilities for young people. So there is a gymnastic and sport club ( TUS), a table tennis club, a youth club, a volunteer fire department with patrons and youth fire brigade, a Country Women's Association, a local branch of the Red Cross, the glee club Eintracht, the glee club brother, a shooting club Diana and the Boy Scout master Albert Schweitzer of the Association of Christian Scouts and Guides (VCP ), fruit and horticulture club, retiree club.

From Breitenbach a great club overarching group at the 72-hour action is involved, while the so-called beautification path has been renovated.

Economy and infrastructure

Southeast is the A 6, A 62 northeast the Add Homburg is a station of the railway line Mannheim- Saarbrücken. Breitenbach has a supermarket, a drugstore, a pharmacy, several barber shops, two bank branches, two bakeries, a butcher shop, several restaurants / bars, a carpenter, an eyeglass shop, spare parts for auto parts, several auto mechanics, a physical therapist with a gym.

Since 2008, a village moderation is in Breitenbach place with the goal of making Breitenbach optically and offers even more appealing.

2009 and 2010 in Breitenbach, the European farmers' market place with around 50,000 unique visitors. The market was thus the biggest event in the village.

Media

Coverage of the local church Breitenbach takes place in the Westricher Rundschau, a local edition of the Rhine Palatinate.

In irregular rhythm, the group of voters Grünspecht published the so-called " village newspaper " in which she highlighted the work of the council and others, village exclusively related topics.

Used for public announcements and simplified reporting from the village is the output of " south circle " of the fully funded by ads " weekly paper ".

In 2005, a village chronicle, which was also published on the Internet appeared.

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