Bruchmühlbach-Miesau

Bruchmühlbach -Miesau is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It is the administrative seat of the homonymous municipality, which it also belongs. Bruchmühlbach -Miesau is a nationally recognized tourist and reported as a basic center in accordance with state planning.

• 4.1 municipal
• 4.2 mayor
• 4.3 Coat of Arms

• 5.1 Leisure and sports facilities
• 5.2 Regular events

• 6.1 traffic
• 6.2 educational institutions
• 6.3 Military

Geography

Geographical location

Bruchmühlbach -Miesau is located in Landstuhl break on the river Glan.

Districts and residential places

The local church Bruchmühlbach -Miesau had on 31 December 2004 8,093 inhabitants. Of this total, the individual districts:

Residential places, according to the State Office of Statistics, Rhineland -Palatinate

Climate

The annual rainfall is 783 mm. The deposits are located in the middle third of the detected values ​​in Germany. At 59% 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 3% of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.

History

Main places are the districts Bruchmühlbach and Miesau. Bruchmühlbach first recorded in 900; Miesau the first time in 1222 in a letter of protection of King Henry VII

Bruchmühlbach originally consisted of the villages Bruchmühlen and Mühlbach, which together since the so-called French period (1798-1814) formed a community, was the seat of a canton in the Mairie Landstuhl in the department of Thunder Mountain. To Mairie also belonged the communities main chair and bird creek.

On January 7, 1918, a serious railway accident occurred in Bruchmühlbach as crashed here a leave train with a second train. 33 people died and 121 more were injured.

The community Bruchmühlbach was posted on October 1, 1938 increased by inclusion of the previous community Mühlbach, which was also called Mühlbach at the break. The later Miesau district was divided until 1937 into the separate communities Niedermiesau and Obermiesau. The Mies Auer district Buchholz emerged only in the 1930s.

1951/52, founded the porcelain manufacturer Gebr Winterling a factory in Bruchmühlbach, the refractory cookware and giftware produced under the brand name "Rhine Palatinate hard porcelain " tableware. In the 1970s, production was switched to earthenware ( " Palatinate ceramics ").

The local church Bruchmühlbach -Miesau was re-formed on April 22, 1972 from the communities Bruchmühlbach and Miesau. Just three years earlier, on June 7, 1969, the municipality bird creek after Bruchmühlbach and the community Elschbach had been incorporated to Miesau.

Religion

2012 were 39.3 percent of the population Protestant and 29.3 percent Catholic. The other belonged to a different religion or no religious affiliation were. Catholics belong to the diocese of Speyer, the Evangelical Lutheran Church for Protestant Palatinate.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Bruchmühlbach -Miesau consists of 24 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 local council:

Mayor

• Since 1999 Klaus Neumann ( SPD)

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " From green, black and blue divided by silver gin, right an ornate silver stand, on a seated left inverted golden bird, a top round curved silver hook in its beak entertaining, left a rotbewehrter and bezungter golden lion, down a silver wave beams, with a growing silver water wheel ".

It was approved by the district government Neustadt 1976. The silver stand with golden bird comes from the former Vogelbacher municipal coat of arms. The wave beam with mill wheel included the fraction Muhlbacher coat of arms before 1972. The Palatinate lion recalls the previous affiliation of all subsites to Electoral Palatinate.

Culture and sights

• Simultankirche bird Bach

See also: List of cultural monuments in Bruchmühlbach -Miesau

Leisure and sports facilities

The municipality owns accommodation establishments and restaurants for all claims, tennis courts and bowling alleys, and has a trail system with 120 kilometers of marked hiking trails. Between the hamlets Miesau and Elschbach there is a forest Warmfreibad with competitive plants complying, family slide and play and recreational opportunities. There is opportunity for sport fishing, a campground, a mini golf course and equestrian facilities.

From the hamlet of Bruchmühlbach from a hiking trail leads to the natural monument misery gorge.

Regular events

Traditional and annually recurring festivals in the community:

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Bruchmühlbach -Miesau is connected by its own motorway connection via the A 6 (Mannheim -Saarbrücken ) with the national road network and lies on the parallel railway line Mannheim- Saarbrücken. The station is located in the district Bruchmühlbach.

The district received Elschbach 1904 with the opening of the Glantalbahn connection to the railway network. Due to its peripheral location in the early 1960s also about 8000 meters east near the tunnel Elschbacher the breakpoint Elschbach opened location whereby said rail line should be increased in the southern section Homburg - Glan- Münchweiler. The maintenance Elschbach place was abandoned in 1976, the previous station was followed two years later. The passenger was closed down in 1981; because the freight had previously been set between Schoenberg Kübelberg and Glan- Münchweiler, the stretch was henceforth without regular traffic. The late 1980s, the tracks were dismantled.

Educational institutions

The municipality has with the Adam -Müller - school a secondary school plus further on primary schools in Miesau and Bruchmühlbach. There are also four kindergartens.

The U.S. military maintains near Miesau the Miesau Army Depot, the largest ammunition depot outside the U.S. ( also the largest ammunition depot in Germany ) ( "In the anti-tank ditch "). The depot was in 1990 in the short term interim storage during transport (Action dragon ) of approximately 100,000 stored in Germany poison gas grenades.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Hanns Haberer (1898-1967), politician, 1946/47, State Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs of Rhineland -Palatinate (CDU )
• Horst Eckel ( born 1932 ), football player and member of the legendary " Walter Elf " World Champion 1954
• Margit Mohr ( b. 1949 ), politician (SPD )
• Alexander Weis ( born 1959 ), an official
• Patricia Brocker (born 1966 ), football player
• Günter Fausten (* 1959), Kerweegel