Burrweiler

Burrweiler is a municipality in the Southern Wine Route in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Edenkoben. Burrweiler is a nationally recognized tourist.

Geography

The municipality is located 7 km south of Edenkoben at the Haardt below the Anna mountain on the western side of the Rhine valley. To Burrweiler includes the residential places winery Annaberg and sawmill Burrweilermühle.

History

For the first time Burrweiler was mentioned on April 7, 1275 in a charter of King Rudolf of Habsburg in the White Castle Monastery. In 1657 Burweiler came to the barons von der Leyen, where it remained until the end of the 18th century.

After 1792 French revolutionary troops occupied the region and annexed after the peace of Campo Formio (1797 ). From 1798 to 1814 the village belonged to the French department of Thunder Mountain and was assigned to the Canton Edenkoben. Taken in response to the Congress of Vienna (1815 ) Agreements and a barter agreement with Austria the region came in 1816 with the Kingdom of Bavaria. As of 1818, the municipality Burrweiler was later assigned to the country 's Commissariat Landau in Bavaria Rheinkreis the county Landau, from 1938, the district Landau emerged. Since 1978, the community belongs to the district of Southern Wine Route.

Religion

2012 were 63.2 percent of the population Catholic and 16.9 percent Protestant. 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 Burrweiler consists of twelve council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " Azure, a silver lily with golden whorls ".

It was approved in 1844 by the Bavarian king and goes back to a seal from 1755.

Culture and sights

• Annaberg- chapel probably originally, multiple completely renovated in the 16th century, most recently 1895/96
• Deutsches Museum oven It was inaugurated in September 2000 by Prime Minister Kurt Beck. The oven - history of the open fireplace of the 16th century have been shown at more than 100 exhibits, staged authentically in sequence of epochs to the furnace of the 20th century. In 2009 it was closed. The museum is now located in the premises of the Viessmann Werke in Allendorf ( Eder). In Burrweiler, however, is still an antique stove Gallery in the exhibition rooms of the company Stritzinger.

See also:

• List of cultural monuments in Burrweiler
• List of natural monuments in Burrweiler

Sons and daughters of the town

• Johann Wiesel (1583-1662), born in Burrweiler, telescope builder
• Philipp Franz von Walther (1782-1849), surgeon and ophthalmologist
• Lorenz Orth (1872-1955), teacher and politician ( CENTRE )