Darstein

Darstein is a municipality in the southwest, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Hauenstein.

Geography

The small community is located between Pirmasens and Bad Bergzabern the Dahn Rockland in Wasgau. 59.9 percent of the district area is forested.

History

Darstein belonged to the dominion of the castle Lindelbrunn Leininger. The castle ruin is still above the village.

The name is very probably due to Heinricus dictus Darstein de Büdenkeim, mentioned 1309. 1386 specify sources the name Daxstein, probably due to a clerical error. Because 1411 is the personal name Henne Darstein registered and 1428 as a place name again Darstein.

While developed the Catholic Hauenstein 1933 a bastion against Nazism, voted the evangelical Darsteiner after analysis by Theo Black Müller was the first municipality in Germany closed in the Reichstag election 1930 - with all the 106 voters - for the NSDAP. The village was then appointed to the NSDAP honorary member. On this occasion, the former post office in the district land Müggelheim of today's Berlin district of Treptow- Köpenick, on 13 June 1936 was named Darsteiner way. After 1945, the SPD became the dominant party in Darstein and this is today, but still got 1967, the NPD almost half of the votes in place.

Religion

2012 were 60.0 percent of the population Protestant and 18.6 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 Darstein 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.

Coat of arms

" From left diagonally divided blue and silver, top right rotbewehrter a silver eagle, bottom left bewinkeltes of four red balls floating, geradarmiges, angetatztes blue cross. "

It was approved by the district government Neustadt 1984. The eagle refers to the former belonging to the Leiningern. The lower half of the coat of arms shows the seal of the mayor of Stoffel Darstein of in 1750.

Economy and infrastructure

A major industry of the town is tourism.

Through the village leads 478 L The nearest motorway is the A65 to the east.