Donnersbergkreis

The Thunder Mountain district is a district in the region Pfalz ( Rhineland -Palatinate).

• 4.1 Economics
• 4.2 traffic 4.2.1 private transport
• 4.2.2 Public transport

Geography

The thunder mountain circuit with its administrative headquarters Kirchheimbolanden and the license plate KIB is located in the northern part of the Palatinate. The majority of its area is in the northern Palatinate mountains. Its highest peak, Thunder Mountain ( 686.5 m above sea level. NHN ), also the highest mountain of the Palatinate, was used for naming. In the south, the county share of the Palatinate Forest, in the east - with the Zellertalstraße - the Palatinate wine region, in the north also on the wine region Nahe. From south to north western area of the county the Alsenz, a tributary of the Middle crossed.

Neighboring districts are from the north clockwise Bad Kreuznach, Alzey- Worms, Bad Durkheim, Kaiserslautern and Kusel.

History

The county was formed in 1969 by merging the two districts Kirchheimbolanden Rockhausen, with minor adjustments were made only in border areas. The two circles in 1939 emerged from the former Bavarian district offices, which had been created in 1818 as a country police stations in the Rhine district. From 1818 onwards, was a big part of today's thunder mountain circle to the country 's Commissariat Kirchheim, named 1862 District Office. From his 1900 western districts Obermoschel and Rockhausen were split off and merged with the separated from the county of Kaiserslautern district Winnweiler to a new district office Rockhausen. 1815 Before the present district territory belonged to the French department of Thunder Mountain.

Policy

Council

The District Council of Mount Thunder circle consists of 38 elected members and the district administration as chairman. The district council elections on 7 June 2009, the following result:

District administrators

Coat of arms

Cleaved by a bent- green top, is a golden radiant sun, of gold and silver, on the right, a red, a blue sechsspeichiges left wheel (Coat - approval of 4 September 1981)

The two wheels are taken from the coat of arms of the former district of Kirchheimbolanden Rockhausen. It formerly led the Lords of Bolanden the red wheel, the Hohenfelser sideline the blue wheel The bent- tip symbolizes the Thunder Mountain as the namesake of the wheel, the color green the forest wealth of the area, and the sun represents the vineyards to the east and north of the district.

Economy and infrastructure

Economy

Larger industrial sites are missing. The economy is based on tourism, certain points on viticulture. Agriculture and animal husbandry, especially the cultivation of wheat, canola and corn, but also the dairy industry in rural Donnersbergkreis play an important role. The formerly many small farms have been reduced to a few large companies.

Traffic

Private transport

The Thunder Mountain district is crossed by the motorway 63 Mainz- Kaiserslautern. Furthermore, the A - 6 Saarbrücken Waidhaus touched (also: Via Carolina ) and has the southern edge of the circle. Several major roads run through the county territory, including the B 47 (Worms- Michel city, also called the Nibelungen road ) and B 48 ( Bingen- Bad Bergzabern ).

Public transport

In Alsenz Valley the Palatine Northern Railway operation since 1870 a railway from Kaiserslautern to Winnweiler and since 1871 to Bad Munster am Stein. Of this chain in Langmeil since 1872/73, the Thunder Mountain train to Marnheim, from where 1873/74 the route to Kirchheimbolanden - Alzey went on, while the Zellertalstraße train led by Monsheim.

1876 ​​by Green city came forth must be added the Eistalbahn to Eisenberg, which was until 1932 continued into Alsenz Valley by the German Reichsbahn Ramsen to sink stream. Only three years later the power was reduced again with a high of 80 km, as the narrow-gauge railway siding was shut down, which was opened in 1903 by the Pfalzbahn of the city Obermoschel station Alsenz ( 4 km ) on the main line.

The other settings of the passenger traffic reduced the lanes to 30 kilometers in length:

Thus, the rail network has been more than doubled again in the district. For public transport, there are also 15 bus lines.

Energy supply

The district area by pulling a pipeline for natural gas of SaarFerngas Transport GmbH and the NATO pipeline Zweibrücken - Fürfeld.

Cities and Towns

(Population at 31 December 2012)

Association of communities with their member municipalities:

( Seat of the administration of the municipality *)

• 2 municipality Eisenberg (Pfalz )

• 3 municipality Göllheim

• 4 community association Kirchheimbolanden

• 5 municipality Rockhausen

• 6 municipality Winnweiler