Erlenbach bei Dahn

Erlenbach bei Dahn is a municipality in the southwest, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Dahn, which has its headquarters in the town of Dahn. Erlenbach bei Dahn is a nationally recognized tourist.

Geography

Erlenbach is located in the German part of the Wasgau, which belongs to the southern part of the Palatinate Forest and forms a part of the Palatinate region. 87.6 percent of the district area is forested.

To Erlenbach also the district Lauter Swan and residential places Berwartstein heard (Castle and restaurant ) and Seehof.

Neighboring municipalities are - clockwise - Vorderweidenthal, Birkenhördt, Böllenborn, Bobenthal, Niederschlettenbach, Bundenthal, Bruchweiler Bear creek and Busenberg.

History

760 of the Erlenbach stream was first mentioned. The place itself is first mentioned in 1348. From 1500 to 1650 he belonged to the Palatinate.

Religion

2012 were 60.2 percent of the population Catholic and 16.7 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 Erlenbach consists of eight 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: " keeping in split and right split of red and gold sign above a fünfblättriger golden alder branch, down on red Dreienberg a standing black raven, a red ring in the golden beak, left in black on a red background a golden castle ".

The coat of arms was approved in 1950 by the Mainz Ministry of Interior.

Culture and sights

In the Erlenbach Berwartstein, the only still inhabited castle is in Wasgau. Probably built around 1000, it was first mentioned in 1152, when it was made by the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, the then Bishop of Speyer Günther von Henneberg to the present. After several destructions and reconstructions it was restored in its present form in 1900.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Erlenbach bei Dahn

Economy and infrastructure

Locally, the L 490 and the B 427 Cross The nearest motorway is the A65 to the east.