Freckenfeld
Freckenfeld is a municipality in the district of Germersheim, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Kandel.
- 7.1 Structures
- 7.2 The Dampfnudeltor in Freckenfeld
- 8.1 traffic
Geography
Freckenfeld between Karlsruhe and Landau in the Palatinate. The municipality also includes the living spaces in the village meadows and Welschhof.
History
Religion
2012 were 50.7 percent of the population Protestant and 26.4 percent Catholic. The other belonged to a different religion or no religious affiliation were.
Policy
Parish council
The local council in Freckenfeld consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman location.
The distribution of seats in the local council:
Mayor
Coat of arms
The blazon of the arms is: " In red on green floor arched a silver gate ( Dampfnudeltor ) in the arc floating the silver capital letter F".
It was established in 1950 approved by the Ministry of Interior and Mainz shows the symbol of Freckenfeld.
Community partnerships
With Mieders in Austria a partnership is maintained.
Culture and sights
Structures
- See: List of cultural monuments in Freckenfeld
The Dampfnudeltor in Freckenfeld
An original testimony of history is studded with 1286 Dampfnudeln Dampfnudeltor, reminiscent of an event in the Thirty Years' War.
A Swedish cavalry squadron put a high demand for money to the citizens, although the Swedes as the municipality citizens were Lutherans at the time, and threatened to plunder and murder. But a delegation of Freckenfelder reached at the Swedish captain mitigation to the claim that he and his soldiers would have to be tasted satisfactory. Then he would spare the population. Thereupon was a master baker John Muck his wife with the maid cook a cauldron sauce and gave strong abzuschmecken the command this sauce with wine. He even baked with his companions steamed dumplings, to every soldier was satisfied, a total of 1286 pieces. The squadron accepted the serving dish satisfied and spared the town from any further blackmail or destruction and murder.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
East of the community, the federal road runs 427 the Freckenfeld to the local transport network connects over. Closest train station to the winds. Freckenfeld itself is connected via the bus line 547, which connects the stations Kandel and Bad Bergzabern each other to the public transport network.
Sons and daughters of the town
- John Lohr (1875-1941), Protestant pastor