Gehrweiler

Gehrweiler is a municipality in the Thunder Mountain district in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Rockhausen.

Geographical location

The place is located in the north- Palatinate mountains, west of Thunder Mountain between Kaiserslautern and Bad Kreuznach, in a tributary of the river Alsenz. He has a high proportion of forest and extensive agricultural land (arable and pasture ).

To Gehrweiler and the living space belongs Gehrweilermühle.

History

The village was owned by the Electoral Palatinate and fell in 1444 to the Duchy of Pfalz- Zweibrücken.

According to an undated document which one sets to 1469 express Count Palatine Ludwig I of Pfalz- Zweibrücken, Abbot Peter of Münsterdreisen and Father John, pastor of Rockhausen and Conventual of Münsterdreisen that have so far found no chapel in the village Gehrweiler because it belongs to the parish Rockhausen. Since you have, however, placed on the site " a short time before a miraculous image of God Mother ", the inhabitants had built a chapel, which was dedicated to three weeks ago. Thus incurred at the consecration costs, as well as the purchase of " goblets, measuring Gewanden, Altargezierden, bookers, and other notturfft " gave the Count Palatine a collective Patent and monastery Münsterdreisen let the house of God to share in the him previously granted indulgences in full. Apparently, a pilgrimage, thereby also increased the village developed. Later, the St. James appears as a chapel saint.

The chapel fell into disrepair during the Reformation period, up to a residual, which later was expanded into a Baroque bell tower. To the tower decorated members of the village community in their own work a village center containing a running fountain, a Zunftbaum and rest areas.

After the French Revolution in 1798 the place became part of the French Département Thunder Mountain. As a result of the Vienna Congress, he was from 1816 to 1945 for the UK and the Free State of Bavaria. After the Second World War Gehrweiler was part of the French occupation zone and was incorporated into the newly formed 1946 State of Rhineland -Palatinate.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Gehrweiler 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.

Mayor

Mayor is Bernhard jaw.

Economy and infrastructure

Gehrweiler is characterized by a rural, rural handicraft structure. Popular is the place as a residential area for employees of the nearby metropolitan area Kaiserslautern. In Gehrweiler a primary school is held ( Paula Best - school). About the junction Winnweiler the A 63 in the south east is connected to the long-distance transport. In neighboring Imsweiler is a train station of Alsenztalbahn.