Gimbweiler
Gimbweiler is a municipality in the district of Birkenfeld, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Birkenfeld.
- 5.1 traffic
- 5.2 educational institutions
- 5.3 Leisure and sports facilities
Geographical location
The town lies on Mörschbach in the Black Forest High Forest in the Hunsrück on the border of Saarland.
To Gimbweiler includes the living space Heidehof.
History
The earliest forms of the name of Gimbweiler are: Gumbweiler ( 1397 ), Gompwiler (1480 ), Gympwiler (1480 ). The Roman origin of Gimbweiler and lying on his district and submerged Frudesweiler has not been established.
Gimbweiler shared generally the fate of the neighboring Wolfersweiler. Gimbweiler always belonged to the high court and parish, alternately were the overlords: Prince-Bishops of Verdun, the Counts of Veldenz, the dukes of Zweibrücken.
In the 13th century, the lords of Oberstein fixed in the area between Wolfersweiler and Baumholder places foot trying to grasp. Tests that they supported in the following centuries, their Lorraine Lehnsreverse, renewed.
Land they had always been in Gimbweiler, but the other men were well off there. But the Veldenzer and Zweibrücker towards you and sovereign possession vigorously maintained and propagated. Just bought Count Friedrich von Veldenz 1397 the Lords of Broich except estates, interest and rights to Eckel Husen, Hanwilre and Moysberg a yard and poor people to Gumpwiler from.
Gimbweiler and Frudesweiler now belong, as well as the nearby towns Freisen and Hoppstädten, Hahnweiler and Reitscheid, after the first issued in 1432 to 1667 and constantly renewed Lehnsrevers to the great fief of the Lorraine Obersteiner. The Lorraine, both as their Obersteiner vassals held their claims always awake on Gimbweiler. Thus the top of the place -Falkenstein 1599 the Lord of Schillards, which awarded by Feigniss, as Lorraine After a fief. In reality, the zweibrückische sovereignty has not been touched on Gimbweiler. The fates Wolfersweiler have been his also.
During the French occupation Gimbweiler belonged to the Mairie with this Nohfelden, which was attached to the cantonal Baumholder.
The sunken Frudesweiler was only 10 minutes north of Gimbweiler on the right side of the road to Weiersbach. Its location is determined by the district court gardens, Dorfwies the corridor wall in the hallway 3 and 6 in the under mentioned Gimbweiler Lorraine Lehnsreversen claimed Frudesweiler with this and Hahnweiler together of the upper stone as Lorraine fief.
After Fabricius part of Frudesweiler unions belonged to Rohrbacher care the border to a Weistum of 1581 against the high court Wolfersweiler from Krämelsmäuerchen at Hahnweiler with the road Lichtenberg - with Wolfersweiler to Gimbweiler Langwiese, the there springing Bache according to in Frudesweiler and from there one coming from the north to the little valley was a long stone. But this are the Wolfersweiler in opposition. Here the Bänne of Leitzweiler, Rückweiler and Hahnweiler except the Frudesweiler spell or incorporated into Wolfersweiler judicial district, and among the aldermen, the 1507, the border, is also one of Frudesweiler. In any case Frudesweiler was always velden hissing or zweibrückisch.
1640 should Frudesweiler have stood still, his 1740 mentioned as forfeited. On the lands later practiced the residents of Gimbweiler and Weiersbach from the grazing rights. The ensuing dispute dragged on into the 19th century. They were ended by a settlement. Weiersbach received two fifths, mostly forested areas, Gimbweiler three fifths, mainly arable and meadow land.
(according to Prof. H. Baldes )
The development of the population of Gimbweiler, the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:
Religion
Most of the inhabitants belong to the Evangelical church Wolfersweiler.
Policy
Parish council
The local council in Gimbweiler 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
Walter Kreulich was the first mayor, who was elected in a direct election of Gimbweiler citizens.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the arms is: ". In split- shield top in gold five rooted green trees, of which the second and the fourth the other tower above, below rotbewehrter, gezungter and -crowned growing Golden Lion in Black " 1965, it was from the Rhineland -Palatinate Ministry of Interior approved.
Economy and infrastructure
The economy of the community was dominated until the 1960s by farms.
Traffic
On the trunk road network is Gimbweiler by the highways 41 (east -west link: Mainz- Saarbrücken) and 269 ( Bernkastel- Kues Saarlouis ), as well as the federal motorway 62 well- connected. This highway is also the main north-south connection and establishes the connection to Trier and Kaiserslautern. Furthermore, the B 269 Hunsrückhöhenstrasse (B 327 ) and thus the Hahn Airport within easy reach (50 km). Between the cock and Birkenfeld airport there, five times a day, a bus connection.
Due to the train station, 6 km away Neubrücke (Nahe) Birkenfeld is linked to the near - Saarbrücken route Frankfurt am Main. So one is in 45 minutes in Saarbrücken and in less than 2 hours in Frankfurt.
Educational institutions
Since 1996, a university's location is on the surface of a former U.S. military hospital in the neighboring town Hoppstädten- Weiersbach been established. The Environmental Campus Birkenfeld carries, as the site of the University of Applied Sciences Trier, reinforced the economic development of Birkenfeld region.
Leisure and sports facilities
At leisure and sports facilities there are, inter alia, a lawn of the local sports club.