Grumbach

Grumbach is a municipality in the district of Kusel, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Lauter corners.

• 5.1 sons and daughters of the community
• 5.2 People who have worked on site

Geography

Grumbach is located west of the glans in a valley cut. The place is connected by state road 270, about three miles east, the city Lauter corners. To Grumbach include the residential places Sonnhof and Windhof.

History

Grumbach was first mentioned in 1242. The Grumbach Castle, built before 1250 by the ruling here Wildgrafen, located high above the valley. In 1330 Grumbach was assured by the German emperor by a Bill of Rights the municipal law. Through marriage and family wise policy of the possession of the Earl grew wild. After they died, the Rhinegraves inherited the property and began calling themselves "Wild and Rhinegraves ". In the heyday of the rule Grumbach included a total of more than 70 villages.

The line Dhaun - Grumbach was collected in 1475 by an imperial edict in the Imperial Count. Consequently, they had until 1792 a seat and vote in the Reichstag.

My residence was Grumbach until 1575, after the line Dhaun - Grumbach was divided. From the middle of the 18th century beerbten the game and Rhinegraves of Grumbach still large parts of the adjacent wild and Rhine Count houses after these lines were extinct in the male line.

With the French Revolution, the counts had to flee in spring 1793. After the Imperial Diet of 1803, they were compensated gone with estates in Westphalia for their lost left of the Rhine.

From 1798 to 1814 Grumbach was the capital of a canton of the same name in the Saarland Department.

Grumbach belonged from 1816 to the principality of Lichtenberg, which was part of the duchy of Saxe - Coburg, and fell in 1834 to Prussia. Grumbach remained until 1972 and has been the official residence of the municipality Lauterecken affiliated. The district court Grumbach was repealed in 1952 and its territory annexed to the District Court Lauter corners, making it henceforth belonged to the District Court of Kaiserslautern and the Oberlandesgericht Zweibrücken. Thus, the inclusion of the Office Grumbach was anticipated in the district of Kusel at the level of judicial districts, which then in June 1969 actually took place.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Grumbach consists of twelve 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: " In gold, a green wave oblique beams covered with a blue reinforced, blaubezungten and blue crowned red lion ".

It was built in 1929 approved by the Prussian State Ministry and corresponds to the arms of the Counts of Wild Dhaun.

Economy and infrastructure

Grumbach is located on the main road 270 In Lauterecken is a railway station of Lauterbrunnen Valley Railway.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the community

• Friedrich Casimir Medicus (1736-1808), physician and botanist
• Wilhelm soil (1890-1961), politician ( CDU), first Minister -President of Rhineland -Palatinate
• Paul Wilhelm Massing (1902-1979), social scientists

Those who worked on site

• Paul Eckel (1900-1971), physician, came from Grumbach