Heltersberg

Heltersberg is a municipality in the southwest, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Forest Fischbach Castle albums.

• 5.1 traffic
• 5.2 Local businesses
• 5.3 educational institutions

• 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
• 6.2 People who have worked on site

Geography

Heltersberg located on the edge of the Palatinate Forest. Most of the district is covered by mixed forests used for forestry purposes. The village lies on a broad hill saddle, which is surrounded by the valleys of Schwarzenbach and Hembach.

To Heltersberg includes the residential places Hundsweihersägemühle, Lindenbrunnerhof and Westrichhof.

History

1272 first mentioned, was subordinate to the place together with forest Fischbach, Geiselsberg, Schmalenberg and Schopp as part of the wood the country Kloster Hornbach. With the secularization of the monastery ( 1557) places came to the Electorate Palatinate, whose fate they shared. In the Thirty Years' War largely destroyed the structure was initially hesitant and, as in other towns of the Wooden country by immigrants from Switzerland.

Religion

2012 were 45.0 percent of the population Catholic and 41.3 percent Protestant. The other belonged to a different religion or no religious affiliation were.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Heltersberg 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.

The distribution of seats in the local council:

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " In black right left inverted rotbewehrter and bezungter golden lion, the left upright delivered expended silver fish with golden fins, of which the lion one touched with the right front paw ."

It was approved in 1949 by the Ministry of the Interior in Koblenz. The golden lion represents the Electorate Palatinate to the Heltersberg until the annexation by France in 1793 belonged. The fish comes from the coat of arms of the forest Fischbach, with the castle albums led an almost identical coat of arms to the merger, and points to the abundance of fish streams Schwarzenbach and Moosalb.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Heltersberg is accessible only indirectly through inter-regional transport routes: in the west tangent to the B270 Kaiserslautern - Pirmasens the local area. A few kilometers further west leads the lane A 62 of Pirmasens Landstuhl to Trier. Similarly, a single-track railway line from Pirmasens runs in the western Moosalbtal to Kaiserslautern. The nearest train stations are located in Forest Fischbach and rock albums. A small airport is located about 20 km west of the town ( airport Pirmasens - Pott bed height ). In addition, the international Zweibrücken Airport is just over half an hour away.

Local businesses

In the 20th century, first emerged several shoe factories, later, a large bakery. Today Heltersberg particular have a major plastics processing industry ( Tehalit, today belonging to the Hager Group).

Educational institutions

Locally: Wood Country Elementary School Heltersberg

In forest Fischbach: Hauptschule forest Fischbach Castle albums and Max Wittmann -Realschule

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Udo Bölts ( b. 1966 ), cyclist

Those who worked on site

• Wilhelm von Hausen Brock (1773-1858), Prussian general, was present at a skirmish at Heltersberg
• John Storck (1829-1914), lived for a time in Heltersberg
• Jacob Knauber (1869-1950), parish administrator on site
• Martin Waltz (1883-1958) was on site from time to time pastor
• Verena Bechtluft (* 1986), Keglerin, has been with the team the Tehalit Heltersberg German team champion of the A- youth in Sangerhausen
• Uwe Benkel (* 1960), Missing researchers, in 1998 awarded the Medal of Merit of the country
• Dorothee Martin ( b. 1978 ), politician (SPD ), grew up in Heltersberg.