Hoppstädten-Weiersbach

Hoppstädten- Weiersbach is a municipality in the district of Birkenfeld, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Birkenfeld.

Geography

Hoppstädten- Weiersbach consists of the three districts Hoppstädten, Weiersbach ( with Bleiderdingen ) and Neubrücke. The town is near the border of the Saarland.

The municipality is located in the Nahe Valley, in the Upper Nahe Bergland, a section of the Saar -Nahe - Bergland. It is an independent landscape area and is not to integrate into the Palatinate or the Hunsrück. The landscape around the local church is marked by the Hopp townspeople Nahe Valley. This valley is a broad floodplain with spacious meadow corridors and forested mountain slopes at the two, the Nahe valley framing mountains, Hopp townspeople and the Weierbacher mountain. On the higher corridors large arable areas have been created. The characteristic Nahe valley between Hoppstädten- Weiersbach and Idar- Oberstein still has many natural, partly savage, romantic games. Parts of the Middle Valley in Hoppstädten- Weiersbach were therefore reported in 1991 as a conservation area.

History

The places Weiersbach and Hoppstädten belonged in the Middle Ages along with Leitzweiler, Heimbach and Freisen to rule Werdenstein. A branch of the lords of Oberstein was called in the 16th century for the first time after the reign of " Men Are from stone." Jakob von Eberstein married the daughter entitled to inherit and was built in 1550 its Castle " Werdenstein ". It was between the two towns and was completely canceled in the early 19th century.

In the district Neubrücke was from 1944 to 1945 a subcamp of the concentration camp SS special camp Hinzert.

On a 44 -acre site at Neubrücke the 98th General Hospital U.S. Army was established in 1952. The emergency and emergency hospital had 1,000 beds and various medical stations, among other things, surgery, dentistry, orthopedics, radiology, rehabilitation and ophthalmology. A complete hospital and Krankenhauszug was constantly ready to depart. In 1994, the hospital was closed.

The former hospital site is now home to the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld.

The community Hoppstädten- Weiersbach was (at the time 1855 inhabitants) (515 inhabitants) is newly formed on 7 June 1969 from the dissolved municipalities Hoppstädten and Weiersbach.

The development of the population of Hoppstädten- Weiersbach on today's municipal area; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Parish council

The local council in Hoppstädten- Weiersbach consists of 20 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local council:

Infrastructure

Hoppstädten- Weiersbach is located on the main highway 62 Nonnweiler - Landstuhl, Junction Birkenfeld and on the railway route Saarbrücken -Mainz and has at this regional station Neubrücke (Nahe) and another breakpoint Hoppstädten- Weiersbach in Hoppstädten. The Neubrücke Station (Near ) is also a maintenance of the remote bus Luxembourg and Frankfurt am Main ( DeLux - Express).

From the districts Hoppstädten and Weiersbach is parallel to the near- shore of the special airfield Hoppstädten- Weiersbach, ICAO code " EDRH ".

Hoppstädten- Weiersbach is home to the regional collection point for radioactive waste of the State Office for Environment, Water and Trade Control ( LUWG ) of Rhineland- Palatinate.

Economy

In Hoppstädten- Weiersbach is the headquarters and central warehouse of ROFU Kinderland, a powerhouse of OIE AG and a settlement of the cookware manufacturer Fissler.

People

• Emanuel Hecht (* February 1821 in Nordheim, † 25 1862 in Hoppstädten ), since 1845 teacher of the Jewish school, educational writer and local historian, 1858 Member of the Provincial Council, Honorary Doctorate of the University of Bonn
• David Einhorn ( born November 10, 1809 in Diespeck; † November 2, 1879 in New York), 1842-1847 Rabbi of Hoppstädten and rabbi in the Principality of Birkenfeld,
• Alex Lewin ( born October 5, 1888 in Adelsheim, † 1942 in Auschwitz ), last rabbi of Oldenburg part of the country Birkenfeld with sitting and dwelling in Hoppstädten.