Kapellen-Drusweiler

Chapel Drusweiler is a municipality in the Southern Wine Route in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Bad Bergzabern.

Geography

The wine is a linear village and is situated between the Palatinate Forest Biosphere Reserve and the Rhine.

At Chapel Drusweiler includes the residential places Deutschhof, Oak yards and Kaplaneihof.

History

Drusweiler was first documented in 1179. By 1200, built the monastery Klingenmünster opposite the church of Drusweiler a chapel. Around them developed the independent settlement chapels. The Duke of Palatinate -Zweibrücken united 1410, the two communities.

Religion

In 2007, 52 percent of the population Protestant and 24.8 percent Catholic. The other belonged to a different religion or no religious affiliation were.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Chapel Drusweiler consists of twelve 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: " From Black and Gold split, right a golden plowshare, left a black Sesel ".

It was approved in 1981 by the District Government Neustadt and goes back to a seal from 1744.