Kapsweyer

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

• 4.1 municipal
• 4.2 Mayor
• 4.3 Coat of Arms
• 4.4 community partnerships

Geography

Kapsweyer is surrounded by nature reserves between Haardtrand and Bienwald.

To Kapsweyer includes the living space Waldhof.

Neighboring municipalities are - clockwise - Oberotterbach, Niederotterbach, Steinfeld (Pfalz ), White Castle (F) and Schweighofen.

Climate

The annual rainfall is 792 mm. The deposits are located in the middle third of the detected values ​​in Germany. At 61% of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values ​​are registered. The driest month is September, most precipitation falls in June. In June, falling 1.5 times more rainfall than in September. Precipitation varies little and are evenly distributed throughout the year. At only 18% of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.

History

Kapsweyer is on the Mundat area, which is around 760 Pepin the Short gave the monastery of Wissembourg. As a result, the monastery founded many farms and hamlets, including Kapsweyer belonged to cleared areas. Mentioned in a document of the place was in 1368 for the first time.

Religion

In 2007, 69.1 percent of the population Catholic, 16.2 percent Protestant. The other belonged to a different religion or no religious affiliation were.

Policy

Parish council

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

Allocation of seats in the elected municipal council:

Mayor

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: "Divided and Six- divided up of green and silver, below in red one provided with a gate with a closed silver gate silver Zinnenburg with increased central tower between two low towers built behind each one tilted outward golden Abtstab ".

It was approved in 1970 by the district government Neustadt. Below is the coat of arms of the monastery of White Castle and shown above the crest of the Fleckenstein, who exercised the fief on the White Burgeramt St. Remig, belonged to the Kapsweyer.

Community partnerships

Partnerships with the Upper Franconian town of Bad reverb and the Alsatian Krautergersheim.

Regular events

The Grenzlandfest takes place in Kapsweyer since 1983 every two years on the last weekend in June. In 2005, this celebration the Kapsweyerer landmark that Wuddwuddseckele presented and handed over to the Prime Minister Kurt Beck, the former Prime Minister Bernhard Vogel and the mayor Kapsweyers Hermann Paul.

Traffic

Kapsweyer is located on the railway line winds - Wissembourg in Alsace and is in Karlsruhe Transportation (KVV ) and in the transport association Rhein- Neckar ( VRN) involved. This railway line is part of the Maximiliansbahn. At the breakpoint Kapsweyer hourly regional trains to keep Wissembourg and Neustadt on the Wine Route (via winds and Landau ).