Kerzenheim

Candles Home is a municipality in the thunder mountain in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Eisenberg (Pfalz ).

Geography

Candles Home is located on the northern edge of the Palatinate Forest. To the west is named after the monastery Rosenthal local district Rosenthal, who divided into the towns Göllheimer cottage, gray forest settlement, Kerzweilerhof, Rosenthalerhof and Steinäcker settlement. At Home candles are also living spaces Arles- settlement and house Dietrich.

History

The first documentary mention of the place as Kentzenheim took place in 1143, 1194/98 he was called Chercenheim. The place name may be derived from a personal name Kernzo.

The development of the population of the municipality candles home, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Parish council

The local council in candles home 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.

Allocation of seats in the local council:

Coat of arms

Blazon: Split of silver and blue. Law on a green mountain in the sign, a red church with a Gothic bell tower accompanied by a floating blue sign in a silver rose. Links of silver letter K.

Culture and sights

In the center are some half-timbered houses from the 18th century. To the west lies the former monastery Rosenthal ( district Rosenthalerhof ). The Cistercian monastery was founded in 1241 by Count Eberhard II von Eberstein.

1783, a new Lutheran parish church was built, a significant Lutheran Zentralraumkirchenbau by Johann Georg Christian Hess, a representative of classicism.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Candles Home

Economy and infrastructure

Candles Home is located on the B 47 A short distance away are the A63 to the north and A 6 in the south. Nearest railway station is the Eisenberg (Pfalz ) Bahnhof.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Anton Fooß (1871-1940), Prelate, Bavarian priest Division in World War I, founder of the Palatinate Katholikentag in Johanniskreuz
  • Leonhard Wüchner (1895 - after 1936 ), politician ( NSDAP)
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