Kindsbach

Child Bach is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Landstuhl. Child Bach is a nationally recognized tourist.

  • 4.1 Cultural Monuments
  • 4.2 pilgrimage
  • 4.3 Regular events
  • 5.1 traffic
  • 5.2 Military use and conversion

Geography

Child Bach is situated on the edge of the Palatinate forest 12 km west of Kaiserslautern. The municipality also includes the living space on the sandy pond.

History

Child Bach was first mentioned in 1265 as Kunigesbach.

Set next to a spring in the forest southwest of child Bach are the heath rocks with figures in high relief, which should come from the Celtic period.

Heather rock ( 2)

The development of the child population of Bach, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Parish council

The local council in child stream consists of 20 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 is: " divided by red and black, above a golden royal crown, down five silver Bollen (balls) ".

Community partnership

The partner community is Grand -Maisy from Normandy in France.

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

  • See list of cultural monuments in child Bach

Pilgrimage

In Kind Bach has existed since the early 18th century the pilgrimage to Our Lady of Kindsbacher Potsch, a copy of the famous Weeping Madonna of Potsch, at Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral. Pope Pius VII granted specifically for this purpose a special drain. The oil painting is framed in the context of the sacred precious Art Nouveau architect Rudolf von Perignon.

Regular events

The end of August is always held the Kindsbacher Kerwe.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

  • The community is through the A 6 ( Junction 13: Ramstein ) connected to the motorway network.
  • The public transport system is integrated into the transport association Rhein- Neckar ( VRN).

Military use and conversion

Child Bach, among other location a 2.5-hectare NATO bunker (Air Defense Operations Center - Child Bach, ) which was released in 1992 as part of the conversion date military sites for civilian use.

Sons and daughters of the town

Landstuhl (Verbandsgemeinde) Municipal council Grandcamp-Maisy Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar Bann, Germany Enkenbach-Alsenborn Erzenhausen Eulenbis Fischbach, Kaiserslautern Frankelbach Frankenstein, Rhineland-Palatinate Gerhardsbrunn Hauptstuhl Heiligenmoschel Hirschhorn, Rhineland-Palatinate Hochspeyer Katzweiler Kollweiler Kottweiler-Schwanden Krickenbach Lambsborn Langwieden Linden, Kaiserslautern Mackenbach Mehlbach Mehlingen Mittelbrunn Neuhemsbach Niedermohr Oberarnbach Otterberg Queidersbach Ramstein-Miesenbach Rodenbach, Rhineland-Palatinate Schallodenbach Schneckenhausen Schopp Sembach Steinwenden Stelzenberg Sulzbachtal Trippstadt Waldleiningen Weilerbach
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