Kusel (district)
The district of Kusel is a district in the south west of Rhineland -Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from the clockwise ) Birkenfeld, Bad Kreuznach district, thunder mountain district, the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland -Palatinate and Saar Pfalz-Kreis, the district of Neunkirchen, and district of St. Wendel in the Saarland. Much of the population lives in villages with less than 1000 inhabitants.
Geography
The Kusel district located in the North Palatine Uplands. Highest elevations are of Königsberg ( 568 m), the Potzberg ( 562 m) and the Selberg (546 m). Main rivers are the volume and the Glan. In the south, the county share of the Kaiserslautern sink.
History
The present district of Kusel originated in the beginning of the 19th century as the country 's Commissariat Kusel after the Palatinate had fallen to Bavaria, in 1862 it became the district office, 1939, the district of Kusel. After the First World War in 1920, the area around Forest Mohr, who had heard before the District Office Homburg, the county Kusel connected and maintained by a county office in Forest Moor. Reason was the separation of the main part of the district office to the Homburg Saar. 1947 left the Oster Taler places Osterbrücken, Hoof, Marth, Hall, Lower Church and Bubach (now districts of the county town of St. Wendel ) after a referendum the circle. Main concern of the Easter Taler population was job security for most working people in Saarland. The fears seemed justified, since 1929 the Palatinate were the first that were affected by layoffs in the then French managed Saar. In the district reform in 1969/72, the boundaries of the district were changed slightly. Parts of the district Birkenfeld were assigned to the district of Kusel, which is the most north of Glan -lying places in what is now the district concerned. In return, the church today Becherbach were (including Gangloff and Roth), Reiffelbach and Schmittweiler added to the district of Bad Kreuznach. Also, were individual churches that were in the southern part of the county, assigned to the district of Kaiserslautern. 1994 by the Rhineland-Palatinate " state law on the dissolution of Gutsbezirks Baumholder and its municipal reorganization " of November 2, 1993 ( GVBl. p 518) parts of the training area Baumholder, including the former districts Ilgesheim and Oberjeckenbach, in the district of Kusel reclassified.
The old borders show up today in the subdivisions of the Protestant and the Catholic Church. Parts of the federation communities Kusel and Lauter corners belong to the parish of St. Wendel, which belongs to the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland. The remaining municipalities in the district belong to the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate. Similarly, the border runs between the dioceses of Trier and Speyer.
On 25 May 2009, the county received the loaned by the federal government entitled " City of Diversity".
Policy
District administrators
Council
Due to declining population numbers in recent years, the number of seats has been reduced from 42 to 38 in the district council.
Coat of arms
Description:
Split: Front in black on the left inverted, red reinforced golden lion, in the back of a silver -reinforced red, blue lion. (Coat - approval December 13, 1965 )
Meaning:
The two lions represent the two gentlemen that the vast circular area previously shared, the golden lion of the rule Palatinate -Zweibrücken and the blue lion of the county Veldenz.
- See also List of coats of arms in the district of Kusel
Traffic
In the district of Kusel the Society of Palatine Northern Railways built the railway network. As early as 1868 the county seat Kusel was connected to Landstuhl. Fifteen years later - in 1883 - was the line Kaiserslautern Lauter corners. From here we went down the valley towards the Nahe Valley 1896 by Or Home. In the opposite direction you could continue to Altenglan and using the Kuseler track of Glan- Münchweiler to Homburg in 1904.
For military reasons the German Reichsbahn in 1936 led the Kuseler distance further to black earth, and now had a network of 81 km in length in the district today. Of which was shut down more than half:
Important railway stations in the district are set Altenglan, Glan- Münchweiler, Kusel, Lauterecken - Grumbach and Wolfenstein.
By the district leads the federal motorway 62 Pirmasens - Kusel - Birkenfeld. Through the south of the district also runs a small piece of the Federal Highway 6 In addition, several federal highways and county roads run through the county area, including the B 420 and B 423
Cities and Towns
(Population at 31 December 2012)
Association of communities with their member municipalities:
( The seat of the municipal administration *)
- 2 municipality Glan- Münchweiler
- 3 municipality Kusel
- 4 community association Lauterecken
- 5 municipality Schoenberg Kübelberg
- 6 Association of community forest Mohr
- 7 municipality Wolfenstein