Langwieden

Langwieden is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Bruchmühlbach -Miesau.

Geography

The municipality is situated on the edge of the Sickinger height between the Palatinate Forest and the Saar-Hunsrück. To Langwieden includes the residential places Artamhof and climbing meadows.

History

The place belonged to the late 18th century to the reichsritterschaftliche possessions of the Counts of SICKINGEN. After the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops (1794 ) the place from 1798 to 1814 belonged to the canton of Homburg in the department of Thunder Mountain and was managed by the Mairie Lambsborn. Because of the Congress of Vienna (1815 ) agreements, the region initially came to Austria, in 1816 it was ceded to the Kingdom of Bavaria. Under the Bavarian Administration of State Homburg and thus the community Langwieden came in 1818 to the country 's Commissariat Homburg in the Rhine district, from 1862, the district office Homburg was born.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Langwieden consists of six council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Coat of arms

The Coat of Arms description is: " split of black and silver, right five silver Bollen 2:1:2, left rotgefasster and silver -covered steeple with golden weathervane ".

Structures

  • Church Langwieden, it was mentioned in the schematism official of the Diocese of Worms in 1496 for the first time.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Langwieden

Traffic

  • The nearest motorway junction is Bruchmühlbach -Miesau at the Federal Highway 6 Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, about 7 kilometers away.

Sons and daughters of the town

Imperial Knight Municipal council Bann, Germany Enkenbach-Alsenborn Erzenhausen Eulenbis Fischbach, Kaiserslautern Frankelbach Frankenstein, Rhineland-Palatinate Gerhardsbrunn Hauptstuhl Heiligenmoschel Hirschhorn, Rhineland-Palatinate Hochspeyer Katzweiler Kindsbach Kollweiler Kottweiler-Schwanden Krickenbach Landstuhl 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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