Lauterecken

Lauterecken is a town in the district of Kusel, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It is the administrative center of the municipality Lauterecken, who also belongs. Lauterecken is nicknamed Veldenzstadt. Lauterecken is a nationally recognized tourist and reported as a basic center in accordance with state planning. In addition, Lauter corners in along with the county town of Kusel part of a medium central network.

Both in terms of population as well as at the district area is one Lauter corners of the smallest cities in Germany.

• 3.1 City Council
• 3.2 Mayor

• 4.1 Structures
• 4.2 Regular events

• 5.1 traffic
• 5.2 Established businesses
• 5.3 Public bodies
• 5.4 Education

• 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
• 6.2 People who have worked on site

Geography

Geographical location

Lauterecken located in the North Palatine Uplands at the mouth of the Lauter in Glan.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring municipalities are Lohnweiler, Medard, Wiesweiler, Grumbach, Cronenberg and Heinzenhausen.

Climate

The annual rainfall is 707 mm. The deposits are located in the middle third of the detected values ​​in Germany. At 41% of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values ​​are registered. The driest month is April, the most rainfall comes in June. In June, falling 1.4 times more precipitation than in April. Precipitation varies only slightly and are distributed extremely evenly throughout the year. At only 0% of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.

History

The city is named after the small river Lauter, which flows near the center in the influent from Altenglan Glan. First mention was Lauterecken in a realm spell of 1224. Town and castle Lauterecken were at that time in possession of the Counts of Veldenz. With the extinction of the Veldenzer 1444 Lauterecken fell to Palatinate -Zweibrücken and was from 1543 to 1694 residence of the branch line Pfalz- Veldenz - Lauter corners. 1689 town and castle were destroyed. From 1733 to 1797 was Lauterecken seat of a Kurpfälzische Oberamt. After the French Revolution Lauterecken came to Bavaria (1818 ) - after the Second World War in Rhineland- Palatinate. Since 1972 it is the administrative center of a municipality, the 25 members of independent local churches next Lauter corners.

Policy

Part of the heating in the city shall be taken environmentally friendly by using a high-performance heat pump of the Freitaler company Thermea from the warm annual mean 10 ° C Lauter. Only in freezing temperatures jumps alternatively a boiler.

City ​​council

The council Lauterecken consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman city.

Allocation of seats in the elected City Council:

Mayor

City mayor is Henry Steinhauer.

Culture and sights

Structures

Featured buildings are the tower of the former residence of the Counts of Veldenz, a war memorial and the castle, which has now been renovated, also the old bridge over the volume.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Lauterecken

Regular events

As larger events of the spring market, the big local festival, the autumn market, the Christmas Market and the bi -annual festival tower are mentioned.

Economy and infrastructure

Lauterecken houses because of its central location in the northern district of Kusel three medium-sized businesses and various shops.

Traffic

In Lauterecken the federal highway 270 and take the federal road 420 Moreover begins locally county road 39 that leads to Hohenöllen. For cyclists Lauterecken is a transit point of the cycle track Glan- assemblies as well as the northern edge of the Lauter Valley Bike Path.

In 1883 Lauterecken received in the form of the Lauter valley railway connection to the railway network. The former terminus was located on the southern outskirts. He was first made ​​when the lower Glantalbahn extended in 1896 as a direct continuation of the Lauter Valley Railway until after or home and a year later by bound up to Staudernheim at the Rhein-Nahe Railway.

In this context, about one kilometer north of the station was another railway stop called Lauter corners. It should facilitate the inhabitants of the northern urban area of ​​Lauter and corners of the municipalities situated in the middle Glantal access to the web. With the completion of the Glantalbahn in 1904, he was abandoned.

Already in the course of planning the rest of Glantalbahn, which was built primarily for strategic reasons, it turned out that the previous station was located in relation to the link with the Loud track in an unfavorable position. For this reason, the station opened in 1904 Lauterecken - Grumbach close to the previous breakpoint, which henceforth served as a link station and today connects the city with the top center of Kaiserslautern was born. The old station was initially continue to operate as a holding point before it was abandoned due to lack of Rantabilität 1912. On the Glantalbahn persons traveling between Altenglan and Lauterecken ended in 1985, a year later, the section between Lauterecken and Staudernheim. At the same time, the Lauter Valley Railway was also threatened with closure, but this was averted. Freight traffic came to a standstill in 1993. Along the Glantalbahn 2000, the trolley traffic was opened, where in the pure corner Grumbach station represents a total of three rental stations for track cars.

Established businesses

As a company of national importance, especially the fruit juice manufacturer Niehoffs - Vaihingen, a work of since 2003 for industrial group Behr Bircher Cell Pack BBC belonging Cell Pack group ( food packaging ) and a manufacturing plant's BITO be mentioned. In addition, the District Savings Bank has a branch in Kusel Lauter corners. The family of instrument makers Sander formerly possessed a workshop on site.

Public institutions

Lauterecken is the seat of the municipality of the same name and also houses its administration. Also, here is a branch of the federal agency established for work (of a total of three in the district of Kusel ). Lauterecken has a residence of the living and retirement facility "Pro seniors " live in the singles and in need of care and can be cared for. A small town library is found in the townhouse.

Education

In the Veldenzstadt Lauterecken there is a primary school, a school with a program focusing on learning ( Janusz Korczak School ), a school center with junior high school plus and the Veldenz High School.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Ursula von Pfalz- Veldenz - La Petite-Pierre (1572-1635), later Duchess Ursula von Württemberg
• Gustav Philipp of the Palatinate- Veldenz (1651-1679), Prince County Veldenz
• Elisabeth Johanna von Pfalz - Veldenz (1653-1718), Countess Palatine of Veldenz
• Carl Theodor Barth (1805-1837), lawyer and publicist democratic
• Leopold Dippel (1827-1914), botanist
• Carl Christian Brenner ( born August 1, 1838 † 1888 in Louisville / Kentucky ), painter
• Karl Gebhart (1859-1921), politician ( DVP )
• Max Hartmann (1876-1962), biologist and philosopher.
• Walter Weizel (1901-1982), physicist, and politician ( SPD)
• Edwin Steinhauer (1916-1996), politician ( CDU)
• Hans Otto Streuber (* 1949), politician ( SPD)
• Kurt Wallat (* 1960), archaeologist
• Uwe hard Berger ( b. 1968 ), football player

Those who worked on site

• Friedrich students (1791-1873), was 1848/1849 as MP for Lauterecken member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
• Emil Fraenger (1856-1941), German jurist, was in 1882 on the spot Rechtsreferendar
• John Lohr (1875-1941), Protestant pastor in the Dean's Office Lauterecken
• Bruno Eckhardt ( b. 1960 ), Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Marburg attended high school Lauterecken