Leisel

Leisel is a municipality in the district of Birkenfeld, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Birkenfeld. Leisel is a nationally recognized tourist.

Geography

The town lies on Leiselbach am Idarwald in the Hunsrück. 65 percent of the district area is forested. In the northeast is Siesbach, in the southeast and southwest Wilzenberg - Hußweiler is Schwollen.

History

Leisel was first mentioned in 1180 as Lucei, when it belonged to the Archbishopric of Trier. In 1328 it passed to the County of Sponheim. 1437 was a Kondominat of Palatinate -Zweibrücken and Baden until 1776 all came to Baden.

Nationwide became famous for the community Leisel because it's there came in 1929 to one of two well-known public petition in his early oldenburgischen part of the country Birkenfeld. However, it was the citizens' in Leisel, unlike a corresponding method in Kirn- Sulzbach, probably inadmissible.

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

Policy

Parish council

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

Mayor

Since 2009 Wolfgang Schuessler 's mayor. His predecessors were:

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: "On red - silver geschachtem sign foot in green with a silver deer antlers and with the scab, is a golden crown ."

1965, it was approved by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Interior.

Culture and sights

• List of cultural monuments in Leisel
• List of natural monuments in Leisel

Economy and infrastructure

In the northeast the federal highway 422 runs in Kronweiler is a station of the railway line Bingen- Saarbrücken.

Personalities

• Charles Heyl (1812-1893), the Reichstag and Landtag, born in Leisel