Lug, Germany

Lug is a municipality in the district of the West, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Hauenstein. Before the local government reform (1969 ) Lug belonged to the district Bergzabern.

Geography

Lug is located in the southern Palatinate Forest, in the so-called Wasgau, a low mountain range, which is formed from the southern part of the Palatinate forest ( Rhineland -Palatinate ) and the northern part of the Vosges ( department of Bas -Rhin and Moselle). The distance to the French border and Alsace is about 15 km ( straight line ).

The village lies in the valley of Rimbaches flowing at Annweiler in the Queich. The settlement is located in a valley between Heischberg, Nesselberg and Höllenberg. The town center with the church is located at about 210 m above sea level. NN, the highest point of the district lies, the summit of hell mountain, has a height of 450 m above sea level. NN.

The surroundings of Lug is characterized by the bizarre, weathered sandstone rocks, some of which are among the tourist destinations of Dahn country. The soils are sandy and contrast ertragsarm.

Most important summit in Luger area are the Friedrich rock (also Luger Friedrich) with a striking abseil in the form of a far superior Outcrop (total height 59 m ) and a maximum of 45 m high Luger vultures stones, consisting of a solid with an equally striking rocky outcrop ( vulture beak ) and the free-standing tower vultures exist. The vulture tower carries an iron weather vane.

History

Lug is in a charter of Emperor Henry III was first mentioned. , Issued on September 7, 1046 in Augsburg, documented. Together with the village Pillungisbach gave Henry the hamlet lies, mentioned in the deed Luoch, the Bishopric of Speyer. The name Pillungisbach has so far been assigned to any of today's villages.

Considering that Lug is much older, there are several clues: On the one hand writes Henry III. in the deed that he had already inherited the two villages of his grandmother Adelaide of Metz, on the other hand, existed in the time of the donation Lug already have a working mill.

The town lies belonged to the end of the 18th century to Electoral Palatinate. After taking the left bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops (1794 ) Lug was from 1798 to 1814 into the canton Annweiler in the department of Thunder Mountain and was managed by the Mairie in Swan home. Because of the Congress of Vienna (1815 ) agreements, the Palatinate, and thus the community Lug had initially been assigned to Austria. In a 1816 closed treaty Austria ceded the territory to the Kingdom of Bavaria from. The Bavarian State Annweiler now belonged to the newly created Rheinkreis provisionally nor to the District Two bridges formed from the previous district and came on August 1, 1816 District Landau. After the breakdown of districts in country police stations (1818 ) Lug belonged to the country 's Commissariat Bergzabern, from 1939, the district was Bergzabern.

Religion

2012 were 72.2 percent of the population Catholic and 12.6 percent Protestant. The other belonged to a different religion or no religious affiliation were. Catholics belong to the diocese of Speyer, the Evangelical Lutheran Church for Protestant Palatinate.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Lug 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.

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " divided by green and silver with saddle, above a golden orb with red ripe and golden trefoil cross, below two isosceles floating red crosses paws ".

It was approved by the district government Neustadt 1984.

Partner communities

• Minor church in France, department of Bas- Rhin (Alsace )
• Lug ( Lower)

Sons and daughters of the town

• Walther Dahl (1916-1985), air force officer