Mackenbach
Mackenbach is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the Weilerbach.
- 4.1 Music
- 4.2 Museums
- 4.3 Structures
- 4.4 Sport
- 4.5 Regular events
- 5.1 traffic
Geography
Mackenbach located 13 km north- west of Kaiserslautern. The municipality also includes the dwelling-place Long Felderhof.
History
The town grew up around the year 1000, but was first mentioned only in 1510.
Mackenbach belonged to the late 18th century to the Palatine court stone turning. In 1787 the parish had 47 families and 200 inhabitants. On buildings two school buildings and 33 houses were recorded. The district Mackenbach comprised 698 morning arable land, 89 acres of meadows, 6 acres of gardens and 91 acres of forest and five ponds.
In 1794, French revolutionary troops had occupied the left bank of the Rhine. From 1798 to 1814, the region, and thus the community Mackenbach belonged to the canton of Landstuhl in the department of Thunder Mountain. It was under the management of the Mairie Ramstein. In 1802, Mackenbach had 249 inhabitants: 58 Catholics, 100 Reformed and Lutherans 91.
Based on the decisions taken at the Congress of Vienna agreements and an exchange agreement with Austria the Palatinate came in 1816 with the Kingdom of Bavaria. Under the Bavarian administration, the community Mackenbach the part of the country 's Commissariat Homburg (1862 renamed county Homburg ) remained in Canton Landstuhl, in the Rhine district was. In 1837, Mackenbach had 604 inhabitants, of whom 89 were Catholics and 515 Protestants.
In the Bavarian village directory of 1928, the rural community Mackenbach, now belonging to the Bavarian administrative region of Palatinate and the district office Kaiserslautern, described as follows: Total 1.408Einwohner (144 Catholics and 1,264 Protestants ), 237 residential buildings and an area of 354 hectares; there was a Protestant parish, a non-denominational community school and a post office in the village.
Policy
Parish council
The local council in Mackenbach consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
The distribution of seats in the local council:
Coat of arms
The blazon of the arms is: " From black and red by an upward -curved golden top, on green ground in a deciduous tree, split, top right is a golden orb, top left a golden lyre ".
It was established in 1960 approved by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Interior. The Lyra is reminiscent of the itinerant musicians of the village.
Culture and sights
Music
Mack Bach's reputation as a musician's village founded the itinerant musicians middle of the 19th century to the 30s of the 20th century. They moved with chapels and circuses around the world and made the world ( in Europe, but also in the USA, Australia and Africa ) Music to compensate for the meager income from agriculture.
Today, the music in the men's glee club Liederkranz, the Musikverein and the evangelical church choir will be maintained.
Museums
The Western Palatinate Musicians Museum is dedicated to the Western Palatinate itinerant musicians.
Structures
See list of cultural monuments in Mackenbach
Sports
In addition to a lawn and a hard place of the football club there in Mackenbach a skate park for in-line skaters and skateboarders, an indoor tennis court and a tennis club with four outdoor courts, as well as a golf course with 18 holes. In the multi- purpose hall, which also uses the primary school of the village, table tennis is played. In the immediate vicinity is the chess room. In three sports clubs mentioned sports are practiced. The football club plays in the district league.
Regular events
On Carnival Monday takes place in the multi-purpose hall ( community center ) a Carnival Monday ball instead. Furthermore, celebrated the church fete in September on the second weekend. The annual Christmas market takes place before the first Advent on Saturday.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
The public transport system is integrated into the transport association Rhein- Neckar.
The community is through the A 6 ( connection points: Kaiserslautern-West, continue on L367 or Kaiserslautern Einsiedlerhof, continue on L369 ) connected to the motorway network.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Rolf Brederlow (* 1961), actor