Mehlbach

Mehlbach is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Otterbach.

  • 5.1 Structures
  • 5.2 Regular events
  • 6.1 traffic

Geographical location

Mehlbach located 12 km north of Kaiserslautern at the edge of the biosphere reserve Palatinate Forest Nature Park.

History

1255, the village was first mentioned.

Religion

2012 were 53.3 percent of the population Protestant and 23.8 percent Catholic. 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 Mehlbach 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: " Argent, a blue oblique left wave beams on either side accompanied by a two-bladed green oak branch with one green acorn ".

It was established in 1952 approved by the Mainz Ministry of Interior.

Culture and sights

Structures

  • See: List of cultural monuments in Mehlbach

Regular events

  • On the 1st Sunday of July, the Forest Festival of the association is " loyalty Palatinate eV" instead of
  • Rural Women's Festival in July from the Rural Women's Association Mehlbach
  • In September, takes place the weekend of the first Sunday the regular church fete in the community
  • Advent market on 1st Advent of table tennis club Mehlbach and the kindergarten Mehlbach

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

  • The public transport system is integrated into the transport association Rhein- Neckar. The nearest train station is in Katzweiler on the railway line from Kaiserslautern to Lauterecken.
  • Southwest of the community runs the federal highway 270 which leads from Kaiserslautern Wolfenstein and Lauterecken to Idar -Oberstein. The community is through the A 6 (junction: Kaiserslautern-West ) connected to the motorway network.
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