Niederkirchen

Niedernkirchen is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Otter mountain.

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Coat of Arms
• 3.3 community partnership

• 4.1 traffic

Geography

Location

Niedernkirchen is 16 km north of Kaiserslautern.

Community structure

The community Niedernkirchen is divided into five local districts:

• Bügenmühlerhof
• Home churches with living quarters Holbornerhof, Karlshöhe and Kreuzhof
• Morbach
• Niedernkirchen
• Wörsbach with the living quarters Amoshof, Neuhof and Rauschermühle

History

Niedernkirchen was re-formed on 7 June 1969 the formerly independent communities home churches, Morbach, low churches and Wörsbach.

Policy

Parish council

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

Allocation of seats in the elected municipal council:

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " Argent, a black bar, topped with five silver Bollen 2:1:2, above a blue wave pole, topped with a growing golden Schilfkolben and beseitet right of a floating blue red roofed church with golden windows, top right bewinkelt of a blue rust, below a pierced by a lance protruding from the blue bar rotbezungter green Dragon ".

It was approved in 1988 by the District Government Neustadt and contains figures of the historical coat of arms of the four districts.

Community partnership

• With the French community Grancey -le- Château- Neuvelle in Burgundy Niedernkirchen maintains a partnership.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

• The public transport system is integrated into the transport association Rhein- Neckar.
• The community is through the A 6 (junction: Kaiserslautern-West or sink Bach Alsenborn ) (: Winnweiler junction ) connected to the motorway network and A63.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Volker Klein ( b. 1949 ), football player