Olsbrücken

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

  • 4.1 municipal
  • 4.2 mayor
  • 4.3 Coat of Arms
  • 5.1 traffic
  • 5.2 Education
  • 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 6.2 personalities who have worked on site

Geography

Geographical location

Olsbrücken located in the northern part of the district of Kaiserslautern in the valley of the small river Lauter. It is surrounded by the hills of North Palatine hill country

Neighboring communities

The boundaries of the municipality borders on Kreimbach - Kaulbach in Kusel district in the north, Wörsbach in the northeast, Schallodenbach in the east, Mehlbach the southeast, Hirschhorn / Pfalz in the south, and Sulzbach and Frankelbach in the West.

Local structure

The Olsbrücker streets bear the names: By a mountain, Close to tap ditch on Rutzenbach, at the Waldhof, On Wingerten, brook street, Bahnhofstrasse, Bornweg, Dietenbach Street, High Street, Lever Street, Hollow Road, in Holzgraben, The Cherry Orchard, Kirchweg, Schneider fields and Wörsbacher road. The road On Habel exists but is this is a driveway leading to a single private house. The Olsbrücker train station is curiously on the boundary of the neighboring community Frankelbach. The boundaries of the local church includes over 100 Won names. Many of these are well known to the local population. So you go to the mountain top, if you want to clubhouse of the Palatinate Forest Association. This is actually in the bath upper mountain. The determining factor in the townscape were once the two mills. The Neumühlestrasse at the northern end of the village towards Kreimbach - Kaulbach, and Oppen Steiner mill located south, about one kilometer before the village. During the building of the Neumühlestrasse is still existent, was the Oppen Steiner mill in the late 1970s the victim of a straightening of the B270. It exists there but still the Oppen Steiner wells and from Kaiserslautern coming in direction of travel left of the B 270 are still some remains of walls of the mill can be seen in the undergrowth. The term " on the Wingerten " occupies a former vineyard, which must have been in the local situation. The two larger forests on the Olsbrücker district called Animal Forest and Seiderswald. In animal forest is the framed source of the snake pit.

Climate

The climate of Palatinate is generally one of the mildest and sunniest in Germany. The Western Palatinate is a bit cooler than the region on the Rhine, but there is plenty of sunshine. Winters are often determined by longer periods with snow and ice.

History

The area around Olsbrücken was inhabited in Roman times. About the surrounding hills led a street in the neighboring Kreimbach - Kaulbach, there are still remnants of the Heidenburg to see. In the Middle Ages Olsbrücken was first mentioned proven. It was then designated by the name Alsbrucken, Holszbrücken and then Olszbrücken, suggesting that there probably were eels in the Lauter. In the Thirty Years' War, probably around 1635, two villages that lay between Olsbrücken and today Sulzbach, completely destroyed and never rebuilt. Olsbrücken however, was rebuilt. At the end of the 18th century, the Western Palatinate became French. Napoleon led reforms of the administration and led the code civil. Olsbrücken belonged to the Département du Mont- Tonnerre ( Thunder Mountain ). 1816 reached the area to Bavaria. In the 19th century many Palatines emigrated to the United States. In the postwar period created the new housing estates on the Waldhof, Am Rutzenbach, The Cherry Orchard, Holzgraben and finally the new housing estates on the Wingerten and the cemetery

Religion

2012 were 58.8 percent of the population Protestant and 24.6 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 Olsbrücken consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local council:

Mayor

Coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a bridge and an eel. It symbolizes the original meaning of the place name Alsbrücken.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

  • By opening the Lauter Valley Railway Kaiserslautern Lauterecken the community connection received on the railway network. The public transport system is integrated into the transport association Rhein- Neckar.
  • Directly by the municipality 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.

Education

In Olsbrücken there is a primary school and a community library.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who have worked on site

  • Laura Kloos (* 1990), singer-songwriter
  • Anne Rheinheimer (* 1993), football player
Otterbach (Verbandsgemeinde) Lauter (Glan) Hirschhorn, Rhineland-Palatinate Sulzbachtal Donnersberg Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer Municipal council Kaiserslautern Hauptbahnhof Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar Bann, Germany Enkenbach-Alsenborn Erzenhausen Eulenbis Fischbach, Kaiserslautern Frankenstein, Rhineland-Palatinate Gerhardsbrunn Hauptstuhl Heiligenmoschel Hochspeyer Katzweiler Kindsbach Kollweiler Kottweiler-Schwanden Krickenbach Lambsborn Landstuhl Langwieden Linden, Kaiserslautern Mackenbach Mehlingen Mittelbrunn Neuhemsbach Niedermohr Oberarnbach Otterberg Queidersbach Ramstein-Miesenbach Rodenbach, Rhineland-Palatinate Schneckenhausen Schopp Sembach Steinwenden Stelzenberg Trippstadt Waldleiningen Weilerbach
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