Ramstein-Miesenbach

Landstuhl is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate district of Kaiserslautern and administrative center of the homonymous municipality, which it also belongs. Landstuhl is a nationally recognized tourist and reported as a secondary center in accordance with state planning.

The district Ramstein gained through regional awareness through the creation at its district Ramstein Air Base and by the there occurred in 1988 air show disaster.

  • 4.1 City Council
  • 4.2 Coat of Arms
  • 4.3 Twin towns
  • 6.1 authorities
  • 6.2 traffic
  • 6.3 industry
  • 6.4 Education

Geography

Geographical location

Landstuhl is located about 20 kilometers west of Kaiserslautern at the edge of the biosphere reserve Palatinate Forest.

Landscape

To the south of Ramstein is the West Palatine Moorniederung. This peat was mined in the 19th century. By Landstuhl flows Mohrbach which opens at Glan- Münchweiler in Glan.

Boroughs

Landstuhl is divided into two districts, which include a number of residential places and hamlets:

  • District Miesbach, 2,417 inhabitants, 591 ha of district area, with the living quarters Dansenbergerhof, Hebenhübelerhof, Langdellerhof, Rundwieserhof and Trifthof
  • District Ramstein, 6,339 inhabitants, 3,710 ha district area, with the living quarters on Elteweg, Am Koehlwaeldchen, At Wacken mountain, on the Schwarzbach, Breuntaler farm, forest house child brook, forest house Mackenbach, hunting lodge, Kiefernhof, UK, Langgewannerhof, dairy, Moordammühle, Pottelbruch, Schanz and brick hut

History

In a document of Emperor Barbarossa Ramstein was first mentioned in 1215.

1951, Ramstein Air Base was built, which is now the largest U.S. base in Europe. The airbase in Ramstein originally used a part of the highway Mannheim- Saarbrücken airstrip. In this portion of the highway already taught in the Second World War, the German Wehrmacht an airfield one. The eastern and western access (the latter in the maps shown as locked car road ) to this airbase were the former highway. The airbase is home to the " 435th Air Base Wing" ( ABW) and the heavy air transport unit " 86th Airlift Wing " (AW), which also provides tanker aircraft. From here, the U.S. Air Forces in Europe be commanded.

On the Airbase happened on August 28, 1988 as part of an air show aerobatic team Frecce Tricolori an accident in which 70 people died and 345 were injured.

The community Landstuhl was re-formed on 7 June 1969 the dissolved municipalities Ramstein and rotten creek. On 5 April 1991, it became a town.

Religion

2012 were 46.3 percent of the population Catholic and 28.2 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

City ​​council

The city council in Landstuhl consists of 24 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman city.

Allocation of seats in the City Council:

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " In Gold an ascending -curved black lace, in a guardant rotbewehrter and bezungter golden lion, with his front paws a square, standing upright silver Stone comprehensive, top right, a blue orb with golden clover Cross and ironing, top left a blue knight piercing helmet ".

It was approved in 1973 by the district government Neustadt and combines the figures of the historical coat of arms of Ramstein and rotten creek. The Palatinate lion also recalls the former membership of both places to Electoral Palatinate.

Twin Cities

Culture and sights

In urban house of the citizen are held regularly theater shows, concerts and cabaret various artists as guest performances.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Landstuhl

Economy and infrastructure

Authorities

As the seat of the municipality, the city hosts its management.

Traffic

The public transport system is integrated into the transport association Rhein- Neckar. Landstuhl has two tram points (one in Ramstein and Mies Bach) is on the railway line Landstuhl - Kusel, Landstuhl connection towards Saarbrücken and Mannheim.

Landstuhl is through the federal highways 6 (Saarbrücken - Waidhaus ) (Exit: Landstuhl ): connected to the motorway network and 62 ( Hütschenhausen junction ).

Industry

Ramstein has a large industrial area where many companies are located. It is located outside of town on the road towards Hütschenhausen / Spesbach. The industrial area is called " Rich West ". The wood-processing enterprises Save Meier here operates a plant.

Education

The city houses the Gymnasium Landstuhl, whose catchment area is very large. Also located in Ramstein the Wendelinus primary school and a secondary school plus, formerly dual high school.

The public library, which is housed in the house of the citizen, gave 35,000 media in 2004.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Richard mouth (1885-1969), painter of Impressionism
  • Edgar John (1913-1996), artist
  • Lothar Bossle (1929-2000), professor of Sociology in Würzburg
  • Berthold Budell (1929-2010), politician ( CDU), 1984-1985 Saarland Minister for the Environment
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