Rodenbach, Rhineland-Palatinate

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

• 4.1 traffic
• 4.2 Education
• 4.3 Commercial

• 5.1 free Temporal facilities

• 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
• 6.2 People who have worked on site

Geography

Rodenbach is located 9 kilometers north-west of Kaiserslautern. To Rodenbach includes the living spaces on Tränkwald, Berghof, Forestry House Rodenbach, Mückenhof and water regimes.

Neighboring towns are Weilerbach, Kaiserslautern Siegelbach, Mackenbach and Kaiserslautern - Einsiedlerhof.

In Rodenbach has a temperate climate.

History

Rodenbach belonged to the late 18th century to the Palatine court Weilerbach. Through the town conducted a road from Kaiserslautern to Kusel, so here was a Palatine customs station.

In 1787 the church had 52 families and 240 inhabitants. On buildings two school buildings and 45 houses were recorded. The district comprised 924 Rodenbach morning arable land, 184 acres of meadows, 7 acres of gardens and 100 acres of forest.

In 1794, French revolutionary troops had occupied the left bank of the Rhine. From 1798 to 1814, the region and thus Rodenbach belonged to the canton of Kaiserslautern in the department of Thunder Mountain. In 1802, Rodenbach had 254 inhabitants: 79 Catholics, 132 Reformed, Lutheran 31 and 12 Mennonites.

Based on the decisions taken at the Congress of Vienna agreements and a Bavarian-Austrian State Treaty, the Palatinate came in 1816 with the Kingdom of Bavaria. Under the Bavarian administration, the community Rodenbach remained in the canton of Kaiserslautern, the part of the country 's Commissariat of Kaiserslautern (1862 renamed county Kaiserslautern) in the Rhine district was. In 1837, Rodenbach had 612 inhabitants, of whom 185 were Catholics, 419 Protestants and 8 Mennonites.

In the Bavarian village directory of 1928, the rural community of Rodenbach, now belonging to the Bavarian administrative region of Pfalz, described as follows: A total of 1,385 inhabitants ( 357 Catholics, 1,024 Protestants and 4 others), 199 residential buildings and an area of ​​1,348 hectares; there was a railway station, a post office, a Catholic and a Protestant school and a Child care. Near the village of Rodenbach included two other villages of the municipality: the Mückenhof (13 inhabitants, 2 houses) and the Rodenbacher Forest House (3 people).

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Rodenbach consists of 20 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Allocation of seats in the local council:

Mayor

At the moment, George Reuss from the SPD mayor of Rodenbach.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of Rodenbach in the middle of a spade and including the eponymous creek dar. The spade is for grubbing in Rodenbach.

Blazon: " Azure, on a silver wave beams an upright silver ploughshare ."

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

The public transport system is integrated into the transport association Rhein- Neckar ( VRN). There are in Rodenbach 's bus Aral station junction, town center, megalithic grave, swimming pool and Weil Erbacher grove. From 1912 to 1972 Rodenbach was connected via the so-called Bach path that led from Lampertsmühle - Otterbach station until after Weilerbach and from 1920 until after Reichenbach to the rail network.

The community is through the A 6 (junction: Kaiserslautern-West ) connected to the motorway network.

Education

The place houses the primary school Rodenbach. There is also a library and media center.

Trade

Rodenbach has a commercial area with names on Tränkwald in which many companies have their headquarters.

Sport and Leisure

Leisure Time Facilities

In Rodenbach there is a known forest swimming pool, mini golf course, a Nordic walking trail, three football fields ( one of them - with basketball court - in the town center ), a riding stable, two gyms, a dog - training field, table tennis tables and a beach volleyball court.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Helene Valentin ( born January 23, 1895 † July 7, 1941 ), painter and poet
• Kurt Albrecht ( born June 4, 1927 † April 28, 1945 ), executed for deserting sailor in the navy Osterholz- Beck
• Gerold Scheuermann ( born January 29, 1929), local historian and author

Those who worked on site

• Ludwig Grub ( born January 10, 1930 † 16 December 2007), sculptor
• Hans -Peter Briegel ( born October 11, 1955), football player and coach, European champion in 1980, grew up in Rodenbach

Attractions

1874 was a Celtic hill grave found in Rodenbach on " Fuchshübel ". The valuable grave goods suggest that there must have been at the deceased to a great man. The Celtic grave that is dated to the period around 400 BC, since known as the " Prince of Rodenbach grave " and was considered the most important find from the La Tène culture north of the Alps. Furthermore the local community about the sculpture Rodenbach and a heathen court of the 15th century.

Others

The name Rodenbach has to do with the unusual red color of the creek of the same name. When it rains, the Rodenbach strongly stained red due to the high clay content in the soil, after which the site was initially, later called Rotenbach Rodenbach.