Rumbach
Rumbach is a municipality in the southwest, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Dahn, which has its headquarters in the town of Dahn. The forest farming village located in the southern Palatinate Forest and is since 1984 official health resort.
Geography
The sprawling district Rumbach extends east to Wieslauter and still includes the Falkenmühle at the entrance in Bundenthal. The area, some of which has steep rock is traversed by numerous valleys with grassland and is located in the UNESCO-protected biosphere reserve Palatinate Forest -Vosges du Nord.
To Rumbach includes the residential places factory Aubühl, Falkenberg, Falkenmühle, and settlement Langenthal.
History
From the first half of the 15th to the late 18th century Rumbach belonged to the Palatinate - Zweibrücken Office Wegelnburg.
After taking the left bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops (1794 ) and the reorganization of the administration on the French model of place from 1798 to 1814 belonged to the Canton Pirmasens in the department of Thunder Mountain. When the Palatinate in 1816 after the Congress of Vienna and a land swap with Austria became part of Bavaria, the town belonged to the country 's Commissariat Rumbach Pirmasens, Pirmasens from 1938, the county was formed. Rumbach was now assigned to the Canton Dahn and the Bürgermeistereiamt Schönau.
The development of the population of Rumbach, the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:
Religion
2012 were 53.0 percent of the population Protestant and 28.7 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 Rumbach consists of eight council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman location.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the arms is: " Divided by a wavy line of blue and silver, with a golden crown above a raised silver ploughshare, down on green with passing the three green fir tree stump base, a red and a red fallen tree trunk".
It was approved in 1980 by the District Government Neustadt.
Culture and sights
At the center of the village is the 1000 -year-old Romanesque fortified church (formerly St. Gangolf Church, renamed Christ Church ) with old frescoes worth seeing.
2010 Rumbach National Champion (Silver Medal) in the competition Our village has a future. In 2009 Rumbach been competing Our village has a future county, regional and state winners in the special class. In May 2010, Rumbach winners of the state finals. In addition, the city was awarded the Special Prize for the inner development. Already in the years 2000 and 2005 was Rumbach Regional winner and received in 2000 and 2010, the Special Prize for exemplary environmental services.
2009 Rumbach reached the third place in the Fair Trade Capital 2009 competition.
- List of cultural monuments in Rumbach
- List of natural monuments in Rumbach
Economy and infrastructure
Between Bundenthal - Rumbach and Hinterweidenthal East runs the Wieslauter web. After the passenger in 1966 has been set, it will run again in the excursion traffic since 1997.
Through the village leads the L 478