Ruppertsecken

Ruppertsecken is a municipality in the Thunder Mountain district in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Rockhausen. Ruppertsecken is a nationally recognized tourist.

  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms

Geography

Geographical location

The place is located in the North Palatine Uplands directly at Thunder Mountain between Kaiserslautern and Bad Kreuznach. With 498.5 m above sea level Ruppertsecken is the highest village in the Palatinate. Worth seeing are the Schlossberg and the woman stone.

Community structure

To Ruppertsecken includes the residential courses in Upper - Gerbacherhof, Upper -Tier Wasen, black trench, Talhof, sub - Gerbacherhof, sub - animal Wasen and Vollethof.

Climate

The annual precipitation is 660 mm. The deposits are located in the lower third of the detected values ​​in Germany. At 32% of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values ​​are registered. The driest month is February, the most rainfall comes in June. In June, falling 1.7 times more precipitation than in February. Rainfall is fairly evenly distributed throughout the year. At 31% of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.

History

Ruppertsecken 1401 in a charter of King Ruprecht (also Elector Ruprecht III. Palatine ) called for the first time. After the French Revolution, the town was incorporated into the French department Thunder Mountain. As a result of the Vienna Congress, he was from 1816 to 1945 Bavarian. After the Second World War Ruppertsecken was part of the French occupation zone and was incorporated into the newly formed 1946 State of Rhineland -Palatinate.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Ruppertsecken 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.

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " Sable, a golden, rotgekrönter and reinforced lion on a golden wall dreizinnigen rechtshin border, a gerau ended by Silver and Blue Shield holding in the paws ".

It was in 1955 awarded by the Rhineland-Palatinate State Ministry and is based on a seal from the year 1727th Lion and lozenges are taken from the coat of arms of the Wittelsbach family, the ruling family of the Palatinate.

Economy and infrastructure

Take the A 63 in the south-east is connected to the long-distance transport. In Rockhausen is a railway station of Alsenztalbahn.

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