Ruthweiler

Ruthweiler is a municipality in the district of Kusel, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Kusel.

History

Originally consisting of Lower and Upper Ruthweiler place was first mentioned in documents as Nyderrudewilre in 1271. He belonged to the truce of Burg Lichtenberg. 1816 Ruthweiler the Principality of Lichtenberg, a newly exclave of the duchy of Saxe -Coburg -Saalfeld, respectively in 1826 the duchy of Saxe -Coburg and Gotha. With this, it fell to Prussia in 1834, which the district Sankt Wendel created from this area. After separation of the main part of the newly created Saar was built in 1920 the remainder circle St. Wendel - Baumholder, to which the place belonged until 1937, when he was incorporated into the district of Birkenfeld. In 1969, he was reclassified in the district of Kusel.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Ruthweiler 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.

Mayor

Sven Dick was elected on 7 June 2009 to the mayor.

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " divided by silver and blue, above a growing, rotbewehrter and bezungter, blue lion, below two horizontally one above the other, silver Mühleisen ".

It was established in 1962 approved by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Interior. The lion is from the coat of arms of the Counts of Veldenz. The Mühleisen symbolize the two former stately spell mills.

Economy and infrastructure

In the south, the A 62 is from 1936 to 1959 had Ruthweiler a stop on the railway line Türkismühle - Kusel. In Kusel is a station on the railway line Landstuhl - Kusel.

The former traditionally an agricultural municipality has changed about 1995 in a residential community. Ruthweiler has opened four new areas. As the first community of the municipality Kusel the development area " Borrech " was developed by a private investor.

A restaurant, a café, a warehouse, a village hall, a bowling alley and hiking trails are in the town at the foot of Burg Lichtenberg available. Community life is designed by clubs.

There is a village archive that is constructed and maintained by a citizens group that has been ordered by the municipality.

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