Schauerberg

Schauerberg is a municipality in the southwest, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Wallhalben.

Geography

Schauerberg is on the Sickinger Höhe. To the west is Herschberg, in the northwest of the city hall and the east is Hermersberg. 42.9 percent of the district area is forested, 47.6 percent are agriculturally used (as of 2010 ).

To Schauerberg includes the living space forestry house Schauerberg.

History

Schauerberg was first documented in 1732, then in the notation " Scheuerberg "

However, it is believed that Schauerberg is the result of several smaller settlements, which lay in the valley and have emerged much earlier.

The development of the population of Schauerberg, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Religion

In 2011, 65.1 percent of the population Catholic, 25.5 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

Parish council

The local council in Schauerberg consists of six 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: " About an increased black Wellenschildfuß, is five silver Bollen 2:1:2, in silver a black crocheted changed rotgedeckte golden barn ".

It was approved in 1983 by the district government Neustadt. The five Bollen remember the former local lords, the lords of SICKINGEN.

Culture and sights

If you drive through the town, so come one, along the fields with panoramic views over the Sickinger height, the forest house, past the back water show path to the boiler, on the crossroads of several streams to waterfalls and can occur in winter, a bizarre structure of water and ice. The floodplains with mill restaurants such as the Weihermühle, the small pavilion or Kneispermühle also serve the recreational in nature.

In the village there are four teams: the conveyance of the fire department, the Choral Society Harsberg - Schauerberg and their Turnverein, the Church Building Association and the FWG Schauerberg.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Schauerberg

Economy and infrastructure

The place can be reached by a minor road from the north. The nearby driveway Wesel castle of the A 62 is connected to the long-distance transport.

There are a carpenter, a hairdresser, cosmetics and pedicure studio, a master craftsman road, a menswear district headquarters, a Karosserie-/Unfallrestaurationsbetrieb, an electrical engineering master operation and horse boarding in the resort.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Hubert Kessler (1934-2008), football official