Schwanheim, Rhineland-Palatinate

Swan Home is a municipality in the district of West Palatinate in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Hauenstein.

Geography

Swan home located in the southern Palatinate Forest, the German part of the Wasgau, at an altitude of 180 meters above sea level and belongs geologically to Trifels and Rehberg stage with the layers of the middle Buntsandstein. 71.8 % of the district area is forested.

History

Swan was home on March 25, 1135 a deed of gift of the Mainz archbishop Adalbert I of Saarbrücken to the abbey Klingenmünster, first mentioned.

The place name Swan home does not come, as one might assume at first glance, swanden from the same animal, but from the Old German word which means as much as clear.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Swan home consists of twelve 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 town coat of arms shows a golden deer head with a cross between its antlers, on a blue background. The deer head with the cross symbolizes the patron saint of the local church, St. Hubertus.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Ferdinand Riedinger (1844-1918), surgeon, professor in Würzburg
Hauenstein (Verbandsgemeinde) Municipal council Althornbach Battweiler Bechhofen, Rhineland-Palatinate Biedershausen Bobenthal Bottenbach Bundenthal Busenberg Clausen, Germany Contwig Dahn Darstein Dellfeld Dietrichingen Dimbach Donsieders Eppenbrunn Erfweiler Erlenbach bei Dahn Fischbach bei Dahn Geiselberg Heltersberg Hermersberg Herschberg Hettenhausen Hilst Hinterweidenthal Hirschthal, Germany Horbach, Südwestpfalz Hornbach Kleinbundenbach Kleinsteinhausen Knopp-Labach Leimen, Rhineland-Palatinate Lemberg, Germany Ludwigswinkel Lug, Germany Mauschbach Merzalben Niederschlettenbach Nothweiler Obersimten Petersberg, Rhineland-Palatinate Riedelberg Rodalben Rosenkopf Rumbach Ruppertsweiler Saalstadt Schauerberg Schindhard Schmalenberg Schmitshausen Schweix Spirkelbach Steinalben Trulben Vinningen Waldfischbach-Burgalben Wallhalben Walshausen Wiesbach Wilgartswiesen Winterbach, Südwestpfalz
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