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Souls is a municipality in the thunder mountain in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Rockhausen.

Geography

The town lies on the saddle mountain in North Palatinate mountains west of Mount Thunder between Kaiserslautern and Bad Kreuznach.

History

Until the French Revolution souls belonged to the Duchy of Pfalz- Zweibrücken ( Schultheißerei Berzweiler ). 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 souls 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 souls 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

Blazon: split over a green three mountain and divided the left; right in a red chapel silver, blue remembered with stairs, doors and windows all golden; top left in green a fallen silver anchor, below in silver, a green willow tree.

Culture and sights

In 2000, the community built on the saddle mountain a 19.65 -meter-high observation tower with a mobile antenna. At an altitude of 457 meters, you have a panoramic view of the counties Kusel, Kaiserslautern and the Thunder Mountain district up to the Hunsrück. Every year the festival with Tower Hobby artist market and Antique tractor is the first weekend in June at the Tower celebrated exhibition.

See also: List of cultural monuments in souls

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.