Trippstadt

Tripp city is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Kaiserslautern -Süd. Tripp town is a nationally recognized health resort.

  • 4.1 municipal
  • 4.2 Coat of Arms
  • 8.1 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 8.2 personalities who have worked on site

Geography

Location

Tripp city is located in the heart of the Palatinate Forest road 15 kilometers south of Kaiserslautern in the biosphere reserve Palatinate Forest -Vosges du Nord. The town itself is located at an altitude of about 406 m above sea level. NHN, the highest point of the district is the stone mountain of 528 m.

Community structure

For main town include over 20 districts, which consist solely of single houses:

Antonihof, Aschbacherhof, Bartels Mountain, field, Gutenbrunnen, rabbits mountain, moor head, locust Cross, Karlstalhaus, Langensohl, Lauberhof, Meiserspring, Meisertal, Mittelhammer, Neuhof, Upper Hammer, saw-mill, deep pond, Unterhammer, ponds Felderhof, Wilensteinerhof, Wilensteiner mill.

Climate

The annual rainfall is 941 mm. Rainfall is high. They are located in the upper quarter of the detected values ​​in Germany. At 81% of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values ​​are registered. The driest month is April, the most rainfall comes in December. In December, falling 1.6 times more precipitation than in April. Rainfall is fairly evenly distributed throughout the year. At 28% of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.

History

Tripp city was first mentioned in 1293 as Driebescheit documented. It belonged to the rule Wilenstein the county of Falkenstein, came to the Palatinate and was in 1716, applied together with the villages Mölschbach and Stelzenberg, the Kurpfälzer Colonel or Colonel Jägermeister forester Anton Ludwig Freiherr von Hacke ( 1682-1752 ) as a fief. The family of hoe made ​​Tripp city as their residence and there was her castle with the Catholic Church of St. Joseph castle building, the bridge was also her grave. After the end of the feudal period, the village fell to France in 1816 to the Kingdom of Bavaria and 1946. At the Land Rheinland-Pfalz

Religion

2012 were 38.9 percent of the population Protestant and 31.8 percent Catholic. 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 Tripp city consists of 20 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local council:

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: "Divided and split up, up right in gold a red skew lattice, to the left of blue and silver and red split up, down in silver two upright against each other curved, striped red and gold and blue rainbow ".

It was approved in 1927 by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior.

Culture and sights

In town there is a Tripp Ironworks Museum, is shown in the as forged have worked 2000 years ago. The museum is housed in a renovated former smithy. Furthermore, there is a sculpture. In Unterhammer in Karlstal exhibitions are currently being shown and concerts performed. In addition, the park has extensive information panels about the industrial history of the region.

Notable buildings set in Trippstadt the Trippstadter castle, the castle Wilenstein that Klug'sche mill, the water supply tunnel, the former spa Gutenbrunnen, the former iron hammer mill and today's industrial monument Unterhammer ( in Karlstal ) and the Evangelical Church these look value remain the castle garden with former arboretum, Karlstal with the Moosalb and the blackbird Dell Karl above the valley.

Regular events

Every first weekend of September, the charcoal-burner festival takes place every second Saturday in October, the Oktoberfest the band Tripp city is organized in the Karlstalhalle. See also: List of cultural monuments in the city Tripp

Economy and infrastructure

In Trippstadter lock the Research Institute for Forest Ecology and Forestry of Rhineland- Palatinate is housed. Closest train station is Schopp at the Biebermühlbahn.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Ludwig Philipp Hahn (1746-1814) poet of the Sturm und Drang
  • Emil Dietzsch (1829-1890), poet and political activist
  • Philip Helmer (1846-1912), artist
  • Rudolf Fickeisen (1885-1943), oarsman
  • Weinkauff Hermann (1894-1981), jurist, first President of the Federal Court
  • Erhard Quack (1904-1983), German hymn writer and composer
  • Otto Kallenbach (1911-1992), sculptor
  • Baßler Werner (1921-1999), football player

Personalities who have worked on site

  • Sigmund Jacob Haeckher (1720-1772), designed the Trippstadter Castle
  • Christoph Friedrich Cotta (1758-1838), lawyer and Jacobin, died on the spot
  • Leopold Wilhelm of Dobschütz (1763-1836), Prussian general who participated in the Battle of Tripp city
  • Johann Ludwig Gienanth (1767-1848), businessman, led the ironworks in Tripp city and established the " manor house" in Tripp City Unterhammer
  • Jakob Anton Leyser (1830-1897) priest and writer
  • Fooß Anton, Anton Foohs, (1871-1940), Prelate, 1908 founder of the Palatinate Catholic Conference in locust Cross, 1906-1910 Catholic. Pastor of Tripp city.
  • Carola Dauber (1898-1985), politician (SPD ), some local chairman of their party
  • Gießner Joachim (1913-2003), lived from 2002 until his death in a nursing home on site
  • Wolfgang Rumpf (1936-2006), 1966-1971 Lecturer at the National School of Forestry in Tripp city
  • Bernd Rosenberger ( b. 1944 ), mathematician, 1979-1984 Member of the Municipal Council
  • Thilo Berg ( born 1959 ), operates in Trippstadt a record company
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