Ulmet, Germany
Ulmet is a municipality in the district of Kusel, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Altenglan. Ulmet is a nationally recognized tourist.
The name Ulmet probably goes back to the Latin Ulmetum = elm forest.
Geography
The place is situated on the Glan in Kusel Musicians country in the Western Palatinate. To the north is Rathsweiler, in the south Erdesbach.
To Ulmet includes the residential places Felschbachhof and Mühlwieshof.
History
Ulmet as a Celtic foundation wears a place name of Celtic origin, like the name of Kusel ( Cosla ) and Altenglan ( Gleni ). Also, the river name is of Celtic origin Glan.
In a document of the monastery Remigiusberg 1267 Ulmet the name appears for the first time, as a Olmone. Other forms of the name are: 1364 Olmut, 1387 Olmüth, 1416 Olmud, 1422 Olmaon, Olmont 1436 Olmudt, 1446 Olmut, 1456 Olle Mont, 1460 Olmud and Olmudt, 1477 Olmuett, 1480 Olmüt, 1544 Olmeth, 1588 Ulmeth, Ulmüth 1634 again Olmeth, 1756 Ulmeth and around the middle of the 19th century, due to the elimination of h at the end of the name, finally with today's spelling. One should bear in mind here that different spellings are often due to the carelessness of royal scribe.
The lying on the right Glanseite district Pielsbach was to the 14th century, an independent place. It extends along the opening into the Glan same creek and was called by the oldest traditions Pelsbach / Pilsbach ( 1364 ), Pelesbach ( 1381 ), Pilßbach ( 1433 ), Pielsbach (1585 ). The eponymous brook released in the years 1585-1588 as well as Pielsbach. Dagger and Greule bear this name back to a vorgermanischen waters pELISA name, in the Germanic- German time the basic word - bach was added.
Policy
Parish council
The local council in Ulmet 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 coat of arms is based on a seal dating from the 18th century and refers to the Office Ulmet, but not to the place Ulmet. The Unteramt Ulmet was subordinate to the chief official Lichtenburg.
The lion is the symbol of the rule of the Counts of Veldenz and later the Dukes of Zweibrücken. The blue bar represents the wave flows through the middle of the Ulmet Glan. The intertwined letters A and V A ( mt ) V ( LMET ) are preserved in sealing the Office Ulmet since 1753. Approval: On April 4, 1979, the district government Rheinhessen-Pfalz Neustadt / wine route.
Description: " Divided by a blue wave bar of silver and gold, above a border rotbewehrter and bezungter blue lion, down the tortuous capital letters A and U. "
Culture and sights
The Grade II listed parish church, called for centuries corridor chapel dates from the year 1091.
The eight-kilometer trail runs from Ulmet waters after Erdesbach.
The Kappeler Bridge was first mentioned in 1542. The new building of 1748 fell victim to the flood of 1784. Since the subsequent reconstruction of the bridge endures to this day.
Economy and infrastructure
In Ulmet there is a kindergarten and a primary school.
The place is located on the B 420 in the southwest is the A 62 in Altenglan is a station of the railway line Landstuhl - Kusel. Ulmet itself decreed from 1904 to 1991 a railway station on the now disused Glantalbahn.
Clubs
Ev. Women's Federation Ulmet - Erdesbach and Rathsweiler
Foundation for Culture and Sports
Singing and music club " Germania 1862 " e.V.
Home club Ulmet e.V.
Krankenpflegeverein
Country Women's Association Ulmet
Reservist (RK ) Ulmet e.V. website
Sheep Breeders Association "Medium Glantal " e.V.
School patrons Ulmet
SPD - local association Ulmet
Sports club in 1919 e.V. website
Turnverein 1985 Ulmet e.V.
Fishing enthusiasts Ulmet 1868 e.V. website
Sons and daughters of the town
- August Drumm (1862-1904), sculptor
- Theodor Zink (1871-1934), founder of the Theodor Zink Museum in Kaiserslautern