Walshausen

Walshausen is a municipality in the southwest, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Zweibrücken -Land.

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Geography

Walshausen is located on the Felsalb in Zweibrücker hill country between the two bridges in the west and in the east of Pirmasens.

History

Walshausen was mentioned in 1463, first documented as Walshusen. The sunken village rock albums was named as Felsalbia already 888 in a deed of the Frankish king Arnulf.

1730 bought Walshausen of Duke Gustav Samuel Leopold von Pfalz- Zweibrücken under the spell of the village rock albums. After processes with neighboring communities of purchase on November 28, 1735 finally recognized and distributed the land to the Walshausener families.

By the end of the 18th century the village belonged to the Duchy of Palatinate gorgeous country -Zweibrücken.

After 1792 French revolutionary troops occupied the region and annexed after the peace of Campo Formio (1797 ). From 1798 to 1814 the village belonged to the French department of Thunder Mountain and was assigned to the Canton Neuhornbach. Taken in response to the Congress of Vienna (1815 ) Agreements and a barter agreement with Austria the region came in 1816 with the Kingdom of Bavaria. As of 1818, the municipality Walshausen was attributed to the country 's Commissariat Two bridges in the Bavarian Rhine Kreis, later the county Zweibrücken, from the 1938 County Zweibrücken emerged. Since 1972 Walshausen belongs to the then newly formed community association Zweibrücken -Land, and since 1997 the district of Southwest Palatinate.

The formerly significant Walshauser mill was demolished during the construction of the Western Wall in 1938.

Religion

2012 were 60.0 percent of the population Protestant and 16.4 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 Walshausen consists of eight 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: " Divided by a wavy line of red and gold, a silver water wheel top right, top left three perpendicular ears, below a growing rotbewehrter and bezungter red lion ".

It was approved in 1982 by the district government Neustadt.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Walshausen is through the Federal Highway 8 ( Merzig- Pirmasens ), and route tethered 10 (Saarbrücken -Karlsruhe ) to the national road network.