Weilerbach

Because Erbach is a municipality in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Kaiserslautern. The municipality is the administrative seat of Weilerbach community, to which it belongs too, and recognized as a basic center in accordance with state planning.

• 4.1 Structures
• 4.2 Museums

• 5.1 traffic

Geography

Because Erbach located 11 km north- west of Kaiserslautern. To Weilerbach includes the living spaces on the crosses, Eichwieserhof, Upper Pfeifermühle, Samuelshof, Schellenbergerhof and brick cottage.

Neighboring municipalities are Erzenhausen, Eulenbis, Rodenbach, City of Kaiserslautern (district Einsiedlerhof ), Landstuhl, Mackenbach and Schwedelbach.

History

The place was first mentioned in 1214, leaving as his faithful Reinhard King Frederick II of Kaiserslautern, Knights of Hoheneck the patronage rights over the parish church to Ramstein with the affiliated churches to Weilerbach ( Wilrebach ) and Spesbach ( Spethisbach ). Siegfried Hoheneck 1253 gave these rights and the resulting income of lying in Kaiserslautern Deutschherrenkomturei Einsiedeln. Pope Alexander IV in 1258 confirmed the possession of the Deutschherrenkomturei in Ramstein, Weilerbach and Spesbach. In the year 1257 come Steinmar and Diederich of Weilerbach and 1273 Hertlin and Theodore of Weilerbach ago as witnesses in charters of monasteries to Kaiserslautern and sink stream.

By the end of the 18th century Weilerbach belonged to the Palatine Oberamt Kaiserslautern and was venue of courts in the villages Erzenhausen, Eulenbis, Pörrbach, Rodenbach, Schwedelbach and Weilerbach and the courts Atzenhausen (now Samuelshof ), Einsiedel, Mückenhof and Schellenberg. The court was occupied by a mayor, four aldermen and the Ramsteiner court clerk. Here crossed the old streets of Kaiserslautern to Kusel and Zweibrücken to Bingen and were the reason for a kurpfälzische customs station. In 1787 the parish had 119 families and 578 inhabitants. In buildings three churches, two presbyteries, two school houses and 93 houses were recorded. The district Weilerbach included 2076 morning arable land, 582 acres of meadows, 23 acres of gardens and 60 acres of forest.

In 1794, French revolutionary troops had occupied the left bank of the Rhine. From 1798 to 1814, the region and thus Weilerbach belonged to the canton of Kaiserslautern in the department of Thunder Mountain. Because Erbach was under French management services Main place ( chef-lieu ) of a Mairie, which, unlike in the previous judicial district, next to Weilerbach (then 751 inhabitants) communities Erfenbach (298 ) Erzenhausen ( 386), Rodenbach (322) Siegelbach (293 ) and Stockborn (63 ) belonged.

Based on the decisions taken at the Congress of Vienna agreements and a Bavarian-Austrian State Treaty, the Palatinate came in 1816 with the Kingdom of Bavaria. Under the Bavarian administration Weilerbach remained in the Canton of Kaiserslautern, the part of the country 's Commissariat of Kaiserslautern (1862 renamed county Kaiserslautern) in the Rhine Kreis was. In 1837 Weilerbach had 1,286 inhabitants, of whom 525 were Catholics, 746 Protestants and 15 Mennonites.

In the Bavarian village directory of 1928, the country Weilerbach, now belonging to the Bavarian administrative region of Pfalz, described as follows: A total of 1,933 inhabitants (815 Catholics and Protestants 1118 ), 331 residential buildings and an area of ​​2,158 hectares; there was a railway station, a post office, a police station, a control and Gemeindeeinnehmerei, a Catholic and a Protestant parish, a Catholic and a Protestant school and two child -care institutions. Next to the village Weilerbach included six other villages of the municipality: Village of Einsiedlerhof with 187 residents, 28 residential buildings and a non-denominational community school, the Hermit Forest House (4 people), Harzofen (7 inhabitants), Upper Pfeifermühle (6 inhabitants), the hamlet Samuelshof ( 32 inhabitants, four residential buildings) and brick cottage (6 people).

The village was Einsiedlerhof umgemeindet 1932 to Kaiserslautern.

The development of the population of Weilerbach based on the present-day municipality; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Weilerbach consists of 20 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local council:

Coat of arms

Blazon: " In Gold an upright blue plowshare ."

Community partnerships

Partner communities are Kingsbridge in England and Canton of Isigny -sur -Mer in France.

Culture and sights

Structures

• See: List of cultural monuments in Weilerbach

Museums

In Reinhard Blauth - history museum, the history of the region from the Stone Age is shown to the 19th century.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

• The public transport system is integrated into the transport association Rhein- Neckar ( VRN).
• From 1912 to 1972 Weilerbach was connected via the so-called Bach path that led from Lampertsmühle - Otterbach station until after Weilerbach and from 1920 until after Reichenbach to the rail network.
• The community is through the A 6 (junction: Kaiserslautern-West ) connected to the motorway network.

Personalities

• Johann Niclas Müller (1669-1732), a mill engineer, inventor; completed an apprenticeship in Müller places in the area of ​​today's Weilerbach.
• Carl Raab (1772-1854), born in Weilerbach blacksmith and farmer; Co-founder of Raab Karcher.
• Ludwig Levy (1854-1907), architect and university professor; planned the Protestant Church in Weilerbach.
• Ludwig Diehl (1894-1982), in Weilerbach born theologian; 1934-1945 Protestant Bishop of the Palatinate.
• Gerold Scheuermann (* 1929), local historian; Carrier of the coat of arms mug of Weilerbach.
• Grub Ludwig (1930-2007), sculptor; lived in the Weilerbach; Works on the Sculpture Rodenbach.
• Herbert saver (1939-1971), police officer; shot in the line of duty by members of the RAF and was buried in Weilerbach.
• Hartmut Hofrichter ( b. 1939 ), architect and university professor; lives in Weilerbach.