Weselberg
Weselberg is a municipality in the southwest, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Wallhalben.
- 4.1 municipal
- 4.2 Mayor
- 4.3 Coat of Arms
- 4.4 twinning
- 5.1 Structures
- 5.2 churches, schools, kindergartens
- 5.3 associations
Geography
Geographical location
Weselberg is on the Sickinger Höhe, at the northeast edge and is about 8 km from Landstuhl, 15.5 km from Pirmasens and 15 km from Kaiserslautern. Immediately to the east borders of the Palatinate Forest in three to five km Distance to Weselberg to the Sickinger Höhe. The center of Weselberg has grown together with the district Zeselberg now. The local industrial area, as well as the district Harsberg are separated by the federal highway 62 from the rest of the municipality.
Climate
The annual rainfall is 936 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. Precipitation varies moderately. At 37% of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.
History
The earliest evidence of settlements near Landstuhl as stone ring tombs date from the La Tène period ( 500bis 100 BC). In the period from 1 AD to the 4th century BC, the area was settled by the Romans occupy such Ex. coins from the Roman settlement at Landstuhl and the Heidelburg at Forest Fischbach Castle albums.
In the course of administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate, the current community of the previously independent municipalities Weselberg, Harsberg and Zeselberg was re-formed on 7 June 1969.
The development of the population of Weselberg based on the present-day municipality; the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:
Religion
With Release 29 February 2012 79.3 percent of the population of Weselberg Catholic and 13.2 percent were Protestant. The other belonged to a different religion or no religious affiliation were.
Policy
Parish council
The local council in Weselberg consists of 16 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:
Mayor
Mayor is Hans -Peter Mangold ( FWG ).
Coat of arms
The blazon of the arms is: " Divided by a silver strip of black and blue, split up by a silver bar, top right five silver Bollen 2:1:2, upper left three horizontal golden ears of corn, down an octagonal chapel silver with black windows ".
It was approved in 1983 by the district government Neustadt. The five Bollen remember the former local lords, the lords of SICKINGEN.
Twinning
Lucka in Thuringia is twinned with Weselberg.
Culture and sights
Structures
See list of cultural monuments in Weselberg
Churches, schools, kindergartens
In the 1800 -built, from 1929 to 1931 after plans by the architect Albert Boßlet vastly expanded Catholic Church services are held regularly. The Protestant community uses together with the adjacent Hermersberg their church. In addition Weselberg also has a primary school with about 40 students (as of 2011 ).
Clubs
Based in place including the Musikverein Laetitia, which was founded in 1927. The Musikverein " Laetitia " has several orchestras that are divided by age groups. Also established is the gun club, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2007. There are also each in Weselberg and Harsberg a sports club ( Sport Club Weselberg, SCW and Sport Community Harsberg - Schauerberg, SGH ), a choral society ( Catholic Church Choir and " Cecilia " Harsberg ) and a fruit and horticulture club.
Economy and Transport
Until the last century Weselberg was a purely farming village. Of the 14.65 km ² municipal area in 2010, 65.5 percent were still used for agricultural purposes; Another 21.8 percent are forest area. Meanwhile has Weselberg to a local commercial infrastructure in the form of a small industrial area between the villages of Harsberg and Weselberg.
The town is served by the motorway 62 ( Pirmasens - Nonnweiler ) to the national road network. Federal highway 270 leads south towards Pirmasens and in the north to Kaiserslautern.