Frankeneck is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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 Frankeneck Railway halt | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Frankeneck within Bad Dürkheim district  | |
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| Coordinates: 49°22′35″N 8°2′55″E / 49.37639°N 8.04861°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Bad Dürkheim |
| Municipal assoc. | Lambrecht (Pfalz) |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2019–24) | Marco Fränzel[1] (SPD) |
| Area | |
• Total | 4.76 km2 (1.84 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 173 m (568 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 804 |
| • Density | 170/km2 (440/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 67468 |
| Dialling codes | 06353 |
| Vehicle registration | DÜW |
| Website | www.frankeneck.de |
Geography
editLocation
editThe municipality lies in the Palatinate Forest at the forks of the Speyerbach and the Hochspeyerbach. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Lambrecht, whose seat is in the like-named town.
History
editThe municipality was founded in 1785.
Religion
editIn 2007, 44.9% of the inhabitants were Evangelical and 29.2% Catholic. The rest belonged to other faiths or adhered to none.[3]
Politics
editMunicipal council
editThe council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:[4]
| SPD | CDU | Total | |
| 2009 | 8 | 4 | 12 seats |
| 2004 | 8 | 4 | 12 seats |
Coat of arms
editThe German blazon reads: Durch eine blaue Wellendeichsel, oben rechts in Rot ein schwebendes blaues Beil mit goldenem Stiel, oben links in Rot ein schwebender blauer Forstsichelhaken mit goldenem Stiel, unten in Silber eine blaubereifte rote Bütte mit silbernem Inhalt, davor stehend ein rotes Rührsieb.
The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: A pall reversed wavy azure, dexter gules an axe palewise of the first helved Or, the head to chief and the edge to sinister, sinister gules a forester’s bill palewise of the first helved of the third, the head to chief and the hook to dexter, in base argent issuant from base a vat of the second hooped of the first with contents of the field, surmounted by a stirring sieve palewise of the second issuant from base, the handle to base.
The arms were approved in 1951 by the Mainz Ministry of the Interior, and they go back to a court seal from 1733. The charges recall that the municipality was founded as a logging village.[5]
Town partnerships
editFrankeneck fosters partnerships with the following places:
Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom
“Les Thuits” (Le Thuit-Signol, Le Thuit-Anger and Le Thuit-Simer), Eure, France
Culture and sightseeing
editMuseums
editIn Frankeneck, the heritage railway, the Kuckucksbähnel, has a stop. The railway runs on a line between Neustadt an der Weinstraße and Elmstein. There is also a papermaking and local history museum with exhibits about local history and the development of the local paper industry.
Sport and leisure
editTV Frankeneck (sport club) offers football and gymnastics.
Furthermore, there are a singing club and many other clubs.
Famous people
editSons and daughters of the town
edit- Walter Faller, SPD politician
References
edit- ^ Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Bad Dürkheim, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 3 August 2021.
- ^ "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
- ^ KommWis, Stand: 31. Dezember 2007 Archived September 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat
- ^ Karl Heinz Debus: Das große Wappenbuch der Pfalz. Gräber, Neustadt an der Weinstraße 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3.
External links
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Media related to Frankeneck at Wikimedia Commons