Schmittweiler

Schmittweiler
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Schmittweiler within Bad Kreuznach district
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Coordinates: 49°41′27.78″N 7°42′14.16″E / 49.6910500°N 7.7039333°E / 49.6910500; 7.7039333
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Bad Kreuznach
Municipal assoc.	Meisenheim
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Ute Ammann[1]
Area
• Total	5.48 km2 (2.12 sq mi)
Elevation	273 m (896 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	179
• Density	33/km2 (85/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	67829
Dialling codes	06753
Vehicle registration	KH
Website	www.schmittweiler.de

Schmittweiler is an

Clockwise from the north, Schmittweiler’s neighbours are Callbach, Finkenbach-Gersweiler, Waldgrehweiler (these last two lying in the neighbouring Donnersbergkreis), Becherbach and Reiffelbach, which all, but for those otherwise noted, likewise lie in the Bad Kreuznach district.

History

After the

Schmittweiler’s population development since Napoleonic times is shown in the table below. The figures for the years from 1871 to 1987 are drawn from census data:^[5]

Religion

As at 31 January 2014, there are 198 full-time residents in Schmittweiler, and of those, 125 are

Schmittweiler’s mayor is Ute Ammann.[1]

Coat of arms

The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Per fess azure a lion’s head erased argent langued gules and argent in base a bridge arched of one sable upon which fire of the third.

Culture and sightseeing

Panorama 1

Panorama 2

Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:^[7]

• Evangelical church, Hauptstraße – Baroque aisleless church
  , marked 1749 and 1962 (renovated)
• Saint Hildegard’s Catholic Church (Kirche St. Hildegard), Hauptstraße – Gothicized sandstone-block building, Heimatstil, 1930, architect Albert Boßlet, Würzburg
• Am Borngarten 4 – timber-frame house, apparently from the 15th century
• Bachstraße 1 – complex along the street, earlier half of the 19th century
• Bachstraße 2 – estate complex; house with single roof ridge, partly timber-frame, possibly from the early 19th century
• Hauptstraße 29 – estate complex; house marked 1816

Regular events

Each year on 3 October,

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

Running into Schmittweiler is

to Kaiserslautern.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Bad Kreuznach, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 2 August 2021.
2. Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz
   . 2023.
3. ^ Area
4. ^ Former official tag
5. ^ Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz – Regionaldaten
6. ^ Religion
7. ^ Directory of Cultural Monuments in Bad Kreuznach district

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Schmittweiler.

• Schmittweiler in the collective municipality’s webpages (in German)