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Elmstein is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Elmstein
Municipality
Location of Elmstein within Bad Dürkheim district
MeckenheimCarlsbergLindenbergLambrechtObrigheimBattenbergWorms
Elmstein
Elmstein
Coordinates: 49°21′02″N 07°56′24″E
CountryGermany
StateRhineland-Palatinate
DistrictBad Dürkheim
Municipal assoc.Lambrecht (Pfalz)
Subdivisions10
Government
  Mayor (201924) Rene Verdaasdonk[1] (SPD)
Area
  Total75.69 km2 (29.22 sq mi)
Elevation
225 m (738 ft)
Population
 (2020-12-31)[2]
  Total4,302
  Density57/km2 (150/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
67471
Dialling codes06328, 06306
Vehicle registrationDÜW
Websitewww.elmstein.de
Elmstein – village and ruins
Elmstein – village and ruins

Geography



Location


Elmstein lies in the Palatinate Forest. The municipality belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Lambrecht, whose seat is in the like-named town.


Constituent communities


Elmstein's Ortsteile are, besides the namesake one, Appenthal, Erlenbach, Harzofen, Helmbach, Iggelbach, Mückenwiese, Röderthal, Schafhof, Schwabenbach, Schwarzbach, Stilles Tal, Speyerbrunn and Wolfsgrube.


Neighbouring municipalities


Clockwise from the northwest, these are Waldleiningen, Weidenthal, Esthal, an exclave of Kirrweiler, an exclave of Venningen, an exclave of Rhodt unter Rietburg, an exclave of Edesheim, an exclave of Landau in der Pfalz, Wilgartswiesen, Trippstadt and Kaiserslautern.


History


Elmstein arose from the Castle Elmstein, which itself was built in the 12th century by the Counts Palatine of the Rhine. The outlying centres arose later, mostly as extension settlements for lumberjacks, as a location of a sawmill or, like Röderthal, as a mining settlement.

On 1 January 1976, a centre with 207 inhabitants was transferred from the municipality of Wilgartswiesen to Elmstein.


Religion


In 2007, 51.5% of the inhabitants were Evangelical and 30.3% were Catholic. One peculiarity is the Free Religious Community founded in 1921, which with a roughly 5% share of the population stands as the Palatinate’s second biggest Free Religious Community. The rest practised other faiths or none.[3]


Politics



Municipal council


The council is made up of 20 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]

SPDCDUIndependentWG HerterTotal
2009581620 seats
2004992-20 seats

Coat of arms


The German blazon reads: In Silber zwei gekreuzte rote Doppelhaken, bewinkelt von vier sechsstrahligen goldenen Sternen.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Argent two cramps per cross gules, the one per fess surmounting the one per pale, between four mullets Or.

The arms were approved by the Reich governor in Bavaria (of which the Palatinate was an outlying part until after the Second World War) and date from a 1772 seal. The “forest hooks” refer to Elmstein's location in the middle of the forest (this charge is generally known as a “cramp” or “crampoon” in English heraldry, and is held to be a kind of brace for strengthening a building[5]). It is unknown, however, what the mullets (stars) mean.[6]


Culture and sightseeing


Appenthal churchtower ruins
Appenthal churchtower ruins

Museums



Buildings



Economy and infrastructure



Transport


Running from Neustadt an der Weinstraße to Elmstein is the heritage railway known as the Kuckucksbähnel (Little Cuckoo Railway).

The municipality can be reached on Landesstraße (State Road) 499 from either Johanniskreuz or Frankeneck

Moreover, there is a bus link with route 517 (Neustadt an der Weinstraße to Iggelbach). The travel time on the bus is roughly an hour.

Owing to the many motorcycle accidents in the past, the road through the Elmstein valley (Johanniskreuz–Elmstein–Lambrecht) is closed to motorcycles on weekends from April to October; only residents – not even other locals – may drive motorcycles on this stretch of highway at these times.


Famous people



Sons and daughters of the town



References



Sources





На других языках


- [en] Elmstein

[ru] Эльмштайн

Эльмштайн (нем. Elmstein) — коммуна в Германии, в земле Рейнланд-Пфальц.



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