Misplaced Pages

#636363

74-653: The municipality lies 5 km southwest of Kusel some 330 m above sea level in a hollow of the Korbach, which rises in the municipality's west from several springs , and empties in the municipality's southeast into the Albessbach. In the municipal area's north, another stream flows parallel to the Korbach in the Ehweiler Grund, which also forms the municipal limit. The heights around the village climb up to almost 400 m above sea level (Ehweiler Höhe 390 m), and beyond

148-409: A defined barometric pressure . Generally, the pressure used to set the altimeter is the barometric pressure that would exist at MSL in the region being flown over. This pressure is referred to as either QNH or "altimeter" and is transmitted to the pilot by radio from air traffic control (ATC) or an automatic terminal information service (ATIS). Since the terrain elevation is also referenced to MSL,

222-446: A document as early as 1296, likely lay northwest of today's village of Ehweiler (in 1296 and 1431 Grewilre , in 1446 Obergrewilre , in 1456 Grewillr ). The name Obergrewilre suggests that for a while at least, the village had two centres (the prefix Ober— means “upper”; the other centre would have had the prefix Nieder— or Unter— , meaning “lower”). Already by 1588, Greweiler no longer existed. Johannes Hoffmann mentioned that such

296-432: A few metres, in timeframes ranging from minutes to months: Between 1901 and 2018, the average sea level rose by 15–25 cm (6–10 in), with an increase of 2.3 mm (0.091 in) per year since the 1970s. This was faster than the sea level had ever risen over at least the past 3,000 years. The rate accelerated to 4.62 mm (0.182 in)/yr for the decade 2013–2022. Climate change due to human activities

370-758: A geographical region in Iceland but the name lives on in the names of two public libraries in Iceland that were established during the amt era. The Amts libraries in Akureyri and Stykkishólmur which were established as the designated archives for the North and East Amt and the West Amt respectively. Ambacht can be seen as the Dutch equivalent to amt . Ambachten existed in Holland , Zeeland and Flanders up to about 1800. From 1662 to 1919,

444-471: A harrow Or. A harrow was shown on an Ehweiler municipal seal as early as 1753. It is meant as a canting charge , which arose from the mistaken belief that the village was named after a harrow, known in the local speech as an Ee or Ehe (but Egge in Standard High German , as in the blazon above). As discussed above, the name much more likely comes from an early settler named Ago. Nevertheless,

518-438: A reference datum for mean sea level (MSL). It is also used in aviation, where some heights are recorded and reported with respect to mean sea level (contrast with flight level ), and in the atmospheric sciences , and in land surveying . An alternative is to base height measurements on a reference ellipsoid approximating the entire Earth, which is what systems such as GPS do. In aviation, the reference ellipsoid known as WGS84

592-435: A rural residential community. The population rose steeply in the 18th century and earlier half of the 19th century, and thereafter remained relatively stable. The following table shows population development over the centuries for Ehweiler, with some figures broken down by religious denomination: According to researchers Dolch and Greule, the form that the village's name took in the 1316 first documentary mention, Eygewilre ,

666-463: A sharp reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, this may increase to hundreds of millions in the latter decades of the century. Local factors like tidal range or land subsidence will greatly affect the severity of impacts. For instance, sea level rise in the United States is likely to be two to three times greater than the global average by the end of the century. Yet, of the 20 countries with

740-596: A subordinate role. During the 19th century, there was a colliery at the “Josephsgrube”, but the yield was quite low compared to that from other pits in the area. There were also several stone quarries within municipal limits, of which today only one is still in business. Ehweiler is otherwise a commuter village . Beginning in the time of the Reformation , the Prince-Electors were putting forth efforts to establish some kind of schooling. At first, this meant that perhaps once

814-849: A supra-municipality or "municipal confederation". Normally, it consists of very small municipalities ( Gemeinden , plural of Gemeinde ). Larger municipalities do not belong to an Amt and are called amtsfreie Gemeinden (independent municipalities); some of these municipalities might also not be governed by or linked with a Kreis (district) and are called kreisfreie Gemeinden , and when they do also not belong to any other Land they are also called Stadtstaaten (plural of Stadtstaat ), i.e. city-states ( Berlin and Hamburg ). These large municipalities (cities, in German Städte , plural of Stadt ) may be further divided into local offices named Ortsämter (plural of Ortsamt ), each of them possibly grouping several suburbs (or small townships in rural areas) of

SECTION 10

#1732891627637

888-572: A time by which it had certainly already existed for quite some time. According to the document in question, the pastor Luccemann from Kusel forwent his tithes from a whole series of villages, among them Ehweiler, choosing instead to grant them to the monastery on the Remigiusberg. The village's name otherwise does not appear at all throughout the time in which the Counts of Veldenz held sway, but only once again after 1444, when that comital house died out and

962-756: A village had once lain in the Grehweiler Grund (“ Im Greweiler Grunde… ”), likely the hollow now marked on the survey map as the Ehweiler Grund . Hoffmann, though, unambiguously described the land on both sides of the Korbach as Ehweiler Grund . This would yield a few hints as to just where the vanished village of Grehweiler lay. The former village of Stauderhof, whose name can still be seen in rural cadastral names in both Ehweiler and Albessen , quite likely lay within what are now Pfeffelbach ’s limits. The vanished villages of Heupweiler and Dimschweiler likewise lay outside what are now Ehweiler's limits. Ehweiler lay in

1036-592: A week – or perhaps even only once every several weeks – there would be lessons in Ehweiler. This school system's shortcomings did not last long, for the whole system itself was swept away by the ravages of the Thirty Years' War . Hardly a school in the broader area was even left standing after various armies had swept through the region. The first indication in the historical record about a winter school (a school geared towards an agricultural community's practical needs, held in

1110-592: Is a type of administrative division governing a group of municipalities, today only in Germany, but formerly also common in other countries of Northern Europe . Its size and functions differ by country and the term is roughly equivalent to a British or U.S. county . The Amt (plural: Ämter ) is unique to the German Bundesländer (federal states) of Schleswig-Holstein , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg . Other German states had this division in

1184-417: Is an average surface level of one or more among Earth 's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured. The global MSL is a type of vertical datum  – a standardised geodetic datum  – that is used, for example, as a chart datum in cartography and marine navigation , or, in aviation, as the standard sea level at which atmospheric pressure

1258-488: Is because the sea is in constant motion, affected by the tides, wind , atmospheric pressure, local gravitational differences, temperature, salinity , and so forth. The mean sea level at a particular location may be calculated over an extended time period and used as a datum . For example, hourly measurements may be averaged over a full Metonic 19-year lunar cycle to determine the mean sea level at an official tide gauge . Still-water level or still-water sea level (SWL)

1332-427: Is due to change in either the volume of water in the world's oceans or the volume of the oceanic basins . Two major mechanisms are currently causing eustatic sea level rise. First, shrinking land ice, such as mountain glaciers and polar ice sheets, is releasing water into the oceans. Second, as ocean temperatures rise, the warmer water expands. Many factors can produce short-term changes in sea level, typically within

1406-483: Is increasingly used to define heights; however, differences up to 100 metres (328 feet) exist between this ellipsoid height and local mean sea level. Another alternative is to use a geoid -based vertical datum such as NAVD88 and the global EGM96 (part of WGS84). Details vary in different countries. When referring to geographic features such as mountains, on a topographic map variations in elevation are shown by contour lines . A mountain's highest point or summit

1480-512: Is measured to calibrate altitude and, consequently, aircraft flight levels . A common and relatively straightforward mean sea-level standard is instead a long-term average of tide gauge readings at a particular reference location. Sea levels can be affected by many factors and are known to have varied greatly over geological time scales . Current sea level rise is mainly caused by human-induced climate change . When temperatures rise, mountain glaciers and polar ice sheets melt, increasing

1554-447: Is the level of the sea with motions such as wind waves averaged out. Then MSL implies the SWL further averaged over a period of time such that changes due to, e.g., the tides , also have zero mean. Global MSL refers to a spatial average over the entire ocean area, typically using large sets of tide gauges and/or satellite measurements. One often measures the values of MSL with respect to

SECTION 20

#1732891627637

1628-723: Is the main cause. Between 1993 and 2018, melting ice sheets and glaciers accounted for 44% of sea level rise , with another 42% resulting from thermal expansion of water . Sea level rise lags behind changes in the Earth 's temperature by many decades, and sea level rise will therefore continue to accelerate between now and 2050 in response to warming that has already happened. What happens after that depends on human greenhouse gas emissions . If there are very deep cuts in emissions, sea level rise would slow between 2050 and 2100. It could then reach by 2100 slightly over 30 cm (1 ft) from now and approximately 60 cm (2 ft) from

1702-527: Is typically illustrated with the AMSL height in metres, feet or both. In unusual cases where a land location is below sea level, such as Death Valley, California , the elevation AMSL is negative. It is often necessary to compare the local height of the mean sea surface with a "level" reference surface, or geodetic datum, called the geoid . In the absence of external forces, the local mean sea level would coincide with this geoid surface, being an equipotential surface of

1776-541: Is used to offer decentralized services of the municipality within local administrative offices for the residents in neighbouring suburbs. The Ortsteil itself may also be confusingly translated as a "municipality", but it is incorrect because it belongs to a city which is the only effective municipality ( Gemeinde ). The amt (plural, amter ; translated as "county") was an administrative unit of Denmark (and, historically, of Denmark-Norway ). The counties were established by royal decree in 1662 as replacements for

1850-626: The Bürgermeisterei (“Mayoralty”) of Kusel. In the early 1930s, the Nazi Party (NSDAP) was quite popular in Ehweiler. In the 1930 Reichstag elections , 22.4% of the local votes went to Adolf Hitler ’s party. By the time of the 1933 Reichstag elections , after Hitler had already seized power , local support for the Nazis had swollen to 90%. Hitler’s success in these elections paved the way for his Enabling Act of 1933 ( Ermächtigungsgesetz ), thus starting

1924-514: The Kusel local history museum. Ehweiler lay in the so-called Remigiusland . The local chronicler, Rainer Dick, tried to link the village's founding to its founder's name, as the name Agio or Ago was already customary by the 5th century. Researchers Dolch and Greule, on the other hand, note that the great majority of the villages with names ending in —weiler arose no earlier than the 12th century. In 1316, Ehweiler had its first documentary mention, at

1998-773: The Plague . In the late 16th century, there may have been well under one hundred people living in the village. While one or two deaths in the village were usual in most years, in the Plague Year 1583 alone, 34 people in Ehweiler died (as against 23 in Kusel). In 1597, there were 12 Plague deaths (165 in Kusel), and in 1613, there were a further 13 (56 in Kusel). Thus, by 1583, half the village's population must have died. Nevertheless, newcomers must have quickly settled in Ehweiler. In 1609, according to an Oberamt of Baumholder ecclesiastical visitation protocol, there were 56 inhabitants in 12 families with

2072-697: The Remigiusland and thereby was subject from its founding to the lordship of the Bishopric of Reims or the Abbey of Saint-Remi in Reims , although it belonged under ecclesiastical organization to the Archbishopric of Mainz . Under the principle of cuius regio, eius religio , all the inhabitants converted in the time of the Reformation , about 1537, to Lutheran beliefs. On Count Palatine Johannes I's orders in 1588, there

2146-583: The Third Reich in earnest. In the course of the 1968 administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate , the village was grouped into the Verbandsgemeinde of Kusel in 1972. Ehweiler was until quite recently a farming village with relatively few workers. Agriculture has since lost its dominant role, and most people now must seek their livelihoods outside the village. Ehweiler is thus said to be

2220-425: The amter were composed of a number of municipalities ( kommuner ). The reform granted the counties wider areas of responsibility, most notably running the national health service and the gymnasium secondary schools. The municipal reform of 1 January 2007 abolished the amter and replaced them with five administrative regions , now mainly charged with running the national health service. In contrast to

2294-416: The amter , the regions hold no authority to levy taxes. The reform re-delegated all other areas of responsibility to either the municipalities or the state. At the same time, smaller municipalities were merged into larger units, cutting the number of municipalities from 270 to 98. In Germany an Amt was a medieval administrative district covering a manorial estate or the land owned by a castle or village. It

Ehweiler - Misplaced Pages Continue

2368-612: The geoid of the Earth, which approximates the local mean sea level for locations in the open ocean. The geoid includes a significant depression in the Indian Ocean , whose surface dips as much as 106 m (348 ft) below the global mean sea level (excluding minor effects such as tides and currents). Precise determination of a "mean sea level" is difficult because of the many factors that affect sea level. Instantaneous sea level varies substantially on several scales of time and space. This

2442-418: The height above mean sea level (AMSL). The term APSL means above present sea level, comparing sea levels in the past with the level today. Earth's radius at sea level is 6,378.137 km (3,963.191 mi) at the equator. It is 6,356.752 km (3,949.903 mi) at the poles and 6,371.001 km (3,958.756 mi) on average. This flattened spheroid , combined with local gravity anomalies , defines

2516-544: The 1690s. Satellite altimeters have been making precise measurements of sea level since the launch of TOPEX/Poseidon in 1992. A joint mission of NASA and CNES , TOPEX/Poseidon was followed by Jason-1 in 2001 and the Ocean Surface Topography Mission on the Jason-2 satellite in 2008. Height above mean sea level ( AMSL ) is the elevation (on the ground) or altitude (in the air) of an object, relative to

2590-973: The 19th century. With high emissions it would instead accelerate further, and could rise by 1.0 m ( 3 + 1 ⁄ 3  ft) or even 1.6 m ( 5 + 1 ⁄ 3  ft) by 2100. In the long run, sea level rise would amount to 2–3 m (7–10 ft) over the next 2000 years if warming stays to its current 1.5 °C (2.7 °F) over the pre-industrial past. It would be 19–22 metres (62–72 ft) if warming peaks at 5 °C (9.0 °F). Rising seas affect every coastal and island population on Earth. This can be through flooding, higher storm surges , king tides , and tsunamis . There are many knock-on effects. They lead to loss of coastal ecosystems like mangroves . Crop yields may reduce because of increasing salt levels in irrigation water. Damage to ports disrupts sea trade. The sea level rise projected by 2050 will expose places currently inhabited by tens of millions of people to annual flooding. Without

2664-448: The Earth's gravitational field which, in itself, does not conform to a simple sphere or ellipsoid and exhibits gravity anomalies such as those measured by NASA's GRACE satellites . In reality, the geoid surface is not directly observed, even as a long-term average, due to ocean currents, air pressure variations, temperature and salinity variations, etc. The location-dependent but time-persistent separation between local mean sea level and

2738-657: The Ehweiler area are various archaeological finds. Unearthed on the Ameshübel (or Anishügel – a hill) northwest of Ehweiler – actually beyond the municipal limit and into Albessen ’s municipal area – on land that was later settled by Gallo-Romans was an agate borer, which is now kept by the Office for the Study of Archaeological Monuments ( Amt für Archäologische Denkmalkunde ) in Speyer . Within Ehweiler's own municipal area lie four barrows in

2812-758: The German lands on the Rhine's left bank, and after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo , the Congress of Vienna in 1816, after a transitional period, awarded the Baierische Rheinkreis (“Bavarian Rhenish District”), which was later known as the Bayerische Rheinpfalz (“Bavarian Rhenish Palatinate”), to the Kingdom of Bavaria , whose kings were descended from Charles II August , effectively Zweibrücken's last duke (the territory

2886-672: The Marégraphe in Marseilles measures continuously the sea level since 1883 and offers the longest collated data about the sea level. It is used for a part of continental Europe and the main part of Africa as the official sea level. Spain uses the reference to measure heights below or above sea level at Alicante , while the European Vertical Reference System is calibrated to the Amsterdam Peil elevation, which dates back to

2960-456: The amount of water in the oceans, while the existing seawater also expands with heat. Because most of human settlement and infrastructure was built in response to a more-normalized sea level with limited expected change, populations affected by sea level rise will need to invest in climate adaptation to mitigate the worst effects or, when populations are at extreme risk, a process of managed retreat . The term above sea level generally refers to

3034-558: The following family heads: Censor Bastian Peters (whose main occupation was likely farming), David Strohschneider (whose last name means “Strawcutter” in German , which was apparently his actual occupation), farmers Hans Peter, Johannes Kickel, Hans Hannesen, Johannes Tury and Clas Veltin (also a strawcutter in his secondary occupation), linen weaver Abraham Heilmann, day labourers Hans Hinterer, Bartel Hans and Johannes Hansen and shepherd Hans Schwarz. Also listed were David Martin's widow and

Ehweiler - Misplaced Pages Continue

3108-449: The forest and on meadowland northeast of the village, laid out from east to west, whose origins are thus far undetermined. As early as the 19th century, there was apparently a Roman find, namely a stone with a Latin inscription, whose whereabouts are, however, unknown today. In 1957, forestry workers discovered foundations that likely stem from a Roman settlement. The same site yielded nails, potsherds and bits of brick, which were given to

3182-457: The former fiefs ( Len ). The amter were originally composed of market towns ( købstæder ) and parishes , and held only small areas of responsibility. There were some changes to the borders of these counties over time, most notably when Roskilde County ( da ) was merged into Roskilde County ( da ) in 1808, and when Skanderborg County ( da ) was periodically merged into Århus County Skanderborg County ( da ). After Southern Jutland

3256-482: The geoid is referred to as (mean) ocean surface topography . It varies globally in a typical range of ±1 m (3 ft). Several terms are used to describe the changing relationships between sea level and dry land. The melting of glaciers at the end of ice ages results in isostatic post-glacial rebound , when land rises after the weight of ice is removed. Conversely, older volcanic islands experience relative sea level rise, due to isostatic subsidence from

3330-624: The greatest exposure to sea level rise, twelve are in Asia , including Indonesia , Bangladesh and the Philippines. The resilience and adaptive capacity of ecosystems and countries also varies, which will result in more or less pronounced impacts. The greatest impact on human populations in the near term will occur in the low-lying Caribbean and Pacific islands . Sea level rise will make many of them uninhabitable later this century. Pilots can estimate height above sea level with an altimeter set to

3404-497: The harrow can be held to stand for the relatively fertile cropland around the village. The arms have been borne since 1983 when they were approved by the now defunct Rheinhessen-Pfalz Regierungsbezirk administration in Neustadt an der Weinstraße . The village holds its kermis (church consecration festival) on the last weekend in July. Ehweiler is among those villages that still observe

3478-551: The height of planetary features. Local mean sea level (LMSL) is defined as the height of the sea with respect to a land benchmark, averaged over a period of time long enough that fluctuations caused by waves and tides are smoothed out, typically a year or more. One must adjust perceived changes in LMSL to account for vertical movements of the land, which can occur at rates similar to sea level changes (millimetres per year). Some land movements occur because of isostatic adjustment to

3552-402: The hospital services of the købstader without paying taxes for them, it became evident that reform was necessary. In 1958, interior minister Søren Olesen set in motion administrative reforms that would culminate in 1970. The municipal reform of 1 April 1970 reduced the number of counties to fourteen and eliminated the administrative distinction between (rural) parish and town. From then on,

3626-576: The land; hence a change in relative MSL or ( relative sea level ) can result from a real change in sea level, or from a change in the height of the land on which the tide gauge operates, or both. In the UK, the ordnance datum (the 0 metres height on UK maps) is the mean sea level measured at Newlyn in Cornwall between 1915 and 1921. Before 1921, the vertical datum was MSL at the Victoria Dock, Liverpool . Since

3700-481: The melting of ice sheets at the end of the last ice age . The weight of the ice sheet depresses the underlying land, and when the ice melts away the land slowly rebounds . Changes in ground-based ice volume also affect local and regional sea levels by the readjustment of the geoid and true polar wander . Atmospheric pressure , ocean currents and local ocean temperature changes can affect LMSL as well. Eustatic sea level change (global as opposed to local change)

3774-617: The municipal area. The Kusel Autobahn interchange lies within Ehweiler's limits. Serving nearby Kusel is Kusel station on the Landstuhl–Kusel railway . There are hourly trains at this station throughout the day, namely Regionalbahn service RB 67 between Kaiserslautern and Kusel , named Glantalbahn after a former railway line that shared a stretch of its tracks with the Landstuhl–Kusel railway. Sea level Mean sea level ( MSL , often shortened to sea level )

SECTION 50

#1732891627637

3848-402: The municipal limit reach higher than 400 m (Anieshügel 429 m). In the southwest and south, Autobahn A 62 ( Kaiserslautern – Trier ) touches the municipal limit. The municipal area measures 360 ha, of which 33 ha is wooded. Ehweiler borders in the north on the town of Kusel ( Ortsteil : Bledesbach), in the east on the municipality of Schellweiler , in the south on

3922-455: The municipality named Ortsteile (plural of Ortsteil ), named from small villages or hamlets or localities. The Ortsteil (suburb or township) may have been a former parish, but today it is meant only for civil purpose and essentially used for planning within the municipality; the Ortsamt (sometimes just named informally but confusingly as an Amt , or informally translated as an "urban district")

3996-458: The municipality of Konken , in the west on the municipality of Albessen and in the northwest on the municipality of Pfeffelbach . The village of Ehweiler is made up of two parts of roughly the same size, one north of the Korbach and one south. These may once have been two settled areas on a road running through this spot, but nowadays, the village's structure is rather more like a clump village. Bearing witness to Stone Age human habitation in

4070-679: The new rulers, the Counts Palatine (Dukes) of Zweibrücken , took over as successors to the Veldenzes. The village of Ehweiler now shared a history with the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken , right up until that state was swept away by the events of the French Revolution . Like all villages in the Kusel region, Ehweiler, too, suffered heavily under the hardships and woe wrought by the Thirty Years' War and

4144-495: The past. Some states have similar administrative units called Samtgemeinde ( Lower Saxony ), Verbandsgemeinde ( Rhineland-Palatinate ) or Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ( Baden-Württemberg , Bavaria , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt , Thuringia ). An Amt , as well as the other above-mentioned units, is subordinate to a Kreis ( district ) and is a collection of municipalities. The amt is lower than district-level government but higher than municipal government, and may be described as

4218-501: The peculiar Western Palatine custom known as the Pfingstquack , observed at Whitsun ( Pfingsten in German ); the —quack part of the custom's name refers to a rhyme that the children recite as they go door to door begging for money with their gorse -decked wagon. The rhyme generally begins with the line “Quack, Quack, Quack”. The municipality has a village community centre where municipal council meetings and cultural events, such as

4292-424: The pilot can estimate height above ground by subtracting the terrain altitude from the altimeter reading. Aviation charts are divided into boxes and the maximum terrain altitude from MSL in each box is clearly indicated. Once above the transition altitude, the altimeter is set to the international standard atmosphere (ISA) pressure at MSL which is 1013.25 hPa or 29.92 inHg. Amt (country subdivision) Amt

4366-475: The provision of winter school lessons in many of these small villages was a seemingly neverending dearth of teachers. Seminary students had to teach alongside their own studies, and thus in the winter of 1785, the teacher in Ehweiler was fourteen-year-old Friedrich Jakob Hilles, whose father was Nikolaus Hillig, who had been born in Thallichtenberg and who at the time of his son's teaching engagement in Ehweiler

4440-507: The times of the Russian Empire , in Russia and its other former parts, now independent states, the sea level is measured from the zero level of Kronstadt Sea-Gauge. In Hong Kong, "mPD" is a surveying term meaning "metres above Principal Datum" and refers to height of 0.146 m (5.7 in) above chart datum and 1.304 m (4 ft 3.3 in) below the average sea level. In France,

4514-745: The village's Protestants belong to the Evangelical parish and deaconry of Kusel, while the Catholics belong to the Catholic parish and deaconry of Kusel. The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman. Ehweiler's mayor is Stefan Reusemann and his deputy is Walter Rech. The German blazon reads: In Grün eine goldene Egge. The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Vert

SECTION 60

#1732891627637

4588-411: The weight of cooling volcanos. The subsidence of land due to the withdrawal of groundwater is another isostatic cause of relative sea level rise. On planets that lack a liquid ocean, planetologists can calculate a "mean altitude" by averaging the heights of all points on the surface. This altitude, sometimes referred to as a "sea level" or zero-level elevation , serves equivalently as a reference for

4662-439: The well known “farmer’s theatre productions” ( Bauerntheateraufführungen ), are held. A men's singing club founded in the 19th century ceased operations about the turn of the 20th century, but was newly founded in 1925. It became a mixed singing club, but since then has once again ceased operations. There is also a leisure club in Ehweiler. In earlier days, agriculture defined the village's economic life, but nowadays plays only

4736-584: The widower Bartel Klein. In the years after 1613 until the worst devastation during the Thirty Years' War , a remarkable number of children were born in Ehweiler. In 1614 alone, it was seven. This owed itself to the young families among the newcomers who had settled. After 1635, the village had been laid waste, like almost all villages in the Kuseler Land , and then once again, new settlers came. Beginning in 1640, life returned to normalcy, but then came French King Louis XIV's wars of conquest, during which Ehweiler

4810-424: The winter, when farm families had a bit more time to spare) in Ehweiler comes from the 18th century. Teaching there in 1763 was a man named Johann Nikolaus Jung, and in 1780, it was another, named Johann Adam Jung. These two might have been a father and a son from Pfeffelbach . Johann Nikolaus Jung appeared in later records from Hundsbach near Meisenheim , and Johann Adam in later records from Nohfelden . Hindering

4884-422: Was a combination of the common placename ending —weiler , meaning “ hamlet ” or, originally, “homestead”, with the personal name Ago , which in the genitive case became Egin . This would mean that the name's original meaning was “Ago’s Homestead”. Other forms of the name over the ages have been as follows: Ewilre (1446), Ewillr (1456), Eheweiler (1609). A former village named Grehweiler, which appeared in

4958-556: Was built about 1960; it is today the village community centre. Currently, primary school pupils attend school in Konken, while Hauptschule students attend classes in Kusel. Kusel is also the location of higher schools, the vocational college and special schools . Ehweiler lies on Kreisstraße (District Road) 14, although the Autobahn A ;62 ( Kaiserslautern – Trier ) running to the south and Bundesstraße 420 also cross through

5032-575: Was headed by an Amtmann , usually a lesser nobleman or cleric, appointed by a territorial lord to administer and dispense justice within the Amt . While Iceland was a territory of the Danish-Norwegian realm, amts (singular: amt ; plural: ömt ) were established in the country on top of the existing counties . From 1684 to 1770, Iceland as whole was a single amt in the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway but

5106-540: Was occupied by the French when the last duke, his brother Maximilian , inherited the duchy). Ehweiler thus became Bavarian and there was yet another administrative arrangement. Ehweiler now lay in the Landkommissariat (later Bezirksamt , then Landkreis or “district”) of Kusel and at the same time in the canton of Kusel. Cantons later had little meaning, and Bürgermeistereien were more important. Ehweiler now belonged to

5180-626: Was once again burnt down, and there were the attendant considerable population losses. In the 18th century, life returned to normalcy once again, and this is when emigration began. In the time of French rule between 1801 and 1814, Ehweiler lay in the Department of Sarre (Saar), the Arrondissement of Birkenfeld, the Canton of Kusel and the Mairie (“Mayoralty”) of Kusel. In 1814, the French withdrew from

5254-543: Was returned to Denmark after the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites , four new counties were created in the area. During the 20th century, the powers of the counties were expanded, when they were granted responsibility for the hospital service. The købstæder , which by this time had been separated from the counties and were overseen by the Interior Ministry , assumed the same responsibility. As the population became increasingly urbanized, and many rural communities came to rely on

5328-606: Was the schoolteacher in Konken . In 1792, the schoolteacher was a man named Johann Theobald Theiß. A schoolhouse built in the 18th century was renovated in 1841 and served as such until the time after the Second World War . Today it is used as a block of flats. Further information about 19th-century schooling can be gleaned from the pertinent documents housed at the Speyer State Archive ( Landesarchiv Speyer ). A new schoolhouse

5402-482: Was then split into two amts: North and East Amt ( Norður- og Austuramt ) and South and West Amt ( Suður- og Vesturamt ). The latter was in 1787 split into a West Amt ( Vesturamt ) and South Amt ( Suðuramt ). Iceland was thus divided into three amts until 1872, when the South and West amts were again merged. Amts were abolished in 1904, when Iceland gained home rule from Denmark. Amts are not used to denote

5476-583: Was yet another conversion, this one to Calvinism . Thus the population was until the 1818 Palatine Union – which saw the merger of the Lutheran and Calvinist faiths – overwhelmingly Reformed . Other denominations, foremost among these Lutheranism and Catholicism , had been allowed since the end of the Thirty Years' War , but their numbers of followers were not very significant. Even before the Reformation, Ehweiler inhabitants had been attending church in Kusel. Today,

#636363