Hüffler is an ''
Ortsgemeinde
A Verbandsgemeinde (; plural Verbandsgemeinden) is a low-level administrative division, administrative unit in the Germany, German States of Germany, federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt. A Verbandsgemeinde is typically compose ...
'' – a
municipality
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The term ''municipality ...
belonging to a ''
Verbandsgemeinde
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Rhine ...
'', a kind of collective municipality – in the
Kusel
Kusel (; written ''Cusel'' until 1865) is a town in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the Kusel-Altenglan ''Verbandsgemeinde'' and is also the district seat.
The well-known operatic tenor Fritz Wunderlich was ...
district
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in
Rhineland-Palatinate
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,
Germany
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. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of
Oberes Glantal Oberes Glantal ("upper valley of the Glan") is a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") in the district of Kusel, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' is in Schönenberg-Kübelberg. It was formed on 1 Ja ...
.
Geography
Location
Hüffler is a
linear village
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– by some definitions, a “thorpe” – that lies in the Bledesbach valley (Standard
High German
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name: ''Bledesbachtal''; locally customary name: ''Saubeeredaal'' or ''Saubeeretal'') along ''Landesstraße'' (State Road) 360 and one other, parallel road. One road links
Kusel
Kusel (; written ''Cusel'' until 1865) is a town in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the Kusel-Altenglan ''Verbandsgemeinde'' and is also the district seat.
The well-known operatic tenor Fritz Wunderlich was ...
with
Glan-Münchweiler
Glan-Münchweiler is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Oberes Glantal ...
. Running almost parallel to the village is the
Autobahn
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A 62 (
Kaiserslautern
Kaiserslautern (; Palatinate German: ''Lautre'') is a city in southwest Germany, located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate Forest. The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is from Paris, from Frankfu ...
–
Trier
Trier ( , ; lb, Tréier ), formerly known in English as Trèves ( ;) and Triers (see also names in other languages), is a city on the banks of the Moselle in Germany. It lies in a valley between low vine-covered hills of red sandstone in the ...
). The elevation on the valley floor is 310 m above
sea level
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. This rises to either side of the village. The highest hill is the ''Dillmeßrech'' or ''Dilmersrech'' at 390 m above sea level. At its highest point, the
Autobahn
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A 62 (
Kaiserslautern
Kaiserslautern (; Palatinate German: ''Lautre'') is a city in southwest Germany, located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate Forest. The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is from Paris, from Frankfu ...
–
Trier
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) cuts through the hill. To the village’s west, the land rises up to a height of 370 m. The woodlands stretch mainly along the slopes on the Bledesbach’s right bank.
Neighbouring municipalities
Hüffler borders in the north on the municipality of
Schellweiler
Schellweiler is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Kusel-Altenglan, wh ...
, in the northeast on the municipality of
Etschberg
Etschberg is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Kusel-Altenglan, who ...
, in the southeast on the municipalities of
Rehweiler
Rehweiler is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Oberes Glantal.
Geog ...
and
Quirnbach, in the southwest on the municipality of
Wahnwegen and in the northwest on the municipality of
Konken
Konken is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Kusel-Altenglan, whose se ...
.
Municipality’s layout
Hüffler’s municipal area, which is not very big, sustained great losses with the building of the
Autobahn
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in the years 1938-1941 and 1966-1970. On the other hand, the work unearthed many
fossil
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s from early
geological
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formations. The drawback was that this involved the eastern part of the municipal area being utterly split off from the rest, making it very difficult to reach. From 1974 to 1979, the Cultural Office undertook a classic ''
Flurbereinigung
is the German word best translated as ''land consolidation''. Unlike the land reforms carried out in the socialist countries of the Eastern Bloc, including East Germany, the idea of was not so much to distribute large quasi-feudal holdings to t ...
'', as part of which the Bledesbach and the Kehlbach were graded, and their banks were reinforced with hard stone. Rural cadastral names were not changed as a result of the work. The pattern of the built-up area can be recognized even in the original cadastral survey undertaken in 1849. Then, properties stood only along the highway on the brook’s right bank (Kirchenstraße and Hauptstraße) and on a parallel way beyond the brook (Alte Straße). In the time that followed, both areas grew in length, cross-links were built and there was further expansion mainly towards the west. Between the two world wars, the built-up area expanded very little. Hüffler’s greatest expansion came after
currency reform in 1948. Many gaps in the built-up area were filled in and new building developments were laid out: Schulstraße, Mauerstraße, Flurstraße, Am Bäumchen. The two village
church
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* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
* Ch ...
es stand at each end of Kirchstraße (fittingly enough, “Church Street”), the
Catholic
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one at the south end and the
Evangelical
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at the north. The graveyard lies west of the village up a laneway off Mauerstraße. The school built in 1966 stands on Schulstraße (also fittingly, “School Street”), likewise to the west. In the north of Hüffler’s outlying countryside, a rural road leads to the sporting ground in the cadastral area called the Isaak, or Isak. The village is today mainly a residential community for
commuters
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.
History
Antiquity
Even before the
First World War
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, amateur
archaeologists
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recovered two
bronze rings from a
barrow from
Hallstatt times. Their whereabouts is today, however, unknown. Likewise at this time, a
cremation
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Cremation may serve as a funeral or post-funeral rite and as an alternative to burial. In some countries, including India and Nepal, cremation on an open-air pyre ...
grave field
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Grave fields are distinguished from necropoleis by the former's lack of remaining above-ground structures, buildings, or grave markers.
Types
Grave fields can ...
was supposedly destroyed. While digging in the field known as “Heidenhübel”, round, funnel-shaped pits filled with ash, stones and other material were unearthed, believed to be dwelling places of people who lived in the
New Stone Age
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. During excavations for the Autobahn,
Roman
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graves were found along the old
Roman road
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, which had a breadth of up to 12 m and ran for some 400 m on the hills east of the village. A closed bronze ring measuring 7 cm across was found by archaeologist Josef Engels in 1967 next to the Roman road at the Autobahn building site.
Roman coins
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were also found during the Autobahn’s construction along this Roman road, which itself was built in
Gallo-Roman
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times.
Celts
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, and later also Romans, may have been the first settlers. Moreover, in 1930, five
barrows from pre-Roman times were found.
Middle Ages
As early as 1127, the monks from
Reims
Reims ( , , ; also spelled Rheims in English) is the most populous city in the French department of Marne, and the 12th most populous city in France. The city lies northeast of Paris on the Vesle river, a tributary of the Aisne.
Founded ...
built a
Benedictine
, image = Medalla San Benito.PNG
, caption = Design on the obverse side of the Saint Benedict Medal
, abbreviation = OSB
, formation =
, motto = (English: 'Pray and Work')
, found ...
collegiate foundation on the nearby
Remigiusberg
The Remigiusberg in the county of Kusel in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate is a hill, 368 metres high, which belongs to the western part of the North Palatine Uplands and only stands above the surrounding terrain by 120 metres.
...
hill (368 m) near
Kusel
Kusel (; written ''Cusel'' until 1865) is a town in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the Kusel-Altenglan ''Verbandsgemeinde'' and is also the district seat.
The well-known operatic tenor Fritz Wunderlich was ...
, which made the Remigiusberg into the ecclesiastical hub of the whole Remigiusland. The name “Hüffler” had its first documentary mention in the foundation’s
cartulary
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in 1305, when a freeman named Konradi from Hüffler, as ''Schöffe'' (roughly “lay jurist”) in an agreement that a knight from the Wadenau Estate (
Dennweiler-Frohnbach) had concluded for the foundation’s benefit, was named as a witness. In this time, Hüffler belonged to the Provostry of Remigiusberg, an affiliated monastery of the
Bishop’s Church in
Reims
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Founded ...
. The Reims holdings were taken over as a ''
Vogt
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ei'' in the mid 12th century by the
Counts of Veldenz
The County Palatine of Veldenz was a principality in the contemporary Land Rhineland-Palatinate with full voting rights to the Reichstag. The county was located partially between Kaiserslautern, Sponheim and Zweibrücken, partially on the Mosel ...
. The Counts of Veldenz built
Castle Lichtenberg
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near Kusel about 1214 and made that the seat of their lordly might. In 1444, the County of Veldenz met its end when Count Friedrich III of Veldenz died without a male heir. His daughter
Anna
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* Anna (name)
Mononym
* Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke
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* Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century)
* Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221) ...
wed
King Ruprecht’s son
Count Palatine Stephan. By uniting his own Palatine holdings with the now otherwise heirless County of Veldenz – his wife had inherited the county, but not her father’s title – and by redeeming the hitherto pledged County of Zweibrücken, Stephan founded a new County Palatine, as whose comital residence he chose the town of
Zweibrücken
Zweibrücken (; french: Deux-Ponts, ; Palatinate German: ''Zweebrigge'', ; literally translated as "Two Bridges") is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Schwarzbach river.
Name
The name ''Zweibrücken'' means 'two bridges'; olde ...
: the County Palatine – later Duchy – of
Palatinate-Zweibrücken.
Modern times
It was during Zweibrücken times that Hüffler suffered under the
Thirty Years' War
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and
French
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King Louis XIV’s wars of conquest. After the Thirty Years' War, Hüffler was empty. The people had fled before the soldiers’ advance, and some only began coming back twenty years later. Only with newcomers in the 18th century was there once again strong population growth. Hüffler belonged then to the ''
Schultheiß
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erei'' of Pfeffelbach in the Zweibrücken ''
Oberamt'' of Lichtenberg.
Recent times
The Dukes of Zweibrücken were ousted in the time of the
French Revolution
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, about 1794.
France
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annexed
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the Palatinate in 1798 and held it until 1814. Hüffler belonged to the ''Mairie'' (“Mayoralty”) of Quirnbach, the
Canton
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Arts and ente ...
of Kusel and the
Department
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of
Sarre. It was at about this time that
coal
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mining
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began in Hüffler at two pits: “Am Berg” and “Auf der Hube”. The seam was about 30 cm thick. The coal itself, however, could not have been of very high quality, for it had a rather high
water content
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. Beginning in 1816, Hüffler belonged within the
Kingdom of Bavaria
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to the ''Bürgermeisterei'' (“Mayoralty”) of Quirnbach in the ''Landcommissariat'' (later ''Bezirksamt'' and then ''Landkreis'' or district) of Kusel in the ''
Rheinkreis
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''. On 1 April 1818, as a result of the
Congress of Vienna
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, a state commission was formed in what was now called the ''Rheinkreis'' (Bavaria’s new
exclave
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on the
Rhine
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’s left bank). This is held to be the hour of the Kusel district’s birth, and Hüffler has belonged to this district ever since. Smaller administrative units were also established. In Hüffler’s case, as in many others, villages were grouped together and had joint municipal administration and mayoral offices. Since 1946, Hüffler has been part of the then newly founded
state
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of
Rhineland-Palatinate
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. After the
Second World War
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, the self-administering municipality of Hüffler remained at first in the ''Bürgermeisterei'' of Quirnbach, but in the course of administrative restructuring in
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...
, which saw the formation of bigger local administrative units, it passed to the
''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Glan-Münchweiler in 1972, once the
district’s ''
Verbandsgemeinde
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Rhine ...
n'' had been founded.
Population development
The oldest record about inhabitants in Hüffler comes from 1480. Living then in the village were eleven people who were liable to taxation. According to a 1609 ecclesiastical protocol, Hüffler then had 85 inhabitants in 18 families, 47 of them children. In 1688, thus 40 years after the
Thirty Years' War
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had ended, only seven families were counted. In 1693 it was still seven families. By 1704, this had risen slightly to nine.
Emigration
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came mainly in the 19th century; about 70 to 80 persons went to the
United States
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. In the
First World War
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, 15 soldiers from Hüffler fell; in the
Second World War
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, 54 fell or
went missing. From 1950, the population figures rose steadily, but in more recent years, they seem to have been stagnating.
The following table shows population development over the centuries for Hüffler, with some figures broken down by religious denomination:
Municipality’s name
The name Hüffler first crops up in a 1305 document from the Remigiusberg Monastery, which has been handed down to the present in a
cartulary
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. It deals with a donation from a Knight of Wadenau, and also mentions a ''Schöffe'' (roughly “lay jurist”) named Konrad von ''Hufflers''. Further mentions are: ''Hiffelers'' (1446), ''Huffelers'' (1460), ''Hüfflers'' (1587), Hüffler (1790). There have been various attempts to interpret the name. Supposedly, the village was founded on one of the Remigiusberg monks’ ''Hufen'', a ''Hufe'' or ''Hube'' being an area of land comparable to an
oxgang
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, or a rural, settled place made up of worked cropland together with the attendant farmstead. The name ''Hüffweiler'' has also come up here and there, but only in 18th century documents, never in any very old ones. Researcher
Ernst Christmann spoke of a settlement near
rose hip
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shrubs (''Hagebuttensträucher'' in
German
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), while Dolch and Greule trace the village’s name back to the personal name ''Hüffelin''.
Vanished villages
A centre named Rintzweiler or Rindsweiler (both pronounced the same way) once lay south of Hüffler. In 1439, it had its first documentary mention as ''Runtzwiler'', relayed to the present day as a copy in a 17th-century
Veldenz
Veldenz is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the former main seat of the County of Veldenz, ...
cartulary. In 1609, Rintzweiler had 83 inhabitants. The name Rintzweiler appears likewise in original documents from the 14th and 16th centuries, but by the 17th century, it appears no more. Quite likely, the village was wiped out in the
Thirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of battl ...
. Today, a new building zone bears the name ''Am Rindschweiler Berg'' to commemorate this vanished village.
Religion
Records in the
Kusel
Kusel (; written ''Cusel'' until 1865) is a town in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the Kusel-Altenglan ''Verbandsgemeinde'' and is also the district seat.
The well-known operatic tenor Fritz Wunderlich was ...
Reformed
Reform is beneficial change
Reform may also refer to:
Media
* ''Reform'' (album), a 2011 album by Jane Zhang
* Reform (band), a Swedish jazz fusion group
* ''Reform'' (magazine), a Christian magazine
*''Reforme'' ("Reforms"), initial name of the ...
(
Calvinist
Calvinism (also called the Reformed Tradition, Reformed Protestantism, Reformed Christianity, or simply Reformed) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice set down by John Ca ...
) church register say that the inhabitants of the municipality of Hüffler belonged beginning about 1567 to the church in Kusel. Family records were also kept in this register from this time. The actual books are now to be found at the
Protestant
Protestantism is a Christian denomination, branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Reformation, Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century agai ...
Church Archive in
Speyer
Speyer (, older spelling ''Speier'', French: ''Spire,'' historical English: ''Spires''; pfl, Schbaija) is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located on the left bank of the river Rhine, Speyer li ...
. From 1868, the villages of Hüffler and
Wahnwegen together had their own vicariate, which in 1948 was broadened to become a self-administering parish. In 1875 and 1876, the Protestant
church
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* Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
* Ch ...
in Hüffler was built; it was consecrated on 22 October 1876. Since then,
Schellweiler
Schellweiler is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Kusel-Altenglan, wh ...
’s Protestants have also joined the parish of Hüffler. Hüffler’s, Schellweiler’s and Wahnwegen’s
Catholics
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
founded a branch community of
Saint Giles
Saint Giles (, la, Aegidius, french: Gilles), also known as Giles the Hermit, was a hermit or monk active in the lower Rhône most likely in the 6th century. Revered as a saint, his cult became widely diffused but his hagiography is mostly lege ...
’s Church (''Ägidiuskirche'') in Kusel in 1958. In early August 1957, the church built by Catholics with contributions from the
United States
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was consecrated by Bishop Markus Emanuel in Speyer. The Catholic Church of
Mary
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* Mary (name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name)
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* New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below
* Mary, mother of Jesus, also call ...
Queen of Heaven
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The Catholic teaching on this subject is express ...
(''Kirche Maria Königin'') stands on a hill at the village’s southern end. It was built by architect Franz Schöberl in 1975-1976. Currently, besides some 5% of the population with no religion and adherents of other faiths, 75% of the population is
Evangelical
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and 20% is Catholic.
Politics
Municipal council
The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected by
proportional representation
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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:
Mayor
Hüffler’s mayor is Helge Schwab.
Coat of arms
The German blazon reads: '
The municipality’s
arms
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*Arm or arms, the upper limbs of the body
Arm, Arms, or ARMS may also refer to:
People
* Ida A. T. Arms (1856–1931), American missionary-educator, temperance leader
Coat of arms or weapons
*Armaments or weapons
**Fi ...
might in English
heraldic
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language be described thus: Per fess abased argent a dragon sans hind gambes rampant azure armed and langued gules, issuant from his mouth fire proper, and sable a hammer and pick per saltire Or.
The
tincture
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s that have been used are a reference to the village’s former lordly allegiances. The
hammer and pick
The hammer and pick, rarely referred to as hammer and chisel, is a symbol of mining, often used in heraldry. It can indicate mining, mines (especially on maps or in cartography), or miners, and is also borne as a charge in the coats of arms of ...
refer to the
mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic ...
that was once done within the municipal limits. The
dragon charge
Charge or charged may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* ''Charge, Zero Emissions/Maximum Speed'', a 2011 documentary
Music
* ''Charge'' (David Ford album)
* ''Charge'' (Machel Montano album)
* ''Charge!!'', an album by The Aqua ...
is supposedly drawn from an old municipal seal. The arms have been borne since 15 March 1984 when they were approved by the now defunct
Rheinhessen-Pfalz
Rheinhessen-Pfalz (rarely anglicized as "Rhine-Hesse-Palatinate") was one of the three '' Regierungsbezirke'' of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, located in the south of the state. It was created in 1968 out of ''Regierungsbezirke'' Rheinhessen ...
''
Regierungsbezirk
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Saxony has ' (directorate districts) with more res ...
'' administration in
Neustadt an der Weinstraße
Neustadt an der Weinstraße (, formerly known as ; lb, Neustadt op der Wäistrooss ; pfl, Naischdadt) is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. With 53,300 inhabitants , it is the largest town called ''Neustadt''.
Geography
Location
T ...
.
Flag
Likewise approved by the old ''Regierungsbezirk'' administration was the municipality’s
flag
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. Approval was granted in 1986 to bear a flag in yellow and blue with the municipal coat of arms in the middle. It may be borne in both horizontal and vertical variations.
Culture and sightseeing
Buildings
The following are listed buildings or sites in
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...
’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:
*
Protestant
Protestantism is a Christian denomination, branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Reformation, Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century agai ...
parish church, Kirchenstraße 8 – one-naved stone-block building, 1875/1876, architect Franz Schöberl,
Speyer
Speyer (, older spelling ''Speier'', French: ''Spire,'' historical English: ''Spires''; pfl, Schbaija) is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located on the left bank of the river Rhine, Speyer li ...
* Alte Straße 26 and 28 –
sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks.
Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates ...
-framed ''Quereinhäuser'' (combination residential and commercial houses divided for these two purposes down the middle, perpendicularly to the street), no. 26 1855/1856, no. 28 marked 1838; former piggery
Regular events
Hüffler’s
kermis
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(church consecration festival, locally known as the ''Kerb'') is held on the fourth Sunday after
Michaelmas
Michaelmas ( ; also known as the Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, the Feast of the Archangels, or the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels) is a Christian festival observed in some Western liturgical calendars on 29 September, a ...
(29 September) and lasts five days. Every year, on the first weekend in July, the municipality stages, in collaboration with local clubs, a village festival (''Dorffest'') on the
primary school
A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ed ...
’s grounds. The municipality also invites the village’s older citizens every year to a seniors’ celebration. Not too many years ago, Hüffler was among those villages that still observed the peculiar Western Palatine custom known as the ''Pfingstquack'', observed at
Whitsun
Whitsun (also Whitsunday or Whit Sunday) is the name used in Britain, and other countries among Anglicans and Methodists, for the Christian High Holy Day of Pentecost. It is the seventh Sunday after Easter, which commemorates the descent of the H ...
(''Pfingsten'' in
German
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**Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law
**Ger ...
); 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
''Ulex'' (commonly known as gorse, furze, or whin) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. The genus comprises about 20 species of thorny evergreen shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae. The species are ...
-decked wagon. The rhyme generally begins with the line “Quack, Quack, Quack”. The
Saint Martin’s Day Parade is in the
kindergarten
Kindergarten is a preschool educational approach based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school. Such institutions were originally made in the late 18th cent ...
’s care, and Hüffler and Wahnwegen take turns each year lighting Saint Martin’s Fire.
Public institutions
Until 2001, the municipality maintained a
library
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that was accessible to every member of the public. Owing to dwindling interest it was closed and it is now run by the “Bedesbachtal”
primary school
A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ed ...
as a municipal library.
Sport and leisure
Citizens interested in culture attend concerts, plays and presentations in the district seat of
Kusel
Kusel (; written ''Cusel'' until 1865) is a town in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the Kusel-Altenglan ''Verbandsgemeinde'' and is also the district seat.
The well-known operatic tenor Fritz Wunderlich was ...
, only 5 km away. Hüffler has an extensive leisure park called ''Am Isack'', which lies on the former
prospecting
Prospecting is the first stage of the geological analysis (followed by exploration) of a territory. It is the search for minerals, fossils, precious metals, or mineral specimens. It is also known as fossicking.
Traditionally prospecting rel ...
ground. It has
campsites
A campsite, also known as a campground or camping pitch, is a place used for overnight stay in an outdoor area. In British English, a ''campsite'' is an area, usually divided into a number of pitches, where people can camp overnight using ten ...
, sporting grounds and
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball c ...
courts. Local clubs and visitors also have an
angling
Angling is a fishing technique that uses a fish hook or "angle" (from Old English ''angol'') attached to a fishing line to tether individual fish in the mouth. The fishing line is usually manipulated via a fishing rod, although rodless techni ...
pond and a grill pavilion at their disposal. Hüffler also has a
sport club
A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports.
Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...
, ''SV Hüffler''. This is known mainly for its
football department, but it also offers tennis. Until summer 2008, football had to be played on a hard pitch, but after the club’s 50th anniversary, the field was converted to grass in the 2008/2009 season. The tennis department has two sand courts.
Clubs
Said to be an active sponsor of culture are the 90-year-old
Evangelical
Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being " born again", in which an individual exp ...
church choir and the 75-year-old “Frohsinn” men’s singing club. The
sport club
A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports.
Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...
, mentioned above, is more than 70 years old. A very active countrywomen’s club with 105 members has existed for more than 40 years. Other clubs that can be named are the FCK-Fan-Club „Saubeertal“ (
1. FC Kaiserslautern
1. Fußball-Club Kaiserslautern e. V., also known as 1. FCK, FCK (), FC Kaiserslautern () or colloquially Lautern (), is a German sports club based in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition to football, the club also operates in severa ...
football fan club), an
angling
Angling is a fishing technique that uses a fish hook or "angle" (from Old English ''angol'') attached to a fishing line to tether individual fish in the mouth. The fishing line is usually manipulated via a fishing rod, although rodless techni ...
sport club, the “Isak-Rancher” leisure club, a
skat club and the
SPD
The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany.
Saskia Esken has been the ...
local chapter.
Economy and infrastructure
Economic structure
Until the early 20th century, the populace earned its livelihood from
farming
Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled peop ...
, although besides working the land, there were also jobs in crafts. As farming declined, though, so did the old crafts that had been handed down from yore,
blacksmith
A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects primarily from wrought iron or steel, but sometimes from #Other metals, other metals, by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. tinsmith). Blacksmiths produce objects such ...
,
metalworker
Metalworking is the process of shaping and reshaping metals to create useful objects, parts, assemblies, and large scale structures. As a term it covers a wide and diverse range of processes, skills, and tools for producing objects on every scale ...
,
painter
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ...
,
saddle
The saddle is a supportive structure for a rider of an animal, fastened to an animal's back by a girth. The most common type is equestrian. However, specialized saddles have been created for oxen, camels and other animals. It is not kno ...
r,
cooper
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* Cooper (profession), a maker of wooden casks and other staved vessels
Arts and entertainment
* Cooper (producers), alias of Dutch producers Klubbheads
* Cooper (video game character), in ' ...
,
shoemaker
Shoemaking is the process of making footwear.
Originally, shoes were made one at a time by hand, often by groups of shoemakers, or cobblers (also known as ''cordwainers''). In the 18th century, dozens or even hundreds of masters, journeymen a ...
and
tailor
A tailor is a person who makes or alters clothing, particularly in men's clothing. The Oxford English Dictionary dates the term to the thirteenth century.
History
Although clothing construction goes back to prehistory, there is evidence of ...
. Also worth noting is that within Hüffler’s limits until the end of the 19th century, up to four collieries were being run for a time. The colliery “Am Berg” mined 8 554 t of
coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as stratum, rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other Chemical element, elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen ...
between 1845 and 1880 with six employees. At the colliery on the Schindelberg, seven miners worked. Up to 1870, they mined 2 373 t of coal. Emperor
Napoleon granted the pit on the land “auf der Hub” a certificate of concession on 1 November 1805. From old documents it is known that until 1879, there was a
brewery
A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer. The place at which beer is commercially made is either called a brewery or a beerhouse, where distinct sets of brewing equipment are called plant. The commercial brewing of bee ...
in Hüffler named “Hornung”. When the schoolhouse was being built in 1963, workers struck a beer cellar hewn in the
sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks.
Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates ...
. In 1912, stone quarrying was begun at the ''Am Isack'' ground, and work continued until the 1950s. The stone in question was intrusive bodies of melaphyre covered in sedimentary deposits such as sandstone, shale and carbonaceous shale. On a ring about 200 to 300 m across running round the intrusive body were once found sandstone quarries. This shows that the hot
magma
Magma () is the molten or semi-molten natural material from which all igneous rocks are formed. Magma is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and evidence of magmatism has also been discovered on other terrestrial planets and some natura ...
masses were thrust as high as this only in this area, while nearby they settled into layers farther below. When this
intrusion
In geology, an igneous intrusion (or intrusive body or simply intrusion) is a body of intrusive igneous rock that forms by crystallization of magma slowly cooling below the surface of the Earth. Intrusions have a wide variety of forms and com ...
happened is still not known. The age of the surrounding
Rotliegend
The Rotliegend, Rotliegend Group or Rotliegendes (german: the underlying red) is a lithostratigraphic unit (a sequence of rock strata) of latest Carboniferous to Guadalupian (middle Permian) age that is found in the subsurface of large areas in wes ...
layers, however, is known to be roughly 240,000,000 years.
Education
At an
auction
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of church property in 1712, citizens of the so-called Hüfflertal (Hüffler,
Schellweiler
Schellweiler is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Kusel-Altenglan, wh ...
and
Wahnwegen) acquired plots of land in the Hüffler municipal area to be able to keep a schoolmaster to teach the children. From this time onwards, there was a
school
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for these three villages. In 1715, thirty children were attending school. Beginning in 1726, classes were held in Hüffler. As of 1785, only children from Hüffler were taught at the Hüffler schoolhouse. In 1829, a new one was built. This was given an upper floor in 1882 and it was modernized in 1929. The commercial building, which was then already there, having been built in the 19th century for the schoolteacher’s maintenance, could now be removed. In 1966 arose yet another schoolhouse, this one with four classrooms, and from 1972, it housed the “Bledesbachtal”
primary school
A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ed ...
. Since that time,
Hauptschule
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students have been attending the school in
Herschweiler-Pettersheim
Herschweiler-Pettersheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Oberes ...
. Owing to dwindling numbers of children, the “Bledesbachtal” school was closed in 2004. Many students also attend
Realschule
''Realschule'' () is a type of secondary school in Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It has also existed in Croatia (''realna gimnazija''), the Austrian Empire, the German Empire, Denmark and Norway (''realskole''), Sweden (''realskola' ...
or
Gymnasium in
Kusel
Kusel (; written ''Cusel'' until 1865) is a town in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the Kusel-Altenglan ''Verbandsgemeinde'' and is also the district seat.
The well-known operatic tenor Fritz Wunderlich was ...
. There was a
kindergarten
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in Hüffler as early as the
war
War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular o ...
years (1939-1945), but after the war, it was never opened again. In 1975, however, a new kindergarten was set up at the youth centre at the
Evangelical
Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being " born again", in which an individual exp ...
rectory on Mrs. Hannelore Butterweck’s initiative. This lasted until 1982. Since then, the former schoolhouse in Wahnwegen has been used as a kindergarten, after having been remodelled for its new users. Sponsors of the kindergarten, which goes by the name ''Regenbogen'' (“Rainbow”), are the municipalities of Hüffler and Wahnwegen. Children from Hüffler reach the place by bus.
Transport
As mentioned under
Municipality’s layout above,
Autobahn
The (; German plural ) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany. The official German term is (abbreviated ''BAB''), which translates as 'federal motorway'. The literal meaning of the word is 'Federal Auto(mobile) Track'. ...
A 62 (
Kaiserslautern
Kaiserslautern (; Palatinate German: ''Lautre'') is a city in southwest Germany, located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate Forest. The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is from Paris, from Frankfu ...
–
Trier
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) runs through the municipal area, some 300 or 400 m along the edge of the village. The nearest
interchange
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Transport
* Interchange (road), a collection of ramps, exits, and entrances between two or more highways
* Interchange (freight rail), the transfer of freight cars between railroad companies
* Interchange station, a rai ...
(
Glan-Münchweiler
Glan-Münchweiler is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Oberes Glantal ...
) lies only 4 km away from Hüffler. ''
Bundesstraße
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Germany
Germany's ''Bundesstraßen'' network has a total length of about 40,000 km.
German ''Bundesstraße ...
'' 420 lies roughly 5 km away. Those without cars reach
shopping
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and administrative places in
Kusel
Kusel (; written ''Cusel'' until 1865) is a town in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the Kusel-Altenglan ''Verbandsgemeinde'' and is also the district seat.
The well-known operatic tenor Fritz Wunderlich was ...
, Glan-Münchweiler or
Homburg on the public bus. There are also
railway station
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in Track (rail transport), tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the ...
s in Kusel and Glan-Münchweiler.
Transport
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Famous people
Famous people associated with the municipality
* Walter Mannweiler (b. 1901 in Pirmasens
Pirmasens (; pfl, Bärmesens (also ''Bermesens'' or ''Bärmasens'')) is an independent town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, near the border with France. It was famous for the manufacture of shoes. The surrounding rural district was called ''Lan ...
; d. 1960 in Solothurn
, neighboring_municipalities = Bellach, Biberist, Feldbrunnen-Sankt Niklaus, Langendorf, Rüttenen, Zuchwil
, twintowns = Heilbronn (Germany), Kraków (Poland), Le Landeron (Switzerland)
Solothurn ( , ; french: Soleure ; it, Soletta ; ...
, Switzerland) — Writer and theologian, worked beginning in 1929 for a few years as an administrator in the vicariate of Hüffler-Wahnwegen and also in the parish of Glan-Münchweiler, and in Switzerland he wrote a series of books on philosophy of religion
Philosophy of religion is "the philosophical examination of the central themes and concepts involved in religious traditions". Philosophical discussions on such topics date from ancient times, and appear in the earliest known Text (literary theo ...
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Municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate
Kusel (district)