Schopp is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in

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, western

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Schopp station Schopp station is a station in the village of Schopp in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Deutsche Bahn classifies it as a category 6 station and it has two platform tracks. The station is located in the network of the Verkehrsverbund Rh ...

lies on the Biebermühl Railway.

History

The place was first mentioned in documents in 1345. In the Middle Ages Schopp, together with Waldfischbach, Geiselberg, Schmalenberg and Heltersberg, was under the cloister Hornbach. With the

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of the monastery in 1557, the places came to the Electorate of Palatinate. From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the

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(until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire, Schopp was incorporated into the canton Waldfischbach in the department of Donnersberg and was under the ''Mairie'' Waldfischbach. In 1815, the place was first added to

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. A year later, the community moved to the

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and was there part of the Rhine Circle. From 1818 to 1862 the town was part of the Landkommissariat

Pirmasens Pirmasens (; (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 ''Landkreis Pirmasens ...

, which was subsequently converted into a district office. 1939 Schopp was incorporated into the district of Pirmasens. After the

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, the community within the

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became part of the then newly formed state

. In the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform Schopp moved in 1969 in the district of Kaiserslautern. Three years later, the town was incorporated into the newly created collective municipality Kaiserslautern-Süd, which was merged into

Landstuhl Landstuhl (), officially the Sickingen Town of Landstuhl (), is a town in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the Municipal Association of Landstuhl. Situated on the north-west edge of the Palatin ...

in July 2019.

Population

Population Growth

The development of the population of Schopp, the values from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

Religion

In 1828 the village had 186 Protestant and 19 Catholic inhabitants. At the end of 2014, 47.9 percent of the population was Protestant and 28.0 percent Catholic. The rest (24,1 %) belonged to another religion or were non-denominational. Currently, August 2020, 42,8 % of the population is Protestant and 26,6 % Catholic. The rest (30,6 %) belonged to another religion or were non-denominational. The Catholics belong to the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer The Diocese of Speyer () is a Latin Church, Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in Germany. The diocese is located in the South of the Rhineland-Palatinate and comprises also the Saarpfalz Districts of Germany, district in the east of the Saa ...

, the Protestants to the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate.

References

Palatinate Forest Kaiserslautern (district) Palatinate (region) {{Kaiserslautern-geo-stub