Schopp is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, 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 ...

, western

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. Schopp station lies on the Biebermühl Railway. Schopp-Hauptstrasse 11a+b-Schule-02-gje

History

The place was first mentioned in documents in 1345. In the Middle Ages Schopp, together with

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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 The Electoral Palatinate (german: Kurpfalz) or the Palatinate (), officially the Electorate of the Palatinate (), was a state that was part of the Holy Roman Empire. The electorate had its origins under the rulership of the Counts Palatine of ...

. From 1798 to 1814, when the

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was part of the

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(until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire, Schopp was incorporated into the canton

in the department of Donnersberg and was under the ''Mairie''

. In 1815, the place was first added to

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. A year later, the community moved to the

Kingdom of Bavaria The Kingdom of Bavaria (german: Königreich Bayern; ; spelled ''Baiern'' until 1825) was a German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1805 and continued to exist until 1918. With the unification of Germany into the German E ...

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

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 ...

, 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 () is a town in the Kaiserslautern district of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. It is the seat of ''Verbandsgemeinde Landstuhl'', a kind of "collective municipality." Landstuhl is situated on the north-west edge of the Palatinate F ...

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.https://ewois.de/Statistik/user/pdfgen.php?stichtag=31.08.2020&ags=33511204&type=OG&linkags=0733511204 The Catholics belong to the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer The Diocese of Speyer (lat. Dioecesis Spirensis) is a diocese of the Catholic Church in Germany. The diocese is located in the South of the Rhineland-Palatinate and comprises also the Saarpfalz district in the east of the Saarland. The bishop ...

, the Protestants to the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate.

References

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