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28-502: Becherbach refers to two nearby villages in the district of Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany: Becherbach (Bad Kreuznach) , part of the Verbandsgemeinde of Meisenheim Becherbach bei Kirn , part of the Verbandsgemeinde of Kirner Land [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with

56-771: A Jupiter Column was customarily stood). No Roman finds have come to light in Roth. The whole of what is now the municipality of Becherbach lay under the Counts of Veldenz , and after they died out, under the House of Wittelsbach (the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken and later the Kingdom of Bavaria ). Becherbach long lay on the border between two states: Meisenheim , which at an earlier time (as also once again today) had been placed above Becherbach as an administrative seat, belonged between

84-622: A remote-controlled robot to move the material. The detonations could be heard 10 km away. Südwestrundfunk reported that the explosive in question was nitroglycerine . The unlawful owner of the material was a 62-year-old Hundsbach man identified as “Kurt N.” – and nicknamed “Pulver-Kurt” (“Powder Kurt”) by the locals – who was then investigated for breach of the Kriegswaffenkontrollgesetz (Weapons of War Control Act) and subsequently charged and tried. The magazine Bild reported that Kurt liked to wear

112-593: A holy spring (one of Gangulphus's attributes ), thus symbolizing the club's home village. The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate ’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: Gangloff has an independent football club that is also active in youth work. The only major secular festival in Becherbach is the kermis (church consecration festival, locally known as the Kerb ), which

140-417: A local barn was found to contain, according to Der Spiegel , a “truckload” of machine guns , hand grenades and a great amount of explosives . A police spokesman said that it was “presumably” the greatest amount of explosives ever found in the country in a private citizen's hands. It was roughly 50 kg. Authorities disposed of the explosives in controlled explosions on a nearby farm lane, deploying

168-461: A uniform with SS insignia, and that there were photographs of his friends who were similarly heavily armed. Upon conviction, he was sentenced on 21 August 2012 to three and a half years in prison without parole (six months short of what the prosecutor had demanded). The name Becherbach is believed to stem from either the pitch makers ( Pech is “pitch” in German ) or the beaker makers ( Becher

196-547: Is held on the first weekend in September from Friday to Monday, with a parade on Sunday. The two outlying villages also hold kermises at about the same time. County 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

224-577: Is known to this day as the Römerstraße (“Roman road”). Found on the Rossberg's summit were three block-shaped stones that were dedicated to Mercury and his mother Maia , two Roman coins and tiles and a stamp. These finds have all been lost. In the village church , a Roman gravestone was found. Unearthed at the Gangloff graveyard was a Viergötterstein (a “four-god stone”, a pedestal on which

252-535: Is made up of 12 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman. Becherbach's mayor is Manfred Denzer, who succeeded Wolfgang Paulus, who had been in office since 1991, in 2009. Both men's political affiliation is with the SPD . The municipality's arms might be described thus: Or a beacon sable inflamed gules. The arms came into being in 1952 and are canting arms for, at least, one of

280-642: Is “beaker” in German, while in Palatine German , it is a word that means “beaker maker”) who worked here in bygone days. The name Gangloff comes from Saint Gangulphus of Burgundy . Roth is a name that crops up often in Germany, and it refers to a clearing. Becherbach's inhabitants are mainly Evangelical . Becherbach has belonged since 1975 to the ecclesiastical community of Odenbach, which in turn belongs – as one of its northernmost communities – to

308-604: The Congress of Vienna in 1815 and Germany's more recent division into Bundesländer in 1946 to Prussia , or before 1866 to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg . The border was thus only some 7 to 9 km away from the three villages that today make up the municipality of Becherbach. The NSDAP Ortsgruppe (“local group”) in Becherbach was founded in October 1927 by Emil Gauer, a Nazi politician, born in Becherbach, who

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336-664: The Evangelical Church of the Palatinate . As at 31 July 2013, there are 880 full-time residents in Becherbach, and of those, 708 are Evangelical (80.455%), 67 are Catholic (7.614%), one (0.114%) belongs to the Freireligiöse Landesgemeinde Pfalz (“Palatinate Free Religious State Community”), 6 (0.682%) belong to other religious groups and 98 (11.136%) either have no religion or will not reveal their religious affiliation. The council

364-600: The Mosel in the Archbishopric of Trier . A municipality of the same name, Veldenz , and a castle , Schloss Veldenz , are located in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich . The Counts of Veldenz separated from the Wildgraves of Kyrburg and Schmidburg family in 1112. The direct male line of the first comital house ceased in 1260 with the death of Gerlach V of Veldenz and his daughter Agnes of Veldenz inherited

392-540: The Palatinate south of Meisenheim and east of Lauterecken . Nearby towns are the district seat, Bad Kreuznach , which lies 24 km to the northeast, Birkenfeld , lying 35 km to the west and Kaiserslautern , lying 23 km to the south. Clockwise from the north, Becherbach's neighbours are the municipality of Reiffelbach , the municipality of Schmittweiler (both in the Bad Kreuznach district),

420-545: The child Wolfgang . In 1543, when Wolfgang reached majority and took on the responsibilities of office, he enacted the Marburg Contract, giving his uncle Rupert , who had served as his regent and guardian for 11 years, the County of Veldenz. When Rupert died in 1544, son George John succeeded him as Count Palatine of Veldenz. George married Anna Maria of Sweden , a daughter of Gustav I of Sweden , in 1563. This

448-551: The county Lützelstein in Alsace. The grandson of Georg Hans, Leopold Ludwig von Lützelstein, died in 1694 as a poor man without legitimate offspring and the county-Palatinate of Veldenz, which was in ruins after many French attacks, reverted to the Zweibrücken line, specifically King of Sweden Charles XI , who ruled in personal union with the duchy of Palatine Zweibrücken . However, the bordering Electoral Palatinate also wanted

476-475: The county in 1260. Her husband Heinrich of Geroldseck became the founder of the second line of Counts of Veldenz or the House of Veldenz-Geroldseck ( Hohengeroldseck ). In 1444 the county came under the rule of Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken by his marriage to Anna of Veldenz , the only heiress of Count Frederick III of Veldenz . As of 1532, the entire County Palantine of Zweibrücken passed to

504-488: The main village are the outlying homesteads of Kirnbuscherhof, Römerhof and Rothenbaumerhof. Archaeological finds from the New Stone Age have been made in Gangloff and Roth. The Roman linking road between Bad Kreuznach and Otterberg led by way of the Rossberg near Becherbach and Gangloff. A sideroad off this thoroughfare leading to Odenbach ran between Becherbach and Roth. The path running through this area

532-539: The moon (roughly “behind the times”)”. This arose from a Jewish woman’s burial that was attended by various inhabitants – whom Der Stürmer named in the article – of the villages mentioned. In 1954, Becherbach got its first watermain, and thereby took its first step towards modernization. The Ortsgemeinde that exists today came into being on 7 June 1969 through the merger of three hitherto self-administering municipalities: Becherbach/Pfalz (532 inhabitants), Gangloff (270 inhabitants) and Roth (274 inhabitants). At

560-576: The municipality of Waldgrehweiler (in the Donnersbergkreis ), the municipality of Nußbach , the municipality of Reipoltskirchen , the municipality of Ginsweiler , the municipality of Adenbach and the municipality of Odenbach (all in the Kusel district ). Becherbach's Ortsteile are the main village, also called Becherbach (roughly 550 inhabitants), and also Gangloff (some 275 inhabitants) and Roth (some 275 inhabitants). Also belonging to

588-429: The municipality's supposed namesakes, the pitch gatherers, for the only charge in the arms, a flaming beacon, is known in German as a Pechkorb (literally “pitch basket”). The tinctures gules and Or (red and gold) are those once borne by Palatinate-Zweibrücken . Roth's unofficial arms show a tree standing on a three-knolled hill (a charge called a Dreiberg in German heraldry) flanked by crossed miner's hammers on

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616-653: The ruins, which they obtained in 1733. In 1801 it was incorporated into the Saardepartement of the First French Empire . The Congress of Vienna , 1815, gave the smaller part of the county lying on the Mosel to Prussia and the remainder to Bavaria . Sweden and the Palatinate disputed the Veldenz ruins for years. When the personal union of Sweden and Zweibrücken ended and following agreements among

644-486: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Becherbach&oldid=1120316708 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Becherbach (Bad Kreuznach) Becherbach lies in

672-461: The same time, Becherbach was transferred from the Kusel district to the Bad Kreuznach district . Under Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken , the so-called “Odenbach Seam” ( coal ) was discovered, which was worked in, among other places, Reiffelbach . Within what is today the municipality of Becherbach, the seam was exploited only in the villages of Gangloff and Roth. The mine in Roth

700-453: The sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side and a ploughshare on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side. Gangloff has no arms, unofficial or otherwise, but the St. Gangolf Pipes & Drums club ( bagpipes ) has a coat of arms charged with Saint Gangulphus's image, a steed for the Rossberg (whose name literally means “Steed Mountain”) that lies between Becherbach and Gangloff and

728-757: Was later installed as the ideologically true mayor of Pirmasens in 1937, serving until his arrest by the Americans in 1945. Between 1928 and 1933, the NSDAP's electoral successes in the local area were greater than the average for the Weimar Republic . The Antisemitic newspaper , Der Stürmer , however, wrote in April 1936 that the populace of Odenbach , Becherbach and the surrounding area were to some extent still “strongly vernagelt (variously translated as “stubborn”, “narrowminded” or “slow-witted”) and behind

756-674: Was linked to the one in Odenbach by an underground gallery, while a similar arrangement linked the Hollerbach mine near Roth to the one in Reiffelbach. There was, however, no such link between the two local mines. In 1799 in Becherbach itself (now the main centre of the merged municipality), a limestone mine was worked on the south slopes towards Reipoltskirchen . On 22 January 2011, Becherbach's (the main village's) whole population had to be evacuated from their homes for 16 hours when

784-544: Was the joining of the House of Wittelsbach with the Swedish Vasa royal family which was strengthened by a further marriage when Johann Casimir of Pfalz-Zweibrücken married Catharina of Sweden , a sister of Gustavus Adolphus in the 17th century. Wolfgang had in 1553 with the Heidelberg Succession agreement regulated the mutual inheritance of all Wittelsbach lines reaching from Veldenz-Palatinate to

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