Tiefenthal

For Tiefenthal in the district of Bad Kreuznach, see Tiefenthal, Bad Kreuznach.

Tiefenthal
Tiefenthal
Location of Tiefenthal within Bad Dürkheim district
Coordinates	49°32′18″N 8°06′14″E / 49.53833°N 8.10389°E / 49.53833; 8.10389Coordinates: 49°32′18″N 8°06′14″E / 49.53833°N 8.10389°E / 49.53833; 8.10389
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Bad Dürkheim
Municipal assoc.	Hettenleidelheim
Mayor	Edwin Gaub (CDU)
Basic statistics
Area	4.21 km2 (1.63 sq mi)
Elevation	290 m  (951 ft)
Population	814 (31 December 2010)[1]
- Density	193 /km2 (501 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	DÜW
Postal code	67311
Area code	06351

Tiefenthal is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Geography

Location

The municipality lies in a small hollow with northern slopes between the Eisbach and Eckbach valleys in the Palatinate. Tiefenthal belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Hettenleidelheim, whose seat is in the like-named municipality. Until 1969, the municipality belonged to the now abolished district of Frankenthal.

History

In 1318, the municipality had its first documentary mention as Dyfendal.

Religion

In 2007, 45.4% of the inhabitants were Evangelical and 35.4% Catholic. The rest belonged to other faiths or adhered to none^[2].

Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected 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^[3]:

	SPD	CDU	WGR	Total
2009	3	5	4	12 seats
2004	2	5	5	12 seats

Coat of arms

The German blazon reads: In Rot ein goldenes Tatzenkreuz.

The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Gules a cross pattée humetty Or.

The arms were approved by the now defunct Regierungsbezirk administration in Neustadt and go back to a seal from 1724. They are borrowed from the arms once borne by the Counts of Leiningen-Westerburg, to whom Tiefenthal belonged^[4].

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

A few kilometres away lies the Wattenheim interchange on the Autobahn A 6. Historically, a branch of the Eistalbahn (railway) once linked the municipality with Grünstadt.

Famous people

Sons and daughters of the town

• Wolfgang Wolf (1957–    ), former football coach for 1. FC Kaiserslautern
• Arno Wolf (1959–    ), former footballer with 1. FC Kaiserslautern

References

1. ^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden am 31.12.2010" (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 31 December 2010. http://www.statistik.rlp.de/fileadmin/dokumente/berichte/A1033_201022_hj_G.pdf. 
2. ^ KommWis, Stand: 31.12.2007
3. ^ Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat [1]
4. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: Das große Wappenbuch der Pfalz. Neustadt an der Weinstraße 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.