Schneckenhausen 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
Germany
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.
Geography
Schneckenhausen lies 11 km (7 mi) north of
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 Frankfur ...
at the spring of the Odenbach, which flows for around 22 km (14 mi) before joining the
Glan River. The community belongs to the
Verbandsgemeinde
A Verbandsgemeinde (; plural Verbandsgemeinden) is a low-level administrative unit in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt. A Verbandsgemeinde is typically composed of a small group of villages or towns.
Rhineland- ...
(regional administrative body)
Otterbach-Otterberg
Otterbach-Otterberg is a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") in the district Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' is in Otterberg. It was formed on 1 July 2014 by the merger of the for ...
, which has its administrative offices in
Otterberg. Along its outer borders lie the Wickelhof and Creutzhof farmsteads.
Politics
The municipal council is composed of 8 members who are elected locally through a
plurality voting system
Plurality voting refers to electoral systems in which a candidate, or candidates, who poll more than any other counterpart (that is, receive a plurality), are elected. In systems based on single-member districts, it elects just one member per ...
.
Economy and infrastructure
The
public transportation is integrated into the Rhein-Neckar Transit Network. Two lines of the regional bus system connect the municipality to Kaiserslautern. The nearest train station is located in
Katzweiler
Katzweiler is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.
History
The municipality was first mentioned in 1190 as ''Cazwilere''. Until the end of the 18th Century, it was part of the Electoral P ...
roughly 7 km (4 mi) southwest. The nearest
Bundesstraße (Federal Highway) is B270, which runs parallel to the train tracks.
References
External links
Ortsgemeinde Schneckenhausen (''German'')
Kaiserslautern (district)
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