Timetable
6/7 Jahrhundert:
With the colonization by the folk of Franconias, Germanic tribe, develops in the valley "odenbachtal", where the brook "Hahnenbach" at that time and today's "Nußbach" flows into the brook "Odenbach", the Frankish settlement " Hundheim am Steg" .
um 980:
One man from the Franconias folk named " Richbaldes" builds a church, in a distance from about one kilometer northwest from "Hundheim am Steg". Around this church a new settlement arised, which originally designates itself after the designer of the church " Richbaldeskirchen" . This first church was probably a timber construction,which is replaced by a massive construction in the 10/11. Century. This church is mentioned for the first time 1222 in a book of the abbey Prüm as " church with corpse yard" .
1181:
After Michael Frey`s " description of the Rhine circle" the castle should be arisen at this time. This castle belonged to the gents of Bolanden which has feud the monastery Prüm in the Eifel. As first gents are well-known Meffried of Reipoltskirchen (around 1196) and Jakob Boos to Reipoltskirchen (1209).
1190:
For the first time Reipoltskirchen is named in a register of the earl " Werner von Bolant" , whose mastercastle stood in Bolanden at the (Donnersberg). He was a commissionaire of the emperor Barbarossas and one of the richest knights of its time.
1194/98:
Mention of a " Meffridus de Ripoldeskirchen" in the book of feuds of the gents from Bolanden.
1297:
As first knight from Reipoltskirchen appears "Heinrich von Hohenfels und Reipoltskirchen", which deceased in 1329 and were buried in a monastic church Sion in Otterberg. In the same year earl Heinrich sold the yard Urbach (Ausbacherhof) to the earl of Zweibrücken. First mention of the castle. With "Heinrich von Hohenfels" a collateral line of the gents from Bolanden took their seat in Reipoltskirchen, who soon already call themselves gents of Hohenfels-Reipoltskirchen after their mastercastle.
1304:
Count Heinrich buys the villages "Finkenbach" and "Breitenborn" (Gersweiler), with the rights of patronage of the church there, from the noble farmhand Johann of Metz.
1350:
The people from Hohenfels comes to Reipoltskirchen, after their mastercastle at the "Donnersberg" was destroyed. It wasn't allowed to developed this castle again, after the people of Hohenfels had worked as robbery knights and highwayman.
1401:
The Pfarrei Reipoltskirchen belongs to Münsterappel.
Ca. 1500:
By marriage the "Hohenfels-Reipoltskirchener" acquires parts of the shires Forbach and Rixingen in Lorraine.
1548:
Reformation is introduced to the lordship Reipoltskirchen, Rixingen and Forbach by the earl "Philipp von Leiningen-Westerburg". The neighbouring duchy Zweibrücken had already accepted 1546 the new faith.
1553:
Johann of Reipoltskirchen exchanges the village "Hochstätten" with the Wild- and Rhineearl "Philipp Franz of Daun" and keeps awarded for it the places "Nußbach" and "Schönborn", as well as a part of "Rudolfskirchen", and also the village "Seelen" and the rights to the " Hundheimer of hooves" .
1600:
A protestant pastor named " Schmidtmann" is mentioned, whereby it is confirmed that Reipoltskirchen was already reformed.
1602:
Johann III of Hohenfels-Reipoltskirchen dies in Forbach. Sole heiress is the countess Amalia to Leiningen-Westerburg, born countess to Falkenstein. The parts of the counties Forbach and Rixingen are lost.
1608:
The countess Amalia dies on 25 October at the age of 62 years and is buried in the church by Reipoltskirchen. In the vestry you can find a artful worked tomb. By her testamentary clause the two sons of her sister Sydonia, Johann Casimir and Steino, inherit the possession. "Steino von Löwenhaupts" daughter Elizabeth Amalie marries the count "Philipp von Manderscheid", whereby the sex "Manderscheid" receives possession rights at Reipoltskirchen.
1618:
The "30-jährige Krieg" breaks out. At the end of the war the whole country is devastated and nearly deserted.
1628:
Caused to the absence of male descendants and by marriage Reipoltskirchen becomes a hereditary community. The gents from Manderscheid-Keil and the counts of Löwenhaupt-Rasburg acquires on the hereditary way the possessions of the parts from Reipoltskirchen. The counts Johann Casimir and Steino of Löwenhaupt attribute their sex to Swedish roots. This very day you can find parts from the dynasty of Lewenhaupt in Sweden.
1631:
In the middle of the war thirteen years, at Michaelis (29 September) 1631, probably Johann Heinrich Roos, the in later time world wide well-known animal painter is baptized in Reipoltskirchen. Whether the Raffael under the animal painters, so mentioned by contemporaries, was born also here is not completely safe, however some speaks for its.
1631:
On 29 September Johann Heinrich Roos is born. He becomes one of the famous animal painter of its time. He dies on 02 October 1685 in Frankfurt.
1662:
A Johannes Völker is mentioned as a lutherischer pastor, who is simultaneous also a pastor in Finkenbach, which belongs to the rule Reipoltskirchen.
1670:
Controversy about Mainz because of the feudrights in the Rhine-hessian villages Marienborn, Mommenheim and Lörzweiler, which belong to Reipoltskirchen.
1683-1718:
The duchy Pfalz-Zweibrücken comes by succession to the royal - Swedish house.
1697-1718:
Swedish administration.
1720:
The church is simultaneous, it is thus used by both denominations. Johann Jakob Böhmer is mentioned as the protestant pastor. The catholic service is held by the Franziskanerpater Hermann Vollmer from Mannheim.
1722:
Realm count of Hillesheim buys a quarter of the realm rule Reipoltskirchen from the counts of Löwenhaupt. This purchase is cancelled by the realm Court of Appeal. The actual return takes place in 1754.
1730:
1. The count of Hillesheim acquires by purchase half of the possession of the dominion Reipoltskirchen from the counts of Manderscheid . The Hillesheimer keeps their part up to the French revolution. The capture still takes place after old-delivered ritual: Cutting out a splinter at gates and doors of the castle. However the Hillesheimer resides at their palace in Mannheim.
2. Church conditions are again regulated by the count of Hillesheim. A catholic Pfarrei is furnished in Reipoltskirchen which is subordinated to the ore diocese Mainz. Protestant-lutherische Pfarreien are also installed in Finkenbach, Rathskirchen and Rudolphskirchen.
1736:
By efforts of the countess of Hillesheim the first parsonage building is furnished between the church and the school. The wood is donated by the countess.
1748:
Count Willhelm of Hillesheim dies on 11. October in Reipoltskirchen.
1754:
After the death of the count a comprehensive regulation takes place between Löwenhaupt and Hillesheim. This main contract is confirmed by the emperor on 21. March.
1755:
The tower of the castle is repaired by the common owners Hillesheim and Löwenhaupt.
1761:
Disputes with the duchy Zweibrücken because of Zehnten, Fronden, Naturallasten, Steuerlasten and the Wildfangrecht.
1763:
On 28 November Löwenhaupt sells his parts of Reipoltskirchen for 140.000 Gulden to the realm count Philipp Andreas Ellrodt. In front of this sale a specification of the dominion Reipoltskirchen was placed in a document. Therein it means among other things: The dominion Reipoltskirchen stands with the hochgräflichen house of Hillesheim in same community, is appropriate between the hochfürstlich-zweibrückischen and kurfürstlich-pfälzischen countries and has its own away-going territory in a realm for the most part.
1767:
Count Philipp von Ellrodt dies on 1 January.
1773:
Pfalz-Zweibrücken has to return its acquisition of Reipoltskirchen to the widow of count Ellrodt, caused on operation of the countess of Hillesheim. Because relatives of Ellrodt were deceived and by reclamation of the countess of Hillesheim the contract is cancelled. In addition she refers to her purchase options. The return takes place in 1779.
1777:
By order of the princess Karoline of Isenburg, Baron Ludwig von Esebeck (gentleman of the manor Ingweiler) buys the Ellrodt's parts of Reipoltskirchen. She informs itself with the joint holder of Hillesheim. This contract is approved by the cure prince Karl Theodor on 1 February 1778. With it the Ellrodt' possession ended. During the Ellrodt' rule time some protestant families from France (Huguenot) were take in here.
1778:
The owners of Hillesheim and Isenburg take over the regulation of the common rule between Löwenhaupt and Hillesheim which is arranged in 1754.
1779:
The princess of Isenburg, illegitime daughter of the elector "Karl Theodor von der Pfalz" buys the villages Berzweiler, Seelen as well as the second half of Rudolphskirchen and Niederkirchen.
1782:
Leasing of 280 morgen of castle properties and just as much parts of the Hillesheimer half to common men, the office man Heinrich Siegfried Löffler and other one.
1785:
Realm count Ernst Gottfried, baron von Reipoltskirchen and Hillesheim dies unmarried on May 9th. The inherit are his both sister, the unmarried countess Charlotte of Hillesheim and Elizabeth Augusts von Hillesheim which is married with a count from Spee. Thus there are three women in the possession of the Kondominiums. These are the two sisters of Hillesheim and the princess Karoline of Isenburg.
1791:
The estate of the princess of Isenburg turns as heritage for three generations to Peter Laubenstein on Altenbaumburg.
1793:
French revolution troops engage Reipoltskirchen on 3. March . On 24 April the Isenburger office man Wilh. Stern reports to the baronial administration in Mannheim that the Frenchmen extorted the oath on the liberty and equality from the subjects.
1797:
By introduction of the French administration the river Glan becomes border and the department " Donnersberg" , canton Lauterecken and Mairie (mayoralty) Odenbach develops, to which also Reipoltskirchen belongs. The first French Generalkommissär Rudler from the Elsass starts his office on 4 September.
1798:
The Feudalismus is abolished with the law announcing by Kommisär Rudler. Thus disappear all deliveries, Frondienste and Zehnten of the former basic gentlemen and the church in the Pfalz.
1799:
On 16 June all stately and church possessions are explained as national property of the new state. After the castle is empty, poor people settle down there, others use it as quarry.
1801:
Peace was made in Luneville on 9th February. Afterwards Germany has to deliver his whole area on left Rhine side to France.
1803:
By the re-classification of the parish, Reipoltskirchen changes to the Dekanat Kaiserslautern.
1808:
In Reipoltskirchen a small Jewish municipality of 10 families resides, which counts together 56 persons. It probably formed in 18. Century under that comparatively liberal settlement conditions, how they were usual in smaller realm rule. Particularly to mention here the family Grünebaum is, from their center the pfälzische Bezirksrabbiner (1836-1893) and a scholar Dr. Elias Grünebaum descends.
1809:
Reipoltskirchen comes to the Mairie (mayoralty) Becherbach.
1816:
On 1. May Reipoltskirchen is like the whole Palantine assigned to the Kingdom of Bavaria, belonged to the mayoralty Becherbach, canton Lauterecken. District Kaiserslautern.
Um 1830:
The painter Peter Gayer makes a Sepia design of the castle ruin, which shows us the building condition at that time detailed: It is the earliest delivered perspective of the water castle. The two-story authority building already partly collapsed. From the main gate with the drawbridge is nothing more to see.
1836:
Above the church a school is built.
1845:
In the cadastral of the municipality Reipoltskirchen the castle is mentioned as private property: The former lock tower, existing in a living room, a cellar, a stable and a yard space.
1847/48:
Because of dilapidation the church is torn off and a new is built. Due to shortage of money is must be built without a tower and a vestry. The new church is dedicated on 8 August 1849.
1858:
The church is equipped with an organ.
1876/1880:
The church is again ramshackle due to unsatisfactory execution of construction and must be closed 1876. On 11 July 1878 the laying of the foundation stone for the today's church takes place. The dedication effected on 17 June 1880. At the same time the outdated parsonage building is replaced by the today's one.
1883:
Start-up of the railroad "Lautertal".
1884:
The tenth barn (47 meters long and 24 meters wide) on the island of the former fore-castle, behind the bridge on the right, is torn off.
1891:
To 70. Birthday of the prince regent Luitpold of Bavaria on 12. March a lime tree is plant.
1894:
Establishment of a service building (forester's house) for the forest district of Reipoltskirchen.
Um 1895:
The brook "Ausbach" is canalized in the local area by the district and is redirected by means of a bricked channel under the main street.
1895:
Reipoltskirchen is dismissed from the mayoralty Becherbach and receives its own mayoralty.
1896:
Start-up of the railroad "Odernheim - Lauterecken".
1899:
Build up of the stone cross on the cemetery by cath. church.
1907/08:
The School building of 1836, in which also the teacher dwellings are, is overage and too small. Therefore for the accommodation of the necessary class rooms a new building is decided. At the same time the old school halls are converted in dwelling for the teachers. On municipality property " Hirtengarten" a for this time typical building of school buildings in sandstone execution is established, a four-storied building. In the ground floor the Protestant school and in the small secondary room the mayoralty were accommodated. On the first floor the catholic school and a archives area for the municipality office are accommodated. In the attic a bell chair with small bell and tower is installed.
1918-1920:
Acquisition of the corner property in opposite to the church, for the arrangement of a sister station. At the same time the " Elisabethen-Krankenpflegeverein" is created. After rebuilding on 10 October 1920 the sister station is opened. 1927 the sister house is extended by outbuilding and heightening and is totally reconditioned with installation of a central heating in 1974/75. In the rebuildet parochialroom a kindergarten is opened in 1945.
1921:
For the war victims a monument is established by the man singing association, which is taken over by the municipality in 1929.
1923:
By the inflation in the country the money loses value ever more and ever faster. A 6-pound-bread for example costs on 1 November 1923 more than 18 billion Mark.
1924:
"Reipoltskirchen" is connected to the electrical lighting system of the "Pfalzwerke AG".
1927:
With government resolution by the "Department of State of the inside in Munich" from 4 February the municipality Reipoltskirchen is permitted to lead the coat of arms of its earlier rule "Hohenfels - Reipoltskirchen", which is described as follows: " In the divided hatchment above a silver wheel in blue, and down in green a fallen anchor, accompanies from ten silver shingels " .
1928:
The municipality builds a water pipeline. Implementing entrepreneur is the building firm "Peter Blaumeyer" from "St. Wendel". The dedication took place on 14 October.
1935:
The office for care of monuments accomplish measures for the preservation of the tower. The bushes, which grew meanwhile on the tower platform, are eliminated. On the upper cover of the tower a concrete layer is put and the joints are filled up.
1945:
On 19 March the Americans march into Reipoltskirchen. As a mayor the millowner Fritz Conde¨is appointed.
1946:
On 15 September the first local council elections take place after the war. Mayor becomes "Alois Moog".
1947:
By popular vote the draft constitution of the state meeting for the country Rhineland-Palatinate is taken up on 18. May. At the same time the first federal state parliament for Rhineland-Palatinate is elected.
1951:
In July the church tower clock procured by the municipality is installed.
1952:
On 22 June the new church tower bells are dedicated.
1953:
On 5 July the new stone cross, right beside the church forecourt entrance, is dedicated.
1953/54:
Enlargement of the cemetery. The first funeral takes place on 3 February 1954.
1957:
The local electricity network is sold to the "Pfalzwerke AG".
1963/64:
To securing the water supply two deep wells (40 and 26 meters) are down-brought in the "Mühlwiesen" , a pump house with filtering unit and at "Hinterstauch/Kipp" an elevated tank with 150 cubic meters capacity is built.
1968:
Permission of the total development plan. The structural enlargement of the Ausbacherstreet had begun already in 1966.
1969:
Pipework system of the brook "Ausbach" in the local area, after the bricked channel is partly destroyed by a tempest.
1968/69:
The local connection ways to the "Karlhof" and to the "Ausbacherhof" are supplemented to district roads (K41 and K42).
1970/71:
extension of the festival hall to the old school building. The lateral enlargement took place in 1984. The porch of a new entrance is made 1992. The forecourt is paved 1992/93. The hall is labeled after the animal painter " Johann Heinrich Roos" which is born in Reipoltskirchen.
1971:
In the course of the administrative reform Reipoltskirchen comes to the convention community "Wolfstein". The functional reform which was issued to the fact determines that the public education, water supply and drains are transfused to the convention communities.
1973/74:
The morgue is build.
1977/78:
Application of a children's playground.
1978/79:
After the control work (waterfall) is eliminated in 1963/64 and the brook had been shifted, now a place for the parish fair is build.
1979/80:
The municipality is canalized and to the community purification plant "Odenbachtal" angeschlossen.
1982/83:
The castle plant is taken over by the district and placed under monument protection. At the same time the earlier houses "Weber Franz" and "Süß Franz" are acquired. The house "Klein-Weißmann" is purchased by the district in 1988. To 1988 substantial investments are transacted and also several private houses in the castle area are acquired by the district.
1983:
Also the former school building in the Hirtenstr. is posed under monument protection.
1984:
Lateral enlargement of the "Johann-Heinrich-Roos-Hall" (extension of storages, new toilets and showers).
1986:
Shutdown of the railroad "Glantal".
1988:
Application of a parking place at the cemestry.
1989/90:
In the village center a market place with spring and bus stop with waiting hall is created.
1992:
Porch of a new entrance at the "Johann-Heinrich-Roos-Halle".
1996:
Partial re-establishment of the castle ditch by the district "Kusel".
1998:
Anniversary celebration to 800 years "Reipoltskirchen".