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Sembach
Worth knowing about Sembach
1,224 inhabitants, 6 km ², motor vehicle characteristic: KL
Sembach which still meets us in medieval sources as "Sentenbach" and "Sinckenbach" and highly probably derives his
name from watercourses and become overgrown with reeds ponds already stood as Mehlingen under the rule of the Wartenberger so early, too.
When these transferred her seat to the little place toward the end of the Thirty Years' War (1646), this had economic upswing of
the village surprising one in connection with a favorable traffic situation in the intersection point two far streets the consequence. Power and subjects were in front of 1648. Reformedly, anyway after
1700 also consulted apart from some Lutherans some mennonitische families, the one formed little municipality.
His heyday didn't experience the village, last by the making of the "emperor street" during the membership of the palace
of the Napoleonic Empire. 1802 Sembach counted already 511 inhabitants and the number rose to 1837 even on 835. The place in this period of time got a great “Posthalterei”, a doctor's
practice and a pharmacy.
But when the railroad track of Kaiserslautern became to Winnweiler in the seventies, the place lay all of a sudden traffic politically
in the offside. A new economic upswing of the municipality removed the population rapidly and started only the making of the armed forces airfield (1951) and the American housing estates "hay
mountain".
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