Theisbergstegen | |
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Location of Theisbergstegen within Kusel district  | |
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| Coordinates:49°31′06″N7°26′51″E / 49.51833°N 7.44750°E /49.51833; 7.44750 | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Kusel |
| Municipal assoc. | Kusel-Altenglan |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2019–24) | Stefan Klein[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 5.01 km2 (1.93 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 244 m (801 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 698 |
| • Density | 140/km2 (360/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 66871 |
| Dialling codes | 06381 |
| Vehicle registration | KUS |
Theisbergstegen is anOrtsgemeinde – amunicipality belonging to aVerbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in theKuseldistrict inRhineland-Palatinate,Germany. It belongs to theVerbandsgemeinde of Kusel-Altenglan, whose seat is inKusel.
The village of Theisbergstegen, which grew together from the two former villages of Theisberg and Stegen, lies on both sides of the riverGlan in the bottom of the dale at an elevation of some 209 m abovesea level. On the Glan's right bank (Theisberg), the southwest slope of thePotzberg with its extensive forest within municipal limits – and acastle that is now nothing more than a heap of stones in the woods – rises up steeply to an elevation of 480 m above sea level. Theisberg itself sits on this slope. Left of the Glan looms the 368 m-high Remigiusberg with itscastle ruin and church, presenting a picturesque view, which was immortalized as long ago as the early 19th century in a now famous steelengraving. The two historic buildings, however, stand within neighbouringHaschbach's municipal limits. The Glan valley here narrows sharply between the slopes of the Potzberg and the Remigiusberg, which are quite close together. Stretching south from the Remigiusberg is the valley of the Röderbach, which near Theisbergstegen empties into the Glan. Stegen spreads across this likewise narrow side valley and also along the long ridge that stands between the two dales. Running alongside the river Glan areBundesstraße 423 on the right bank and therailway on the left. The outlying centre of Godelhausen also lies in the Glan valley, with the Potzberg and the Remigiusberg right across the river on the other side, on the outliers of Wackenhübel and Röderwald that edge the Glan valley on the west. The built-up area lies on the comb of a high ridge that drops off smoothly into the dale, while also forming the southern flank of another side valley, through which two more brooks flow on their way to empty into the Glan. Buildings are grouped loosely about a staggered crossroads formed by Bergstraße (“Mountain Road”) coming down the slope and Hauptstraße (“Main Street”) running over the dale's western flank.[3][4] The municipal area measures 501 ha, of which 128 ha is wooded.[5]
Theisbergstegen borders in the north on the municipality ofAltenglan, in the northeast on the municipality ofRutsweiler am Glan, in the east on the municipality ofNeunkirchen am Potzberg, in the southeast on the municipality ofMatzenbach, in the south on the municipality ofRehweiler, in the southwest on the municipality ofEtschberg and in the northwest on the municipality ofHaschbach am Remigiusberg. Theisbergstegen also meets the municipality ofRammelsbach at a single point in the north.
Theisbergstegen'sOrtsteile are Theisberg, Stegen and Godelhausen.
Today'sOrtsteil of Theisbergstegen was originally made up of three villages, Theisberg (Deinsberg) on the Glan's right bank and Oberstegen and Unterstegen over on the left bank, all of which have now grown together. As early as 1715, Theisberg and Stegen were merged into a single municipality. The village as a whole still has the outward appearance of an agricultural structure, which defined life well into the 20th century. In the former Theisberg, people settled mainly along the village thoroughfare (Bundesstraße 423). Next to that, over time, parallel streets arose, one of which runs up to the mountain, reaching the former TheisbergEvangelical school and theProtestant parish church. The latter building stands on a former graveyard and has its beginnings in theMiddle Ages. It has, however, undergone many changes, especially with the addition of a steeple during the 20th century. A bridge links Theisberg to Stegen, whose old village core stands along Kuseler Straße in the Rödelbach valley. The newer housing developments, meanwhile, stretch along the Glan, especially on Schulstraße (which rather unsurprisingly, for its name isGerman for “School Street”, leads to a school, although this is in outlying Godelhausen) and on Bahnhofstraße (“Railway Station Street”). The development along the road to Godelhausen is bit by bit being built up. On the mountain slope at the side of Kuseler Straße stands theArt Nouveau formerCatholic rectory with its built-onchapel. Therailway station is found north of the Glan bridge. The sporting ground lies in the north of the former village of Stegen. Far outside the village on the slope of the Potzberg, somewhat hidden, lies the Deinsberg Castle ruin, nowadays known asAlte Burg (“Old Castle”).[6]
Deinsberge (Theisberg), which lies east of the river Glan, had its first documentary mention in 992. Stegen, which lies across the river, on the other hand, arose later and was not mentioned until 1364 asStegin. Theisberg was the seat of theAmt of Deinsberg-Reichenbach and belonged until the early 14th century to theImperial Domain (Reichsland) aroundKaiserslautern. As inKübelberg andWolfstein, it could be that acastle was built at Theisbergstegen inEmperor Barbarossa's time to safeguard the western frontier; it also, as “Deinsburg”, gave a family of lesser nobility its name. After a newer castle, the Michelsburg, was built on the Remigiusberg, the older one was called, fittingly enough,Alte Burg (“Old Castle”). Stegen still belonged to theRemigiusland and more locally to theSchultheißerei of Pfeffelbach. In 1600, the Duchy ofPalatinate-Zweibrückenceded the village to its sideline Palatinate-Veldenz, who assigned it to theSchultheißerei of Reichenbach in theOberamt of Lauterecken.
On 10 July 1715, the village of Theisberg was merged with the village of Stegen. In the early 19th century (1802), there were 144 inhabitants living in Theisbergstegen, whose numbers climbed to 228 persons in 60 households by 1867. Today, 392 people live in Theisbergstegen's main centre (not counting Godelhausen).
The historical built-up area can be found near the church, in the area around the mill at the bridge across the Glan and north of the Rödelbach on the slope of the Remigiusberg. Standing in Theisberg in the mid 19th century were mostly great, individual estate complexes, for instance, the hugeQuereinhaus (a combination residential and commercial house divided for these two purposes down the middle, perpendicularly to the street) at Hauptstraße 17 and theQuereinhaus built in 1835 at Friedhofweg 7/9, whereas over in Stegen stretched a whole row of small, even tiny, properties. Between the two villages stood the village mill, which had been rebuilt in the 18th century, and which in 1868 was converted, and run in the early 20th century as a sawmill. Theweir that lay before the mill, like the old bridge, has since disappeared. In the latter half of the 19th century, a fire engine hall was built in Theisberg at the foot of Kirchstraße (near no. 2 on that street).
The village of Godelhausen, nowadays anOrtsteil of Theisbergstegen, had its first documentary mention in 1364 asGodelsauwe. It belonged to theSchultheißerei of Pfeffelbach in theOberamt of Lichtenberg. Before theThirty Years' War, in 1609, there were 56 people here in 15 households. By 1675 – the war had ended in 1648 – only three families had settled once again in Godelhausen. In 1677 the village was destroyed once again in theFranco-Dutch War. In the early 19th century (1802), there were 98 inhabitants living in Godelhausen, whose numbers climbed to 217 persons in 44 households by 1867. Today, 329 people live in Theisbergstegen's outlying centre of Godelhausen. Standing in Godelhausen in the mid 19th century were a few greatQuereinhäuser (plural ofQuereinhaus), standing mostly in a row, gable-to-gable, along Bergstraße. Although a number of estates with forward gables had already been springing up along the road that leads to Theisbergstegen, the village actually first began spreading out from theschoolhouse, built in 1829, towards the south. Only in the early 20th century did the built-up area spread northwards across the brook. The oldest building still standing in the village is the dwelling wing of a formerQuereinhaus (Hauptstraße 33), which was built in 1769. The rest of the buildings in Godelhausen today have a 19th-century appearance. At Hauptstraße 67 stands the Godelhausen Mill, which was renovated in 1788 and in 1903 converted to a waterworks forKusel according to plans by Regional Master Builder (Bezirksbaumeister) Kleinhans.[7]
The Potzberg area was already settled inprehistoric times, to whicharchaeological finds bear witness. There have never been any confirmedprehistoric finds within Theisbergstegen's current limits. However, potsherds and bones from prehistoric times have supposedly been found, although their origins, and even their current whereabouts, are now unknown. Also apparently found was a “Gaulish coin”, which has disappeared. There was aRoman settlement whose whereabouts are no longer known, but it has yieldedcremation graves, unearthed in the course of building work, and two pieces of stone in the outer wall masonry at Saint Peter's Church (Peterskirche) that arespolia from grave monuments. Two pieces of aViergötterstein – aJupiter Column base – that until 1834 were to be found in the church's quire are now kept at theHistorisches Museum der Pfalz (Historical Museum of the Palatinate) inSpeyer.[8]
According to old descriptions, the area on the Glan's left bank lay in theRemigiusland while the area on the Glan's right bank lay in the freeImperial Domain (Reichsland) aroundKaiserslautern. Thus the village of Stegen belonged to theRemigiusland while the village of Theisberg belonged to the Imperial Domain. Just when the two villages were founded nobody can say. Certainly, though, Theisberg is older than Stegen. Theisberg's 992 first documentary mention was in a document issued byEmperor Otto III in which Bishop Hildibald ofWorms transferred to Count Wolfram the tithes from all the bishopric's holdings in the wooded lands on theRhine’s left bank against which the bishopric took ownership of commodities in the area of the villages ofAltenglan andDeinesberge (Theisberg). This, however, does not seem to make much sense, and it would also seem that the Bishop of Worms took liberties in this deal to which he was not entitled. Whatever the truth is, a village named Deinsberg near a castle of that same name already existed at the time that the document was issued. Indeed, it might have been founded centuries earlier. In the free Imperial Domain around Kaiserslautern, to which Theisberg belonged, though, the record shows no episcopal holdings. What the record does show, however, is that Theisberg was not only an ecclesiastical centre but also the seat of anAmt in anUnteramt of the free Imperial Domain, possibly taking turns in that function withReichenbach.
It is likely that Stegen had not yet arisen by 992. Since the so-calledRemigiusland was always endangered by neighbouringfree nobles’ encroachment, it was given over in the early 12th century to Count Gerlach from theNahegau as a lordly protectorate, aVogtei. It was at this time that the Monastery on the Remigiusberg came into being, and it can be assumed that until this time, the area had been governed by a branch of theAbbey of Saint-Remi inReims. Count Gerlach, out of his own holdings and theVogteien that he held over extensive ecclesiastical holdings, founded theCounty of Veldenz, to which, right from the beginning, Stegen belonged, whereas Theisberg across the Glan – that is, the border – remained in the free Imperial Domain. In 1345, there was a change in the territorial arrangement when Count Georg I acquired by pledge theAmt of Reichenbach or Deinsberg (its name depended on where the seat happened to be at any given time), within which lay Deinsberg (Theisberg). This swept the Glan border away, and both Theisberg and Stegen found themselves under the same lordship, albeit for now within differentUnterämter. In 1364, Count Heinrich II's son, also named Heinrich – indeed he later became Count Heinrich III of Veldenz – lived together with his young wife Lauretta ofSponheim atLichtenberg Castle. All villages that then belonged to the VeldenzUnteramt of Altenglan had to pay tribute to this young comital couple. Accordingly, Count Heinrich II had a document drawn up that listed every village in what was then theUnteramt of Altenglan, including Stegen. In 1444, Count Friedrich III, the last Count of Veldenz, died. His daughter Anna had been married to Count Palatine Stephan since 1409. He took his inherited holdings from theElectorate of the Palatinate and the County of Veldenz that Anna had just inherited and combined them to found a new County Palatine, known in the fullness of time as the Duchy ofPalatinate-Zweibrücken.
In 1543, in the so-called Treaty of Marbach, Duke Wolfgang of Zweibrücken transferred to his uncle Ruprecht lands for the founding of his own County Palatine. These were the village ofVeldenz on theMoselle,Lauterecken and theÄmter of Jettenbach and Reichenbach (Deinsberg). The new County Palatine, which later also includedLützelstein (now called La Petite-Pierre) inAlsace, bore the name Palatinate-Veldenz, and later Palatinate-Veldenz-Lützelstein. At first, the only residence town was Lauterecken, but later Lützelstein, too, grew into another residence town. The founding of this new County Palatine once again put a border along the river Glan, even as Count Palatine Ruprecht lived at the Michelsburg (castle) on the Remigiusberg. Theisberg and Stegen were once again split asunder. Through the so-calledRecess of Meisenheim in 1600, though, the villages ofHaschbach and Stegen, too, passed to Palatinate-Veldenz-Lützelstein, putting Theisberg and Stegen under the same lordship once more, and indeed it would only be just over a century before the two villages were lastingly united into one municipality.
In the meantime, wars ravaged the land: theThirty Years' War and the wars withFrance underKing Louis XIV. As in all the villages aroundKusel, the two villages on the Glan suffered losses among their inhabitants. The County Palatine of Veldenz-Lützelstein died out in the late 17th century, which triggered disputes over ownership of the defunct county's holdings between Palatinate-Zweibrücken and theElectorate of the Palatinate. It was in the midst of these disputes, in 1715, that Theisberg and Stegen were united into one municipality. In the so-called Mannheim Compromise of 1735, Palatinate-Veldenz-Lützelstein was assigned to the Electorate of the Palatinate. In 1788, the geographer Goswin Widder wrote of Theisbergstegen, now in the Electorate of the PalatinateOberamt of Lauterecken: “Deinsberg and Stegen together make up a municipality and are commonly written Theisberg-Stegen. … In bothhamlets one counts no more than 25 families, 130 souls. Nevertheless, 1 church, 1 rectory, 2 schools, 22 townsmanly and mean houses are on hand.”
TheFrench Revolution swept the old order offeudal lordships away. After the founding of theFrenchDepartment ofSarre with its capital atTrier in 1801, Theisbergstegen lay in theCanton of Kusel in theArrondissement of Birkenfeld. In theBavarian time that followed, the village first belonged to theLandkommissariat of Kusel and took turns with Godelhausen as seat of aBürgermeisterei (“mayoralty”).[9]
The municipality that exists today was newly formed on 7 June 1969 out of the municipalities of Theisbergstegen and Godelhausen as a result of administrative restructuring inRhineland-Palatinate.[10]
Both Theisberg and Stegen were originally farming villages, but in the latter half of the 19th century, the number of working families was already growing quickly with the opening of the quarries on the Remigiusberg. Working families moved to the village, which explains why the population rose so quickly, and also partly why theCatholic share of the population also swelled, from its original 20% to 40% in the mid 20th century. Even before this, Stegen had grown in the 18th century to be the bigger of the two villages. Today, neitheragriculture nor stone quarrying employs many workers. Theisbergstegen has grown into a residential community for people of the most varied professions, of whom only a few actually work in the village, and who often mustcommute far to their jobs. The proportion of pensioners in Theisbergstegen is relatively high.
The following table shows population development over the centuries for Theisbergstegen, with some figures broken down by religious denomination:[11]
| Year | 1825 | 1833 | 1871 | 1905 | 1939 | 1961 | 2003 | 2007 |
| Total | 208 | 200 | 240 | 323 | 445 | 545 | 774 | 716 |
| Catholic | 43 | 197 | ||||||
| Evangelical | 165 | 348 |
The name Theisbergstegen is a fusion of two villages’ names, Theisberg and Stegen. The name Theisberg, first mentioned asDeinesberge in a 992 document fromEmperor Otto III, might have been an earlier name for the Potzberg, on whose slope acastle and a village arose. The ending—berg still means “mountain” inModern High German, and as for the syllable prefixed to it, writer Martin Dolch traces this to a personal name,Degin orDagin. An earlier writer,Ernst Christmann, interpreted the first part of name asDonar, particularly as the village's church was consecrated toSaint Peter (see “Donar's Oak”). Other forms of the name that have been used are:Denesberc (1219),Deynsberg (1221),Denisberg (1253),Deusberch (1309),Deinßberg (1567),Theisberg (1788),Deinsberg (1822).
The name Stegen first appears asStegin in a well known document from 1364 from Count Heinrich II of Veldenz, according to which the dwellers of theUnteramt of Altenglan-Ulmet had to lend material support to the young Count Heinrich and his wife Lauretta. It dealt with the settlement by a small bridge that led across to the village of Theisberg. The name also crops up later, with only the odd minor variation.[12]
Rural cadastral names in the area point to a village named Wetzenhausen, although this lay within Haschbach's current limits. Other vanished villages are unknown.[13]
Saint Peter's Church (Peterskirche), the church of Theisberg (Deinsberg), functioned as early as theHigh Middle Ages as the hub of a great parish that reached east of the Glan fromNanzdiezweiler over to Mühlbach, within which there were branch churches inBosenbach,Neunkirchen am Potzberg andNiedermohr. Also grouped into this parish was the village of Stegen in theRemigiusland, which belonged to the church on the Remigiusberg. Meanwhile, Saint Peter's Church in Theisberg can be regarded as one of the oldest churches in the Glan valley. It was considerably older than the church on the Remigiusberg and without a doubt was preceded by a wooden structure. The first stone building might have arisen at the turn of the 12th century. While other churches were remodelled from the ground up in the time ofGothic architecture, Saint Peter's Church in Theisberg underwent conversions in almost every subsequent style epoch. The original steeple was said to be in disrepair at the end of theSecond World War and was thus torn down in 1945 and then replaced with a new one in 1954.
Even after theReformation, little in the church's organization changed at first. The Reverend Johannes Röber (fromRehborn), at first still aCatholicpriest, was mentioned in a 1538 church Visitation protocol as “Lutheran pastor on the Petersberg”. OtherEvangelical pastors in these early times were Gottfried Sutoris and Johannes Limbach, the last Abbot ofDisibodenberg, who had also already worked as a Lutheran pastor inOdernheim am Glan. While the Lutherans of the Duchy ofPalatinate-Zweibrückenhad toconvert toCalvinism in 1588 on Duke Johannes I's orders, this change did not come off in the County Palatine of Veldenz-Lützelstein. Since the inhabitants of Stegen were onlyannexed to Veldenz-Lützelstein in 1600, they were obliged to reconvert to Lutheranism, since the conversion to Calvinism had been completed in the intervening twelve years. Stegen now likewise belonged to the parish of Theisberg. After theThirty Years' War, the principle ofcuius regio, eius religio, which had, among other things, brought about the bizarre series of forced conversions in Stegen, was abolished, and once again, Catholic settlers could be found in the villages. Catholics’ numbers were further swollen during theElectorate of the Palatinate rule and by the arrival of Catholic newcomers in the industrial age. In 1724, theProtestants and Catholics came to an agreement to share the churches. The Lutherans from throughout the parish got Saint Peter's Church, whereas the Catholics got the former monastery church on the Remigiusberg. The priest's lonely life up on the mountain was not always easy for him, and at the turn of the 20th century, the wish arose within the Catholic parish to move the seat to Theisbergstegen. This came about in 1909 when the Catholic rectory and itschapel were consecrated. The Evangelical church of Theisbergstegen remained, until the 1818 Palatine Union, tied toLuther's teachings.
Today, roughly 60% of Theisbergstegen's inhabitants are Evangelical and roughly 40% are Catholic. Also belonging to the Theisbergstegen Evangelical parish within the Evangelical deaconry of Kusel are the villages of Haschbach and Etschberg. The Catholics regained their own parish in 1744. Belonging to today's Catholic parish of Remigiusberg, whose seat is in Theisbergstegen, within the Catholic deaconry of Kusel are the Catholics of Etschberg, Haschbach, Matzenbach and Altenglan.[14]
The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected bymajority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.[15]
Theisbergstegen's mayor is Stefan Klein.[1]
The German blazon reads:In Silber durch einen blauen Wellenbalken geteilt, oben rechts eine goldbelegte, rote Mitra, oben links wachsend ein unbekleideter Wassermann in natürlichen Farben mit goldenem Haar, aus einem roten Krug blaues Wasser ausgießend, unten auf grünem Dreiberg eine blaue Kirche mit goldenen Fenstern und goldenem Kreuz.[16]
The municipality'sarms might in Englishheraldic language be described thus: Argent a barrulet wavy azure, in dexter chief a mitre gules garnished Or, in sinister chief issuant from the barrulet a waterbearer unvested proper crined of the fourth pouring water of the second from a jug of the third, issuant from base a mount of three vert upon which a church of the second with windows and cross of the fourth.
Themitre is a reference to the Bishops of Reims, the former owners of theRemigiusland, within which the formerly self-administering municipality of Stegen and the outlying centre of Godelhausen lay. The waterbearer is acharge drawn from Godelhausen's unofficial coat of arms; the meaning is unknown, but the waterbearer appeared on a Godelhausen village seal as early as 1775.[17] The church is a reference to Saint Peter's Church (Peterskirche) in the formerly self-administering municipality of Theisberg.[18]
The following are listed buildings or sites inRhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[19]
Theisbergstegen’skermis (church consecration festival) is a three-day-long festival held on the last weekend in September.[20]
The singing club was founded in 1897. TheSpielvereinigung (“playing league”) came into being in 1946 and supports severalfootball teams through lively youth work. Agymnastic club, which was founded after theFirst World War, can be seen as this club's forerunner. Likewise in the 1920s, a shooting club was founded. TheLandfrauenverein (“countrywomen’s club”), founded in 1975, too, had a forerunner in the farm housewives’ club, founded in 1898. Also founded in 1975 was thePfälzerwaldverein (“Palatinate Forest Club”), ahiking club. It maintains a cabin in the Buchwald (forest), theBuchwaldhütte. The newly foundedFörderverein Pfalz-Veldenz (“Palatinate-Veldenz Promotional Club”) has its seat in Theisbergstegen.[21]
Running through Theisbergstegen, linking it to the national road network, isBundesstraße 423 (Sarreguemines–Mandelbachtal–Altenglan). Within the village itself,Landesstraße 362 branches off linking the village by way of Haschbach with Kusel.Autobahninterchanges near Kusel andGlan-Münchweiler lie some 10 km away. The village lies on the one-trackLandstuhl–Kusel railway and there are hourly trains at thestation throughout the day, namelyRegionalbahn service RB 67 betweenKaiserslautern andKusel, namedGlantalbahn after a former railway line that shared a stretch of its tracks with the Landstuhl–Kusel railway, including Theisbergstegen station. Therailway also serves to ship away the crushedporphyry quarried on the Remigiusberg.[22]
Theisberg and Stegen were originally held to be farming villages, even if the slopes of the Potzberg and also the steep sides of the Remigiusberg in the Glan valley here were not considered particularly fertile. Better yields were to be had from fields on the floodplain, on the less steep slopes elsewhere in the Glan valley and in the Röderbach valley. A more important economic factor was the one first mentioned in 1543: the mill. Over time, this was run as a gristmill, an oilmill or a sawmill, sometimes at the same time. Shortly before the turn of the 20th century, the mill burnt down; it was built again in 1900 in sober style. Already by the 18th century, the Potzberg mines were offering the populace jobs, as too were the quarries on the Remigiusberg's eastern slope by the 19th century. In 1862, the government inSpeyer gave its approval for the opening of a quarry, which began work forthwith, although in the beginning it was not run very efficiently. In 1877, a few quarrymen opened another quarry under their own management, which did better for a time, until theSecond World War broke out. Even so, it opened again after the war. Small and midsize businesses have located in the municipality, such as excavating and rubble transport, an automotive workshop, a hairstylist, afilling station, a tanning salon and racing businesses.[23]
The municipality has a multipurpose hall.
The efforts in the Duchy ofPalatinate-Zweibrücken dating from the time of theReformation to further schooling throughout the duchy, supported an independent interpretation of theBible, disrupted by the war-filled times of the 17th century. A few schools existed, taught the year round, but were only found in larger towns. Smaller centres like Theisbergstegen, for the most part, had to make do throughout the 18th century with winter school (a school geared towards an agricultural community's practical needs, held in the winter, when farm families had a bit more time to spare), in which the winter school teacher would hold classes during the colder months, only to seek another livelihood in the warmer ones. Such an arrangement was to be found in Theisbergstegen.
By the early 19th century, though, there was aLutheran-Evangelicalschool in the village on Kirchstraße, below the Evangelical rectory, and then there was theCatholic schoolhouse on the Glan's right bank near the bridge. Some things are also known about relations between teachers and the villagers. There was, for instance, a dispute between a teacher and a father in the early 20th century. The father claimed that the teacher hadcaned his son too hard and he furthermore offered up various insults to the teacher. The teacher then successfully sued his pupil's father for defamation, prompting the father, for his part, to lodge a complaint against the teacher for having caused bodily harm, but he was let off with only a warning. In 1955, the municipality built a “central school” in Godelhausen, where at first allprimary school andHauptschule students from Theisbergstegen were taught. Since the 1970 general school reform, this building serves strictly as a primary school for several villages in theVerbandsgemeinde of Kusel. Hauptschule students now attend classes on the Roßberg in Kusel. Other kinds of schools, such asGymnasium,Realschule,Berufsbildende Schulen (vocational training schools) andFörderschulen (special schools), are also represented in Kusel.[24]
The municipality has onekindergarten and oneprimary school.
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