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4 unusual facts about Kusel


Glan Cattle

The first breed associations were founded in 1880 in Meisenheim and Quirnbach, later followed in 1898 by the Glan-Donnersberg Breeding Association based in Kaiserslautern and in 1912 the revived Association of the Rhenish Glan Cattle Breeding Cooperatives (later Association of the Rhenish Glan Cattle Breeders).

Langweiler

Langweiler, Kusel, a municipality in the district of Kusel, Rhineland-Palitinate, Germany

Quirnbach

Quirnbach, Kusel (also Quirnbach/Pfalz), in the district of Kusel

Wahnwegen

Wahnwegen borders in the north on the municipality of Konken, in the northeast on the municipality of Hüffler, in the east on the municipality of Quirnbach, in the southeast on the municipality of Henschtal, in the south on the municipality of Steinbach am Glan and in the west on the municipality of Herschweiler-Pettersheim.


Blaubach

Blaubach borders in the north on the municipality of Oberalben, in the east on the municipalities of Erdesbach and Altenglan, in the south on the town of Kusel and in the west on the municipality of Körborn.

Deimberg

Young farmers could attend agricultural schools in Meisenheim and Baumholder, and after local governmental restructuring in 1968, also in Kusel.

Erdesbach

Today, the village is almost purely a residential community for those who commute to jobs in Kusel, Kaiserslautern, Ramstein, Baumholder and even as far away as Mannheim and Ludwigshafen.

Glan-Münchweiler station

The Glan-Blies-Weg cycling and hiking trail passes just to the east of the station, running to the south along the former Glan Valley Railway railway to Waldmohr and to the north over long sections of the now dismantled second track of the line to Kusel.

Herren-Sulzbach

Young farmers could go to agricultural schools in Meisenheim and Baumholder, and after the 1968 regional reform, in Kusel, too.

Kirrweiler, Kusel

Young farmers could attend agricultural schools in Meisenheim and Baumholder, and after regional reform in 1968, in Kusel, too.

Lauterecken-Grumbach station

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Münchweiler

Glan-Münchweiler, municipality in the district of Kusel, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Niederstaufenbach

Serving Altenglan 5 km away is Altenglan station, which is on the Landstuhl–Kusel railway and is served by Regionalbahn service RB 67, called the Glantalbahn (the name of which refers to the Glan Valley Railway, which shared some of the route of the Landstuhl–Kusel line, including the former railway junction at Altenglan).

Oberstaufenbach

Upon formation of the Verbandsgemeinden, Oberstaufenbach found itself in the Verbandsgemeinde of Altenglan in the Kusel district.

Schellweiler

Kusel, Glan-Münchweiler and Homburg can all be easily reached from Schellweiler by bus, with routes running over Kreisstraßen and Landesstraßen.

The municipality lies in the Bledesbach valley, which stretches from Schellweiler to Wahnwegen along the highway between Kusel and Glan-Münchweiler.


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