Altrip
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Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ' N , 8 ° 30' E |
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| State : | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| County : | Rhine-Palatinate District | |
| Association municipality : | Rheinauen | |
| Height : | 95 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 10.48 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 7709 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 736 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 67122 | |
| Area code : | 06236 | |
| License plate : | RP | |
| Community key : | 07 3 38 001 | |
| LOCODE : | DE AT3 | |
| Association administration address: | Ludwigstrasse 99 67165 Waldsee |
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| Local Mayor : | Volker Mansky | |
| Location of the local community Altrip in the Rhine-Palatinate district | ||
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Altrip (from Latin alta ripa "high bank") is a municipality in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . The almost unchanged name goes back to the fact that the Alta Ripa fort was founded here in 369 under the Roman emperor Valentinian I. The name refers to the special location on a right bank of the Rhine .
Since July 1, 2014, Altrip has been part of the Rheinauen community , which was called Waldsee before January 1, 2016 . Since the previously independent municipality of Altrip had fewer than 10,000 inhabitants on July 30, 2009 , an agreement was reached on December 19, 2011 on the basis of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipal and administrative reform between the municipalities involved to form a new municipality . This was established by law on July 1, 2014.
According to state planning, Altrip is classified as a basic center .
geography
location
Altrip is located south of the city of Ludwigshafen on the west bank of the Rhine opposite Mannheim on the right bank of the Rhine and is the easternmost place in the Palatinate and the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Altrip extends on an alluvial ridge in the middle of the lowland of the Rhine, which in this area received its current course through the straightening of the Rhine according to Johann Gottfried Tulla's plans in the years 1865 to 1874 and flows around the place in a loop in the south, east and north.
In the north and south the constricted arms of the Old Rhine come up to the place. The west is characterized by a partly silted up old Rhine loop, the Neuhöfer Altrhein , and the lake ensemble of the so-called Blue Adriatic . Alluvial forests spread out along the Rhine and its branches of the Old Rhine . Half of the municipal area is taken up by bodies of water, wasteland and forest.
Gold was panned for 200 years ago in one of the now silted arms of the Rhine . Today sand and gravel dredgers are exploiting the soil. Storage extends to a depth of 20 m from drift sand to fine and coarse sand as well as fine and coarse gravel.
In the Cottaische Morgenblatt published in Tübingen for the educated classes , a letter writer describes a walk to Altrip in 1812:
“When we landed, two French customs officers met us and asked for our passports. We didn't have any and so we tried to get to Altrip without a routing slip. We declared that our intention was only to visit the pastor of the village and on our word of honor that we did not want to go any further, we were dismissed with real old French courtesy. We happily arrived in Altrip. This place actually got its name from the high banks of the Rhine. The Romans had a colony there that they called alta ripa. Otherwise it was on this side of the Rhine, but nowadays, since the river had found a new bed, it is on the other side. The inhabitants feed on fishing, which is very productive here, as there are many and large fish in the old Rhine. Without special instructions, it is difficult to get fish because the community sends its harvest to Mainz. Here it is where the government had the old Rhine separated again: the dam that accomplishes this is truly great. Many thousands of acres of land are protected from flooding by this dam. "
climate
Altrip is located in an area whose climate is influenced by numerous bodies of water and forests. Early spring begins in the first third of March. The annual temperatures are around 11 ° C. Heavy precipitation in summer can cause greenhouse effects, the waters favor fog fields in late autumn.
Neighboring communities
Neighboring communities are from north to south Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Neuhofen and Waldsee on the west and Mannheim on the east side of the Rhine.
history
Timetable
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| 369 | The place was first mentioned in the Panegyricus of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus before Emperor Valentinian I. |
| 380 | Altriper legionaries must adopt Christianity |
| 390 | Altrips are mentioned in the Notitia dignitatum |
| around 400 | Legionaries evacuate the Alta Ripa castle |
| 406/407 | Destruction of the fort by fire |
| 436/437 | End of the Burgundian rule in Altrip |
| 438 | First mention of the name "Altaripa" in the Codex Theodosianus |
| 762 | King Pippin III gives the Cella Altrepio to the Prüm monastery in the Eifel |
| 840 | Regino is born in Altrip |
| 892 | Regino becomes abbot of the Prüm monastery |
timeline
Prehistoric times
The oldest evidence of human life at Altrip is the thigh bone found in a gravel pit of a Neanderthal man who lived more than 100,000 years ago. He had a stocky body about six feet tall with short limbs, a low skull, and thick bones over the eyes. Even if no ice-age tool finds could be recovered in the Altriper district, many animal bone finds were made in gravel pits, among other things. a. Mammoth bones, the teeth of bison and primitive horses, fragments of a giant deer antler, tusks of an urber and the lower jaw of a primeval antelope.
Tools were found from the Neolithic Age, a bronze vessel and a bronze needle from the Bronze Age , while there are no inventoried finds from the Iron Age .
Roman times
Shortly before the turn of the century, the Romans appeared in the areas to the left of the Rhine. The Altrip fort was founded later because in ancient times the Neckar flowed on the opposite bank of the Rhine and the left bank of the Rhine was expanded as the border of the Roman Empire after the fall of the Limes .
Altrip was first mentioned as the Roman foundation of a fort in the reign of Emperor Valentinian I in 369, in the eulogy ( Latin Panegyricus ) that Quintus Aurelius Symmachus gave to the emperor on the New Year of 370. There he speaks of “the bank that is named after its height” ( Latin … ipsa ripa barbariae, cui altitudo nomen inposuit… ). Ammianus Marcellinus reports on the construction process in the Altrip and Neckarau area :
“When he then considered that the high and safe bulwark - for which he himself had laid the ground from the draft - could gradually be undermined by the powerful surge of waves - because the Neckar flows past it - he decided to divert the main current. He summoned experienced hydraulic engineers and a well-equipped section of his troops and went to the difficult work. For many days, fixtures that had been put together from oak wood and left in the river and next to which huge piles had been driven into the ground - which had to be repeated often - were thrown into confusion by the dammed water and walked away by the force of the current , lost. Nonetheless, the emperor's increased zeal and the effort of his disciplined soldiers, who often stood up to their chins in the water while working, won out. Finally, and not without the mortal danger of individual people, the border fortress was withdrawn from the unrest of the pushing river and is now strong and secure.
The term Altaripa itself is first mentioned in the Codex Theodosianus published in 438 as the place where a law was promulgated on June 19, 369.
middle Ages
There was no continuity of settlement between the end of the Roman Empire and the Germanic era. The Alemanni and later the Franks founded new settlements. Only Rheinzabern , Pfortz and Altrip kept the old Roman name in the Rhine plain . In Altrip's case, this could have something to do with the fact that it was one of the forts that blocked the Alemanni living on the right bank of the Rhine from crossing the Rhine, so that this name was known and passed on. There is no evidence of an Alamannic settlement in Altrip, but the location on a flood-proof alluvial ridge and the traffic situation allow the conclusion that the place was inhabited during the Alamann's time, but that no lasting traces can be expected due to the Alamann's short stay of almost 60 years.
During the Merovingian era, the Neckarau royal court was established on the other side of the Rhine, but it is not known what the relationship with Altrip was at that time. There was a Frankish settlement or fortification there, but the year of its foundation cannot be given. However, there is documentary evidence that in the Carolingian era the Neckarau royal court was transferred to the monastery cell in Altrip for " perpetual ownership ".
Altrip was assigned to the mighty Prüm Abbey on August 13th 762 as a monastery cell by King Pippin and was the economic center of the abbey’s extensive possessions in the Nahe , Worms , Speyer and Lobdengau (Ladenburg).
It is very likely that Regino , who later became the abbot of the Prüm monastery , was born in Altrip in 840 . He wrote the first world chronicle written in Germany.
Sources from later times could point to the existence of a castle in Altrip.
Modern times
The reformed theologian David Pareus recorded scientific observations from the years 1584 and 1596, which he himself made on the occasion of two visits to Altrip. On his second visit, he noticed that the Rhine, which had flowed through two mighty loops above Altrip twelve years earlier - first to the left, then to the right - had now broken through a dam and cut off the two river loops. The river was now flowing past the village immediately east at a much greater speed. In another source, the Altrip breakthrough in the Rhine was dated incredibly early to 1509, which historians, assuming the wrong reading of a digit, corrected to 1609. On the basis of Pareus' notes, however, it seems clear that not one digit was read out, but the last two were twisted and the breakthrough took place as early as 1590.
In 1865, as part of the straightening of the Rhine, a puncture was made immediately east of the town. This changed the original plan to let the Rhine flow west of the town, and Altrip remained part of the Bavarian Palatinate. The "Altriper Eck" is depicted on the tombstone of Johann Gottfried Tulla .
Second World War
During the Second World War , some flak positions were set up around Altrip in order to protect the nearby large power station in Mannheim from Allied air raids. In the course of the war, 101 residential and farm buildings in Altrip were completely damaged by bombing, 100 seriously and 659 slightly damaged, and air alarms were issued 573 times. The village boundary was hit by air strikes for 38 days, killing 35 people and injuring 58.
Population development
The first indication of the population is from 1585; At that time, around 130 residents lived in what is now Ludwigstrasse and Römerstrasse. By 1617 the number rose rapidly to 215, but then remained largely constant for a long time: in 1721 there were around 250 and in 1806 260 inhabitants. The reason for this is the cramped location of the place, which offered relatively few building sites that were not endangered by the floods. By 1840, the removal of feudal restrictions and the influx of many immigrants meant that the population had roughly doubled to 550. They found living space by dividing courtyards and redistributing the plots within the previous settlement boundaries.
With the straightening of the Rhine and thus the containment of the flood risk, the spatial situation changed fundamentally, an expansion of the settlement area was now possible. Around 2500 people lived in Altrip until the First World War . After the Second World War, this number increased again considerably through the creation of new building areas, so that at the beginning of the 21st century there were almost 8,000 inhabitants. Since then, this number has fallen slightly again, at the end of 2018 Altrip had around 7,600 inhabitants.
The development of the population of Altrip, the values from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:
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politics
Municipal council
The municipal council in Altrip consists of 24 council members who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.
The distribution of seats in the municipal council:
| choice | SPD | CDU | GREEN | LEFT | FWG | DVU | WGR | total |
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| 2019 | 6th | 5 | 5 | - | 7th | 1 | - | 24 |
| 2014 | 8th | 7th | 4th | - | 4th | 1 | - | 24 |
| 2009 | 7th | 8th | 4th | 0 | 4th | 1 | - | 24 |
| 2004 | 6th | 6th | - | - | 8th | 0 | 4th | 24 |
- FWG = Free Voter Group Altrip e. V.
- DVU 2009 = the German People's Union party , since 2014 = the German People's Union Rhein-Pfalz e. V.
- WGR 2004 = two groups of voters
mayor
Since 1585, six families have been mentioned repeatedly in Altrip's documents; their names still exist in the village today. These are the names Hook / Hoock, Hornig, Hört (h), Lemmert, Schweickert and Schneider, which are also frequently represented in the list of mayors.
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In the local elections on May 26, 2019, Volker Mansky was elected mayor with 60.34% of the vote.
Coat of arms and flag
Description of the coat of arms : In the black field, a golden lion with its front paws holds a divided coat of arms on a green background, with the Wittelsbach diamonds on top and a gold anchor in red on the bottom.
The flag is split or divided by blue and yellow and blue in a ratio of 3: 5: 3, including the coat of arms.
Community partnerships
Altrip maintains a community partnership with the French community of Petit-Réderching and Wiehe , part of the town of Roßleben-Wiehe in Thuringia.
Culture and sights
Buildings
Right next to the church, where the Roman fort once stood, two portico poles, a pilaster and the fragment of a scaled Jupiter giant column from the fort are set up in a small information center and are explained by panels.
The water tower in the town center is a landmark of the town. It was inaugurated on August 27, 1927 when the aqueduct was put into operation. The following document is walled into the water tower:
“In the year of the Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, when Paul von Hindenburg was President of the German Empire, Dr. Heinrich Held Prime Minister of Bavaria, Dr. Jakob Matheus Regional President of the Palatinate, Upper Government Councilor Dr. Albert Lederle was the head of the Ludwigshafen am Rhein district office - when Adam Jacob was the first, Michael Kirsch second and Philipp Hoock IV was the third mayor of Altrip, this water tower was built. "
Another landmark is the tower of the Protestant church Altrip:
“The church tower, positioned at the northeast corner of the nave, comes from the early 13th century, the late Romanesque: unplastered quarry stone masonry; Acoustic arcades as twin windows with set columns; eight-sided, brick pointed helmet over four gables. It is the only completely preserved Romanesque tower in the district. "
The church tower served as a landmark and distance meter for Rhine boatmen:
“From Mannheim to Germersheim, the Rhine boatmen used the old church and signal towers of Neckarau, Altrip, Ketsch, Otterstadt, Altlußheim, Rheinhausen, Eichholzheimer Schloss, the Udenturm and the Speyer Cathedral, the tower of the Germersheim Castle, the castle tower in Udenheim-Philippsburg and the St. Michaelskapelle in Russheim. That is why these towers were built very high and roof hatches were attached to the stone roof helmets or pyramids, from which fire signals could be given in an emergency. Of course, the old place where such a building stood has been retained each time a new church tower is built. "
societies
Most of the members have the TuS Altrip , which is known for its work in junior football. In 1970 the team, for which the later national player Manfred Kaltz played, became German runner-up in the A-Juniors.
The international dirt track races of the Altrip motorsport club are well known. The canoe club won German championships and a runner-up world championship. The weightlifters of the AC Altrip went to the barbell in the 2007/2008 season in the 1st Bundesliga.
One of the largest local groups of the German Life Saving Society in the DLRG district of Vorderpfalz is based in Altrip.
The local history and history association Altrip takes care of the preservation of the historical monuments and, in cooperation with the community, has created the information center for Alta Ripa Castle .
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The Rheingönheimer Kreuz west of Altrip, where the federal highways 9 ( Karlsruhe - Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) and 44 ( Frankfurt - Ludwigshafen ) meet, enables all large-scale connections on the left bank of the Rhine. Due to the subsequent abandonment of the eastern branch, which was supposed to reach Mannheim north of the residential area past Altrip via a new bridge over the Rhine, there is no direct connection there.
A Rhine ferry runs from Altrip to Mannheim. The first ferry for which Altrip was granted ferry rights in 1898 was a yaw ferry , which, attached to the longitudinal rope, was moved back and forth by the current. This ferry disrupted shipping traffic and was therefore replaced in 1958 by a ferry with its own motor.
Up until the 1980s there was an Altrip stop on the opposite side of the Rhine on the Rheinbahn route between the Mannheim-Neckarau and Mannheim-Rheinau Hafen stations .
Today the minibus route 98, which is operated with large taxis , runs from Mannheim-Neckarau via the Rhine ferry to Altrip, where the bus route 570 from the Rhine-Neckar to Ludwigshafen- Rheingönheim can be changed. At times the 578 also runs to Mutterstadt.
education
There are four kindergartens in the community: the Friedrich-Froebel-Kindergarten (communal), the Geschwister-Scholl-Kindergarten (communal), the Protestant Kindergarten and the Kindergarten Regino (Catholic). The Albert Schweitzer Primary School looks after the students up to the fourth grade. Secondary schools must be attended in the neighboring towns, for example in Limburgerhof , Ludwigshafen or Mannheim.
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- Ernst Philipp Jacob (born March 29, 1886 in Altrip; † May 16, 1967 in Hanover)
- Adam Jacob (born June 6, 1887 in Altrip, † April 3, 1981 in Altrip)
- Perhobstler (born December 4, 1891 in Altrip, † April 7, 1975 in Frankfurt)
Sons and daughters of the church
- Regino von Prüm (around 840–915), music theorist, canonist and historian
- Alo Altripp (1906–1991), painter and graphic artist
- Werner Feth (1911–1964), football player
- Helmut Schneider (1913–1984), football player
- Iris Klein (* 1967), reality TV participant and restaurateur
People who worked on site
- Karl-Heinz Weyrich , state politician (SPD), was part of the local council.
- Manfred Kaltz (* 1953), soccer player
- Joachim Mazomeit (1932–2012), pastor
literature
- Maximilian Him : Alta ripa 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, column 1692.
- Elke Knöppler: Mer redd jo nothing, mer seschd jo blous . Altriper Dictionary. Ed .: Altrip community and Altrip local history and history association. Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 1999, ISBN 978-3-89735-119-6 .
- Fanny Morweiser: A summer in David's house . Diogenes, Zurich 1983, ISBN 978-3-257-21059-0 (novel with Altrip as the setting).
Web links
- Local history and history association Altrip
- Literature about Altrip in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ State law on the voluntary formation of the new Waldsee association of November 22, 2013.
- ↑ a b regional data. State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate
- ↑ a b Theodor Maurer, Dieter Kirsch (Ed.): Altrip - Portrait of a Village . Festschrift on the occasion of its 1600 years of existence. Altrip 1970.
- ↑ CIL 13, 06129 .
- ↑ Otto Seeck (Ed.): Q. Aurelii Symmachi quae supersunt (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica ). Munich 1984, ISBN 3-921575-19-2 , p. 324 , line 19 ( mgh.de - first edition: Weidmann, Berlin 1883, reprint; Monumenta Germaniae Historica , Scriptores, 6, 1).
- ^ Imperatori Theodosiani Codex - liber undecimus (11.31.4) 4. thelatinlibrary.com, accessed June 17, 2015 .
- ↑ Regesta Imperii RI I n.95 of August 13, 762 (online ; accessed July 30, 2017).
- ↑ Wolfgang Schneider: Forgotten bunker in Altrip . Down below: the former air raid shelter is hidden under a green area in Akazienweg. In: The Rheinpfalz , Ludwigshafener Rundschau . Ludwigshafen October 21, 2009, p. 3 .
- ↑ vg-rheinauen.de
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Rheinauen, Verbandsgemeinde, second line of results. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Dellwig, Mertzenich: cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate, Kreis Ludwigshafen . tape 7 , p. 32 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Schneider: From Altrip's past and present . In: Homeland yearbook of the Ludwigshafen district . tape 15 , 1999, p. 104-110 .
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