Beindersheim

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 34 '  N , 8 ° 19'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhine-Palatinate District
Association municipality :	Lambsheim-Hessheim
Height :	94 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.73 km 2
Residents:	3335 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	582 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67259
Area code :	06233
License plate :	RP
Community key :	07 3 38 002
Association administration address:	Mühltorstrasse 25 67245 Lambsheim
Website :	www.beindersheim.de
Local Mayor :	Ken Stutzmann ( SPD )
Location of the local community of Beindersheim in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis

Beindersheim is a municipality in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Lambsheim-Heßheim .

Parish parts

The residential areas Bentriteshof, Hubertushof, Lilienhof, Oberfeld-Hof, Peterhof and Sonnenhof also belong to Beindersheim .

Protestant Church (left), Catholic Church (right)

Steeples

history

Surname

In the year 855 the name "Bentritesheim" was used in the Lorsch Codex . It is composed of the basic word "heim" and the defining word "bentrites". Bentrit is derived from the old Germanic nickname Bandarit, which is documented for the 6th century. Another spelling was: Bentersheim

timeline

Neolithic

By evaluating aerial photographs in 2005 of already known archaeological sites in the Beindersheim district , a 7300 year old settlement could be proven. The Neolithic house complex is attributed to the time of the band ceramics.

Roman Empire

Beindersheim is located on the Roman road from Speyer to Worms on the western high bank of the Rhine . Foundations of two Roman villas in the area of ​​Bubengewanne and Osterlanggewann prove the Roman settlement in Beindersheim. The eventful history of the patronage begins with “Holy Cross”, often awarded in the Gallo-Roman period.

Alemanni

In the pre-Franconian period the patronage of the parish changed to "Saint Peter", especially since it was not customary to venerate Saint Peter together with Saint Paul until the following Franconian-Carolingian period.

Franconian conquest and the early Middle Ages

Frankish settlements very often arose near Roman settlements. This is also the case in Beindersheim, which is also indicated by the characteristic suffix “-heim”. The first documentary mention of Beindersheim on April 13, 855 in the Lorsch Codex manifests an exchange of goods in the area of ​​the village of Bentritesheim in Wormsgau . From the second documentary mention in 874 in the "Mainz Certificate" it emerges that between 629 and 656 a Franconian king from Bendirdisheim transferred his property to the Cologne bishopric. From this it can be concluded that the village was founded by Bandarit shortly after the Frankish conquest in the 6th century. There are no written sources for the next 400 years.

High and late Middle Ages / Leiningian rule (1024–1481)

Under Konrad II (1024-1039) the Counts of Leiningen received the landgraviate as a fiefdom of the Bishop of Worms.

1254 the patronage and tithe rights of the church to the Holy Cross and Saint Peter are transferred to the knight Diezo von Enselntheim ( Einselthum ). Ten years later, Diezo von Einselthum (who was enfeoffed by Leiningen) obtained the assurance of the Worms Bishop Eberhard that he would be able to sell the tithe right for 600 pounds sterling to the Andreasstift in Worms. Until the French Revolution, the Andreasstift Worms was patronage and tithe lord of the church in Beindersheim. The third church patron is Saint Nicholas, whose veneration emanates from the Cluny monastery from the 12th century.

A document from 1307 proves an existing village court including lay judges in Beindersheim. In 1398, Beindersheim is documented as one of three regional Leininger courts. In 1438 Count Emich von Leiningen enfeoffed Hans Kranich von Dirmstein , known as Bock, with an estate of 102½ acres. In 1481, as a result of an inheritance dispute, after the death of Count Hesso Beindersheim, Leiningen ceded to the Electoral Palatinate.

Electoral Palatinate (1481–1705) / Reformation / Thirty Years War

Walloon immigration

In 1562, Arnold Aquila (Adler) became the first Lutheran pastor to come to the parish. Its start date coincides with the beginning of the confiscation of the spiritual goods, which is carried out by the administration of the Electoral Palatinate . In 1577 the reformed faith was introduced in Beindersheim, and this group grew into the largest religious community. Lutherans and Catholics are the minority. The Lutheran pastor Hubertus Sturmius had to leave Beindersheim in 1579 and became professor of theology at the newly founded University of Leiden / Netherlands.

Beindersheim suffered badly in the Thirty Years' War, especially since it is in the immediate vicinity of the fortress town of Frankenthal. In 1621 the Spanish army besieged Spinolas Frankenthal. In Beindersheim, supplies are looted and buildings are set on fire. In 1632 the Swedes besieged Frankenthal and in 1635 the Spaniards took the city. 1644–1646 Beindersheim was completely devastated by the French, who besieged Frankenthal, which had been captured by the Spaniards.

In 1654 40 Walloon religious refugees were admitted to Beindersheim. In the coming years this group will grow to 200 people. They celebrate their own church services and set up a school in French. The large number of foreign residents must have brought about a serious change in the way they lived together, as there were also communication difficulties at the beginning. In addition, the newcomers hardly had any real estate and had to make a living as day laborers and craftsmen. When French troops slaughtered 43 Beindersheimers on the 2nd Advent of 1688 in the course of the War of the Palatinate Succession, the majority of the Walloons left the village to get to safety on the right bank of the Rhine in the area of ​​Hanau and Frankfurt. In October 1689 the village only had 111 inhabitants.

Hochstift Worms (1705–1797)

On August 26, 1705, the Elector Palatinate Beindersheim ceded to the diocese of Worms. With the new rule, the remaining Catholics are in a more favorable position. The population is growing rapidly, but crop failures in 1784 and 1785 lead to a catastrophic emergency for poorer sections of the population, as documented by the shocking liquidation protocols. There are migrations to the surrounding area, including emigrations to East and West Galicia.

In the course of the coalition wars, French troops came to Beindersheim in 1792. On February 2, 1794, the French commandeered 47 head of cattle in the community. The Prussians take over from the French. On May 1, 1794 there was fighting for Frankenthal, the Prussians had to withdraw. Several civilians flee to the right bank of the Rhine.

French rule (1797-1813)

On October 17, 1797, Austria ceded the left bank of the Rhine to France. Beindersheim becomes part of the Département du Mont-Tonnerre ( Donnersberg ). In 1808 a special chamber of the Mainz jury court sentenced 18 Beindersheim citizens to up to six years in prison. They had refused to pay the high French property tax and had snatched the inventory book from the collecting officer and destroyed state documents.

Kingdom of Bavaria (1816-1918)

At the turn of the year 1813/14, Austrian and Bavarian troops liberated the area on the left bank of the Rhine from French rule. After the Congress of Vienna (1815), Beindersheim came to the Kingdom of Bavaria as part of the Palatinate in 1816 . In June 1849, the Bavarian military quartered 120 horsemen and 384 foot soldiers in Beindersheim to defend themselves against irregulars from Baden and Palatinate. The chronicler Philipp Raquet recorded the last billeting in 1850.

According to the house books of Philipp Raquet and Heinrich Schardon, 235 people from Beindersheim left the village between 1800 and 1858 to emigrate to America. The main settlement area of ​​the Beindersheimers was Ohio (1833).

Population development

Until the end of the 17th century, Beindersheim was probably a purely one-street village on Schenkelstrasse / Kirchenstrasse, which in the early 17th century had around 40 farmsteads and 150-200 inhabitants. In the 18th century there was a continuous population growth through reconstruction and resettlement after the Palatinate War of Succession , so that in 1771 370 inhabitants were counted. During this time the connecting roads branching off to the south were built on. The local boundaries from the 18th century were hardly expanded in the 19th century, since the influx of people was apparently only small compared to the surrounding area and gaps in construction were only closed by new residents. It has spread since the beginning of the 20th century, especially in the south-east. Most of them were pure residential houses for workers and employees in Frankenthal and Ludwigshafen am Rhein . The trend from a farming village to a residential community continued after the Second World War; the areas that have been newly settled since then have more than doubled the built-up area. In 1960 Beindersheim had 1260 inhabitants, since then several new development areas have been developed in the south, west and east.

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Beindersheim consists of 20 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	FWG	total
2019	9	7th	4th	20 seats
2014	8th	9	3	20 seats
2009	6th	8th	6th	20 seats
2004	7th	7th	6th	20 seats

• FWG; Free voter group Beindersheim e. V.

mayor

→ Main article : List of the mayors of Beindersheim

In the election for local mayor in 2019, Ken Stutzmann (SPD) prevailed with 51.4 percent of the vote. His predecessor Thomas Wey (CDU) no longer stood for election.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “In black, a gold mark in the form of a ring, which is filled with a gold cross, the horizontal arms of which protrude beyond the ring, accompaniedbystakes on the right by a silver sword with a gold pommel and on the left by a silver key with a silver beard turned to the left and golden handle. "

Culture, sights, nature

Cultural monuments

• Catholic Church of the Holy Cross, St. Peter and St. Nikolaus (Kirchenstraße 9): New Baroque plastered building, which is based on Upper Bavarian models.
• The Protestant Church (Kirchenstrasse 7) was built in 1748 at the same place for which a church is documented as early as 874.
• Town hall (Schenkelstraße 1): built in 1849, also a Protestant schoolhouse until 1913 and guard house until 1950. Two-storey building in the center of the village, which replaces the previous building from the 17th century.
• Kirchenstrasse 5 : Farm, possibly a former Protestant rectory. The ground floor was built in 1747, the upper floor and the gable roof date from the late 19th century.
• Kirchenstraße 16 : farm from the middle of the 19th century.
• Schenkelstraße 4 and Schenkelstraße 5 : typical landscape and local farms from the 19th century.
• Crossroads on Großniedesheimer Strasse: Erected in 1869, recently restored.
• In the courtyard wall of the new Schenkelstraße 14 building, the former keystone of the tithe barn built in 1774 at this point.
• War memorial in the cemetery, concrete sculpture created in 1959 by Freinsheim sculptor Franz Lind .
• Diehl / Raquet grave in the cemetery, erected around 1910, polished marble base with angel figure.

See also : List of cultural monuments in Beindersheim

Other structures

• Former school building (Brunnenweg 6): two-story plastered building from 1913 with large rectangular windows, high hipped roofs with curved dormers. The building is now used as a library. Adjacent is the former teacher's house (Frankenthaler Straße 27/29), also built in 1913.
• Frankenthaler Straße 10 : homestead from the 19th / 20th centuries Century with a two-story plastered building as a residential and an annex. It was destroyed by fire and then demolished.

Other facilities

• In the Schlittweg is Albrecht Durer - primary school with about 200 students from Beindersheim and Heuchelheim .
• The volunteer fire brigade is stationed at the western entrance to the town . It is one of the five fire brigades in the Lambsheim-Heßheim community and currently consists of 23 fire fighters who cope with their operations with two vehicles.
• In the center of the village there is the Protestant kindergarten “ Noah's Ark ” right next to the elementary school .

nature

• The designated natural monuments include the trees at the Protestant church and the area of ​​the old cemetery behind this church.
• The Schrakelbach , a tributary of the Eckbach , north of the village has been renatured.
• A biotope has emerged from an old gravel pit east of the village .

See also : List of natural monuments in Beindersheim

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Paul Gross (1883–1942), Bavarian officer, then shareholder and managing director of the Frankfurter Strohhutfabrik AG , deported to Lodz in 1941 and murdered there.
• Wilhelm Kreutz (born May 11, 1950), Professor of Modern History at the University of Mannheim
• Brigitte Reinwald (born January 13, 1958), Professor of African History at the University of Hanover.
• Emil Schardon (1887–1950) was a doctor and, because of his bravery in exercising the medical profession, was a knight of the Bavarian Military Medical Order.

People who worked on site

• Rainer Hauck (born January 16, 1978) Bundesliga soccer player, played in youth at MTSV Beindersheim.
• Wendelin Leonhardt (1872– † unknown), architect of the Catholic parish church in Beindersheim (1914–1916).
• Bettina Valeska Lotsch (born September 7, 1977), chemist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, comes from Beindersheim.
• Hubertus Sturmius (16th century) was a reformed pastor in Beindersheim and from 1579 theological professor at the University of Leiden, Netherlands.
• Erwin Wortelkamp (born September 21, 1938) sculptor and painter, founder and director (until 1973) of the "ateliers nw 8" in the Neuer Weg in Beindersheim.

societies

• Men's gymnastics and sport club Beindersheim 1909 eV - active club with 600 members

literature

• Jörg Fesser: Early medieval settlements in the northern front Palatinate . Mannheim 2005, p. 332-334 et al. 417-418 ( uni-mannheim.de ).
• Paul Habermehl: Beindersheim. History of a village . Beindersheim 1979.
• Rudolf H.Böttcher: 12-part series for the 1150th anniversary of Beindersheim, in: Die Rheinpfalz, Ludwigshafen, Frankenthal issue from July 30, 2005 to January 18, 2006 (loose episodes)

Web links

Commons : Beindersheim  - Collection of Images

• Official website of the local parish of Beindersheim
• GenWiki: Article Beindersheim with family history references
• Literature about Beindersheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 104 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ^ ^{A b} Minst, Karl Josef [trans.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 4), Certificate 1170 April 13, 855 - Reg. 3381. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 140 , accessed on January 20, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Die Rheinpfalz , Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Frankenthal edition: Rudolf H. Böttcher: Beindi lived thousands of years before Ötzi from August 4, 2005
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
6. ^ Frankfurter Strohhutfabrik AG and the fate of its managing director and shareholder Paul Gross and his family, accessed on February 22, 2020
7. ↑ Career Apl. Prof. Dr. phil. Wilhelm Kreutz
8. ↑ Relevant for the early medieval local history of Beindersheim.
9. ↑ The material and thoughtful local history of Habermehl in Beindersheim is unfortunately - like many local histories - highly speculative in late antiquity and early Middle Ages. The patronage of the Holy Cross alone does not allow conclusions to be drawn about a late antique Christian parish. Just as speculative is the writing back of the district boundaries on Roman boundary lines. The older theory of a longer Alemannic settlement of the Vorderpfalz during the 5th century is outdated, cf. Jörg Fesser, Early Medieval Settlements in the Northern Front Palatinate , pp. 39–65.