Bellheim

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Coat of arms of the local community Bellheim
Bellheim
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Coordinates: 49 ° 12 '  N , 8 ° 17'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Germersheim
Association municipality : Bellheim
Height : 113 m above sea level NHN
Area : 20.44 km 2
Residents: 8682 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 425 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 76756
Area code : 07272
License plate : GER
Community key : 07 3 34 001
Association administration address: Schubertstrasse 18
76756 Bellheim
Website : www.bellheim.de
Local Mayor : Paul Gardener
Location of the local community Bellheim in the district of Germersheim
Wörth am Rhein Germersheim Zeiskam Ottersheim bei Landau Knittelsheim Bellheim Scheibenhardt Berg (Pfalz) Hagenbach Neuburg am Rhein Jockgrim Neupotz Hatzenbühl Rheinzabern Steinweiler Erlenbach bei Kandel Kandel (Pfalz) Winden (Pfalz) Vollmersweiler Freckenfeld Minfeld Leimersheim Kuhardt Rülzheim Hördt Schwegenheim Lingenfeld Freisbach Weingarten (Pfalz) Westheim (Pfalz) Lustadt Baden-Württemberg Frankreich Speyer Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis Neustadt an der Weinstraße Landkreis Südliche Weinstraße Landau in der Pfalzmap
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Bellheim ( Palatine : Bellem ) is a municipality in the district of Germersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate . Bellheim is the administrative seat of the association of the same name , which is also the largest municipality in the district of Germersheim, which has no town charter. According to state planning, Bellheim is designated as a basic center.

geography

Geographical location and municipality structure

The place is in the Upper Rhine Plain and the South Palatinate about six kilometers southwest of Germersheim . Landau in der Pfalz is about twelve kilometers west of Bellheim. The Eichtal-Brand nature reserve is to the east of the municipality .

The residential areas Hof Altbrand, Am Hördterweg, Birkenhof, Fortmühle, Im Weyher, In dengerichtsmorgen, Obermühle and Wappenschmiedmühle also belong to Bellheim .

Neighboring communities

Starting in the north, the local community of Bellheim borders the following communities in a clockwise direction: Zeiskam , Lustadt , Westheim , Germersheim , Hördt , Rülzheim and Knittelsheim .

history

Bellheim is first mentioned in a document in the Lorsch Codex on June 12, 774.

The original imperial village was lent from the middle of the 13th century and was given to the Electoral Palatinate as a pledge in 1363 . As a sign of the Palatinate rule, the Palatinate lion and the lozenges have been found in community seals since the 15th century .

During the revolutionary wars between the late 18th and 19th centuries, the ideas of freedom and brotherhood fell on fertile ground in Bellheim as well. A freedom tree was planted for the ideals of the revolution.

On July 30, 1793, a battle between revolutionary troops and units of the Prince de Condé loyal to the king took place near Bellheim .

Napoleon was responsible for the dissemination of the Civil Code and bound the Bellheim municipal administration to French law. In the course of the European reorganization after the Napoleonic era, Bellheim came to Bavaria in 1816 .

On June 13, 1848, Bellheim was the site of a battle between the so-called freelance troops and troops from the Germersheim Fortress.

During the First and Second World Wars, Bellheim was largely spared from destruction, but the place was heavily used with accommodation services, troops and wounded supplies.

In the 1950s and 1960s Bellheim grew very quickly into a large residential community .

Statistics on population development

The development of the population of Bellheim, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents
1815 2,018
1835 2,375
1871 2,679
1905 3,257
1939 4,447
year Residents
1950 4,738
1961 5,658
1970 6.317
1987 6,869
1997 8,227
year Residents
2005 8,485
2011 8,327
2017 8,648
2019 8,682

religion

In 2012, 51.5 percent of the population were Catholic and 25.4 percent Protestant. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Bellheim consists of 24 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice SPD CDU FDP ödp FWG BfB total
2019 4th 8th 4th - 8th - 24 seats
2014 5 8th 2 - 7th 2 24 seats
2009 4th 9 2 2 4th 3 24 seats
2004 4th 10 2 2 6th - 24 seats
  • FWG = Free Voters' Group Adam e. V.
  • BfB = Citizens for Bellheim e. V.

mayor

Paul Gärtner (FWG Adam) became the local mayor of Bellheim on July 24, 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with a share of 54.45% of the votes. Its predecessors were:

  • 1964–1993: Kurt Adam (FWG)
  • 1993-2004: Dieter Adam (FWG)
  • 2004–2007: Hans-Joachim Heinz
  • 2007-2014: Tobias Baumgärtner (CDU)

coat of arms

Banner, coat of arms and flag
Banner Bellheim.svg DEU Bellheim COA.svg
Flag Bellheim.svg
Blazon : “Divided and covered with a red heart shield, inside a gold mark in the form of a horseshoe open at the bottom, which is set with a smallerhook openedto the left , above in black a striding, red-armored and tongued golden lion, below from Silver and blue roughened. "
Foundation of the coat of arms: It was approved by the Mainz Ministry of the Interior in 1961 and goes back to a seal from the 15th century, which already showed the Palatinate lion and the diamonds. In 1961 the heart sign with the district sign was added to distinguish it from similar local coats of arms.

Community partnerships

  • The partnership with the French municipality of Le Perray-en-Yvelines has existed since 1994.
  • The municipality of Bellheim has had a partnership with the city of Koźmin Wielkopolski in Poland since 2002 .

Culture and sights

Catholic Church
Listed building in Bellheim
Bellheimer Park

Buildings

To the north of the village are the remains of the Friedrichsbühl hunting lodge . The Catholic Church of St. Nicholas rises in the center of the village . Its tower dates from the 15th century and was raised in the 19th century. It is 68 m high. The Evangelical Parish Church is about 50 m further east and faces north. Her tower is 42 m high.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Bellheim

Parks

The park on Spiegelbach begins in the immediate vicinity of the town hall. The Bellheim Garden Days have been held on the park area every year since 2006 at Whitsun, an information and sales event on the subject of flowers and gardens that has gained national recognition.

dialect

The southern Palatinate dialect is mostly spoken in Bellheim.

Economy and Infrastructure

energy

Bellheim is home to ten wind turbines; two systems with a capacity of 600 kW were installed in 2001, three further systems with a capacity of 1500 kW each and five with a capacity of 2000 kW were installed in 2009. The system at 49 ° 10 ′ 31.6 ″  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 36.7 ″  E has a total height of 139 meters, as does the system at 49 ° 10 ′ 27.1 ″  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 46.5 "  O , and 49 ° 10 '24.2"  N , 8 ° 16' 7.9 "  O .

traffic

Bellheim is on the Schifferstadt – Wörth railway line . Since December 2010 the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn has been running between Germersheim and Wörth am Rhein with the stops at Bellheim and Bellheim Mühlbuckel

To the east of the community runs the Autobahn 9 , which has been developed like a motorway and leads from Karlsruhe to Speyer .

Public facilities

As the seat of the association , Bellheim houses its administration . The Bellheim youth center H99 is also located in Hauptstrasse . The swimming park with a giant slide and diving tower is located on Zeiskamer Straße, as is the Franz Hage Stadium, built in 1921 and used by the football club FC Phönix and the Verein für Leibesübungen (VfL). An adventure playground is located at the edge of the forest in the forest road. In 2001, an observatory was built next to the swimming pool in Bellheim .

Established businesses

Several large companies are based in Bellheim, such as the Bellheimer Brewery of Park & ​​Bellheimer AG, udie Kardex Remstar (Bellheimer Metallwerk GmbH), and the furniture and kitchen world StrohmeierGilb GmbH (furniture and kitchen trading company, founded in 1933).

education

There is a primary school , a secondary school plus , an adult education center , five day-care centers , a school after-school care center and a community library in the village .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Johannes Storck (1829–1914), prelate, worked from 1869 to 1913 as pastor and dean in Bellheim. The Prälat-Storck-Strasse was named after him.
  • Franz Hage (1897–1989), board member and director of the Silbernagel AG brewery
  • Friedrich Schneider (1902–1974), doctor. The Dr.-Friedrich-Schneider-Halle was named after him.
  • August Heinrich , "Bellemer Heiner" (1881–1965), Palatinate dialect and local poet. The Bellemer-Heiner-Straße was named after him.
  • Kurt Adam, mayor ret. D. (* 1929). Kurt-Adam-Strasse was named after him.

Sons and daughters of the church

People who worked on site

  • August Baum (1880–1960), official of the railway workers' union, politician (SPD, USPD), 1945/1946 mayor of Bellheim, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
  • Georg Gawliczek (1919–1999), 1955/56 coach of Phönix Bellheim
  • Rolf Kahn (* 1943), played for Phönix Bellheim at times
  • Andy Becht (* 1974), politician (FDP) lives in Bellheim

literature

  • Erhard Nietzschmann: The free in the country. Former German imperial villages and their coats of arms. Melchior, Wolfenbüttel 2013, ISBN 978-3-944289-16-8 , p. 16.

Web links

Commons : Bellheim  - Collection of Images
Wikisource: Bellheim  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ^ A b State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved April 14, 2020 .
  3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 146 (PDF; 3 MB).
  4. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 4), Certificate 2040, June 12, 774 - Reg. 1029. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 26 , accessed on January 31, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Erhard Nietzschmann: The free in the country. Former German imperial villages and their coats of arms. Melchior, Wolfenbüttel 2013, ISBN 978-3-944289-16-8 , p. 16.
  6. ↑ Ewois, as of December 31, 2012
  7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.
  8. ^ Minutes of the first constituent meeting of the Bellheim municipal council. Bellheim parish, July 24, 2014, accessed April 25, 2020 .
  9. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Bellheim, Verbandsgemeinde, first line of results. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
  10. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Gräber, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
  11. ↑ thewindpower.net: Bellheim windfarm, Germany.
  12. ↑ Homepage of the Bellheim Observatory Association V.
  13. ↑ BELLHEIMER BRAUEREI - PARK & Bellheimer Breweries GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved August 3, 2020 (de-US).
  14. ↑ Kardex Remstar. Retrieved August 3, 2020 (de-US).
  15. ^ Furniture store StrohmeierGilb GmbH -. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Bellheim primary school. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  17. ^ Realschule plus Bellheim - The secondary school in Bellheim. Retrieved on August 2, 2020 (German).
  18. ↑ Adult Education Center (VHS) in Bellheim ? VHS • INFO. Retrieved on August 2, 2020 (German).
  19. ↑ Kindergartens | Verbandsgemeinde Bellheim. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  20. ↑ IGLUS day care center in Bellheim. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Libraries | Verbandsgemeinde Bellheim. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  22. ^ Kulturverein Bellheim: The Kulturwerkstatt has a history ( Memento from November 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )