Berg (Palatinate)

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 59 ′  N , 8 ° 12 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Germersheim
Association municipality :	Hagenbach
Height :	108 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.77 km 2
Residents:	2020 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	298 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	76768
Primaries :	07273, 07277 (Neulauterburg)
License plate :	GER
Community key :	07 3 34 002
Association administration address:	Ludwigstrasse 20 76767 Hagenbach
Website :	www.berg-pfalz.de
Mayoress :	Sabine Gerhart
Location of the local community Berg (Pfalz) in the district of Germersheim

Berg (Pfalz) is a municipality in the district of Germersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Hagenbach community .

Listed house Three Kings

geography

The community is on the German-French border. With its Neulauterburg district, the place forms a link with France . On the French side, the city of Lauterbourg immediately follows .

history

The oldest reports about a knightly family that had their seat in Berg go back to the 12th century. We are talking about Wezelo von Bergen , who appears among the ministerial of the Bishop of Speyer , Günther von Henneberg , but also as a witness in imperial documents or even as a companion of King Heinrich VI. mentioned. Berg is mentioned for the first time in a document in 1176 . In 1281 Berg came to the Bailiwick of Hagenbach and in 1407 came into electoral possession with the same .

From 1802 to 1815 Berg belonged to the French canton of Lauterbourg , in 1815 it became part of the canton of Kandel and in 1816 it became Bavarian . In all the armed conflicts of the past and later - the Thirty Years War , War of the Spanish Succession , Franco-German War and the two world wars of the 20th century , the community was never spared.

Berg in World War II

North of the mountain ran the Western Wall , so the place with its border in the south to France in the " Red Zone " was. In September 1939 the place was evacuated and the residents were brought to the Main Franconia region (including Gerolzhofen , Volkach , Haßfurt and Sommerach ). After several families had already moved closer to home, families returned to Berg in June 1940. A second evacuation took place in December 1944 due to the approaching American troops. This time the people found refuge partly in nearby places in the southern Palatinate. Return was possible in January 1945. In the further course, French soldiers replaced the American ones.

Population development

If not listed separately, the source of the data is the State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate.

year Residents 1802 686 1815 840 1835 1.009 1849 1,222 1861 1,069 1871 1,049 1905 1,050

year Residents 1939 1,308 1950 1,211 1965 1,595 1970 1,777 1975 1.931 1980 2,041 1985 1,945

year Residents 1990 1,950 1995 2,046 2000 2.143 2005 2.162 2010 2,078 2013 2,045

religion

In 2012, 56.7 percent of the population were Catholic and 19.4 percent Protestant. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational. In 1871, out of a total of 1,049 inhabitants, 1,019 were Catholic (97 percent) and 30 were Protestant (3 percent).

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Berg consists of 16 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	FWG	total
2019	3	4th	3	6th	16 seats
2014	4th	4th	2	6th	16 seats
2009	4th	4th	2	6th	16 seats
2004	5	5	1	5	16 seats

Local mayor

• 1956–1982: Otto Fried (CDU)
• 1983–1994: Alois Steigleder (FWG)
• 1994-2004: Rainer Gebhard (CDU)
• 2004–2019: Günther Roitsch (FWG)
• since 2019: Sabine Gerhart (FWG)

Sabine Gerhart was elected for five years in direct election on May 26, 2019 with 70.28% of the vote.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In gold on a green five-mountain, a black central shield, each flanked by a red rose, inside a red armored and tongued golden lion."
	Justification for the coat of arms: It was approved by the Mainz Interior Ministry in 1966 . The Palatinate lion refers to the former belonging to the Electoral Palatinate , the Fünfberg comes from the coat of arms of the Ritter von Berg , who ruled the area until the late Middle Ages, and the roses go back to the village seal of 1737.

Parish partnership

Berg is related to Vordernberg in Styria.

Culture and sights

Museums

In Neulauterburg there is an exhibition on the border in the so-called "Customs Museum" in the former "Customs pavilion". During his active time, this was used for customs formalities when crossing the border between Germany and France and served the German customs officials as office and work space.

Buildings

The Roman Rheinuferstraße ran through Berg, and a Leugenstein marked the distance to Speyer. Only the base of this Roman milestone on the Roman road from Basel to Mainz has been preserved; it can be found at the end of the town next to Landesstrasse 540. This is the first stone of this important Roman long-distance connection on German territory. Another milestone is located at the continuation of the Roman road to the east.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Berg

Economy and Infrastructure

Berg has a stop on the Wörth – Strasbourg railway line .

Personalities

• Hermann Weber (* 1959), university professor for art & design
• Otto Fried (1917–2002), 1956 to 1983 mayor, then honorary citizen

literature

• Literature about mountain in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography
• Ludwig Stehle: Berger Ortschronik . 1980.
• Alexander Thon: Wezel von Berg . In: Communications of the Historical Association of the Palatinate . No. 93 , 1995, ISSN  0073-2680 , pp. 99-115 .

Web links

Commons : mountain  collection of images

• Berg (Palatinate)
• Literature about mountain 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. ↑ Historical get-together in Berg - Topic: The time of the evacuation of Berg during the Second World War ( memento of the original from September 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Berg
4. ^ ^{A b c} Official directory and statistics of the Royal Bavarian Government District of the Palatinate, 1863, p. IV of the appendix
5. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the census in the Kingdom of Bavaria from December 1, 1871 according to individual communities, 1873, p. 65
6. ↑ Ewois, as of July 31, 2012
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
8. ^ The State Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Hagenbach, Verbandsgemeinde, first line of results. Retrieved April 26, 2020 . 
9. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Gräber, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
10. ^ Otto Fried - honorary citizen of the local community Berg (Pfalz). VG Hagenbach, accessed on December 14, 2017 .