Bischheim (Donnersberg)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 40 '  N , 8 ° 2'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Donnersbergkreis
Association municipality :	Kirchheimbolanden
Height :	224 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.61 km 2
Residents:	788 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	119 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67294
Area code :	06352
License plate :	KIB, ROK
Community key :	07 3 33 007
Association administration address:	Neue Allee 2 67292 Kirchheimbolanden
Website :	kirchheimbolanden.de
Local Mayor :	Michael Brack
Location of the local community in Bischheim in the Donnersbergkreis

The village of Bischheim

Bischheim is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Kirchheimbolanden community .

geography

location

The municipality is located in the Palatinate in the Ilbesheimer Plateau within the so-called Alzeyer Hügelland , which in turn is part of the Rheinhessisches Tafel- und Hügelland . Bischheim also includes the residential areas Am steinernen Berg, Heubergerhof , Heubergermühle, Jägerhaus, Kupfermühle and Pulvermühle . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Morschheim , Ilbesheim , Rittersheim , Gauersheim and Kirchheimbolanden .

Elevations and waters

In the south of the municipality, the Hungerberg range of hills extends up to 302 meters . The Leiselsbach flows through the middle of Bischheim and takes in the Gutleutbach from the right on the eastern edge of the settlement .

history

Neolithic remains of settlements were discovered in the municipality, which gave their name to the prevailing Bischheim culture . Bischheim was formerly called Bischofsheim .

The place had given the name to a knightly family early on, from which Stephan ceded his estate to the Rothenkirchen monastery before 1181 and in 1226, together with Jakob von Bischheim, attested a document from the Hane monastery . also Gerung of Bischheim had goods to Marnheim left before the year 1202 this monastery. In 1214 King Friedrich II donated the Bischofsheim branch church belonging to the parish of Kirchheim with all its affiliations to the monastery of the Holy Sepulcher in Speyer for the salvation of souls. A chapel or a small church with at least two altars is documented for the year 1442. The church in Bischheim was still part of the Kirchheim parish in 1501; it was added to the Reformation in the 16th century. In 1698 it was communal between Catholics and Protestants .

During the Thirty Years' War the place was completely abandoned, in 1657 only eight houses were inhabited again. Until the end of the 18th century, the place belonged to the Kirchheim lordship , which was owned by the princes of Nassau-Weilburg . In 1802 there were 359 people in the community: twelve Catholics, 309 Lutherans, 30 Reformed and eight Mennonites.

After 1792 French revolutionary troops occupied the region and annexed it after the Peace of Campo Formio (1797) . From 1798 to 1814 the village belonged to the French department of Donnersberg and was assigned to the canton of Kirchheim , where it was subordinate to the Mairie Kirchheimboland . Due to the agreements reached at the Congress of Vienna (1815) and an exchange contract with Austria , the region became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 . From 1818 the municipality of Bischheim was assigned to the Kirchheim regional commissioner in the Bavarian Rhine District, later to the Kirchheimbolanden district office, from which the Kirchheimbolanden district emerged in 1939 . After the Second World War , Bischheim was part of the French occupation zone until 1949 and 1955 and was incorporated into the newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946. In the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform in 1969, Bischheim moved to the newly formed Donnersbergkreis ; three years later, the community was incorporated into the also newly created community of Kirchheimbolanden .

population

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 406 1835 518 1871 625 1905 532 1939 588 1950 765 1961 634

year Residents 1970 629 1987 552 1997 730 2005 722 2011 719 2017 800 2019 828

religion

The Catholics belong to the Diocese of Speyer and are subordinate to the Donnersberg deanery , the Evangelicals to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Bischheim consists of twelve council members who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and (after filling the office) the honorary local mayor as chairman.

mayor

The local mayor is Michael Brack. He was elected by the municipal council in its constituent meeting in September 2019 without a dissenting vote. He is the successor to Rüdiger Menges, who was no longer a candidate.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In the blue field sprinkled with golden shingles, a red-armored and tongued golden lion, holding an eight-spoke red wheel." It was awarded on March 13, 1931 by the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior .
	Justification for the coat of arms: The lion is taken from the coat of arms of the princes of Nassau-Weilburg , to whose territory the place belonged until the end of the 18th century, the wheel reminds of the Lords of Bolanden , who also owned Bischheim in the Middle Ages.

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

There are a total of six objects on site that are listed buildings.

Herrenmühle zu Bischheim (former cultural monument 2009)

Herrenmuehle - View of the manor house

Stately Wilhelminian style house around 1870, two-storey saddle roof building with plastered quarry stone masonry, half-timbered wide dormer window (around 1900). The historic property includes farm buildings and several outbuildings, the Herrngarten with a "man-high" quarry stone wall and a courtyard. The manor mill, owned by the Counts of Nassau-Weilburg, is mentioned as early as 1657. The mill was operated as an oil, gypsum mill and hemp grater. In 1870 an automatic steam mill was installed. As a large company, the manor mill gained economic importance in the 19th century. Both the farm buildings and the courtyard are partially basement. Rumor has it that there is also an old tunnel that leads to the neighboring Kirchheimbolanden. Possible entrances to such a tunnel can still be found today, but most of the corridors are buried or walled up after a few meters.

The property now covers around 7000 square meters, is owned by and is also inhabited by several owners. Individual building complexes are unused and there is a considerable maintenance backlog; parts of the building are partially in danger of collapsing. These were built back in 2009 and 2010.

nature

There are two natural monuments in the municipality .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

The largest employer in town is the Bindewald grain mill, founded in 1871 in the town of Kupfermühle, which processes the region's agricultural products. The operator family Bindewald is also involved in the company Bindewald und Gutting , based in Saxony-Anhalt . In addition, wine is grown in Bischheim; the community itself to the wine-growing region Palatinate ; the large Schnepfenflug area of ​​the Zellertal extends partly over the municipality markings.

traffic

The state road 386 runs as a bypass road around the place. The county road 60 connects the Heubergerhof with the nuclear community. At a short distance is to the west, a direct connection to the of Kaiserslautern to Mainz extending A 63 .

Local traffic was organized in the West Palatinate Transport Association (WVV) from 2000 , which has been fully integrated into the Rhein-Neckar Transport Association (VRN) since summer 2006 . The number 904, operated by Behles Bus , runs through the community and runs from Göllheim to Kirchheimbolanden. In Kirchheimbolanden there is a stop for the Donnersbergbahn , which runs a bit through the municipality in the north; Awanst Basalt AG is also located there .

tourism

The Saar-Rhein-Main long-distance hiking trail, marked with a yellow bar, also runs through the municipality .

Personalities

• Heinrich Seibert (1910–1951), SS-Hauptsturmführer and head of Section III C 2 (Education and Religious Life) in the Reich Security Main Office, died on the spot
• Ramon Chormann (* 1972), cabaret artist and musician, comes from the town
• Sascha Kotysch (* 1988), soccer player, grew up in Bischheim
• Nicklas Shipnoski (* 1998), soccer player, grew up in Bischheim

Web links

Commons : Bischheim  - Collection of Images

• Website of the local community in Bischheim
• Local community Bischheim on the website of the association community Kirchheimbolanden
• Literature about Bischheim 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 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 142 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the ko. bayer. Rheinkreises , third part, Speier: Neidhard, 1837, p. 256 ff ( Google Books )
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved September 12, 2019 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Bischheim. Accessed August 31, 2019 .