Bobenheim-Roxheim

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 35 '  N , 8 ° 22'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhine-Palatinate District
Height :	94 m above sea level NHN
Area :	20.5 km 2
Residents:	10,096 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	492 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67240
Area code :	06239
License plate :	RP
Community key :	07 3 38 004
Address of the municipal administration:	Rathausplatz 1 67240 Bobenheim-Roxheim
Website :	www.bobenheim-roxheim.de
Mayor :	Michael Georg Müller ( SPD )
Location of the community of Bobenheim-Roxheim in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis

Bobenheim-Roxheim is an association-free municipality with more than 10,000 inhabitants in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . According to state planning, the community is designated as a basic center.

geography

Bobenheim-Roxheim is located in the northern Palatinate between the cities of Worms (about three kilometers north) and Frankenthal (about five kilometers south). The immediate neighbors are the Worms district of Weinsheim and the communities of Kleinniedesheim and Großniedesheim . On the opposite side of the Rhine, Lampertheim , which belongs to the Hessian district of Bergstrasse, borders on Bobenheim-Roxheim.

history

Bobenheim and Roxheim belonged to the Worms Monastery . In the 13th century, the two villages became a fiefdom of the Lords of Stauf, which resulted in frequent changes of ownership. In 1460 Bobenheim was burned down. In 1562 two ships with Dutch reformed refugees arrived in Roxheim and they settled in Frankenthal. The inhabitants lived mainly from fishing and agriculture.

Since the early 16th century, as a subordinate post office of the Rheinhausen post office , Bobenheim belonged to the Dutch postal route between Innsbruck and Brussels , the first permanently operated postal line in the Holy Roman Empire . Postmaster General Johann Baptista von Taxis († 1541) awarded Emperor Karl V , with permission and confirmation , the Rheinhausen post office, with its branches in Bobenheim near Worms and Diedelsheim , to his cousins Seraphin I von Taxis and Bartholomäus for the pursuit and usufruct of taxis .

As part of the Rhineland-Palatinate functional and territorial reform, the two previously independent municipalities "Bobenheim am Rhein" (then 3,970 inhabitants) and "Roxheim / Pfalz" (4,971 inhabitants) were dissolved on June 7, 1969 and from them the association-free municipality Bobenheim -Roxheim newly formed.

The Littersheim desert , northeast of Bobenheim, also belongs to the community , with an inhabited large estate that arose from the property of the Worms monastery of Maria Münster and is still called Nonnenhof or Littersheimer Hof today .

Population development

The first population of Bobenheim mentions 120 inhabitants in 1667. Only with the reconstruction after the Palatinate War of Succession did a stronger population increase, for 1771 300 people are mentioned. The abolition of feudal rule made it possible for small farmers, craftsmen and other immigrants to move in from the area after 1797, which increased the population from 334 in 1802 to around 700 in 1840. Up to this time the development of the previous settlement area had been densified without changing the size of the place. In the second half of the 19th century, on the other hand, new streets were built, mostly with houses for employees and workers, so that from 850 inhabitants in 1870 the population increased in 1900 to 1,650 people. Bobenheim benefited from the Mainz – Ludwigshafen railway line opened in 1853 , which encouraged the settlement of commuters to Worms, Frankenthal and Ludwigshafen and contributed to the increase in the population to 2,664 in 1939. From 1937, a new building area was also created in the northeast, the area of ​​which, after the settlement was completed in the 1960s, corresponds to the size of the entire older town.

Roxheim shows a basically similar population development, after the first phase of population growth as a result of the reconstruction after the Palatinate War of Succession, around 600 inhabitants were counted in 1797. The influx after the end of feudal rule doubled the population to well over 1,000 by 1840. In Roxheim, too, many dwellings were built in the second half of the 19th century for employees and workers from the industrial centers of Worms, Frankenthal and Ludwigshafen am Rhein , which increased the population to 1,900 around 1900. Due to a large new building area in the northwest, the population rose to 3,582 people in 1960.

religion

In 2001, 42.82 percent of the population were Catholic, 32.89 percent Protestant and 24.28 percent belonged to another religion or were non-denominational.

According to the 2011 census , 38.5 percent were Catholic, 31.0 percent were Protestant and 30.4 percent belonged to another or no religion.

Churches:

• Catholic parish church St. Laurentius in Bobenheim (built 1898)
• Catholic parish church St. Maria Magdalena in Roxheim
• Evangelical Church Roxheim

Patron saint of:

• Bobenheim: St. Laurentius
• Roxheim: St. Maria Magdalena

politics

town hall

Municipal council

The municipal council in Bobenheim-Roxheim consists of 28 honorary council members (in the 2014-2019 electoral period there were 24 members, the temporary reduction was made in accordance with Rhineland-Palatinate electoral law due to the reduced number of inhabitants), who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized Proportional elections were elected, and the full-time mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	GREEN	WE	FWG	WGR	total
2019	9	10	5	-	4th	-	28 seats
2014	9	9	2	2	2	-	24 seats
2009	7th	12	2	3	3	1	28 seats
2004	7th	11	1	5	4th	-	28 seats

• WE = WE citizens of Bobenheim-Roxheim
• FWG = Free Voting Group Bobenheim-Roxheim e. V.

mayor

Mayor of Bobenheim-Roxheim is Michael Georg Müller (SPD). In the runoff election on September 22, 2013, he prevailed with a share of 60.1% of the vote, after none of the originally four applicants had achieved the necessary majority in the first ballot. Müller thus became the successor to Manfred Graef (CDU), who had not taken office after 18 years.

coat of arms

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  Former coat of arms of Bobenheim

	Blazon : "In the divided shield above in black a silver key placed diagonally to the right with a downward facing beard, accompanied on both sides by four golden crosses, below in silver ablue pike swimming to the left ."
	Justification for the coat of arms: The eight golden stars (little crosses) stand for the villages whose inhabitants were able to withdraw into the inner ring of the Worms city wall in the event of unrest. The key comes from the coat of arms of Worms. The pike refers to the nearby Rhine.

The current coat of arms of Bobenheim-Roxheim was once only the coat of arms of the municipality of Roxheim / Pfalz. In 1974 the coat of arms was awarded unchanged by the Rheinhessen-Pfalz district government for the newly created community. The coat of arms of Bobenheim am Rhein, which was officially approved by the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior in 1927 , depicts St. Laurentius with his attributes of rust and palm branch . He is the patron saint of Bobenheim.

flag

The flag is used as a banner flag. It is split from black and yellow, in it the coat of arms of Bobenheim-Roxheim. The flag was awarded in 1984 by the Rheinhessen-Pfalz district government.

Community partnerships

A partnership has existed with Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur in France since 1980 and with Jeßnitz in Saxony-Anhalt since 1990.

Culture and sights

The Bobenheim-Roxheimer Bahnhofstrasse

Cultural monuments

• See the list of cultural monuments in Bobenheim-Roxheim
• see list of stumbling blocks in Bobenheim-Roxheim

Without protection status

• Roxheim synagogue .

Clubs, leisure and sports facilities

Culture and festival hall, folk education center, concerts, exhibitions, local museum, events for children and senior citizens, nursing home, open-air stage Im Busch , Hasch Masch theater , outdoor and indoor sports facilities, tennis courts , mini golf , bird park, animal enclosure, 15 children's playgrounds, youth center with skater park, 7 football fields, nature and landscape protection areas, cycling and hiking trails, DPSG scout tribe St. Laurentius

Regular events

Bürgerfest (on Pentecost ), Roxheimer gondola Festival (July 1st weekend) with jousting , fair common Kerwe (September 4th weekend) with sonntäglichem procession, Christmas market (2nd weekend of Advent ), events of over 60 local clubs

Economy and Infrastructure

Economic structure

The Bobenheim-Roxheim has an industrial area in which hypermarkets and other shops have settled. It is also home to wholesalers, industrial companies, car dealers, workshops, freight forwarders and petrol stations.

traffic

The Bobenheim-Roxheim train station

Due to the convenient connections in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region , the nearby connections to the federal autobahn 6 and to the federal autobahn 61 , the rail connection to the Mainz-Mannheim railway line , bus lines and a well-developed road network to the neighboring municipalities, the population is around 10,000 Community has become a commercial or industrial location and a residential community.

After modernization measures for the infrastructure on the Mainz – Mannheim railway line , the Bobenheim station will be served by S-Bahn every half hour from December 2021 during the day. Before that, the Bobenheim station was expanded during the Rhineland-Palatinate summer vacation 2014, among other things, so that every platform can be reached barrier-free and a level transition between platform and train is possible. Disabled people who do not have sufficient spatial mobility still need a vehicle-side entry aid , for example by a lift , a ramp or by staff.

Security

The Bobenheim-Roxheim volunteer fire brigade provides defensive fire protection and general help.

Community library

Bobenheim-Roxheim community library
founding	1982
Duration	30,718 media as of June 30, 2014
Library type	Public library
place	Bobenheim-Roxheim
ISIL	DE-1277
operator	Bobenheim-Roxheim community
Website	http://webopac.winbiap.de/bobrox

The task of the Bobenheim-Roxheim community library is to ensure the analog and digital media and information supply for the 1093 active users and to offer an attractive program of events. In 2013, 93 events took place. The community library takes part in the Rhineland-Palatinate Library Days and, as part of its work with children and young people, in the state-wide reading summer .

Media usage

In 2013 there were 68,969 loans and loan term extensions in the local lending facility of the Bobenheim-Roxheim community library. Customers can also use interlibrary loan to obtain media from other libraries. In addition to the print media, audio books and other media available on site, there are e-books and e-audio books in remote access, which customers of the community library can use via the Metropolbib online loan .

Award for reading in the Little Triangle 2013

In 2013, the Bobenheim-Roxheim community library, together with the Lampertheim and Sandhofen public libraries, took second place at the German Reading Prize for outstanding community engagement with the "Reading in the Small Triangle" project

history

The Bobenheim-Roxheim community library was officially founded in March 1982 with an initial inventory of around 10,000 media, including the old inventory of the Protestant rectory in Roxheim. A predecessor institution based on private initiative existed from 1974 to 1982. After initially being housed in the town hall of the community, the community library moved in 1995 to new premises on Kurpfalzplatz (Pfalzring 39a).

Other educational institutions

Catholic public library Bobenheim (St. Antoniusheim, Roxheimer Straße), Catholic public library Roxheim, school and cultural facilities with five kindergartens, elementary and secondary school plus .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Adolf Merz (1903–1987) politician (SPD); was the last mayor of Bobenheim (1960–1969) and member of the state parliament in Rhineland-Palatinate (1951–1967)
• Karl Wanger (1930–2000) former soccer player; German soccer champion with 1. FC Kaiserslautern
• Wolfgang Hertinger (* 1950) police officer; President of the State Criminal Police Office Rhineland-Palatinate (2009–2015)

People who worked on site

• Ludwig Becker (1855–1940), architect; planned the parish church of St. Laurentius in Bobenheim in 1897
• Franziskus von Bettinger (1850–1917), Archbishop of Munich; 1888–1895 pastor in Roxheim
• Georg Biundo (1892–1988), honorary citizen of Roxheim; Historian; 1946–1953 pastor in Roxheim
• Harald Braner (* 1943), former Bundesliga player; worked as a player coach at SC Bobenheim-Roxheim
• Siegmar Henker (1942–2009), disabled athlete; won several world and European championships, took part in the Paralympic Games six times and won a total of ten gold, eleven silver and four bronze medals; lived in Bobenheim-Roxheim
• Ludwig von Heyl zu Herrnsheim (1920–2010), industrialist; lived in Bobenheim-Roxheim
• Marie-Elisabeth Klee (1922–2018), politician (CDU) and member of the Bundestag; lived in Bobenheim-Roxheim
• Jutta Müller (* 1968), world champion in windsurfing; grew up in Bobenheim-Roxheim
• Albert Friedrich Speer (1863–1947), architect; planned the schoolhouse in Roxheim in 1889

literature

• Georg Biundo: Bobenheim-Roxheim . From the history of a large community. o. O. [Bobenheim-Roxheim] 1973, DNB  750961945 .
• Municipality of Bobenheim-Roxheim (publisher): Bobenheim-Roxheim . Community on the Old Rhine - A portrait. Horb am Neckar 1999, ISBN 3-89570-626-4 .

Web links

Commons : Bobenheim-Roxheim  - Collection of images

• Internet presence of the community of Bobenheim-Roxheim
• Literature about Bobenheim-Roxheim 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. ↑ Population of Bobenheim-Roxheim (June 2016)
3. ↑ regional data . State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate
4. ^ Josef Rübsam:  Taxis, Seraphin I. von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 521 f.
5. ^ Josef Rothmaier: Oberhausen-Rheinhausen - a local history reader . Volume 2. BoD - Books on Demand , 2016, ISBN 3-7412-2075-2 , p. 266, books.google.de
6. ↑ Markus Holzmann: Trari, Trara, the post is here - the history of the post in Rheinhessen . In: Heimatjahrbuch für die Stadt Worms , 2016, ISBN 978-3-944380-44-5 , p. 34, briefmarken-worms.de (PDF)
7. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 172 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
8. ↑ Jörg Fesser: Early Middle Ages Settlements of the Northern Front Palatinate with Special Consideration of the Merovingian Age Findings and the Carolingian Age Written Sources , Diss. Phil., Mannheim 2006, pp. 624–627; PDF output of the source (PDF)
9. ^ Photo from the Nonnenhof, Bobenheim-Roxheim ( Memento from December 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ 2011 census: Bobenheim-Roxheim - population in regional comparison by religion , accessed on March 31, 2017
12. ↑ Manfred Czerwinski, Markus Ziegler: The Church Lexicon of the Palatinate: 1000 churches in the air . IFB, 1995, ISBN 3-9804515-0-X .
13. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
14. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
15. ^ Gernot Kirch: Müller wins mayoral election in Bobenheim-Roxheim. Nibelungen Kurier, September 22, 2013, accessed October 9, 2019 . 
16. ^ Rhein-Zeitung: Bobenheim-Roxheim elects new mayor. September 8, 2013, accessed October 9, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Jutta Blatzheim-Roegler and Pia Schellhammer : Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate - 17th electoral period - printed matter 17/3676 July 31, 2017. (PDF) State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate , August 2, 2017, accessed on August 14, 2017 . 
18. ^ S-Bahn Rhein-Neckar - Modernization of the Mainz-Ludwigshafen infrastructure ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
19. ↑ Accessibility at train stations and stops in Rhineland-Palatinate - as of March 2016 (PDF) on the Rhineland-Palatinate Clock website , accessed on November 14, 2016 (PDF file; 66.1 KB)
20. ↑ ^{a b c} "Variable evaluation", based on the Bobenheim-Roxheim community library, reporting year 2013 , accessed on June 30, 2014
21. ^ Homepage Library Days Rhineland-Palatinate , accessed on June 30, 2014
22. ↑ Home Reading Summer Rhineland-Palatinate , accessed on June 30, 2014
23. ↑ Homepage Metropolbib-Onleihe , accessed on June 30, 2014
24. ^ Homepage of the Lampertheim City Library , accessed on June 30, 2014
25. ^ Homepage of the Sandhofen branch of the Mannheim City Library , accessed on June 30, 2014
26. ↑ Homepage Reading in the Small Triangle , accessed on June 30, 2014
27. ↑ Homepage German Reading Prize , accessed on June 30, 2014
28. ^ German Reading Prize: Prize Winner , accessed on June 30, 2014
29. ↑ Homepage / online catalog of the Bobenheim-Roxheim community library , accessed on June 30, 2014