Bockenheim on the Wine Route

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Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '  N , 8 ° 11'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Bad Dürkheim
Association municipality : Leiningerland
Height : 160 m above sea level NHN
Area : 11.24 km 2
Residents: 2194 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 195 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 67278
Area code : 06359
License plate : DÜW
Community key : 07 3 32 006
Community structure: 2 districts
Association administration address: Industriestrasse 11
67269 Grünstadt
Website : www.bockenheim.de
Local Mayor : Gunther Bechtel ( SPD )
Location of the local community Bockenheim an der Weinstrasse in the Bad Dürkheim district
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Bockenheim an der Weinstrasse ( Palatinate Bockrem / Bockrum [ ˈbɔkʁəm ]) is the northernmost municipality in the Bad Dürkheim district ( Rhineland-Palatinate ). It was created in 1956 by amalgamating the communities of Großbockenheim and Kleinbockenheim . It belongs to the community of Leiningerland and, measured in terms of population, is the fifth largest local community with around 2170 inhabitants.

geography

Location and surroundings

The Palatinate Bockenheim is located in Alzeyer hills . It is part of the European Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region and forms the northern end of the Bad Dürkheim district. Immediately to the north is the Rhenish Hessian district of Alzey-Worms .

The local community consists of the districts Großbockenheim in the south and Kleinbockenheim in the north, which have now almost completely grown together structurally. Neighboring communities are Monsheim , Hohen-Sülzen , Offstein , Obrigheim (Palatinate) , Grünstadt , Quirnheim , Kindenheim and Wachenheim (Pfrimm) in a clockwise direction .

Elevations and rivers

The hills rising in two terraces to the west of the residential development of Großbockenheim are called St. Petersberg, Sonnenberg and Fahnenberg. The Kieselberg extends north of the settlement area not far from the border with Monsheim and Wachenheim . The Kinderbach , a right tributary of the Pfrimm, flows through the north of the district from southwest to northeast .

history

The two original towns of Großbockenheim and Kleinbockenheim were historically closely linked for centuries, both due to the small spatial distance and their names. They emerged from small settlements that had developed around Franconian manors after the Franconian conquest of land around the year 500 . A Palatine Bockenheim 770 was first mentioned in a document in the Lorsch Codex under the name Buckenheim . In April 1525, during the Palatinate Peasants' War, the Bockenheimer Haufen formed , a group of peasants who joined the rebels.

During the first half of the 20th century, a number of common institutions existed, such as a school building or several associations. The local elementary school teacher Jakob Böshenz was a vehement proponent of uniting the two communities . A first attempt at a merger in 1947 initially failed because the majority of both municipal councils voted against it. Another attempt took place seven years later; The reason was the planned construction of a new school building, which should promote the merger. A joint meeting of both municipal councils was held especially for this purpose. In 1955 the decision was finally made to merge the municipalities, which took place on October 1, 1956. The newly created community was named Bockenheim an der Weinstrasse .

This initially belonged to the district of Frankenthal (Palatinate) . In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , Bockenheim moved to the newly created Bad Dürkheim district in 1969 . Three years later it was assigned to the also new community of Grünstadt-Land , which was added to the community of Leiningerland on January 1, 2018 .

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Bockenheim 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 FWG total
2019 6th 4th 6th 16 seats
2014 7th 4th 5 16 seats
2009 8th 4th 4th 16 seats
2004 8th 4th 4th 16 seats
  • FWG = Free Voting Group Bockenheim e. V.

mayor

The local mayor is Gunther Bechtel ( SPD ). In a runoff election on June 16, 2019, he prevailed with a share of 52.22% of the vote after none of the original three candidates had achieved a sufficient majority in the local election on May 26, 2019.

Term of office Surname Party / group of voters
since 2019 Gunther Bechtel SPD
from 2004 Kurt Janson independent
from 1999 Emil Wagner FWG
from 1996 Horst Kern SPD
from 1989 Eugene Ackermann SPD
from 1974 Erich Mattern SPD
from 1964 Karl Keidel SPD
from 1956 Karl Ludwig Boell WG Bühler

coat of arms

Bockenheim
Coat of arms of Bockenheim an der Weinstrasse
 Blazon : “Divided by blue and silver, on top of a striding silver horse with a golden mane, bridle, saddle and tail a gold nimbly silver saint, dividing his red cloak with a silver sword, below on a green arched shield a rising, silver-armored black billy goat . "
Justification of the coat of arms: The community created on October 1, 1956 through the merger of Groß- and Kleinbockenheim, wanted a coat of arms immediately after formation, which was created from the coats of arms of the two previously independent communities, simplifying the details by omitting the beggar in the coat of arms of Kleinbockenheim. With the approval of the Ministry of the Interior, Mainz, on February 19, 1959, Bockenheim was also heraldically united.

Parish partnership

A community partnership exists between Bockenheim and the French community of Grandvilliers in the Oise department .

Sights and culture

Buildings

Schlossweg 8: Gate to Emichsburg

Cultural monuments

The remains of the Emichsburg and the town center of Kleinbockenheim are designated as monument zones.

The Emichsburg was once owned by the Counts of Leiningen . After multiple devastations, it was converted into a castle during the reconstruction, which was also destroyed in the following years. His remains are integrated into a winery, which is therefore called the Schlossgut . The Kleinbockenheim town center is characterized by numerous old farmsteads, more and more of which are being restored.

The tower of the Romanesque Martinskirche dates from the 11th century. The Holy Church , which Simon Petrus has as patron , stands on St. Petersberg . It is a baroque chapel with a spring under the altar. It stands on the foundations of a larger Romanesque church. There are also numerous wingert houses that were built as trulli .

  • Weinstrasse 53: former school and town hall

  • The Holy Church on St. Petersberg

  • Catholic Church of St. Lambertus from 1936

  • Lambert's Church, now Protestant

  • Martinskirche tower

  • War memorial

  • Weinstrasse 50–52: the Bockremer barrel (demolished in 2017)

Other structures

House of the German Wine Route

In 1995, as a counterpart to the German Wine Gate in Schweigen , which has marked the southern beginning of the German Wine Route since 1936, the house of the German Wine Route was built between Groß- and Kleinbockenheim . Stylistically based on a Roman fort , it spans the wine route like a bridge and offers not only a restaurant (120 seats) with a lake terrace but also various event rooms. In the tower room with a view of the surrounding vine hills and the Rhine plain to the Odenwald , the wine route wedding takes place for those wishing to be married .

The community center was named Emichsburg after the ruin of the same name. There is also a Kneipp facility in the north-west of the village .

nature

Although located outside of the Palatinate Forest , the west of the district is part of the Palatinate Forest Nature Park . There are a total of nine natural monuments within the Bockenheim district , including the so-called Katzenstein near the Holy Church. It is a limestone block that is considered a pre-Christian sacrificial altar. It is said to have belonged to a pagan cult place on the hill, which, according to folklore, the local saint Philip von Zell converted into a Christian place.

Events

Bockenheim dialect community

Every year pilgrimages to the Holy Church take place around the time of the Peter and Paul Festival.

Since 1953 is in Bockenheim in each October Palatine dialect poetry contest held to which local dialect writing and speaking participants meet. The jury will award up to ten poems.

The Bockenheimer Dialect Days , which take place annually on a May weekend, became known because dialectologists gave lectures on dialects in front of an audience and discussed them - traditionally in dialect - on the podium .

In addition, an annual church fair speech is held on site; the 1992 one was the subject of a lawsuit.

Since 1985, the German Wine Route Adventure Day has always taken place on the last Sunday in August and the German Wine Route Marathon since 1998 . In 2015 the German-Pennsylvania Day was held in the castle .

Fraternity 1813

As is typical for the region, there is a fraternity in Bockenheim . The tradition of the fraternity 1813 Bockenheim goes back over 200 years. Those who want to join the association can apply at one of the meetings in a Bockenheimer Wirtschaft, provided they are residents of the Bockenheim community. Item 2 of the agenda is then the "boy". Here, the "Neiborsch" one must pint of wine empty in a train. Then the newcomer gets the statutes of the fraternity read out and is sworn in. With that he is accepted into the community of boys.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Bockenheim is an old winegrowing village in which viticulture has been practiced for more than 1200 years . Even today it is the most important industry in the town. Bockenheim's vineyards extend over 400 hectares. The Grafenstück area as well as several individual layers are located within the municipality . Some of the vineyards are cultivated by the Kreutzenberger winery in the neighboring children's home. In addition, tourism is becoming increasingly important.

traffic

Road traffic

Bockenheim is the northernmost place on the 85 km long German Wine Route . This runs here on the federal highway 271 and leads in a north-south direction still narrow and winding through the middle of the place. From it a link to the location 6 km south junction is green city of Highway 6 ( Mannheim - Saarbrücken ). On the southern outskirts of the village, the district road 27 branches off from the main road to Colgenstein .

The district administration has been seeking a bypass in the east since the 1990s. In the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 (as of 2016), however, such a bypass is not provided.

Rail transport

Bockenheimer Bahnhof, around 1900

The railway line of the Palatinate Northern Railway Neustadt - Monsheim , opened in full length in 1873, runs on the eastern edge of the village. The Bockenheim-Kindenheim train station was designed as a common train station for Großbockenheim, Kindenheim and Kleinbockenheim. In 1984 passenger traffic between Grünstadt and Monsheim was stopped, but was reactivated eleven years later. Since then, the operating point in the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle , which has since been dismantled to the stop, has been served by regional trains. In a southerly direction, however, the journeys only lead to Grünstadt due to the lack of crossroads and the shift in traffic after the Second World War.

The public transport system is in the transport association Rhein-Neckar integrated (VRN), apply the Community tariffs.

Bike paths

For hikers and cyclists, Bockenheim is the northern starting point of the cabbage and beet cycle path and the German Wine Route cycle path . The Barbarossa cycle path runs through the village.

Long-distance hiking trail

The Pfälzer Weinsteig hiking trail begins in Bockenheim . It runs parallel to the German Wine Route about 100 km south to the border between Germany and France .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Jakob Böshenz (1871–1957), elementary school teacher who earned professional services, which, however, were viewed critically because of his proximity to those in power during the Nazi era . The writer Michael Bauer returned a literary award named after Böshenz in 1991 when he found out about his past.

Sons and daughters of the church

People who worked on site

literature

  • Klaus J. Becker, Wolfgang M. Schmitt (eds.): United for 50 years. Bockenheim on the Wine Route . Bockenheim 2006, ISBN 978-3-938031-17-9 .
  • Herbert Dellwing: The Martinskirche in Bockenheim . In: The tower cock. Sheets of artistic creation and building in the Palatinate Church . Vol. 26, H. 5/6. Speyer 1982, p. 2–24 (special print: Speyer 1982, reprint 1996).
  • Literature about Bockenheim an der Weinstrasse in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography .

Web links

Commons : Bockenheim an der Weinstrasse  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [trans.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 3), Certificate 1115 May 26th 770 - Reg. 496. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 121 , accessed on January 25, 2016 .
  3. ^ Association. In: bockenheim-historie.de. 2001, accessed March 30, 2019 .
  4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Bockenheim. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
  5. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: 2014 municipal council election Bockenheim. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
  6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2009, city and municipal council elections
  7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Leiningerland, Verbandsgemeinde, fourth line of results. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Katzenstein. In: bockenheim-historie.de. 2001, accessed March 31, 2019 .
  9. ↑ St. Peter (Holy Church). In: bockenheim-historie.de. 2001, accessed March 31, 2019 .
  10. ↑ District Administrator Ihlenfeld writes a letter to Minister of State Volker Wissing: “Why is the Bockenheim bypass not part of the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030?” In: pfalz-express.de. August 9, 2016, accessed March 31, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Jakob Böshenz. www.bockenheim-historie.de, accessed on July 11, 2018 .