Bretzenheim

This article deals with the municipality of Bretzenheim in the Bad Kreuznach district, for other places with the name Bretzenheim see Bretzenheim (disambiguation) .

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '  N , 7 ° 54'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Kreuznach
Association municipality :	Langenlonsheim-Stromberg
Height :	102 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.81 km 2
Residents:	2582 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	444 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55559
Area code :	0671
License plate :	KH
Community key :	07 1 33 018
Association administration address:	Naheweinstrasse 80 55450 Langenlonsheim
Website :	www.bretzenheim.de
Local Mayor :	Olaf Budde ( CDU )
Location of the local community Bretzenheim in the Bad Kreuznach district

Bretzenheim is a municipality in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Langenlonsheim-Stromberg community .

geography

Bretzenheim is located on the Nahe 10 km before its confluence with the Rhine . To the south, Bad Kreuznach , in the north of Bingen am Rhein .

Bretzenheim also includes the Hermitage, Sitzius, Karlshof and Orthenberger Mühle residential areas .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1057, when the then archbishop Anno II of Cologne gave the two villages of Winzenheim and Bretzenheim to the Polish queen Richeza as a fief.

Until 1789, the Electorate of Cologne had the basic rule over the rule Bretzenheim . Fiefdoms were later the Count Palatine near Rhine , followed by the Counts of Falkenstein in various lines, before Count Alexander II of Velen bought the rule in 1642 . In 1664 Emperor Leopold I raised Bretzenheim to free imperial rule . In 1669 he bought the villages Dasbach, Kettenbach and Hausen (near Idstein) from the barons of Cornberg . After Count Alexander IV von Velen died in 1733 without an heir, the Archbishopric of Cologne withdrew the fief and gave it to Count Ambrosius Franz von Virmont in 1734 , who also died in 1744 without an heir, whereupon Baron Ignaz Felix von Roll zu Bernau enfeoffed Bretzenheim in 1747 has been. In 1772 he sold the rule for 300,000 guilders to Count Karl August von Heydeck , an illegitimate son of Elector Karl Theodor von der Pfalz . Karl August was promoted to Imperial Count in 1774 and Imperial Prince in 1789. Bretzenheim rose from an imperial rule to an imperial principality . As early as 1795, however, the principality was occupied and broken up by the French as part of the coalition wars. After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Bretzenheim was incorporated into the Prussian Rhine Province .

From 1945 to 1948 there was a prisoner-of-war camp in the Bretzenheim district , the so-called Feld des Jammers , which belonged to the group of Rhine meadow camps .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 728 1835 969 1871 937 1905 954 1939 1,095 1950 1,280 1961 1,431

year Residents 1970 1,872 1987 2,075 1997 2,373 2005 2,414 2011 2,498 2017 2,587 2018 2,593

Population development of Bretzenheim from 1815 to 2018 according to the table below

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Bretzenheim consists of 20 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	FWL	BBL	total
2019	4th	8th	8th	-	20 seats
2014	5	10	5	-	20 seats
2009	2	7th	4th	3	16 seats
2004	2	7th	4th	3	16 seats

• FWL = Free Voters List Bretzenheim e. V.
• BBL = Bretzenheim Citizens List e. V.

mayor

Local mayor is Olaf Budde (CDU). In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was elected with 78.70% of the vote and is the successor to Thomas Gleichmann (CDU), who had not run for office after ten years.

Attractions

• Hermitage of the Rock
• List of cultural monuments in Bretzenheim

Viticulture

Bretzenheim belongs to the "Nahetal wine-growing area" in the Nahe wine-growing region . 17 wine-growing businesses are active in the village. The vineyard area is 112 hectares . About 64% of the cultivated wine are white wine grape varieties (as of 2007). In 1979 there were still 36 companies operating. The vineyard area at that time was 94 hectares.

traffic

• The federal highway 48 runs through the village .
• The federal motorway 61 runs east of the village .
• In the village there is a stop on the Bingen – Saarbrücken railway line , which has even been used to a limited extent in general cargo traffic since June 1, 1927 .
• The next airport is in Langenlonsheim.

radio

Germany's first parish radio with the name Studio Nahe has been based in Bretzenheim since 2006 . It is operated by the Catholic parish Bretzenheim and broadcasts services from the Catholic Church Bretzenheim and Langenlonsheim. In addition, the volunteer team sends out information about local events on weekends and occasionally broadcasts on local topics. The Cologne Cathedral Radio is the supporting program that is broadcast when no own program is broadcast. The transmitting antenna is located below the steeple of the Church of St. Mary's Birth and broadcasts the program on the frequency 87.9 MHz with a transmission power of 160 watts and vertical polarization in the vicinity of Bad Kreuznach to Bingen am Rhein .

Web links

Commons : Bretzenheim  - Collection of Images

• Official website of the municipality of Bretzenheim
• Brief portrait of Bretzenheim on SWR television
• Literature about Bretzenheim 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 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 15 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ^ History
4. ^ Gerhard Köbler : Historical Encyclopedia of the Lands of the Germans. 8th edition, 2014, page 150. or PDF file
5. ↑ Günther Ebersold: Karl August imperial prince of Bretzenheim. The political biography of an apolitical. BoD, Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-8334-1350-6
6. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
7. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: City council election 2019 Bretzenheim. Retrieved September 15, 2019 . 
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
9. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Langenlonsheim, Verbandsgemeinde, first line of results. Retrieved September 15, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of June 11, 1927, No. 25. Announcement No. 345, p. 165.