Ebertsheim

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Dürkheim
Association municipality :	Leiningerland
Height :	237 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.29 km 2
Residents:	1261 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	238 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67280
Area code :	06359
License plate :	DÜW
Community key :	07 3 32 012
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Industriestrasse 11 ; 67269 Grünstadt
Website :	www.ebertsheim.de
Local Mayor :	Bernd Findt (FWG)
Location of the local community Ebertsheim in the Bad Dürkheim district

The village of Ebertsheim

Ebertsheim , Ewwertsem in Palatinate , is a municipality in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Bad Dürkheim . It belongs to the community of Leiningerland and is located in the northwest of the European metropolitan region Rhine-Neckar .

geography

location

Ebertsheim with its local district Rodenbach is located in the north of the district in the historic Leiningerland within the Eisenberg basin . About 3 km to the east, the Eistal opens up on the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest to the hill country on the German Wine Route and the Rhine plain . In addition, the commune mountain corridor is partly on the municipality of Ebertsheim. Neighboring towns clockwise from the north are Lautersheim , Quirnheim , Mertesheim , Grünstadt , Tiefenthal , Hettenleidelheim , Eisenberg and Kerzenheim .

Waters

The Eisbach and its tributaries Seltenbach flow through the village - from the right - and Rodenbach from the left. The Rodenbach takes on the Mangelbach from the right at the edge of the settlement of the district of the same name .

history

The Franconian settlement "Eberolfesheim" was first mentioned in 768 in the Lorsch Codex . However, the first settlements were much older, such as finds from the Latène period around 500 BC. And the Roman times around 100 AD. Ebertsheim was continuously owned by the Counts of Leiningen from the Middle Ages . Today the Leininger Straße reminds us of this. In addition, there is a deserted area called Mückenhausen in the municipality's catchment area .

After 1792, French revolutionary troops occupied the region. In the Peace of Campo Formio (1797) it was annexed by France . From 1798 to 1814 Ebertsheim belonged to the French department of Donnersberg and, unlike today's district of Rodenbach , was assigned to the canton of Grünstadt and had its own Mairie . In 1815 Ebertsheim had a total of 420 inhabitants. According to the agreements of the Congress of Vienna (1815) and an exchange treaty with Austria , the region became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 . From 1818 the community Ebertsheim was part of the Landkommissariat Frankenthal in the Bavarian Rhine District, later assigned to the District Office Frankenthal, from which the District Frankenthal (Palatinate) emerged in 1938 .

After the Second World War , Ebertsheim and Rodenbach became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone and belonged to the administrative district of Palatinate . Until June 7, 1969 Ebertsheim was in the Frankenthal district, which was dissolved as part of the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform. Simultaneously with the change of district, the smaller community of Rodenbach (at that time 271 inhabitants), which until then belonged to the neighboring and also extinct district of Kirchheimbolanden , and the much larger Ebertsheim (1141 inhabitants), today's community Ebertsheim was formed. In 1972, the community was assigned to the new community of Grünstadt-Land , which was added to the community of Leiningerland in 2018 . Rodenbach is still used in village life to mark localities or associations , and in 2006 it received the status of a local district .

In August 2009, an escaped Bennett kangaroo made headlines, which was initially seen in the Ebertsheim district and later also photographed.

religion

The Catholics belong to the diocese of Speyer and are subordinate to the dean's office in Bad Dürkheim . Since January 1, 2016, the place has been a branch of the parish of St. Michael located in Grünstadt. Before that, Ebertsheim formed a branch from Boßweiler on the Catholic side . In 1921 the Catholic order of the Hildegardis Sisters of the Catholic Apostolate was founded in Ebertsheim . The Evangelicals belong to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate . As of July 31, 2014, 44.3% of the population were Protestant and 26.8% Catholic. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational.

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Ebertsheim 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	FL	total
2019	3	-	13	16 seats
2014	5	-	11	16 seats
2009	4th	5	7th	16 seats
2004	7th	7th	2	16 seats

FL = Free List Ebertsheim-Rodenbach e. V.

mayor

The local mayor of Ebertsheim is Bernd Findt (FWG). In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office with 87.80 percent of the vote.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In green, two diagonally crossed golden shovels with downwardly turned silver shovels with square handles at the top of the handle, covered by a golden pick with a lowered silver iron." It was approved by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior in 1926 and goes back to a court seal from 1724.
	Justification of the coat of arms: The symbols refer to the open-cast mining of ores and clay minerals that was previously operated in the area.

Attractions

Cultural monuments

Listed Protestant Church Ebertsheim

Are located on site a total of 21 properties under conservation are, including the two Protestant churches

Today's evangelical church Ebertsheim, built in the twelfth century as " St. Stephan ", is one of the oldest in the Palatinate . After the Reformation it fell to the Protestants, but was used simultaneously until 1914 . Three floors of the tower and the nave are still Romanesque , the fourth floor of the tower, which has rectangular sound openings, was added later. Next to the south portal is a late Gothic sundial , carved into a sandstone cuboid . In the interior hangs the picture “Martin Luther with a swan” by the Ebertsheim painter Johann Adam Schlesinger .

The Protestant church in the Rodenbach district was built in the eleventh or twelfth century as " St. Brigitta " and is therefore even older than the one in Ebertsheim.

nature

Although located outside the Palatinate Forest , the community is part of the Palatinate Forest Nature Park . The only natural monument within the municipality is the silver grass in the west of the district. Kapuzinerstein occurs on site.

folklore

In 1997 the newspaper Hiwwe wie Driwwe was founded in Ebertsheim . The burning of winter is celebrated annually on a Sunday around the beginning of spring .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Ebertsheim is connected to the Grünstadt district of Asselheim and the B 271 via the state road 395 running from Grünstadt to Enkenbach . The state road 448 leads in a northerly direction to Harxheim and the state road 452 to Kerzenheim.

The A 6 can be reached via the Grünstadt or Wattenheim junctions, the A 63 via the Dreisen / Göllheim junction. This means that Kaiserslautern or Mannheim (A 6) are only about 30 minutes away by car; the state capital Mainz can be reached via the (A 63) in about 35 minutes.

Ebertsheim station in 2015

The Ebertsheim stop is on the Eistalbahn , which was opened in 1876. In 1976 passenger traffic was stopped, reactivated in 1994 to Eisenberg and 1995 to Ramsen . It is served by regional trains in regular intervals. The public transport system is in the transport association Rhein-Neckar integrated (VRN), apply the Community tariffs. The Ebertsheim – Hettenleidelheim railway line, which has since been closed and dismantled, branched off from a specially constructed train station , which was located around 600 m west of the current railway station.

The nearest small airport is about 3 km away in Quirnheim. It is approved for gliders as well as small powered aircraft with an external landing permit .

tourism

Ebertsheim advertises with the slogan “the village in the countryside”. Its surroundings are not too steep and are therefore ideal for nature walks.

Got-8-way

The Hab-8-Weg is signposted as a hiking trail, at its starting point there is a Kneipp arm pool.

Bird sanctuary

The Haardtrand bird sanctuary , which extends south-east of the town far south, is ideal for ornithological observations .

Day of action "Car-free ice valley"

Every year at the beginning of October - usually on the Day of German Unity - the “Car-Free Ice Valley” day of action attracts numerous visitors to the region. The state road 395 is closed to all motorized traffic for one day and is only available for pedestrians, usually hikers, as well as skaters and cyclists. The Eisenberger Erlebnisgebiet Erdekaut is only about 2 km away from Ebertsheim. The Eiswoog , a six-hectare lake with rich bird life, the Eistalbahn with its imposing bridges and the Stumpfwaldbahn museum railway are further excursion destinations .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Johann Adam Schlesinger (1759–1829), church painter
Johann Schlesinger (1768–1840), portrait and still life painter in Mannheim and Heidelberg; Brother of Johann Adam Schlesinger
Karl Josef Merz (1789–1846) from Rodenbach, royal Bavarian malt supervisor in Munich; Great-grandfather of Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim
Karl Fittler (1894–1966), politician (SPD)
Eugen Herrmann (1911–1976), Dean of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate
Erwin Ludwig Diemer (1923–1990), Vicar General of the Diocese of Speyer and Papal Honorary Prelate
Michael Werner (* 1965), publicist, founded the German-Pennsylvanian newspaper Hiwwe wie Driwwe in Ebertsheim in the mid-1990s and was founding chairman of the German-Pennsylvanian working group in 2003 .

People who worked on site

Burkhart Braunbehrens (* 1941), painter, has owned a studio in Ebertsheim since 1985
Guido Dahm (* 1955), politician (1983–2009 Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), lives on site and runs financial advice there.
Michael Fink (* 1967), author, grew up in Ebertsheim
Ferdinand Hahn (1926–2015), Protestant theologian, was in the ecclesiastical service of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate in the mid-1950s.
Norbert Schindler (* 1949), politician (CDU), member of the Bundestag, grew up in Rodenbach.
Georg Wirth , 1792/93 member of the Rhine-German National Convention

literature

Literature about Ebertsheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Ebertsheim - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
↑ Karl Josef Minst [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 3), Certificate 1501, April 28, 768 - Reg. 277. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 124 , accessed on April 20, 2016 .
↑ 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. 175 (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.
^ Die Rheinpfalz , local edition Frankenthaler Zeitung: Kangaroo sighted in the vineyard . Ludwigshafen August 21, 2009.
↑ pfarrei-feilbingert.de: future structure of the diocese of Speyer . (PDF) Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
↑ KommWis, as of July 31, 2014.
↑ State Returning Officer 2019; Result of the municipal council election on May 26, 2019
^ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Leiningerland, Verbandsgemeinde, seventh line of results. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
↑ 6514-401 Haardtrand. (EU bird sanctuary) Profiles of the Natura 2000 areas. Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved July 27, 2018.

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

[2] Karl Josef Minst [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 3), Certificate 1501, April 28, 768 - Reg. 277. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 124 , accessed on April 20, 2016 .

[3] 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. 175 (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.

[rheinpfalz_2009-08-21-4] Die Rheinpfalz , local edition Frankenthaler Zeitung: Kangaroo sighted in the vineyard . Ludwigshafen August 21, 2009.

[5] pfarrei-feilbingert.de: future structure of the diocese of Speyer . (PDF) Retrieved July 26, 2020 .

[6] KommWis, as of July 31, 2014.

[7] State Returning Officer 2019; Result of the municipal council election on May 26, 2019

[8] The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Leiningerland, Verbandsgemeinde, seventh line of results. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .

[Wappen-9] Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .

[10] 6514-401 Haardtrand. (EU bird sanctuary) Profiles of the Natura 2000 areas. Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . Retrieved July 27, 2018.