Edesheim

This article deals with the local community Edesheim in Rhineland-Palatinate, for the district of the same name in Northeim in Lower Saxony see Edesheim (Northeim) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '  N , 8 ° 8'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southern Wine Route
Association municipality :	Edenkoben
Height :	151 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16.32 km 2
Residents:	2376 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	146 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67483
Area code :	06323
License plate :	SOUTH
Community key :	07 3 37 021
Association administration address:	Poststrasse 23 67480 Edenkoben
Website :	www.edesheim.de
Mayoress :	Sigrid Schwedhelm-Schreiner (FWG)
Location of the local community Edesheim in the southern Weinstrasse district

The townscape of Edesheim from the perspective of the victory and peace monument Edenkoben

Edesheim , Esem in the Palatinate , is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstrasse district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Edenkoben , within which it is the second largest local community in terms of both number of inhabitants and area.

geography

location

The municipality is located in the Modenbachtal east of the Palatinate Forest , between Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and Landau , three kilometers south of Edenkoben , between the Haardt - the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest - and the Rhine in the Weinstrasse region . The municipality also includes a total of three exclaves in the Middle Palatinate Forest . Edesheim also includes the Eckel settlement and the Erlenmühle, Forsthaus Wolfseck Haus Guth, Aussiedlerhof, Raiffeisenweg 10, and Aussiedlerhof, Im Leiselfeld residential areas .

Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Edenkoben, Venningen , Großfischlingen , Essingen , Knöringen , Roschbach , Hainfeld and Rhodt unter Rietburg . The easternmost exclave borders clockwise - exclaves in italics - on Weyher in the Palatinate , Burrweiler , Hainfeld and Ramberg . The middle exclave borders on Edenkoben , Gommersheim , Rhodt unter Rietburg, Ramberg, Roschbach , Burrweiler and Hainfeld . The westernmost exclave borders on Elmstein , Rhodt unter Rietburg , Hainfeld , Weyher in the Palatinate and Landau in the Palatinate

Surveys

In the easternmost exclave the 543.5  m above sea level extends . NHN high Lambertskopf , which is a secondary peak of the Teufelsberg . The middle exclave includes the eastern flank of the 581.3  m above sea level. NHN high Hermeskopf . The western flank of the 455.5  m above sea level lies within the exclave furthest to the west . NHN high birch head .

Waters

The Modenbach , which rises within the central forest enclave of the municipality and forms the northern limit of the easternmost one, flows through the settlement area . The latter is limited to the west by the Ziegelbach . the exclave furthest to the west is bounded in the north by the Helmbach and in the west by the Grobsbach . The Leißelgraben , which is called Lachgraben further east, flows through the north of the municipality . The Bruchbach flows through the extreme south of the district .

history

As early as 714, Edesheim was mentioned under the name “villa Auduino” or “Auduinovilla” in a document from the Weißenburg Abbey , which owned a manor house and two churches here. In 755 and 756 the name Autineshaim was written, later Otdensheim , Ödesheim and Edesheim. The place Edesheim belonged to the bishopric of Speyer until the end of the 18th century .

During the First Coalition War there was also a battle on site. 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 Edenkoben . In 1815 the community had a total of 1,750 inhabitants. 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 community Edesheim was assigned to the Landau Landau in the Bavarian Rhine District, later to the Landau district office.

From 1939 the place was part of the Landau district in the Palatinate . After the Second World War , the municipality within the French occupation zone became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate. During the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform moved Edesheim on June 7, 1969 in the newly created district Landau-Bad Bergzabern, in 1978 in South County Wine Trail is renamed . In 1972 the community was assigned to the also newly formed community community of Edenkoben .

religion

Judaism

The Jewish community once resident there owned a synagogue . On October 22, 1940, the Jews living in Edesheim were deported as part of the Wagner-Bürckel campaign .

Denomination statistics

On September 30, 2019, the proportion of Catholic citizens was 55.8 percent, Protestant 19.3 percent and the other 24.9 percent.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Edesheim 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:

Town hall; in the background the church

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	3	5	8th	16 seats
2014	2	8th	6th	16 seats
2009	3	8th	5	16 seats
2004	3	8th	5	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group Edesheim e. V.

mayor

Sigrid Schwedhelm-Schreiner became the local mayor of Edesheim on June 25, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, she was elected for five years with 75.39% of the vote. Her predecessor Christian Sternberger (CDU) did not run again after ten years in office. Before that, Alfred Metzger (CDU) was the local mayor of Edesheim for 17 years.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Saint Peter growing in red, in a silver robe and blue cloak, with a golden halo, in his right hand a golden key turned up with the beard, in the left a red book with golden fittings."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms of the municipality of Edesheim, which has been used since 1493, shows St. Peter in a silver robe with a blue cloak on a red background. In his right hand he is holding a golden key turned to the left, in his left a red book with a gold frame. The head is surrounded by a golden halo.

Culture and sights

Cultural monument

Franz Adam Holbach (approx. 1675–1753) country residence in Edesheim, Kupperwolf Castle

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Edesheim

The Edesheim castle and the town centers of low-Edesheim and upper Edesheim are each as monument zones reported. The former was built by the Weißenburg Abbey before 756 . In the Palatinate War of Succession , the castle was completely destroyed in 1694 and had to be rebuilt, only the water systems from the 12th century could be preserved. After the castle lost its importance, it was finally demolished in 1748. It was not until the 19th century that the palace began to be rebuilt in a contemporary style. It changed hands several times and was completely renovated around the year 2000. Since then there has been a hotel on the premises.

There are also numerous individual objects that are under monument protection , including the Kupperwolf Castle . It was built by Franz Adam Baron von Holbach, the uncle of the enlightener and philosopher Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach . It was named after its future owner, an Austrian general.

nature

The three forest dexclaves and the western part of the settlement area are located in the Palatinate Forest Nature Park , which in turn is part of the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord biosphere reserve .

societies

The local community has the reading and singing club founded in 1869 and the MGV Concordia Edesheim , which was founded in 1878. There is also a local and cultural association .

Events

The Golden Line was presented annually in Edesheim from 1968 to 2011 .

Economy and Infrastructure

Largest wine-growing communities in the growing area	Rank among all Rhineland-Palatinate wine-growing communities according to vineyards	Planted vineyards in 2017 (in ha )	Grape varieties
			white	Red
			(in %)
Palatinate		23,652	65	35
Landau (Palatinate)	1	2,067	66	34
Neustadt (Weinstrasse)	2	2,031	67	33
Cheap home-Ingenheim	4th	843	62	38
Bad Dürkheim	6th	819	68	32
Kirrweiler	14th	589	67	33
Edesheim	17th	505	61	39
Deidesheim	18th	498	85	15th
Wachenheim (Weinstrasse)	20th	473	75	25th
Goecklingen	22nd	464	65	34
Freinsheim	25th	437	61	39
Source: Leaflet Viticulture 2018. State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate, Bad Ems, May 2018

economy

The place is significantly influenced by viticulture and is one of the largest wine-growing communities in the Palatinate . The large Ordensgut as well as the individual layers of forest , almond slope , rose garden and castle are located on site . The Anselmann winery is located in Edesheim .

In the course of the Haingeraide , Edesheim was also involved in the so-called third Haingeraide , which was dissolved in the early modern period and which was partially subordinated to the community.

The village mill was first mentioned in 1354

traffic

Street

The state roads 506 , 507 and 516 run through the municipality . The state road 506 connects the community with the Ramberger Tal and the state road 507 with Albersweiler and Speyer . The state road 516 leads from Bad Dürkheim to Landau in the Palatinate . It is also on bus route 501 of the Rhein-Neckar transport association , which leads to Landau and Neustadt an der Weinstrasse. The federal motorway 65 runs through the east of the district in a north-south direction ; The Palatine Wine Road service area is located in this area .

rail 

Stop and former train station Edesheim

The stop and former train station Edesheim (Pfalz) is located on the Neustadt – Wissembourg railway line, which was opened in 1855, and is served by the RB 51 (Neustadt – Karlsruhe) and RB 53 (Neustadt – Wissembourg) lines, so that two trains stop on site every hour and direction do. The station is located on the eastern edge of the settlement within a long S-curve. Until the 1980s, the former station was last served by Landau from freight traffic.

During renovation work, the central platform was replaced by a side platform and the station was dismantled as a stop. The former freight track has since been dismantled. The reception building corresponds to the typical type of construction in the Palatinate. Its head structure is gable towards the railway side. The windows are rectangular in shape. Like the earlier goods shed, the building is no longer of any importance for rail operations and is now used as a restaurant .

Institutions

In Edesheim there is a primary school which bears the name of the place and which is also responsible for the neighboring communities Großfischlingen and Kleinfischlingen . There is also a kindergarten on site and an outdoor swimming pool in the west of the district.

tourism

The cycle path from the Rhine to the wine runs through the municipality . The Pfälzer Weinsteig and two other hiking trails, one of which is marked with a red bar and another with a red dot , cross the easternmost forest enclave. A path marked with a yellow dot leads through the westernmost one .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Alfred Metzger, local councilor, alderman and mayor, did voluntary work for the community for 35 years.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach (1723–1789), philosopher, naturalist and enlightener, nephew of Franz Adam Baron von Holbach.

Insight into Ludwigstrasse in Edesheim. The house where Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach was born is still in house number 4 . Old postcard from 1940.

• Alfred Machol (1875–1937), surgeon
• Josef Freiermuth (1901–1994), politician (CDU)
• August Körber (1905 – after 1945), SS leader
• Alois Schreiner (* 1919), State Secretary for Rhineland-Palatinate
• Elvira Glaser (* 1954), Professor of German Linguistics

People who worked on site

• Franz Blücher von Wahlstatt (1778–1829), Prussian major general, fought in the battle near Edesheim
• Hans Joachim Friedrich von Sydow (1762–1823), Prussian lieutenant general, fought in the battle near Edesheim
• Philipp Tillmann (1809 – after 1881), winery owner and oil miller in Edesheim, member of the Bavarian state parliament
• Moritz Hilf (1819–1894), railway civil engineer, lived on site for a time
• Jakob Isbert (1846–1888), Roman Catholic priest, local chaplain from 1877 to 1883
• Hans Mercker (* 1940), theologian, religious scholar and university professor, chairman of the local homeland and cultural association
• Christine Baumann (* 1949), politician (SPD), worked as a teacher at the elementary school for a time
• Eva Croissant (* 1991), singer and songwriter, attended Edesheim elementary school

literature

• Arnold Frey: The Edesheim district. On the agricultural and forest history of a village in the Upper Palatinate . In: Writings of the Heimat- und Kulturverein Edesheim 9. Heimat- und Kulturverein Edesheim . Edesheim 2006, p. 200 .

Web links

Commons : Edesheim  - Collection of Images

• Website of the local community Edesheim
• Literature about Edesheim 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. 102 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ^ Edesheim municipal statistics. Retrieved January 3, 2020 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved April 7, 2020 . 
5. ^ Official journal of the community of Edenkoben: Events 2019 in the community of Edenkoben. June: Sigrid Schwedhelm-Schreiner new local mayor of Edesheim. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH (official announcements of the Verbandsgemeinde and the local parishes, edition 51/2019), accessed on April 12, 2020 . 
6. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Edenkoben, Verbandsgemeinde, fifth row of results. Retrieved April 12, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Edesheim: CDU does not provide a candidate for the election of local mayor. Die Rheinpfalz, March 26, 2019, accessed on April 12, 2020 . 
8. ^ Christian Sternberger: Greetings from the new mayor. In: Edesheimer Heimatpost Nr. 68. Ortsgemeinde Edesheim, January 2010, accessed on April 12, 2020 . 
9. ^ Edesheim Town Hall
10. ^ Men's choir "Concordia" Edesheim. Retrieved April 21, 2011 . 
11. ↑ 1300-year celebration of the community of Edesheim: Village anniversary in a festive setting. Retrieved April 8, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Christina Sternberger, Ivonne Trauth: Edesheimer Heimatpost 2009. (PDF) Retrieved on April 8, 2020 .