Ellerstadt

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 28 '  N , 8 ° 16'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Dürkheim
Association municipality :	Wachenheim on the Wine Route
Height :	105 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.34 km 2
Residents:	2388 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	377 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67158
Area code :	06237
License plate :	DÜW
Community key :	07 3 32 013
Association administration address:	Weinstrasse 16 67157 Wachenheim an der Weinstrasse
Website :	www.ellerstadt.de
Mayoress :	Elke Stachowiak (FWG)
Location of the local community Ellerstadt in the Bad Dürkheim district

Ellerstadt is a municipality in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Wachenheim an der Weinstrasse .

geography

Ellerstadt is located in the Upper Rhine Plain in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region . Neighboring communities are Birkenheide , Fußgönheim , Gönnheim and Bad Dürkheim . The acacia settlement belonging to Ellerstadt is located in the north of the main town directly adjacent to the residential development of the community of Birkenheide.

history

The area around Ellerstadt was already settled in Roman times, as evidenced by three stone Roman coffins with glasses and urns that were found on the southern edge in 1822. Ellerstadt was probably a Franconian settlement as early as the 5th century . The first documentary mention of Ellerstadt was on December 19, 783 in the Lorsch Codex . The donation of part of the village "Alaridestath" to the Lorsch monastery is documented . Other donations from Ellerstadt are documented in the years 863, 873, 908/909 to Lorsch and 985 to the Weißenburg monastery in Lower Alsace . For the year 1190, Palatine rights in Ellerstadt from the possession of the former Weißenburg monastery and the bailiwick over the Lorsch monastery can be proven.

The lords of Flersheim, who came into the possession of Ellerstadt estates from 1482, became more important. In 1548 the Flersheimers owned two thirds of the village and the Lords of Affenstein the other third. In 1570 Friedrich von Flersheim obtained permission from Emperor Maximilian II to hold a horse and cattle market every year on May 1st and November 19th. The Flersheimers not only had the market supervision with all the associated rights, but also the neck court and the blood spell. Its wisdom from 1555, for the community the oldest document of the jurisprudence in disputes and criminal matters of its residents, was repeatedly read out in public. After the Flersheimers had become the sole local lords in 1577 through compensation from the Affensteiner, they died out in 1655. 1707 Ellerstadt belonged to Casimir Kolb von Wartenberg and was part of the imperial county, which had imperial character. The impoverished Wartenbergers finally sold their rights to the Counts of Sickingen in 1789 .

In 1793/94 the revolutionary troops of the French Republic looted the community and used the inhabitants to do serf labor. The confiscation of all aristocratic property on the left bank of the Rhine also affected the Count of Sickingen. There were no longer any large landowners or serf farmers. After the defeat of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna , the Palatinate was incorporated into the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 . Ellerstadt now belonged to the Land Commissioner Neustadt and the judicial district of Frankenthal .

In 1939 the Neustadt district office became the Neustadt district . Since the administrative reform at the beginning of 1969, Ellerstadt has belonged to the Wachenheim community, and since the dissolution of the Neustadt district, Ellerstadt has belonged to the Bad Dürkheim district.

See also : List of cultural monuments in Ellerstadt

Population development

In 1548 24 to 30 families lived here and in 1614 there were already 60 to 70; In 1722 there was not a single house on the road through which the Rhein-Haardt Railway runs today; In 1910 there are 767.

The strong growth of the last decades is due not least to the Rhein-Haardt-Bahn. In the twenties, the thousand mark was exceeded. In 1970 1,400 residents were registered. In 1980 the number was 2,000 and once the planned new development areas have been completed, the population will level off at around 2,500.

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Ellerstadt consists of 16 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the presiding local mayor in.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	GREEN	FDP	FWG	total
2019	5	2	2	-	7th	16 seats
2014	6th	3	2	-	5	16 seats
2009	6th	3	1	-	6th	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Community Ellerstadt e. V.

mayor

The local mayor is Elke Stachowiak (FWG). She was elected in 2019 with 54.61 percent of the vote and is the successor to Helmut Rentz (SPD), who had not run after 40 years in office.

coat of arms

Blazon : "remember in silver on green ground one of rooted green Eller or alder tree with stylized leaves, its trunk is beseitet two coats of arms, the historic two families of local rule. The right shield is divided by blue, silver and red ( Herren von Flersheim ), the left one shows a red bar in silver, accompanied by two at the top and a red ball at the bottom ( Kolb von Wartenberg ). " The coat of arms of Ellerstadt was approved on August 10, 1925 by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior in Munich.

Economy and Infrastructure

The agricultural community lives mainly from viticulture and to a lesser extent from fruit growing. Some of the residents work for BASF in nearby Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

Townscape

Viticulture has played a role for Ellerstadt since the 8th century, as the Lorsch deed of donation shows. Since 1886, mainly Portuguese vines have been planted in the Ellerstadt district. The “Gewürztraminer”, which even Bismarck obtained from Ellerstadt, usually only produces poor yields and is therefore only found sporadically, although the soils in the community are particularly suitable. The Weingut Markus Schneider is now the best-known beyond the region winery of the village. The focus of quality is on the red wine sector.

In 1903, the agricultural area of ​​the municipality (634 ha) accounted for 117 ha for viticulture, 357 for arable and garden areas and 70 ha for "forests and woodlands". Fruit growing had played an important role until the last decade; Peach cultivation since 1867.

The peach variety " Roter Ellerstädter " (also: Kernechter vom Vorgebirge and Vorgebirgspeachich ) is known beyond the region . The variety was found around 1870 by the winemaker Georg Fitz from Ellerstadt as a chance seedling in a group of peach seedlings that emerged from the seeds of a freely withered tree.

Since 1925, more and more sour cherries have been grown.

traffic

Ellerstadt is on the Bad Dürkheim - Ludwigshafen railway line , the Rhein-Haardtbahn , used by line 4, the Rhein-Haardtbahn GmbH , which is part of the Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (RNV). In Ellerstadt, the route runs on a single track through the town. At each end there is a stop, Ellerstadt Ost and Ellerstadt West. The community belongs to the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN).

The federal motorway 650 runs between Ellerstadt and the Akaziensiedlung .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Johann Heinrich Huber (1645–1706), ancestor of the 31st US President Herbert Hoover
• Abraham Weil (1834–1900), tax officer of Jewish origin and honorary citizen of the Leimersheim community
• Georg Fitz (1860–1940), politician (NLP)
• Werner Föckler (* 1945), football referee
• Manfred Geis (* 1949), politician (SPD)

People who worked on site

• Markus B. Altmeyer (* 1984) grew up on site
• Karl Kleemann (1904–1969) founded a local branch of the NSDAP in the early 1930s
• Johannes Kriebitzsch (1857–1938), made glass paintings for the local Protestant church
• Wilhelm Manchot (1844–1912) designed the Protestant church
• Gottschalk Mayer (1761–1835) owned an estate on site

literature

• Ortgemeinde Ellerstadt (ed.): Ellerstadt, then and now . ISBN 3-934845-16-9
• Literature about Ellerstadt in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Ellerstadt  - Collection of Images

• Internet presence of the local community Ellerstadt
• Short portrait of Ellerstadt on SWR television .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 4), Certificate 2032, December 19, 783 - Reg. 1847. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 24 , accessed on February 4, 2016 . 
3. ↑ List of places for the Lorsch Codex, Ellerstadt In: Archivum Laureshamense - digital, Heidelberg University Library
4. ↑ https://www.wahlen.rlp.de/de/kw/wahlen/kv/verbindungen/3320601300.html
5. ↑ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Wachenheim adW, Verbandsgemeinde, first line of results. Retrieved October 16, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Monika Köhler: A rogue problem solver. Die Rheinpfalz, June 29, 2019, accessed on October 16, 2019 . 
7. ^ Local community Ellerstadt: coat of arms
8. ↑ Hugh Johnson : The Great Johnson. The encyclopedia of the world's wines, vineyards and winemakers. Hallwag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8338-1621-5 , p. 271.