Erpolzheim

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 29 '  N , 8 ° 13'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Dürkheim
Association municipality :	Freinsheim
Height :	100 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.6 km 2
Residents:	1333 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	370 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67167
Area code :	06353
License plate :	DÜW
Community key :	07 3 32 015
Association administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 12 67251 Freinsheim
Website :	www.erpolzheim.de
Local Mayor :	Alexander Kurt Bergner
Location of the local community Erpolzheim in the Bad Dürkheim district

Erpolzheim is a municipality in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is one of eight local congregations in the Freinsheim community . Erpolzheim is located in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region on the eastern edge of the low mountain range of the Palatinate Forest and the German Wine Route .

Geographical location

The municipality is located in the Palatinate (more precisely the Vorderpfalz ) in the Upper Rhine Plain on the German Wine Route ( B 271 ) about 20 km west of Ludwigshafen am Rhein and Mannheim and about 30 km east of Kaiserslautern . The eastern edge of the low mountain range Palatinate Forest , often also called Palatinate Forest or Haardt Mountains , and the spa town of Bad Dürkheim are about 6 km west of Erpolzheim. The Bad Dürkheimer and Erpolzheimer Bruch nature reserve begins on the southern outskirts . Coming from the Palatinate Forest, the Isenach brook flows through the town from west to east. It flows into the Rhine 4 km south of Worms . The Erlengraben runs along the southern edge of the settlement area and the Albertgraben along the southern edge of the district .

Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Freinsheim , Weisenheim am Sand , Birkenheide and Bad Dürkheim.

history

In 781 the place was first mentioned in a document as an Erbholfesheim near Weißenburg Abbey (Alsace) . A document from the Lorsch Codex most likely dates back to the year 777. However, when King Charles reigned, the year was not properly handwritten as a Roman number in the copial book still preserved - "X" should be read instead of "V", so that 782 would result as the year, which does not fit the rest of the context that corresponds to 777. During the time of the tribal duchies , the place belonged to the Duchy of Franconia .

Until the end of the 18th century the place belonged to Leiningen-Dagsburg . From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Erpolsheim - as it was at the time - was incorporated into the canton of Dürkheim and the seat of its own Mairie . In 1815 the place had 640 inhabitants. In the same year it was added to Austria . Just one year later, the place, like the entire Palatinate, changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 Erpolzheim belonged to the Landkommissariat Neustadt ; from this the district office of Neustadt emerged.

In 1902 Erpolzeim moved to the newly created Dürkheim district office before it was reintegrated into its Neustadt counterpart in 1931. From 1939 the place was part of the district of Neustadt . After the Second World War , the municipality within the French occupation zone became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform , the place changed on June 7, 1969 to the newly created district of Bad Dürkheim . Three years later it was assigned to the also newly formed community of Freinsheim .

religion

In 1505 the local parish belonged to the Limburg monastery .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Erpolzheim 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	3	4th	9	16 seats
2014	5	4th	7th	16 seats
2009	5	4th	7th	16 seats
2004	5	6th	5	16 seats

mayor

The local mayor is Alexander Kurt Bergner (FWG). In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with 63.67% of the votes.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Split by blue and silver, on the right a half red armored silver eagle at the split, on the left an upright blue bunch of grapes with green leaves."

Community partnerships

A partnership exists with Guthmannshausen , a district of the city of Buttstädt in Thuringia .

Culture and sights

Erpolzheim, you can see the town hall and the Protestant church

Monuments

There are a total of seven objects on site that are listed . With the oak in the garden of the Wenzschen Mühle and an elm in Raiffeisenstraße, the place also has two natural monuments .

Regular events

Culinary hike around fruit, asparagus and wine

Every year on a weekend in May you can hike through the Erpolzheimer district along a 6.5 km long circular hiking trail. In the midst of the blooming orchards and green vineyards, numerous dispensing points (2015 = 18 serving points) have been set up by local associations, wineries and fruit farms. There you will find a variety of asparagus dishes as well as other specialties and sparkling Erpolzheimer wines.

Erpolzheimer Weinkerwe

Every year on the penultimate weekend in August, the community celebrates the wine kerwe from Friday to Tuesday . In many rustic wineries and bars, spread across the entire village, there is a wide selection of handmade delicacies and selected Erpolzheimer wines in a family atmosphere with good music.

Erpolzheimer Martinsmarkt

Every year on a weekend in November, the local fruit farms, wineries, clubs and bars invite you to homemade specialties and present their products. More than 100 artisans and artists work on their works in almost 30 open courtyards and encourage people to participate. Autumn fairies and mythical creatures cross the village on stilts. Musical performances round off the Martinsmarkt. Due to the complete blockage to traffic, the main and station streets are transformed into a pedestrian zone.

Sports

The TV Erpolzheim took part as champions of the Oberliga Südwest - Staffel Süd 1968 and the Regionalliga Südwest - Staffel Süd 1971 each unsuccessfully in the promotion round to the field handball Bundesliga . In 1969 (Oberliga) and 1970 (Regionalliga) they were each runner-up.

The Erpolzheim handball players also appeared nationally in the hall at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s: In the 1969/70 and 1971/72 seasons, the TVE played in the then third-class Oberliga Pfalz , but were relegated again immediately.

mascot

Lapwing in front of the church

The lapwing , called Giwick, is Erpolzheim's mascot. A lapwing figure stands on a stele at the church in the center of the village.

Economy and Transport

economy

Erpolzheim is a wine-growing village and as such part of the Palatinate wine-growing region . The individual layers Goldberg , Kieselberg and Kirschgarten are located on site .

The following wineries and wineries are located on site:

• Hubach winery
• Winzerhof Horst Koch
• Kohl winery
• Herbert Koob & Son winery
• Winery Ruth Mayer
• Veddeler winery

The building materials company Waibel KG also has a plant on site.

traffic

The Erpolzheim station is a long single breakpoint at the Palatine Northern Railway (Neustadt / Weinstraße - Bad Durkheim - Freinsheim - green city - Monsheim) and has a step-free access to the platform track. The breakpoint was modernized in 2003. The old station building, which is now used as a residential building, is a listed building. In the center of the village there is a bus stop at the level of the church, which is served by individual buses of the BRN line 453.

State road 526 and district road 5 run through Erpolzheim . East of the town center, the dead end street Am Kirschgarten can be found in maps from Navteq , HERE and Bing . This street never existed, it is a well-known Trap Street .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 2011: Dieter Reinhard (* 1943), local politician

Born in Erpolzheim

• Georg Ludwig von Maurer (1790–1872), lawyer, legal historian and politician
• Manfred Mühlbeyer (* 1955), book, stage and film author, director and event manager

People who worked on site

• Peter Opinion , 1792/93 member of the Rhine-German National Convention
• Karl Kleemann (1904–1969), politician (NSDAP), founded a local branch of his party in Erpolzheim in the early 1930s
• Michael Brenner (1952–2011), impresario and theater producer, died on site in a traffic accident

literature

• Literature about Erpolzheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Erpolzheim  - Collection of images

• Erpolzheim local community on the website of the Freinsheim community
• Erpolzheim on the German Wine Route

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Erpolzheimer's story
3. ^ Minst, Karl Josef [trans.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 3), Certificate 1179, April 25, 777? - Reg. 1514. In: Heidelberg historical holdings - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 144 , accessed on December 17, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Glöckner, Karl [Ed.]: Codex Laureshamensis (Volume 2), document 1179 - Reg. 1514. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 349 , accessed on December 17, 2017 (Latin). 
5. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: City council election 2019 Erpolzheim. Retrieved October 15, 2019 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Freinsheim, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results. Retrieved October 15, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Flyer asparagus hike 2015
9. ↑ Website for the Erpolzheimer Martinsmarkt
10. ↑ www.bundesligainfo.de Feldhandball-Oberliga Südwest 1968
11. ↑ www.bundesligainfo.de Feldhandball-Regionalliga Südwest 1971
12. ↑ www.bundesligainfo.de Feldhandball-Oberliga Südwest 1969
13. ↑ www.bundesligainfo.de Feldhandball-Regionalliga Südwest 1970
14. ↑ www.bundesligainfo.de Hallenhandball-Oberliga Pfalz 1969/70
15. ↑ www.bundesligainfo.de Hallenhandball-Oberliga Pfalz 1971/72
16. ↑ Merit Medal of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate to Dieter Reinhard from Erpolzheim. (PDF) In: Official Journal of the Freinsheim Association. July 11, 2013, p. 3 , accessed October 22, 2017 .