Fürfeld

This article deals with the municipality of Fürfeld in Rhineland-Palatinate, for the district of the same name in Bad Rappenau in Baden-Württemberg, see Fürfeld (Bad Rappenau) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '  N , 7 ° 54'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Kreuznach
Association municipality :	Bad Kreuznach
Height :	210 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.48 km 2
Residents:	1568 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	126 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55546
Area code :	06709
License plate :	KH
Community key :	07 1 33 032
Association administration address:	Rheingrafenstrasse 11 55543 Bad Kreuznach
Website :	www.fuerfeld.de
Local Mayor :	Klaus Zahn
Location of the local community Fürfeld in the Bad Kreuznach district

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

geography

The place is located south of the Eichelberg on the ridge between the valleys of Alsenz and Appelbach and, like the neighboring towns of Frei-Laubersheim and Neu-Bamberg on the Eichelberg, belongs to the Rheinhessische Schweiz . The center of the town is the so-called "Römer".

Fürfeld also includes the Biedenthalerhof, Hof Iben, Thalermühle and An der Goldkaut residential areas .

history

The place was first mentioned in a deed of gift from King Zwentibold of Lorraine to the St. Maximin monastery near Trier in 897 as Furnifeld .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 875 1835 1.314 1871 1,080 1905 1,190 1939 1,090 1950 1,367

year Residents 1961 1,293 1970 1,389 1987 1,449 2005 1,567 2011 1,552 2017 1,563

Population development of Fürfeld from 1815 to 2017 according to the adjacent table

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Fürfeld 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	BLF	total
2019	3	-	10	3	16 seats
2014	5	2	6th	3	16 seats
2009	9	3	4th	-	16 seats
2004	7th	5	4th	-	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Community Fürfeld e. V.
• BLF = Citizen List Fürfeld e. V.

mayor

The local mayor is Klaus Zahn (Free Voters). In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with 72.48% of the votes.

coat of arms

The municipality of Fürfeld has had this municipal coat of arms since 1973. The design follows a court seal from 1614 and shows in field 1 (top left = heraldic right ) a golden crown of leaves in red, in field 2 (top right = heraldic left) 2 rows of blue monkshood fehs in silver, in field 3 (bottom left = heraldic right) a split eagle in gold, in field 4 three (heraldic) slanted silver buckles in red. Fields 1 and 2 represent the von Cronberg family , field 3 for membership of the imperial knighthood, field 4 for the Boos von Waldeck. Not to be confused with the Marshals von Waldeck, who also lived at Iben Castle. But their tribe died out as early as 1553. In 1614 Iben already belonged to the Cronbergers, who were also court lords in Fürfeld and are therefore correctly represented twice in the coat of arms. The judges were also the Boos von Waldeck.

Partnerships

Fürfeld maintains partnerships with Crissey in Burgundy and Brachstedt in Saxony-Anhalt .

Buildings

• Evangelical parish church, baroque hall building with an older tower
• Catholic Church of St. Aegidius , built 1774–1776 according to plans by Peter Reheis. Before 1900, the glass painter Alexander Linnemann from Frankfurt created 9 glass windows according to the catalog of works from 1902 for the church .
• Gothic Templar chapel in the Iben courtyard

See also:

• List of cultural monuments in Fürfeld
• List of natural monuments in Fürfeld

Economy and Infrastructure

Viticulture

Fürfeld belongs to the "Bingen wine-growing area" in the Rheinhessen growing area . 15 wine-growing businesses are active in the village, and the area under vines is 57 hectares . About 64 percent of the wine grown are white grape varieties (as of 2007). In 1979 there were still 48 farms operating, the vineyard area at that time was 66 hectares.

traffic

• Fürfeld is on federal highway 420 . In the northeast is the federal highway 61 .
• The station in Fürfeld was the terminus of the Sprendlingen – Fürfeld railway line opened in 1898 . It was shut down in 1960. Trains of the Alsenz Valley Railway stop in nearby Hochstätten .

Personalities

• Ludwig Baum (1800 – after 1871), Grand Ducal Hessian Mayor of Fürfeld (1845–1871), Member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in Darmstadt (1856–1862)
• Franz Josef Brunck (1787–1848), Grand Ducal Hessian Mayor of Fürfeld (1814–1836), Member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in Darmstadt (1826–1848), Member of the Frankfurt National Assembly (1848)
• Heinrich Steitz (1907–1998), Protestant theologian

literature

• Alexander Thon: Fürfeld . In: Jürgen Keddigkeit (Hrsg.): Palatinate Burgenlexikon (=  contributions to Palatinate history . Volume 12/2 ). Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, Kaiserslautern 2002, ISBN 3-927754-48-X , p. 162 .
• Hans-Joachim Oesterle: Fürfeld. History of a Rhine-Hessian wine village. Rhein-Mosel-Verlag, Briedel 1997, ISBN 3-929745-43-7 .

Web links

Commons : Fürfeld  - Collection of Images

• Website of the local parish of Fürfeld
• Page at the Verbandsgemeinde
• Stefan Grathoff, Daniela Schomisch: On the history of Fürfeld . regionalgeschichte.net, February 13, 2014
• Literature about Fürfeld 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. 14 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Fürfeld. Retrieved September 13, 2019 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Bad Kreuznach, Verbandsgemeinde, fifth row of results. Retrieved September 13, 2019 .