Flomersheim

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Flomersheim
City of Frankenthal
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Flomersheim
Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 52 ″  N , 8 ° 19 ′ 53 ″  E
Height : 95 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.82 km²
Residents : 2748  (Dec. 31, 2014)
Population density : 571 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1919
Postal code : 67227
Area code : 06233
Flomersheim (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Flomersheim

Location of Flomersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate
Center of Flomersheim
Center of Flomersheim

Flomersheim is a district and a district of the independent city Frankenthal in the northern Front Palatinate ( Rhineland-Palatinate ). Until 1919 Flomersheim was an independent municipality.

Geographical location

Flomersheim is 95  m above sea level. NHN in the Upper Rhine Valley west of around 5 km away Rhine . It has an area of ​​481.5 hectares . The distance to the northeastern city center is 2 km. The Schrakelbach rises to the west of the development . The Isenach runs along the southern edge of the settlement in a west-east direction , which also forms the border to the Eppstein district, to which there is no longer any spatial separation.

history

The name Flomersheim originally meant "home of the Flabo". The place has been settled since the so-called Franconian conquest in the 5th century and was mentioned for the first time in a document from the Gorze monastery near Metz dated May 24, 765. The local parish church with the patronage of St. Stephan (previously St. Gorgonius ) was subject to to the Reformation the Gorz branch monastery St. Georgenberg , which held the right of patronage here . In the twelfth century, Gorze Abbey in Lorraine had local property.

Until the end of the 18th century, Flomersheim belonged to the Electoral Palatinate and was subordinate to the Oberamt Alzey . From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Flomersheim was incorporated into the canton of Frankenthal and the seat of its own Mairie . In 1815 the place had 420 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 he was a member of the Frankenthal Land Commissioner ; from this the district office of Frankenthal emerged.

The incorporation to Frankenthal took place in 1919. In 1928 Flomersheim had 1,530 inhabitants who lived in 265 residential buildings. At the end of 2014, Flomersheim had 2,748 inhabitants and was Frankenthal's second largest district after Mörsch .

religion

Both Catholics and Protestants belonged to the respective parish of Eppstein in 1928. The Jews living in Flomersheim belonged to the Jewish community of Lambsheim .

politics

Local advisory board

A local district was formed for the Flomersheim district . The interests of the residents are represented by a separate body. The local council consists of nine members, the chair of the local council is chaired by the directly elected mayor .

For the composition of the local council, see the results of the local elections in Frankenthal (Palatinate) .

Mayor

The head of the village is Heike Haselmaier (CDU). In the local election on May 26, 2019 , she was re-elected with 67.81% of the vote.

coat of arms

Flomersheim coat of arms
 Blazon : "A green plant in gold on a green three-mountain."

Sights and culture

There are a total of ten objects on site that are listed , including the Protestant Church of St. Stephan .

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy and Institutions

Flomersheim primary school

For centuries, the place was dominated by agriculture and known for its vegetable growing . Soon after the Second World War , the transition to a suburb largely populated by commuters began . The place has a primary school .

traffic

In 1877 Flomersheim was connected to the railway network when the Freinsheim – Frankenthal railway was opened; Flomersheim was one of three stops on the way. In the meantime, the local train station has been dismantled to the halt. The bus line 466 connects the place with the core city as well as with Eppstein; The buses run every half hour from Monday to Saturday and every hour on Sundays. In addition, the Salier cycle path leads through Flomersheim.

Personalities

Sons of the place

  • Konrad Wepler (1785–1835), born in Flomersheim, former soldier of the Grande Armée , wine merchant on Avenue de Clichy, in Paris . After several moves, the tavern becomes a famous Parisian brewery under the name “Brasserie Wepler”. His grave is in the Cimetière des Batignolles cemetery (20th section).
  • Hermann Wilker (1874–1941) was a rower and Olympic champion in a four-man with a helmsman in 1912 in Stockholm.

People who worked on site

Web links

Commons : Flomersheim  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Palatinate Society for the Promotion of Science: Palatinate Home , born 1970, Speyer, p. 50; Excerpt from the source .
  2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 463 .
  3. ↑ a b List of localities for the Free State of Bavaria. In: daten.digitale-sammlungen.de. Retrieved June 23, 2016 .
  4. ^ City of Frankenthal: Main statute for the city of Frankenthal. (PDF) § 6 and 7 in the version of the 4th amendment statute. February 23, 2018, accessed October 9, 2019 .
  5. ↑ City of Frankenthal: Result of the Flomersheim Mayor 2019. Retrieved on October 10, 2019 .
  6. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Frankenthal. Mainz 2020, p. 10 (PDF; 4.2 MB).