Freckenfeld

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′  N , 8 ° 7 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Germersheim
Association municipality :	Candelabra
Height :	127 m above sea level NHN
Area :	11.14 km 2
Residents:	1586 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	142 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	76872
Area code :	06340
License plate :	GER
Community key :	07 3 34 005
Association administration address:	Gartenstrasse 8 76870 Kandel
Website :	www.vg-kandel.de
Local Mayor :	Martin Thürwächter ( CDU )
Location of the local community Freckenfeld in the district of Germersheim

Freckenfeld is a municipality in the district of Germersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Kandel .

geography

Freckenfeld lies between Karlsruhe and Landau in the Palatinate . The community also includes the residential areas In den Dorfwiesen and Welschhof.

history

Various vessel finds and coins from around 50 BC Chr. Indicate an early settlement of the Freckenfeld district. Written records about the place emerge “only” from a deed of donation from the year 982. Like many other municipalities in the district, the place has undergone numerous changes of rulership and name in its long history. From the original name Frichonvelt, which is derived from a Franconian vassal named Frico , the current place name emerged after several sound shifts over the centuries.

King Wenzel pledged the originally free imperial village in 1379 to Elector Ruprecht I of the Palatinate .

In 1852, the Protestant theologian Theodor Culmann (brother of the founder of graphic statics Karl Culmann ) became pastor of the village community, where his mother, née Böll, had previously returned after her husband's death, and the district's school inspector. In Freckenfeld he wrote his first ethical work Sleeping Beauty, a cosmogonic poem based on Plato and Jakob Böhm, and drafted his Christian Ethics , which he completed in Speyer. Fritz Culmann, the son of Theodor Culmann and his wife, the daughter of Konsistorialrat Börsch in Speyer, died shortly before they moved to Speyer in 1859 at the age of five in Freckenfeld.

Population development

If not listed separately, the source of the data is the State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate.

year Residents 1802 1,170 1815 1,365 1835 1,420 1849 1,450 1861 1.313 1871 1,277 1905 1,276

year Residents 1939 1,631 1950 1,153 1965 1,257 1970 1.312 1975 1,239 1980 1,318 1985 1,341

year Residents 1990 1,461 1995 1,501 2000 1,663 2005 1,649 2010 1,559 2013 1,546 2014 1,576

religion

In 2012, 50.7 percent of the population were Protestant and 26.4 percent Catholic . The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational . In 1871, out of a total of 1277 inhabitants, 1,065 were Protestant (83 percent), 211 were Catholic (17 percent) and one person was Jewish.

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Freckenfeld 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	FDP	FWF	total
2019	5	6th	-	5	16 seats
2014	7th	6th	-	3	16 seats
2009	7th	6th	1	2	16 seats
2004	8th	4th	1	3	16 seats

Local mayor

• 1974-2004: Theo Kuhn ( SPD )
• 2004–2019: Gerlinde Jetter-Wüst (SPD)
• since 2019: Martin Thürwächter (CDU)

Martin Thürwächter was introduced to his office on August 26, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 63.46% of the vote.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In red on a curved green floor a silver gate (steam noodle gate), in the arch of which the silver capital letter F is floating" It was approved by the Mainz Ministry of the Interior in 1950 and shows Freckenfeld's landmark.

Community partnerships

A partnership is maintained with Telfes im Stubai in Austria.

Culture and sights

Buildings

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Freckenfeld

Steamed Noodle Gate

The steam noodle gate

An original testimony to history is the steam noodle gate decorated with 1286 steam noodles, which commemorates an event in the Thirty Years War .

A Swedish cavalry squadron made a high demand for money from the citizens, even though the Swedes, like the community citizens, were Lutherans at the time, and threatened looting and murder. A delegation from the Freckenfelder achieved the moderation of the Swedish captain's demand that he and his soldiers should be fed satisfactorily. Then he would spare the population. Then master baker Johannes Muck had his wife and the maid cook a large kettle of sauce and gave the order to season this sauce with wine. He himself baked steamed dumplings with his journeymen until every soldier was full, a total of 1286 pieces. The squadron accepted the served dish with satisfaction and spared the village from further extortion or even destruction and murder.

traffic

The federal highway 427 runs east of the municipality and connects Freckenfeld to the regional transport network. The closest train station is Winden . Freckenfeld itself is connected to the local transport network via the 547 bus, which connects the Kandel and Bad Bergzabern train stations .

Born in Freckenfeld

• Johannes Lohr (1875–1941), Protestant pastor

Web links

Commons : Freckenfeld  - Collection of Images

• Local community Freckenfeld on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Kandel
• Literature about Freckenfeld 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 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 147 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ Erhard Nietzschmann: The free in the country. Former German imperial villages and their coats of arms. Melchior, Wolfenbüttel 2013, ISBN 978-3-944289-16-8 , p. 31.
4. ^ Philipp Theodor Culmann: The Christian ethics. (Speier 1863) 4th edition (anastatic reprint). Publishing house of the Evangelical Association for Palatinate, Kaiserslautern 1926, pp. XIII – XVI.
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Freckenfeld
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Official directory and statistics of the Royal Bavarian Government District of the Palatinate, 1863, p. XII of the appendix
7. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the census in the Kingdom of Bavaria from December 1, 1871 according to individual communities, 1873, p. 65
8. ↑ Ewois, as of July 31, 2012
9. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
10. ^ Margit Dressel: Much applause for Jetter-Wüst. Die Rheinpfalz, August 28, 2019, accessed on April 25, 2020 . 
11. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Kandel, Verbandsgemeinde, second line of results. Retrieved April 25, 2020 . 
12. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Gräber, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
13. ↑ Freckenfeld History ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on vg-kandel.de (PDF; 248 kB)