Fußgönheim

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 28 '  N , 8 ° 18'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhine-Palatinate District
Association municipality :	Maxdorf
Height :	99 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.65 km 2
Residents:	2593 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	390 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67136
Area code :	06237
License plate :	RP
Community key :	07 3 38 008
Association administration address:	Hauptstrasse 79 67133 Maxdorf
Website :	www.fussgoenheim.de
Local Mayor :	Jochen Schubert (FWG)
Location of the local community Fußgönheim in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis

View of Fußgönheim from the east

Fußgönheim is a municipality in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Maxdorf Association .

geography

Fußgönheim is in the Upper Rhine Plain , about 7 kilometers west of Ludwigshafen am Rhein (city center). The Schwabenbach flows through the village . Neighboring communities from the east in a clockwise direction are Ludwigshafen-Ruchheim, Dannstadt-Schauernheim , Ellerstadt , Birkenheide and Maxdorf .

history

Archaeological finds indicate a settlement at the time of the Celts and Romans , the first secure documentary evidence comes from the property register of the Prüm Abbey from 893.

Fußgönheim was owned by the Salian imperial family from 900 to 1100 , later sovereignty passed to the Electoral Palatinate . Fußgönheim was divided into an upper village and a lower village, and lent to the von Falkenstein and von Bolanden families . Later the Bolandian property was sold to the Count of Leiningen . The Electoral Palatinate court chancellor Jakob Tillmann von Hallberg from the Hallberg family bought the inheritance claims of the upper village in 1728 and those of the lower village a year later, whereupon Elector Karl III. Philip was granted sovereign rights over the village. In 1740 he built Hallberg Castle with a church and introduced the Catholic denomination to the place, which has been Lutheran since the Reformation. The rule of the Hallberg family ended with the French conquering the Palatinate.

Since the withdrawal of the French in 1818, the management of the municipality has been subject to the mayor and the municipal council. The place was initially administered by the Speyer District Office in the Bavarian Rhine District , which was renamed Pfalz (Bavaria) in 1837 . In 1886, Fußgönheim went to the newly formed Ludwigshafen district office, from which the Ludwigshafen am Rhein district , now part of the Rhein-Pfalz district , emerged after the Second World War .

On June 7, 1969, the BASF settlement with 1,602 inhabitants was moved to Maxdorf.

Religions

On October 31, 2014, 40.296 percent of the population were Protestant and 25.604 percent Catholic . The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational .

Population development

The first information on the population is from 1560, when about 150-200 people lived in Fußgönheim. Until the 19th century, only the street to the east, consisting of Hauptstrasse and Ruchheimer Strasse, was inhabited. The settlement of many small farmers, artisans and merchants in the first half of the 19th century led to a sharp increase in population from around 500 inhabitants in 1815 to 1000 in 1840. During this time, the first settlements to the west took place. The local boundaries remained practically unchanged until 1900, after which new settlements were almost exclusively created on the western side of the founding core, as the sloping terrain towards the lower terrace on the eastern local border made building there difficult. In 1950 a population of 1500 inhabitants was reached, mainly due to the development of the western street of Bahnhofstrasse and Speyerer Strasse. In the 1960s and 1970s, the designation of new building areas saw the largest increase in area in Fußgönheim; the population rose to 2565 in 1988.

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Fußgönheim consists of 20 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	7th	6th	7th	20 seats
2014	9	7th	4th	20 seats
2009	11	5	4th	20 seats
2004	11	6th	3	20 seats

mayor

Jochen Schubert (FWG) is the local mayor of Fußgönheim. In the runoff election on June 16, 2019, he prevailed with a share of 68.06% of the vote, after none of the original three applicants had achieved the necessary majority in the first ballot. Schubert became the successor to Marie-Luise Klein (SPD), who had no longer run.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Divided and split at the top,a six-spoke red wheel in gold at thetop right , a red-armored silver eagle in blue at the top left, a jumping red fox at the bottom in silver." It was approved by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior in 1927.
	Reasons for the coat of arms: The fox refers to the origin of the place name, which is derived from Fuchs-Gönheim. The wheel is reminiscent of the Bolands and the eagle of the Leininger , both former local lords.

Culture and sights

Hallberg Castle

Buildings

The Hallbergsche Schloss was built in 1728–31 for the Palatine Chancellor Baron Jakob Tillmann von Hallberg . In 1815 the castle went into private ownership and was used as a shop, barn and warehouse. In 1972 it was acquired by the Catholic parish and extensively restored.

The baroque castle church of St. Jakobus Major, which is part of the complex, was built in 1740/41.

The Protestant Luther Church was built in 1732/33. A church can be found on the site as early as 1253. The Speyer cathedral dean and bishop select Eberhard von Randeck brought about their incorporation into the Speyer cathedral monastery . In gratitude, the cathedral chapter founded a daily mass for him and his relatives in 1356, on the St. Cyriacus altar that he built. The celebrant was rewarded and a. a monastery wake is always enough, which is why the early morning service in the cathedral was generally called wake-up mass . Today's round-arched plastered building, structured with sandstone, has a three-sided choir closure and an inserted facade tower, which was built together with the new facade in 1842. The nave was raised in 1911.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Fußgönheim

Museums

German Potato Museum

The German Potato Museum shows an exhibition about potato cultivation. It has been located in the former synagogue built in 1842 since 1997 .

The Fußgönheim local history museum is housed in Hallberg Castle.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The federal motorway 650 ( Bad Dürkheim –Ludwigshafen) runs north of Fußgönheim . The town has been connected to the rail network since 1913 by the Rhein-Haardtbahn ( Mannheim- Bad Dürkheim), a narrow-gauge railway . Fußgönheim belongs to the tariff area of ​​the Rhein-Neckar transport association .

education

There is a kindergarten, a primary school and a community library in the village.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Carl Leibl (1784–1870), musician and cathedral music director in Cologne.

People who worked on site

• Christian Grimm (born February 4, 1987), soccer player, played for ASV Fußgönheim.
• Heinrich Theodor von Hallberg (1725–1792), diplomat from the Electoral Palatinate of Bavaria , owned the castle and goods in Fußgönheim from 1788.
• Jakob Tillmann von Hallberg (1681–1744), Chancellor of the Electorate of the Palatinate, had Hallberg Castle built.
• Rainer Hauck (born January 16, 1978) Bundesliga soccer player, played for ASV Fußgönheim.
• Stephan Lederer (1844–1923), priest and local history researcher, from 1906 to 1912 Catholic pastor in Fußgönheim.
• Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (1675–1741), Venetian history painter , created the high altar painting in the castle church in Fußgönheim.
• Eberhard von Randeck (*?; † 1372), Bishop of Speyer, incorporated the parish of Fußgönheim into the Speyer cathedral monastery .

Web links

Commons : Fußgönheim  - Collection of Images

• Fußgönheim community
• Information on the Jewish history of the community and the former synagogue (today the Potato Museum)
• Literature about Fußgönheim 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. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 184 (PDF; 2.8 MB; footnote 18).
3. ↑ Municipal statistics . In: KommWis. October 31, 2014, accessed November 30, 2014 . 
4. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
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 Maxdorf, Verbandsgemeinde, second line of results. Retrieved October 9, 2019 . 
7. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Gräber, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
8. ↑ Konrad von Busch and Franz Xaver Glasschröder : Choir Rules and Younger Sea Book of the Old Speyer Cathedral Chapter , Speyer, Historischer Verein der Pfalz, 1923, page 37