Germersheim
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Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ' N , 8 ° 22' E |
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| State : | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| County : | Germersheim | |
| Height : | 105 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 21.72 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 20,798 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 958 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 76726 | |
| Area code : | 07274 | |
| License plate : | GER | |
| Community key : | 07 3 34 007 | |
| LOCODE : | DE GER | |
| City structure: | 2 districts | |
City administration address : |
Kolpingplatz 3 76726 Germersheim |
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| Mayor : | Marcus Schaile ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the city of Germersheim in the district of Germersheim | ||
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Germersheim [ 'gɛɐ̯mɐshaɪ̯m ] ( Palatine : Germersche ), also Germersheim am Rhein , is a middle center with about 20,000 inhabitants in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is an association-free city and district town of the district of the same name . The city was and is particularly important as a military city.
geography
Geographical location
The city is located on the left bank of the Rhine (in the Rhine plain ), between Ludwigshafen am Rhein / Mannheim and Karlsruhe , approx. 13 km south of Speyer . Philippsburg is on the other side of the Rhine . The district extends to the island of Elisabethenwörth on the right bank of the Rhine . The Queich flows through the middle of the city and flows into the Rhine from the left
Expansion of the urban area
In contrast to most of the municipalities or cities that lie on a border river, the urban area border, which in this case is also the Rhineland-Palatinate border with Baden-Württemberg, is not in the middle of the river, but extends to the right bank of the Rhine. The area extends roughly from the south from Rhine kilometer 381.7 - north of the "Kümmelwiesen" - in an arc curved to the left to the intersection of the railway line to Rheinsheim with today's B 35 . From there the border runs parallel to the railroad tracks back to the Rhine . In the far north, the city limits extend as far as the Lingenfeld Old Rhine .
City structure
The city of Germersheim has two districts : on the one hand, the district of the same name, Germersheim, and on the other, the Sondernheim district in the south , which was incorporated on April 22, 1972.
Neighboring communities
The municipalities bordering the district town are:
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Westheim (Palatinate) , Lustadt , Bellheim |
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Philippsburg ( District of Karlsruhe / Baden-Württemberg ) |
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climate
The climate in Germersheim is, like in the whole of the Vorderpfalz and the adjacent Kurpfalz , relatively mild and '' temperate '' (warm summers, almost snowless winters). The annual average temperature is 10.9 ° C . As the city lies in the middle of the Rhine rift between the Palatinate Forest and the Odenwald , it rains relatively rarely. The annual precipitation is 768 mm. The precipitation is in the middle third of the values recorded in Germany. Lower values are registered at 56% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is February, with the most rainfall in June. In June there is 1.7 times more rainfall than in February. The rainfall varies moderately. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at 55% of the measuring stations . In 2008 Germersheim was in first place within Rhineland-Palatinate with 1801 hours of sunshine.
history
Antiquity
At the time of the conquest of Gaul by Gaius Julius Caesar , the tribes of the Triboker or Wangionen lived in the Germersheim region . After the conquest, the province of Germania superior and the Rhine formed the border between the Roman Empire and Germania . Later even smaller parts east of the Rhine were conquered ( Agri decumates ). As more and more Frankish and Alemannic tribes harried the Roman territories, this was 275 / 276 abandoned and the limit to the Rhine moved back ( Limes case ). The Romans probably built a fortified soldiers' camp called Vicus Julius at the site of today's Germersheim to secure this border. The camp was maintained until the 4th century. After the Ostrogoths invaded Italy in 405 , the Roman troops were withdrawn from the Palatinate in 406 .
middle Ages
Emperor Konrad II had a castle or palace built on the high bank of the Rhine at the site of today's Germersheim. The place, first mentioned in 1090, was granted city rights by King Rudolf von Habsburg on August 18, 1276 . With this act, the history of the city was lastingly influenced.
The text of the certificate reads in German translation:
“Rudolf, by God's grace Roman King, always multiples, to all faithful of the Roman Empire who will read or hear the present letter, for eternal memory. While We have the joyful task of promoting welfare, all and all, to all the faithful of the Holy Roman Empire - We know that We are called by the King of Kings - We consider appropriate, those with a richer abundance of To consider grace and grace, which, in our gracious protection, bear the desire to hide under our umbrella. Since we are now having a new city built at our castle in Germersheim as a place for a new settlement, we want to grant all those who inhabit the named city or move into it from elsewhere the following favor of royal generosity, namely that all citizens and residents of this city the same rights, freedoms and privileges with which the city of Speyer was evidently gifted by the Roman emperors and kings, our famous predecessors, should be received by our royal grace and enjoyed forever. To commemorate the freedom we have given and to affirm it for ever and ever more, We have therefore written this letter and put our royal seal on it. Given at Worms on August 18th, in the 8th Indiction, in the year of the Lord in 1276, but to our government in the third year. "
As early as 1325, King Ludwig IV pledged the city to the Count Palatine near the Rhine . Since the city was not triggered by the emperor, Count Palatine Rudolf II. The Blind added Germersheim to his dominion in 1329. In the 14th century, Germersheim became a bailiff, and later it became an official city and an administrative district. The Order of the Servites founded a monastery in 1298, which it operated until 1527.
Modern times
16th Century
The Reformation was introduced in Germersheim in 1556 , which also resulted in the final closure of the Catholic monastery. In the church the service was first celebrated according to the Lutheran rite, after the conversion of the Palatinate Elector to the Reformed faith according to the Reformed rite.
17th century
After the great catastrophes of the late Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern era , the plague and the Thirty Years War , the population had shrunk to a few families. The city experienced further destruction during the Franco-Dutch War by French troops under Marshal Turenne in 1674, who also destroyed the royal palace built by Conrad II. Only the crypt and the foundation walls of the Catholic Church withstood the fire.
With the Peace of Rijswijk in 1697, Elector Johann Wilhelm , who was himself a Roman Catholic, made far-reaching concessions to Catholicism so that the Germersheim church could be used again for Catholic services. Since this was done within the framework of a Simultaneum regulation, there were some overlaps in the use of St. James' Church between the two denominations. In 1699 the Franciscans settled in Germersheim and stayed until 1793.
18th century
From 1787 the Electoral Palatinate tried to remove the island Ceylon , which had arisen in the Rhine and was seen as a threat to the city of Germersheim. Germersheim remained with the Electoral Palatinate until the end of the 18th century and was the seat of an upper office .
A battle of the French Revolutionary War took place near Germersheim on July 5, 1793 . The Austrian troops under Field Marshal Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser fought back the French army and thus thwarted the relief of Mainz . From 1797 to 1814 Germersheim belonged to France and was part of the Département du Mont-Tonnerre .
19th century
After the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Germersheim came to Austria in accordance with the agreements of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 on the basis of a state treaty . Considerations began to expand Germersheim into a fortress in order to repel further attacks by France. Although there had previously been plans to build a fortress from the French side during the Palatine War of Succession ; However, since the city could not be held, these were then discarded. Construction of the fortress began in 1834. Many kilometers of mine tunnels were dug in the corridors around Germersheim , which can still be found today during construction projects. In 1855 the construction work on the actual fortress was finished; digging the mine tunnels dragged on until 1861. The fortress was already out of date when it was completed. When they were planned, neither the increase in the range of the guns nor the use of explosive shells had been expected. Its main effect now was that it hindered urban development. Houses and factories were not allowed to be built outside the fortress walls and space within was severely limited. Thus Germersheim developed into an almost pure garrison town where the 17th Infantry Regiment "Orff" , two battalions of the 2nd Foot Artillery -Regiments and two train companies until its dissolution after the end of World War I were stationed.
20th century
In 1921/22 the fortress was demolished as stipulated in the Versailles Treaty . Only small parts of the actual fortress were preserved. Until 1930, in connection with the occupation of the Rhineland by the victorious powers of World War I, French troops were stationed in Germersheim, which sparked conflicts with the local population, so in 1926 the so-called Rouzier case occurred .
The nationalist-conservative attitude of the population at the beginning of the Nazi dictatorship is clearly evident in the outcome of the Reichstag elections on March 5, 1933. In the Germersheim district, the NSDAP received 43.5% and the BVP ( Bavarian People's Party ) 40.5% of the votes . The SPD took third place with 10.3%. In 1925 there were only fewer than 40 Jews in Germersheim; their number continued to decline during the Nazi dictatorship. The synagogue , built around 1863, was sold in 1938 and survived the November pogroms of 1938 , only a few windows were broken. The last six Jews were deported in 1940 .
In the course of the armament of the Wehrmacht , Germersheim became a garrison again in 1936 . During the Second World War , parts of the Penal Division 999 were stationed in Germersheim. Lieutenant General Hans von Sponeck , who against the express orders of Hitler in the winter of 1941, his hopelessly inferior troops to retreat ordered was here after the conversion of his death sentence in imprisonment taken. After the assassination attempt on 20 July 1944 , he was, though uninvolved shot .
Early on March 24, 1945, the 12th and 14th US Panzer Divisions sent troops to the Germersheim railway bridge over the Rhine in Operation Undertone ; none of them had yet reached the city when the National Socialists blew up the bridge at 10:20 a.m.
In 1947, a state college for interpreters was founded by order of the high command of the French occupation zone .
After the World War, troops were again stationed in Germersheim, first American in the US Army Depot , later also German units of the Bundeswehr . In the General-Hans-Graf-Sponeck-Kaserne, built in 1965 (since 2015 Südpfalz-Kaserne ), there were only air force units (including the Medium Telecommunication Operations Battalion 764, the staff of the Air Force Training Regiment 4 and its 3rd Air Force Training Battalion with up to six at times Companies ). The stationing in the summer was very unpopular with soldiers because of the large numbers of mosquitoes (locally known as Schnooke , i.e. Schnaken ). All barracks windows were fitted with insect screens. An Air Force Motor Vehicle Transport Squadron of the 4th Air Force Supply Regiment Mosbach-Neckarelz was stationed in the air force depot established in 1980. Today Germersheim hosts the 1st – 6th Company of the Air Force Training Battalion with the Air Force Basic Training Center , the 7th Company is stationed in Roth in Central Franconia . The battalion consists of the 10th, 11th and 12th companies, which are basic training companies, and three inspections, which prepare personnel for deployment abroad (the Bundeswehr calls companies of the military schools inspection ).
On April 22, 1972, the adjacent and previously independent community of Sondernheim was incorporated into the south .
The 2nd British Rock Meeting from May 20 to 22, 1972 caused a stir . Only after ticket sales had started, the city administration found out about the festival and banned it immediately. As the onslaught of visitors could no longer be stopped, the ban was lifted on May 18, 1972 and the festival was able to take place as planned. Over 70,000 people listened to bands like Pink Floyd , Status Quo , Spencer Davis Group , Uriah Heep , Kinks and numerous others.
In 1990 Daimler AG opened its Global Logistics Center on the island of Grün.
21st century
Since 2006, the energy company EnBW has been planning to build a new coal-fired power station with an electrical output of 900 megawatts in Germersheim. The planned location was the island of Grün in the immediate vicinity of the Philippsburg nuclear power plant . The power plant was to be fired with imported hard coal. The building was criticized by a citizens' initiative that provided information about the risks and disadvantages of the project and organized demonstrations and protests. Initially only the Greens Germersheim rejected the power plant project , but eventually all parties in the city council except the Republicans . The majority of the council decided to change the zoning plan, which made the construction of a coal-fired power station impossible. In autumn 2008, EnBW announced that it would no longer pursue the new building plan and justified this with various location-specific and infrastructural conditions.
The Bundeswehr cleared the city barracks II, consisting of the provisions office and the hospital building of the Germersheim fortress . The listed buildings were handed over to an investor subject to certain conditions in 2012, and the city planned for retail use in 2007. The armed forces depot in the Theobaldkaserne was given up in 1996, after the renovation the facility is to be used for residential and commercial purposes.
City limits
Until the Rhine was straightened by Johann Gottfried Tulla , the border followed the Rhine, which meant that the island of Elisabethenwörth on the right bank of the Rhine belonged to Germersheim, and the island of Grün to the left of the Rhine in the north of Germersheim to the Grand Duchy of Baden .
Additional areas on the right bank of the Rhine were purchased for the construction of the fortress' outworks.
Until December 3, 1969, the island of Elisabethenwörth and the land acquired for the fortress construction belonged to Germersheim. The border then ran in the north over the B 35 to approx. Rhine kilometer 386.5. On that day, the island of Grün was exchanged for similarly large areas on the right bank of the Rhine, thus establishing today's borders.
Place name
The place name Germersheim is mentioned for the first time in 1090 in the Sinsheimer Chronik as Germaresheim , 1335 the spelling Germansheim can be found.
According to Philipp Melanchthon , of all the cities "Germersheim alone borrowed its name from Germania " and was therefore sung about by Johannes Posthius .
The name probably refers to a “home on a swampy arm of the Old Rhine ”, whereby the Indo-European ger stands for swamp , brook , morass and the Old High German mari for moor . Basic word is the Old High German home (or haim ), which as a short form of heima the importance of home , dwelling , abode or residence has. Earlier interpretations that the personal name Germar , d. H. a "spear fighter" (after the Germanic javelin Ger ), the origin is, are probably incorrect. Nevertheless, a local medieval association founded in 2012 is called Die Speermaechtigen .
More often colloquial names are the city of lilacs and the nightingale and Schnookestadt .
Population statistics
For residents development of the district Sondernheim see the section Population development of the district article .
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| December 31, 1925 | 3,308 |
| December 31, 1933 | 3,735 |
| December 31, 1939 | 5,858 |
| December 31, 1994 | 15,876 |
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Between 1987 and 1997 the net migration was very positive and peaked in 1993 at +1031. The population during this period increased by 46%. In 1997 the number of inhabitants exceeded the limit of 20,000, and it was at its highest in 2006 and 2007 with more than 21,000 inhabitants.
religion
The Jewish community that once resided there owned a synagogue that was sold in the 1930s. On October 22, 1940, the Jews living in Germersheim were deported as part of the Wagner-Bürckel campaign .
According to the 2011 census , on May 9, 2011 the proportion of Catholic citizens was 33.2%, Protestant 25.3% and the rest of 41.5%. The number of Protestants and especially Catholics has fallen since then. Currently (as of March 31, 2020) the proportion of Catholic citizens is 25.6%, the Protestant 20.0% and the other 54.4%
politics
mayor
The acting mayor has been Marcus Schaile ( CDU ) since January 1, 2010 . He was elected on June 7, 2009 and May 14, 2017 with two opposing candidates each for eight years with an absolute majority.
List of mayors since the beginning of the 20th century:
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| 1900-1903 | Ludwig Philipp Heené | ||
| 1903-1908 | Anton Kleehaas | ||
| 1908-1911 | Julius Ball | ||
| 1911-1920 | Jakob Diehl | ||
| 1921-1931 | Friedrich Schmidt | ||
| 1931-1933 | Heinrich Reible | ||
| 1933-1936 | Fritz Wolf | NSDAP | |
| 1936-1945 | Georg Otto Angerer | NSDAP | |
| 1945–1952 | August Ebinger | ||
| 1952-1956 | Fritz Wolf | List Fritz Wolf | second term |
| 1956-1981 | Siegfried Jantzer | CDU | |
| 1982-2001 | Benno Heiter | CDU | |
| 2002-2009 | Dieter Hänlein | CDU | |
| since 2010 | Marcus Schaile | CDU |
City council
( Weighted Results )
The city council in Germersheim consists of 36 honorary council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the full-time mayor as chairman.
The last local elections resulted in the following allocation of seats in the city council:
| choice | SPD | CDU | GREEN | FDP | REP | FWG | AfD | Total seats |
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| 2019 | 6th | 12 | 6th | 2 | - | 4th | 6th | 36 |
| 2014 | 7th | 15th | 4th | 1 | 2 | 7th | - | 36 |
| 2009 | 7th | 16 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | - | 36 |
| 2004 | 5 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8th | - | 36 |
| 1999 | 5 | 14th | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7th | - | 32 |
- FWG = Free Voting Group Germersheim-Sondernheim e. V.
Due to the peculiarities of the Rhineland-Palatinate electoral system in local elections ( personalized proportional representation ), the percentage of votes shown in the graph are shown as " weighted results ", which can only represent the voting behavior arithmetically.
coat of arms
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| Blazon : "In blue a golden (yellow) crowned, red-tongued golden (yellow) eagle." | |
| Crest Reason: In 1276, the city by the German king was Rudolf von Habsburg to the imperial city levied. The eagle is a symbol of this. The origin of the colors is unknown, but it was originally a black eagle on a silver background. |
Partnerships
Since 1963 there has been a twinning with the town of Tournus in Burgundy , France , and since 2005 there has also been a twinning with the town of Zalaszentgrót in Hungary .
For submarine U 19 of the Bundeswehr (in service 1973-1998), whose home port in Eckernförde was, there was a sponsorship. As a visible sign of this, there was a buoy in front of the Ludwigstor of the Germersheim fortress for a long time .
Culture and sights
Museums
- German Road Museum
- The City and Fortress Museum Germersheim primarily documents the history of the city of Germersheim, but also the former fortress and garrison . In addition to the history of the military in Germersheim, civil activities are also presented, such as B. brick industry, Rhine fishing, tobacco processing, schnapps distilling, shoemaking, printing and bookbinding, as well as enamel sign manufacture.
- The founding of an ecumenical church museum has been decided, but no premises have been found yet. Nevertheless, in November 2007 the first exhibition took place in the Germersheimer Sparkasse branch , at which numerous exhibits on regional church history were shown.
music
Germersheim has a music school that has existed since 1986, which also provides an orchestra that cooperates with the one from Speyer. There is also a Catholic and a Protestant church choir. There is also the Sondernheim music association and the Germersheim singing community with two choirs.
The Germersheimer Stadtkapelle is used primarily at urban events.
Buildings
Germersheim Fortress
Parts of the old fortress of Germersheim can still be visited today . Special mention should be made here
- the fortress park "Fronte Lamotte"
- the Weißenburger Tor (today an unofficial landmark of the city)
- the Ludwigstor with the city and fortress museum Germersheim
- the armory with the German Road Museum and the "Carnot Wall"
- the Fronte Beckers with the culture and youth center Hufeisen as well as the sculpture path Germersheim
- the Seysselkaserne (today Department of Translation, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz )
- the detention building
Catholic Church of St. James
The St. Jakobus Church was first mentioned as a castle chapel in 1280, but is probably much older. It was twice a monastery: 1298 to 1556 for the Servites and 1682 to 1794 for the Franciscans . In 1674, the church and the entire city were almost completely destroyed, but rebuilt between 1682 and 1697. Today it is the seat of the Catholic parish. The cemetery was located at the church until 1771 , which was then relocated outside the city, but is now completely within the village again due to the expansion of the buildings.
Protestant Reconciliation Church in Germersheim
The foundation stone for the Protestant Reconciliation Church in Germersheimer Marktstrasse was laid on November 26, 1782. The inauguration as a church of the Reformed community took place on October 24, 1784. It has served the Protestant church community as a place of worship since 1818, the year the churches were unified in the Palatinate.
Protestant Church in Sondernheim
The Protestant church in the Germersheim district of Sondernheim was officially opened on June 7, 1954 after a construction period of only nine and a half months. The foundation stone was laid on August 21, 1953. The forerunner of the church was a prayer room established in 1841.
Townhouse
The town house is one of the oldest existing buildings in the city. It was built in 1740 to replace the administration building of the Oberamt Germersheim , which was destroyed in 1674 . In 1792 it lost its function. From 1815 it was garrison headquarters, but in 1892 it was converted into an officers' mess. In 1972 it became the town hall , but kept the name Stadthaus , probably to differentiate it from the old town hall in Marktstrasse .
Parks
Along some of the former fortifications are z. Green spaces, some of which are open to the public, to which the city owes its overall very green appearance. These include, for example, the Fronte Beckers , the Fronte Lamotte (which, after the Bundeswehr cleared the area, was redesigned as the "Fortress Park Fronte Lamotte") or the park west of the Seyssel barracks as part of the Department of Translation, Linguistics and Cultural Studies (FTSK ), which is also open to the public during its opening times.
The so-called Ludwigspark (with toboggan hill) was created at Ludwigstor as early as the 1970s. This is followed by the Schwanenweiher with a small island between the train station and the city center , which is about two meters below normal ground level. This park in turn merges into the so-called Schlangenweg , which runs along the northern Queicharm and in the extension of which one can get along the Rhine east of the city proper to the local recreation area Sondernheim.
Between the town hall and the primary school there is another 50 m × 50 m green area known as the “town garden”.
Regular events
- April: Germany's largest special bike fair ("Spezi")
- Whitsun: Whitsun market on the Messplatz behind the Wrede sports center
- June in uneven years: fortress festival
- June / July: Germersheim cultural summer with open-air events in the "Hufeisen" ( Fronte Beckers )
- September, first weekend: Street festival on the market square between St. Jakobus Church and Marktstrasse
art
Art Association
The Kunstverein Germersheim was founded in 1982 and initially organized exhibitions and concerts at various locations. In 1992 the association was able to move to the then newly restored rooms of the fortress' former armory. The voluntary work of the art association is shaped by around 150 members. Several well-known artists have already exhibited within the framework of the Kunstverein Germersheim, including sculptors such as Lothar Fischer , Franz Bernhard , Paloma Varga Weisz , Madeleine Dietz , Peter Lang, Werner Pokorny and painters such as Günther Förg , Lambert Maria Wintersberger , Christiane Maether .
Public room
In Germersheim there are - measured by its population - a large number of modern works of art that are publicly displayed in streets, squares and parks .
Karl-Heinz Deutsch : Large stele (1977); Vocational school
Karl-Heinz Deutsch: Node (2002); Roundabout Konrad-Adenauer-Str. / Josef-Probst-Str. / Sondernheimer Str.
Holger Grimm: Composition (1997); Fronte Beckers fortress
Ljubo de Karina: Windows (1997); Fronte Beckers fortress
Kubach-Wilmsen : Steinbuch (1996-97); library
Georg Vorhauer : Syntax (1973); Richard-von-Weizsäcker-Realschule plus
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Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The city lies at the intersection of the federal highways B 9 ( Speyer - Lauterbourg ) and B 35 (Germersheim - Illingen ).
The Germersheim Station and the Sondernheim station situated on the railway line Schifferstadt-Woerth from the north in 1864 to Germersheim and was opened to full length 1876th In addition, the Bruhrain Railway, which was completed in 1877, branches off in Germersheim in the direction of Bruchsal, and the Germersheim – Landau railway line opened in 1872 until 1984 . Germersheim is the end point of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn from Mannheim / Ludwigshafen am Rhein and the end point of the Karlsruhe light rail . In addition, with Germersheim Mitte / Rhein and Germersheim Süd / Nolte there are two further stops in the city area. A regular taxi service operates within the city. There is also a bus line to Landau in the Palatinate via Bellheim , which is tailored to the train times. This bus line also runs through the city of Germersheim. The city belongs to both the Rhein-Neckar transport association and the Karlsruhe transport association. There is also a nationally important Rhine port in Germersheim , which is used primarily for container traffic.
Established businesses
- One of nine German production sites of the largest German container glass manufacturer Ardagh Glass Germany GmbH
- On the island of Grün , Daimler AG operates the Global Logistics Center, the world's largest warehouse for the automotive industry. The factory site in Germersheim is 1,700,000 m², the storage area was 497,000 m² in 2011 and the number of employees is around 2,100. External storage facilities are located in Wörth , Ettlingen , Offenbach an der Queich and Hatten (France). 530,000 different parts of the brands Mercedes-Benz , Maybach , smart and Mitsubishi Fuso are stored.
- Germersheim is the headquarters of the Nolte Group . The Nolte furniture GmbH & Co. KG is one of the most important manufacturers of cabinets and bedroom programs. Nolte Holzwerkstoff GmbH & Co. KG is also located here.
- Production site of Smurfit Kappa , Germersheim corrugated cardboard plant
- Central shipping of the cosmetics company Yves Rocher for Germany
- One of the oldest companies based in Germersheim (since 1948) is GUMASOL-Werke Dr. Mayer GmbH & Co. KG
- Location and production facility of the concrete surface manufacturer BTE Stelcon Deutschland GmbH
- Stadtwerke Germersheim GmbH , in addition to electricity, gas and water supply, operation of the Rhine port and the associated track systems.
military
Germersheim is the location of both German and US military facilities.
armed forces
Several Bundeswehr logistics facilities located in the city were closed after the end of the Cold War . The last remaining location of the Bundeswehr is the southern Palatinate barracks (formerly Hans Graf Sponeck barracks) located between the Germersheim core city and the Sondernheim district, which has existed since 1965 . Today, as the headquarters of the training battalion, it is the central training facility of the Air Force.
The Südpfalz-Kaserne gained national fame in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic , when more than 100 evacuated German citizens and their relatives from the Chinese region of Wuhan , the epicenter of the epicenter, were quarantined there at the beginning of February 2020 .
United States Armed Forces
There is a military property of the US armed forces in Germersheim . From this central warehouse, the US armed forces throughout Europe are supplied with various petroleum products, as well as dehumidifying and antifreeze agents. The toxin store has a capacity of 70 tons. With an application from 2017, a substantial capacity expansion to 1900 tons should take place. Following massive public protests, the application documents were revised in February 2018; now the storage of "very toxic substances" is to be dispensed with. There is a water tower on the site of the depot .
Agencies and public authorities
As the administrative seat of the district of Germersheim, the district administration is located in Germersheim.
The following are also based in the city:
- Tax office Germersheim , branch office of the tax office Speyer
- Germersheim employment office
- Customs Office Germersheim , the Hauptzollamt Saarbrücken downstream
dishes
Germersheim has the district court of Germersheim , which belongs to the regional court district of Landau in der Pfalz and the OLG district of Zweibrücken .
health
The former district hospital of the district of Germersheim was privatized and traded together with the hospital in Kandel , which was also previously owned by the district , as the Asklepios Südpfalzklinik . This is an acute hospital with standard care with the specialist areas of internal medicine, surgery, anesthesia and intensive medicine as well as gynecology.
The DRK district association Germersheim runs an ambulance and the office in Germersheim.
Leisure and sports facilities
The Wrede sports center is the city's stadium where the FV Germersheim football team plays their home games. Türkgücü Germersheim plays its home games on the Im Roth sports field . Another pure football area with a clubhouse is located in Sondernheim and is the home of VfR Sondernheim .
Other sports and leisure options include tennis, shooting sports, local recreation areas with quarry ponds and campsites, water sports (landing stages for sailing boats and motor boats), dog sports grounds and a number of offers from the 1863 Germersheim gymnastics club , which offers numerous activities - also for pregnant women, the sick, senior citizens and newborns / Infants - offers.
tourism
The Fronte Beckers hiking home, which was inaugurated in 1974, and the Sondernheim lock house , both owned and leased by the Palatinate Forest Association , are located in the city. In addition, Germersheim is the eastern end point of the Queichtal Cycle Path and a hiking trail that is marked with a yellow bar and lies on one that is marked with a white-blue bar that runs from Battenberg to Wörth am Rhein .
education
Kindergartens
There are 14 day-care centers in the city.
schools
Germersheim is home to the vocational school , the Eduard-Orth primary school , the Geschwister-Scholl- Realschule plus , the Goethe-Gymnasium , the Nardini- School ( special needs school ) and the Richard-von-Weizsäcker- Realschule plus . The Gottfried Tulla School ( elementary school ) is also located in the Sondernheim district .
University
Today's Department of Translation, Linguistics and Cultural Studies (FTSK) is a campus of the University of Mainz in Germersheim.
In 1947, by order of the high command of the French occupation zone, a state interpreting college was founded on site , which was incorporated into the University of Mainz in 1949 as the foreign and interpreting institute (ADI). From 1972 the institution was named Department of Applied Linguistics (FAS), from 1992 Department of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies (FASK), and since 2009 it has been called Department of Translation, Linguistics and Cultural Studies (FTSK) as Department 6 of the university.
The following courses are offered in Germersheim:
- Bachelor's degree in Language, Culture, Translation
- Master's degree in Translation
- Master's degree in conference interpreting
A total of 1,867 students were enrolled in the department in the 2012/2013 winter semester, and around 1,300 in the 2019/20 winter semester.
Personalities
Honorary citizens of the city included the long-time Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (1895), the Bavarian General Karl Theodor von Sauer (1898) and the Rhineland-Palatinate state politician Eduard Orth (1962).
One of the people who were born in Germersheim in the 16th century was the doctor and poet Johannes Posthius . In the 19th century, the theologian Paul Josef Nardini and numerous military personalities such as Otto Kreß von Kressenstein , Franz von Martin , Friedrich Kreß von Kressenstein and Eugen Weissmann , as well as several Nazi politicians such as Willy Damson , Friedrich Krebs , Richard Wagenbauer and Hans Saupert joined them. In the 20th century, the lawyer Hermann Stumpf , the sculptor, Lothar Fischer , the biologist and zoologist Ragnar Kinzelbach and the author Nicole Böhm were born in the city.
In addition to other military personalities who worked in the city, including Christian von Schmaltz and Franz Xaver von Predl , there are Eduard Eppelsheim , who was the district doctor on site from 1886 to 1896, pastor Johannes Bähr , who was vicar in Germersheim, and the band of Turkish roots Grup Tekkan added.
literature
- City of Germersheim (ed.): Home letter of the city of Germersheim. Vol. 1 ff., Germersheim 1961 ff.
- City of Germersheim (Ed.): Germersheim. Contributions to the city's history 1900–1975. Germersheim 1976.
- Joseph Döppenschmidt: On the history of the vocational school in the district of Germersheim / Rh. In: Festschrift for the inauguration of the new district vocational school in Germersheim / Rhein on November 21, 1959.
- Michael Kißener (Ed.): Germersheim in the 20th century - ways of a fortress city in the middle of Europe. Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 2008, ISBN 978-3-89735-533-0 .
- Reinhold Klotz: Germersheim - my hometown. Germersheim 1994.
- Joseph Probst : History of the city and fortress Germersheim. 2nd Edition. Verlag der Buchhandlung Johann Richter, Pirmasens 1974, ISBN 3-920784-16-2 (1997, ISBN 3-9805311-0-4 ).
- Literature on Germersheim in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Germersheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography
Web links
- Website of the city of Germersheim
- Link catalog on Germersheim at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
- Germersheim. In: 365zeichen.de. Christian Wirth(private website).
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ City portrait: Germersheim am Rhein invites you to stay. City of Germersheim, accessed October 29, 2014 .
- ↑ SWR television , Unser Wetter im third from January 1st, 2009
- ^ Probst: Germersheim - My hometown. Pp. 7-8
- ↑ For more information, see the University section .
- ↑ Renaming completed: Sponeck-Kaserne is now officially called Südpfalz-Kaserne. www.pfalz-express.de, June 23, 2015, accessed on February 11, 2018 .
- ↑ www.luftwaffe.de: Air Force Training Battalion
- ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 164 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
- ↑ Meinrad Heck : EnBW plans near Germersheim. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . April 14, 2008. Retrieved October 24, 2014.
- ↑ Don't get charred! No coal-fired power plant on the "Insel Grün" , website of the district association of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Germersheim. Retrieved October 24, 2014.
- ↑ Wolfgang Pomrehn: The trick with the development plan , In: klimaretter.info, April 12, 2009. Accessed October 1, 2014.
- ↑ EnBW provisionally concludes site investigation in Germersheim , EnBW press release, September 26, 2008. Retrieved October 24, 2014.
- ↑ (Conversion Report 2012/2013) of the State Chancellery of the State Government of Rhineland-Palatinate, here Section 3.2.3 Germersheim: Stadtkaserne II, Theobaldkaserne and Weißenburger Tor. P. 31 In: Report of the state government on the implementation of the state's conversion program to cope with the consequences of the troop withdrawal in 2012 and 2013 ( Memento of August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 4.7MB, 74 pages), seen on August 23, 2014.
- ↑ a b Probst: Germersheim - my hometown. Pp. 5-6
- ^ Heinz Bischof, Wilhelm Sturmfels: Our place names. In the ABC explained according to origin and meaning. Dümmler Verlag, Rastatt 1961, p. 90.
- ↑ Die Speermaechtigen e. V. www.die-speermaechtigen.de, 2018, accessed on March 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Germersheim - the city of the lilac and the nightingale. beckersalem.de, April 14, 2014, accessed October 29, 2014 .
- ^ Paul Münch : The Palatinate World History. E. Lincks-Crusius Verlag, Kaiserslautern 1969, p. 81.
- ↑ a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - Regional data: City of Germersheim / Population development 1963 - 2012 ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 24, 2013.
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data: City of Germersheim / population movement in total 1975 - 2013 ( memento of the original from December 25, 2013 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. , accessed December 24, 2013.
- ↑ Census 2011 City of Germersheim Religion (%)
- ↑ KreisStadt Germersheim , accessed on May 11, 2020
- ↑ The old and new mayor is called Marcus Schaile. Die Rheinpfalz , May 15, 2017, accessed on January 2, 2018 .
- ↑ District and mayor elections 2017. City of Germersheim, May 14, 2017, accessed on January 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Ludwig Hans : Germersheim Mayor of the 20th Century , City of Germersheim, October 2011
- ↑ a b Result City Council: City of Germersheim. Retrieved July 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Explanation of the regional returning officer on the "weighted result" ( memento of the original from October 2, 2011 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.
- ↑ Lively town twinning in Europe: Germersheim lives the idea of friendship among peoples. City of Germersheim, accessed January 24, 2015 .
- ↑ Alfred Nebel: Germersheimer Patenboot U 19 under new command and with new crew , Heimatbrief der Stadt Germersheim # 21, November 1981, pp. 85-87
- ↑ The Rhine Palatinate of January 18, 2006
- ↑ Evangelical Church Messenger from November 11, 2007 ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Welcome! (No longer available online.) City Music School and Music Academy Germersheim, 2018, archived from the original on November 19, 2018 ; accessed on November 18, 2018 . 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.
- ^ Church choir St. Jakobus Germersheim. Parish Blessed Paul Josef Nardini Germersheim, 2018, accessed on November 18, 2018 .
- ^ Church choir. Evangelical Church of the Palatinate (Protestant State Church) , 2018, accessed on November 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Our member associations. Kreismusikverband Germersheim e. V., 2018, accessed November 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Choral singing by the Germersheim Singing Association. V. Singing Community Germersheim e. V., 2018, accessed November 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Welcome. City Chapel Germersheim e. V., 2018, accessed November 18, 2018 .
- ^ German Society for Historical Uniform Studies (DGHU e.V.) newly founded. www.dghu.de, 2009, accessed on October 31, 2018 .
- ↑ Kunstverein Germersheim. kunstverein-germersheim.de, 2018, accessed on October 31, 2018 .
- ↑ Compare also the catalog SkulpTour Germersheim (World of Form)
- ↑ Daimler AG: Environmental Statement GSP Logistics Locations 2012 ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), p. 13.
- ↑ Global Logistics Center Germersheim on the Daimler AG website ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 15, 2013.
- ↑ tagesschau.de: After a flight from China: Two corona infected people in barracks in the southern Palatinate. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Focus : US Depot Germersheim: End of the objection period and further proceedings , from May 11, 2017, loaded on July 19, 2018.
- ↑ Bundestag.de : Legal questions regarding the expansion of the US armed forces' hazardous materials warehouse in Germersheim / Lingenfeld (PDF) from December 21, 2017, accessed on July 19, 2018.
- ↑ pfalz-express.de: US-Depot Germersheim: US Army submits application documents to the district administration , from February 20, 2018, accessed on July 19, 2018.
- ↑ Day care centers: Modern kindergartens for our “little ones”. City of Germersheim, 2018, accessed on November 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Kindergartens and schools: In Germersheim you want to be a child. City of Germersheim, 2018, accessed on November 1, 2018 .
- ↑ University: Department of Translation, Linguistics and Cultural Studies. City of Germersheim, 2018, accessed on November 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Peter Schunck: Documents on the history of the Germersheim Interpreting College from 1946 - 1949 . Here is the foreword, Mainz 1997. Complete print: documents on the history of the Interpreting College Germersheim from the years 1946-1949 , self-published, writings from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz # 7, ISBN 3-9802819-2-2 . Another website shows archival material relating to the establishment of the FASK (i.e. a list of the documents processed).
- ↑ Studying at the FTSK. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , November 23, 2016, accessed on March 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Study cases 1st degree program by subject PUC. (PDF; 118.37 kB) (No longer available online.) Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , January 25, 2013, archived from the original on July 5, 2016 ; accessed on March 26, 2017 . 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.
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