Gleisweiler

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 15 '  N , 8 ° 4'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southern Wine Route
Association municipality :	Edenkoben
Height :	285 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.73 km 2
Residents:	601 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	161 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	76835
Area code :	06345
License plate :	SOUTH
Community key :	07 3 37 028
Association administration address:	Poststrasse 23 67480 Edenkoben
Website :	www.gleisweiler.de
Local Mayor :	Thorsten Rothgerber
Location of the local community Gleisweiler in the southern Weinstrasse district

Mountain road

Gleisweiler ( Palatinate Glääswoiler ) is a municipality in the southern Weinstrasse district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Edenkoben , within which it is the fifth smallest local community in terms of population. Gleisweiler is a state-approved resort .

geography

location

The wine-growing area is 9 km south of Edenkoben between the Palatinate Forest biosphere reserve and the Rhine . The Haardt , as the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest is called, extends to the west . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Burrweiler , Böchingen , Frankweiler , Böchingen (exclave), Flemlingen (exclave) and Walsheim (exclave).

The local community Gleisweiler is about 300  m above sea level. NHN on the slope of the Haardt and at the foot of the 597.6  m high Teufelsberg on the German Wine Route . To Gleisweiler also include residential places Paper Mill Hainbachtal and sanatorium Badstraße. The Hainbach , which runs south of the development, forms the border with Frankweiler.

In the Middle Palatinate Forest, there is also an exclave of the community, the Gleisweiler Forest . This is traversed by the Eusserbach , which in this area is called Katzenbach in its upper reaches . From the left it takes the Katzentalbach on site.

climate

Due to its location on the German Wine Route in the lee of the Palatinate Forest, Gleisweiler has a mild climate and calls itself the “Palatinate Nice”.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1006 under the name "Glizenwilere". King Heinrich II had donated the place together with Hochstadt and Wollmesheim to the cathedral monastery in Speyer . In 1414 Ritter Wolfgang, Judge von Knittelsheim sold his goods in Gleisweiler to Count Palatine Ludwig III. In addition, Kurpfalz had obedience and serfs in the place. In 1587 the Speyer Cathedral Monastery sold its share of the rights over Gleisweiler to Johann Casimir von Pfalz-Simmern , who was administrator of the Electoral Palatinate at the time . The place came to the court of the Siebeldinger valley, which belonged to the Electoral Palatinate Oberamt Germersheim .

After 1792 French revolutionary troops occupied the region and annexed it after the Peace of Campo Formio (1797) . From 1798 to 1814 the village belonged to the French department of Donnersberg , was assigned to the canton of Edenkoben and was the seat of its own mairie , which also included the neighboring Frankweiler. In 1815 the community had a total of 613 inhabitants. Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna that took place in the same year and an exchange contract with Austria , the region came under the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 . From 1818 the community Gleisweiler was the Landau Landau in the Bavarian Rhine District ; the Landau district office then emerged from the former .

From 1939 the place was part of the Landau district in the Palatinate . After the Second World War , the municipality within the French occupation zone became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate. During the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform moved Gleisweiler in the newly created on June 7, 1969 the district Landau-Bad Bergzabern, in 1978 in South County Wine Trail is renamed . In 1972 the community was assigned to the also newly formed community community of Edenkoben .

religion

In 2013, 37.8 percent of the population were Catholic and 37.1 percent Protestant. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational. The Catholics belong to the Diocese of Speyer , the Evangelicals to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate .

The Catholics from Gleisweiler and Frankweiler belong to the Catholic community of St. Stephanus; that's about 450 people together. They are represented by the community committee. The services are celebrated in the parish church of St. Stephan in Gleisweiler, which is open for viewing and prayer during the day. An active group in the congregation are the altar servers.

The Catholic parish of St. Anna Edenkoben, which came into being with effect from 1st Advent 2015, includes the community of Gleisweiler and Frankweiler.

politics

Local government

Municipal council

The municipal council in Gleisweiler consists of twelve council members, who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman. In the local elections in 2009, personalized proportional representation took place.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	WGG	total
2019	by majority vote			12 seats
2014	by majority vote			12 seats
2009	-	7th	5	12 seats
2004	5	7th	-	12 seats

mayor

Thorsten Rothgerber (Greens) became the local mayor of Gleisweiler on June 25, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he prevailed against the previous incumbent Hartmut Brenner (non-party) with a share of 69.85% of the vote. Brenner himself was only appointed on January 7, 2019, after he had already been in office since October 2018 as the first alderman due to the professional resignation of local mayor Robert Vogl (independent). Vogl, in turn, took over the office on April 14, 2015 to close a ten-month vacancy that arose because no candidate was found in the 2014 local elections. During this time, the official business was carried out on an interim basis by the representative Matthias Hertel. Jörg Keller (CDU) held the office for five years until the 2014 election.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In silver under ablack horseshoewith the cleats turned downwards, a blue grape with a green stem protruding into its cavity." It was approved by the Bavarian king in 1844 and dates back to a seal from 1708.

Culture and sights

Catholic Church of St. Stephen

Protestant Martin Bucer Church

Buildings

On the Kittenberg are the remains of Kittenberg Castle , an early medieval hill fort .

The Electoral Palatinate Zehnthof was built in 1753 by the Elector Karl Theodor under the Electoral Palatinate court architect S. Zeller as a Catholic parsonage and Zehnthof. It is probably the largest rectory in the Palatinate. The renovation of the house took place between 1985 and 1987 with the political community to the community center and the upper floor to a separate parish apartment.

From 1760–62 the Catholic Church of St. Stephan was built by the Palatine court architect Franz Wilhelm Rabaliatti . The hall building with corner pilasters is bordered by a pilaster-structured choir . The former choir tower from 1354 is located on the north side. Its last storey protrudes over a round arch frieze and is covered with a hipped roof; this speaks for the function of a defensive tower. On the ground floor under the star vault there is a bay-like projecting sacrament shrine , which was built around the year 1500. Opposite it is the Protestant church named after Martin Bucer . The Kurhaus was built in 1844 according to plans by Leo von Klenze . The “Sun Temple” garden pavilion (around 1780) was moved here from Landau in the Palatinate . The semicircular columns open to the south.

Sun temple in the spa gardens

Also important are the archway at Bergstrasse 4 (re. 1619) and an archway from 1823 with the “miner's mark” at Badstrasse 9/11. The half-timbered house near the late medieval "Hinzlochbrunnen" is also historically interesting. The forest shower was built in 1848 as a spa facility for cold water use in the neighboring Hainbachtal from sandstone blocks.

In addition, the Trifelsblick hut is located in the Gleisweiler district .

nature

The Kurhaus is surrounded by an extensive park with imposing sequoias and Mediterranean plants. A sequoia tree there was 46 meters high in 2010; his diameter at chest height was 2.49 meters. On the southern edge of the municipality is the Haardtrand - Faulenberg nature reserve and the Haardtrand - Annaberg nature reserve in the north .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Gleisweiler
• List of natural monuments in Gleisweiler

Economy and Infrastructure

Economic trends

In addition to viticulture, restaurants and pensions and two small businesses, there are no businesses in the village.

wine growing

Gleisweiler is a wine-growing village and as such part of the Palatinate wine-growing region . The vineyards are to the north and east of the settlement area. A well-known vineyard is the Gleisweiler Hölle , which is part of the Bischofskreuz site . A Wingert was owned by the CDU politician Heiner Geißler . According to the WeinGuide Gault Millau , the “Gleisweiler Hölle” has been one of the ten best locations in southern Palatinate since 2007 .

Spa clinic

Kurhaus Gleisweiler

In 1844, Germany's first cold water therapeutic facility was opened in Gleisweiler by Dr. Ludwig Schneider opens. The clinic was a private company of the doctor who ran the house for more than thirty years. The castle-like classicist clinic building was built according to plans by the royal Bavarian court architect Leo von Klenze .

Forest shower

A special feature is the forest shower , which was built in 1848 with a water supply made of hewn red sandstone and operated until 1878 - Germany's first. It was later recaptured from nature by a landslide and only rediscovered in 1990.

In 1991, the then mayor Josef Götz (†) started the excavation with volunteers. In 1992, a support association was founded, whose members maintain Germany's unique shower to this day. On June 29, 1996, the system with an 80 m long inlet channel was inaugurated and handed over to the general public for free use. It is open at least from April to October and delivers a 3 m high jet of 8–12 ° C cold water from the Hainbach in a sandstone-brick structure, open at the top .

traffic

The state roads 507 and 512 run through the district of Gleisweiler ; the former is laid out east of the building in a north-south direction. The community is connected to the local transport network via bus line 501 in the Rhein-Neckar transport association. The Palatinate Keschdeweg and the Palatinate Almond Trail run through the village .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Herbert Lorenz (1916–2013), painter, graphic artist and sculptor

Sons and daughters of the church

• Heinrich Benedikt Fleischbein (1747–1793), Catholic priest and full professor of theology at Heidelberg University
• Joseph Guhmann (1762–1843), Oberamtmann of Baden
• Heidemarie Berger (* 1944), politician (SPD)
• Georg Lind (* 1947), psychologist

People who worked on site

• Karl Friedrich Köhn von Jaski (1771–1852), Prussian lieutenant general and second in command of the Berlin Invalidenhaus, fought on site during the First Coalition War
• Albert Pfeiffer (1880–1948), archivist, died on site
• Heiner Geißler (1930–2017), politician (CDU), died on site
• David D. Lauer (1939–2014), sculptor, lived, worked and died in Gleisweiler
• Bernd Kastenholz (* 1949), painter and graphic artist, has lived on site since 1972

Web links

Commons : Gleisweiler  - Collection of images

• Official website of the Gleisweiler community
• Short portrait with a film about Gleisweiler on SWR television
• Literature about Gleisweiler 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 - regional data
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 102 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
4. ↑ Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal. bayer. Rheinkreises , first part, appendix, Speyer: Neidhard, 1836, p. 254 ( Google Books )
5. ↑ KommWis - Society for Communication and Knowledge Transfer: Online municipal statistics . As of December 31, 2013
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
7. ↑ Vera Allmann-Stübinger: Gleisweiler: Grüner sworn in as local mayor. Die Rheinpfalz, June 26, 2019, accessed on April 12, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Election of the local mayor. Gleisweiler community, June 5, 2019, accessed on April 12, 2020 . 
9. ^ Gerhard Sommer: Hartmut Brenner introduced into office. Die Rheinpfalz, January 9, 2019, accessed on April 12, 2020 . 
10. ↑ After ten months of vacancy: Gleisweiler finally has a new mayor again. Pfalz-Express, April 19, 2015, accessed on April 12, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Fritz Beyer villages: report from the Council meeting of 05.21.2014. Farewell to the former mayor Jörg Keller. In: Gemeindeecho Gleisweiler, year 46, edition 3. Local community Gleisweiler, June 2014, accessed on April 12, 2020 . 
12. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
13. ^ Hans Caspary (arrangement): Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland. In: Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1984.
14. ↑ bird food: Historic forest shower in the Hainbachtal near Gleisweiler youtube.com, video (7:16), published June 1, 2011, accessed February 3, 2018. - Memorial plaque at 6: 46/7: 16: "Former forest shower / erected in 1849 by Dr. Ludwig / Schneider Bad Gleisweiler. / In operation until around 1870. / Excavated and restored / in voluntary work by / members of the friends' association / 1991 Gleisweiler 1996 "
15. ↑ Soothing water website of the community of Gleisweiler, accessed February 19, 2018.
16. ↑ The historic forest shower in the Hainbachtal near Gleisweiler Förderverein für den Wiederaufbau der Walddusche eV, edited April 2014, accessed February 3, 2018. - Numerous subpages.
17. ↑ team panisa: Walddusche youtube.com, video (2:59), published July 14, 2010, July 14, 2010, accessed February 3, 2018. - Rinne, family showering. Geocache from MINZ: GCKA1T.
18. ↑ Sven Claus: Radio report Audio (2:44), SWR 4, broadcast in summer 2009, accessed February 3, 2018.