Grethen (Bad Dürkheim)

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Grethen
City of Bad Dürkheim
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Grethen
Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 23 ″  N , 8 ° 9 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 135 m above sea level NN
Residents : 1995  (December 31, 2018)
Incorporation : March 31, 1935
Postal code : 67098
Area code : 06322
The Limburg monastery ruins, the most striking building on site

Grethen is a district of the Rhineland-Palatinate district town of Bad Dürkheim .

location

The place is west of the core city in the Palatinate Forest on the Isenach and on the federal highway 37 .

history

In 773 Grethen was first mentioned in a document as "Crothincheim", after it had already been settled first by the Celts and later by the Romans. At the time of the settlement by the Celts, Grethen was also the seat of a prince.

From around 950 the Salierburg Limburg was built on site. According to a document dated February 16, 1035, Emperor Konrad II gave Grethen to the newly founded Limburg Monastery . It says that the monastery will keep the site as its property, with all the rights and usufructs that the Rhine Franconian dukes have had there since then . The first monk known by name there, Florian von Beck lived there between 1435 and 1472.

After the Limburg monastery was abolished around 1574, the village was divided between the Electoral Palatinate and Leiningen .

From 1902 to 1931 the place belonged to the district office Dürkheim . On March 31, 1935 it was incorporated into Bad Dürkheim. The neighboring village of Hausen, which emerged as a new development area in the 1960s, also belongs to the local district of Grethen .

coat of arms

The blazon of the coat of arms reads: "In blue a growing crook placed obliquely to the left, each accompanied by a red-armored silver eagle".

politics

Local advisory board

The district belongs to the local district of Grethen- Hausen and therefore has a local advisory board and a local mayor .

The local advisory board consists of seven local advisory board members. In the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the advisory board members were elected in a personalized proportional representation. The distribution of seats in the elected local council:

choice SPD CDU left FWG total
2019 3 3 - 1 7 seats
2014 3 3 0 1 7 seats

Mayor

Mayor is Dieter Walther (SPD). In the municipal election on May 26, 2019, he prevailed against the previous incumbent Rolf Jochum (CDU) with a share of 56.62% of the vote.

Infrastructure

There are a total of nine cultural monuments in the district of Grethen, including the ruins of the Limburg monastery . The Palatinate Museum for Natural History has also been integrated into the local Herzogmühle since 1981 . The closest train station is Bad Dürkheim train station .

Web links

Commons : Grethen  - Collection of Images
  • Gabi Keller: Grethen-Hausen. Location portrait. SWR television in Rhineland-Palatinate, November 8, 2009, accessed on April 19, 2015 (with video, 8:28 min).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ residents | District town of Bad Dürkheim. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .
  2. ^ Wilhelm Manchot : Limburg Monastery , Mannheimer Altertumsverein, 1892, p. 7
  3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 . Page 450
  4. ^ City of Bad Dürkheim: Main statutes of the city of Bad Dürkheim. § 2 June 10, 2014, accessed on October 11, 2019 .
  5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Grethen. Retrieved October 11, 2019 .
  6. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: Local council election 2014 Grethen. Retrieved October 11, 2019 .
  7. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see second line of results. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .