Großniedesheim

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 35 '  N , 8 ° 19'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhine-Palatinate District
Association municipality :	Lambsheim-Hessheim
Height :	97 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.78 km 2
Residents:	1309 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	346 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67259
Area code :	06239
License plate :	RP
Community key :	07 3 38 009
Association administration address:	Mühltorstrasse 25 67245 Lambsheim
Website :	www.grossniedesheim.de
Local Mayor :	Michael Walther ( SPD )
Location of the local community Großniedesheim in the Rhine-Palatinate district

Großniedesheim is a municipality in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Lambsheim-Heßheim .

geography

Großniedesheim is located in the northwest of the Verbandsgemeinde Lambsheim-Heßheim in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region . Heuchelheim is the neighboring town to the west, followed by Kleinniedesheim , Beindersheim and Heßheim in a clockwise direction .

East of the residential development, the Eckbach , a left tributary of the Rhine, flows from south-southwest to north-northeast .

history

timeline

Großniedesheim is a Franconian town founded in the 6th / 7th. Century and was first mentioned in 1190 in the fiefdom register of Werner II. Von Bolanden under the name Nittesheim . Since the neighboring village of Kleinniedesheim had been given the same name since the 16th century, the prefixes uppercase and lowercase have been used to differentiate. The current spelling of Großniedesheim has existed since the 18th century.

In 1230, the bailiwick of Groß- and Kleinniedesheim was given by Emperor Friedrich II to Count Philip I of Falkenstein , who remained in his family until 1458. This year was by Emperor Friedrich III. the upper fief rights of the County of Falkenstein to Duke Johann von Lothringen , who gave the county to Wirich VI. von Daun refused.

Before Lorraine , in which the County of Falkenstein was incorporated in 1667, was annexed to France, Duke Franz Stephan ceded Groß- und Kleinniedesheim to Elector Karl Philipp in 1733 . In 1745, both places were assigned to the Electoral Palatinate sub-district of Freinsheim , but in 1750, together with Kleinniedesheim, they were given as fiefs to the Electoral Cologne privy councilor and resident in the Electoral Palatinate, Jakob Josef von Steffne . He was an advisor to the Cologne Elector Clemens August von Bayern and a close confidante of the Austrian Minister Johann Karl Philipp Graf Cobenzl . With the latter, he fell out of favor with his sovereign as early as 1755, the fiefdom was withdrawn and the villages returned to the Electoral Palatinate sub-district of Freinsheim. It stayed that way until the end of the feudal era. However, Jakob Josef von Steffne kept his own residence, Schloss Kleinniedesheim, which his son Clemens August von Steffne , the last provost of the Worms Andreasstift , sold to the Barons von Gagern in 1765 .

After taking possession of the Left Bank of the Rhine in the French Revolutionary Wars (1794), Großniedesheim belonged to the French canton of Frankenthal in the Donnersberg department from 1798 to 1814 .

Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna , the area became part of Austria in June 1815 . On April 14, 1816, a state treaty was signed between Austria and Bavaria in which an exchange of different national territories was agreed. The Austrian areas on the left bank of the Rhine were ceded to the Kingdom of Bavaria on May 1, 1816 . In 1818 Großniedesheim came to the Landkommissariat Frankenthal in the Bavarian Rhine district . From the Landkommissariat Frankenthal the Landkreis Frankenthal (Palatinate) emerged in 1938 , to which the municipality belonged until 1969. Belonging to Bavaria ended after the Second World War .

With the dissolution of the Frankenthal district in 1969, there was a change to the Ludwigshafen district , which is now called the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis; afterwards it was assigned to the then new community of Heßheim . This merged in 2014 with the community of Lambsheim, which was previously independent of the association, to form the Verbandsgemeinde Lambsheim-Heßheim .

In autumn 2014 it was made public that the congregation had granted Adolf Hitler honorary citizenship as early as 1932, a year before the so-called seizure of power , and that it had not officially been revoked from him after the Nazi era . In an earlier discussion in the 1990s, those responsible had assumed that the expiry of the municipal code upon the death of the honorary citizen was legally sufficient. In order to remove the basis of the allegations that were circulating, especially on the Internet, the municipal council passed the unanimous decision on November 27, 2014 to formally reverse the award from 1932.

Plane crash

On July 29, 1982, an airplane accident occurred in the village. At around 4 p.m., a low-flying starfighter of the Canadian Air Force collided with a Piper Cherokee Six small aircraft that was about to land at Worms airfield, 5 km away . Both machines crashed over the northeastern Palatinate near the border with Rheinhessen . The military aircraft hit the ground in the middle of Großniedesheim, tearing a swath of devastation into the place. The entire Lilienstraße and parts of Fliederstraße and Beindersheimer Straße were affected. The small plane crashed into a field on the outskirts of the neighboring community of Kleinniedesheim. The jet fighter's pilot, 51-year-old Jack Frazer, was able to save himself by using the ejector seat , and the two occupants of the civil aircraft were killed. A young man, 19-year-old Reinhard Kruppa, died in the rubble of the partially destroyed house at Lilienstraße 6. Because fires broke out at the accident site, fire brigades from all over the region had to provide fire fighting assistance. In addition, 2,400 liters of kerosene had contaminated 180 tons of soil, which had to be dredged and disposed of.

Population development

The first population figure is recorded for the year 1667; 142 people lived in Großniedesheim at that time. With the reconstruction after the Palatine War of Succession and especially under the rule of the elector , the population grew; the 74 houses in 1786 corresponded to about 300 to 350 inhabitants. In 1801 398 people were counted. With the end of feudal rule , many small farmers, craftsmen and traders from the area settled in the area, which increased the population to 546 in 1836.

The local boundaries at that time remained largely unchanged until the Second World War; the population also rose to only 599 by 1939, since in Großniedesheim, in contrast to other places in the area, no housing developments for workers and employees from the surrounding cities were built. Only after the Second World War did the development of new building areas lead to a strong expansion of the settlement area and a strong increase in population.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Großniedesheim consists of 16 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	10	-	6th	16 seats
2014	10	2	4th	16 seats
2009	8th	3	5	16 seats
2004	8th	4th	4th	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group Großniedesheim e. V.

mayor

Michael Walther (SPD) won the election for local mayor in 2009 with 60.8% of the vote. He replaced Hugo Klöß (SPD). Walther was re-elected with 66.9% in 2014 and 67.8% in 2019.

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: "In silver a green oak branch with two green leaves and two golden acorns"

It goes back to the joint court seal of Groß- and Kleinniedesheim from the 15th century and refers with the oak branch to the former local rule of the Lords of Falkenstein .

Sights and culture

The 49 m high water tower erected in 1929 is a striking building that can be seen from afar; it holds 360 m³. In the center are the Protestant church as well as the well-restored ensemble of the former town hall, which has a striking door system and now as a community center serves.

See also : List of cultural monuments in Großniedesheim

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  Water tower

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  Formerly the town hall, today a community center

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  Gate to the grounds of the community center and the peace hall

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  Protestant parish church

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  War memorial

Economy and Infrastructure

education

In Großniedesheim there is a single primary school and a kindergarten.

traffic

District roads connect Großniedesheim with Heuchelheim, Kleinniedesheim and Beindersheim. The A 61 ( Koblenz - Speyer ) runs 1 km to the west - without a junction . The next connection to the A 6 ( Saarbrücken - Mannheim ), which runs 2.5 km south, is 6 km away in Frankenthal (junction 22 Frankenthal-Nord) ; From there, the A 61 can also be reached via the nearby Frankenthal motorway junction .

Sons and daughters of the church

• Nikolaus Müller (1857–1912), Protestant theologian and church historian

Web links

Commons : Großniedesheim  - Collection of images

• Literature about Großniedesheim 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. ↑ Complete diary of the strangest incidents during the election and coronation of Emperor Karl VII. , Frankfurt 1742, p. 23 (digital scan on the function as resident).
3. ^ Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine, especially the old Archdiocese of Cologne , annual volume 1927, p. 40 (detail scan).
4. ^ Kurmainzischer Hof- und Staats-Kalender , Mainz 1792, p. 310 (digital scan).
5. ↑ Christian Gottlieb von Stramberg, Anton Joseph Weidenbach: Memorable and useful Rhenish antiquarian , part 2, volume 3, Koblenz 1853, p. 692 (digital scan).
6. ^ Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal Bavarian Rhine district , part 2, Speyer 1836, p. 252 (digital scan).
7. ↑ Waltraud Werdelis (ww): Honor of Adolf Hitler is revised . In: Die Rheinpfalz , local edition Frankenthaler Zeitung . Ludwigshafen November 26, 2014.
8. ↑ gnk (author's abbreviation): line under the Hitler case . In: Die Rheinpfalz , local edition Frankenthaler Zeitung . Ludwigshafen November 27, 2014.
9. ↑ Antje Landmann: A sacrifice for the village . In: Die Rheinpfalz , local edition Frankenthaler Zeitung . No. 298 . Ludwigshafen December 27, 2017, p. 20 (source for the entire paragraph on the aircraft accident).
10. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections.
11. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
12. ↑ German Association of Gas and Water: Water Tower Großniedesheim. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 15, 2014 ; Retrieved March 5, 2012 . 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.