Höningen

Höningen Local church Altleiningen Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 26 ″ N , 8 ° 4 ′ 39 ″ E
Height :	300 m above sea level NN
Residents :	257 (Jun 30, 2007)
Postal code :	67317
Area code :	06356
Location of Höningen in Rhineland-Palatinate
	Jakobskirche, on the right in the background the west gable of the ruinous monastery church

Engraving from the early 18th century

Höningen is a district of the Altleiningen community in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Bad Dürkheim .

geography

Höningen is located in the north-eastern Palatinate Forest about 2 kilometers south of the center of the municipality at an altitude of about 300 meters. In the south rises the 516 meter high Rahnfels , to which a narrow, winding country road leads up. At the eastern edge of the residential development, the place passes in a north-easterly direction the 5 km long Höninger Bach , which has its source southwest of Höningen on a mountain saddle between the Rahnfels and the Kieskautberg and is a right tributary of the Eckbach .

history

The village of Höningen in its current form did not develop from an original hamlet until the 19th century . The nucleus in the Middle Ages was the eponymous canon of St. Peter Höningen of the Augustinians . It was around 1120 from Leiningen Count Emich II. († before 1138) three kilometers south of his ancestral castle Leiningen founded. The local Jacob's Church is only a little younger than the monastery. This was given up in 1569 during the Reformation . After the buildings of the monastery were almost completely burned down in a fire a short time later, Count Philipp I von Leiningen (1527–1597) had them partially rebuilt in order to set up a Latin school. This later became today's Leininger grammar school in the small town of Grünstadt , 10 kilometers away .

Sights and culture

With the ruin of the monastery, the Romanesque Jakobskirche , a villa built in 1900 with a half-timbered knee in the street An der Eiche and one from the 14th / 15th century. The village has four cultural monuments , dating back to the 19th century in Höninger Hauptstrasse .

Economy and Infrastructure

In Höningen, the first signs of benefiting from tourism through the wooded area are showing . Two roads lead to Altleiningen and reach the main town in the south (2 kilometers) and northeast (3 kilometers). Höningen has a bus stop on the 454 bus of the Rhein-Neckar transport association , which is served from Grünstadt. The next motorway connection is in Wattenheim ( A 6 , Saarbrücken - Mannheim ).

Web links

Private website for Höningen
Höningen on the Altleiningen website