Hüffelsheim

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 49 '  N , 7 ° 48'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Kreuznach
Association municipality :	Rudesheim
Height :	200 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.55 km 2
Residents:	1307 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	200 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55595
Area code :	0671
License plate :	KH
Community key :	07 1 33 048
Association administration address:	Nahestrasse 63 55593 Rüdesheim
Website :	www.hueffelsheim.de
Local Mayor :	Jochen Fiscus ( SPD )
Location of the local community of Hüffelsheim in the Bad Kreuznach district

Hüffelsheim is a municipality in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rüdesheim .

Geographical location

Hüffelsheim is located on a plateau above the Nahe in the Soonwald-Nahe Nature Park . In the northeast are Rüdesheim and Bad Kreuznach .

The Antoniushof, Marienhof and Wiesenhof residential areas also belong to Hüffelsheim .

history

The earliest mention of the place is from the year 766 as Uffiliubesheim in the ownership documents of the Franconian imperial monastery Lorsch on Bergstrasse . In other documents of this monastery , Hüffelsheim is still mentioned in its numerous widely scattered possessions, e.g. B. in the years 767 to 785. On December 3, 785 an Odilher from the Otokare family donated his entire property in Usfiliubesheim to this monastery . Foundations to the Lorsch Abbey can be found in Hüffelsheim up to around 804 .

Population development

The development of the population of Hüffelsheim, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 560 1835 726 1871 674 1905 701 1939 711 1950 748 1961 789

year Residents 1970 966 1987 1,070 1997 1,188 2005 1,318 2011 1,298 2017 1,328 2019 1,307

Population development in Hüffelsheim from 1815 to 2017 according to the table below

politics

Municipal council

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

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	10	5	1	16 seats
2014	11	4th	1	16 seats
2009	11	4th	1	16 seats
2004	11	4th	1	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Community Hüffelsheim e. V.

mayor

Jochen Fiscus (SPD) is the local mayor. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with 83.73% of the votes.

Parish partnership

• Chrabrowo parish , Kaliningrad Oblast , Russia (former Powunden parish , Königsberg district , East Prussia ) (1985)

Culture and sights

See also: List of cultural monuments in Hüffelsheim

traffic

The federal highway 41 runs in the north . In Norheim is a train station on the Bingen – Saarbrücken line .

The Powunden Bell

During the Second World War , the large church bell of the Hüffelsheim church was confiscated and destroyed by bombs at the Hamburg collection point . Therefore the Protestant parish asked the bell office of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland for a replacement. In 1952, one of the two bells from the church in Powunden near Königsberg (Prussia) was loaned to her . As before, the bell calls to the service.

Personalities

• Helmut Mühlender (1918–2008), employee and politician (SPD)
• Johannes Polke (1931–2013), pastor in Hüffelsheim from 1963 to 1996
• Erich Sirrenberg (* 1938), professor
• Norbert Becker (* 1949), university professor and president of the World Mosquito Control Association
• Matthias Jung (* 1978), comedian

literature

• Johannes Polke: Hüffelsheim in the old days. 1993, ISBN 3-9803182-6-5 .
• Johannes Polke: Hüffelsheim in recent times. 2004, ISBN 3-00-014899-X .
• Johannes Polke: Nice church Hüffelsheim. 1988.
• Ludwig Bechstein: The boot full of wine.

Web links

Commons : Hüffelsheim  - Collection of Images

• Internet presence of the local community Hüffelsheim
• Information from the community of Rüdesheim about Hüffelsheim
• Literature about Hüffelsheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 24 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Accessed February 16, 2020 . 
4. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: City Council Election 2019 Hüffelsheim. Retrieved September 15, 2019 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections.
6. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. Accessed on September 15, 2019 (see Rüdesheim, Verbandsgemeinde, 13th line of results).