Hainfeld (Palatinate)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 15 '  N , 8 ° 6'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southern Wine Route
Association municipality :	Edenkoben
Height :	182 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.23 km 2
Residents:	867 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	139 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	76835
Area code :	06323
License plate :	SOUTH
Community key :	07 3 37 036
Association administration address:	Poststrasse 23 67480 Edenkoben
Website :	www.hainfeld.de
Local Mayor :	Wolfgang Schwarz ( SPD )
Location of the local community Hainfeld in the district of Südliche Weinstrasse

View of Hainfeld from Annaberg, Edesheim in the background

Hainfeld is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstrasse district in Rhineland-Palatinate and belongs to the community of Edenkoben .

geography

location

The municipality is located five kilometers southwest of Edenkoben between the Haardt , as the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest is called, and the Rhine in the Weinstrasse region . The community also has two exclaves in the Palatinate Forest. The Mittelmühle residential area also belongs to Hainfeld . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Rhodt unter Rietburg , Edesheim , Roschbach , Flemlingen , Burrweiler and Weyher in the Palatinate . One exclave borders clockwise - including exclaves - on Ramberg , Weyher in the Palatinate, Edesheim and Burrweiler. The one further to the west borders on Edenkoben , Edesheim , Burrweiler , Roschbach , Flemlingen , Landau in the Palatinate , Weyher in the Palatinate , Edesheim and Rhodt unter Rietburg .

Surveys

The northern side of the Roßberg is located in the area of ​​the exclave further to the east . The second exclave lies further to the northwest and includes, among other things, the north flank of the 566 meter high Pfaffenkopf , the northwest flank of the 581.3  m high Hermeskopf and the south flank of the 455.5  m high Birkenkopf .

Waters

The Modenbach runs through the middle of the settlement area in a west-east direction . On site, the Lützelbach from the right is tired . The eastern exclave is bounded in the east by the Ziegelbach . The Kohlbach rises within the at others .

history

The place was first mentioned in 781 in the list of goods of the Lorsch monastery under the name Stratfeld . Even then, viticulture was an important source of income. From the 15th to the end of the 18th century, the place belonged to the Speyer monastery and was subordinate to the Edesheim office . In 1621 and 1651, war-related destruction took place.

In 1673 the place was occupied by the French . At that time there was an attack on the French soldiers, after which the villagers in the region were referred to as the "arm murderers" or "arm knives". France occupied the place again in 1779 and, after a brief Prussian occupation, in 1793.

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Heimfelden - as the place name at that time - was incorporated into the canton of Edenkoben and was subordinate to Mairie Weyer . In 1815 the place had a total of 690 inhabitants. In the same year it was added to Austria . Just one year later, the place, like the entire Palatinate, changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 the community belonged to the Landau Landau commissioner ; from this the district office of Landau emerged.

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

Religions

At the end of 2013, 61.4 percent of the population were Catholic and 19.6 percent Protestant. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational.

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Hainfeld consists of twelve council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

mayor

Wolfgang Schwarz from the SPD has been the local mayor since 2004 . In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for another five years with a share of 58.22% of the votes. His predecessors were Horst Schmid and Hermann Hundemer, who died in 1987.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "A continuous silver cross in blue, covered with a black mark in the form of a cross in a circle that is extended with the upper arm and barbed to the right, angled by a golden grape at thetop right ."
	Justification of the coat of arms: It was approved by the Mainz Ministry of the Interior in 1961 and contains, in addition to the district mark, which goes back to a seal from 1742, the cross of the Speyer Monastery .

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

Monument zone town center

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Hainfeld (Palatinate)

The town center is designated as a monument zone . There are numerous historical buildings in the Renaissance , Rococo and Baroque styles . There are also numerous individual objects that are under monument protection . The church with a tower redesigned in 1886 is the landmark. The tube fountain dates from 1561.

nature

In the district of Hainfeld there are a total of two natural monuments : the village linden tree in the settlement area and a sweet chestnut tree in one of the forest enclaves . The entire municipality - including the area beyond the Palatinate Forest with buildings and surrounding vineyards - is part of the Palatinate Forest Nature Park , which in turn belongs to the cross-border Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord Biosphere Reserve .

Events

In 2006, Hainfeld was the opening location of the German Wine Route Adventure Day ; the motto was "Culinary Palatinate".

Economy and Infrastructure

Sign for a restaurant in Hainfeld

economy

The main economic branch of the local community is viticulture . As such, it is part of the Palatinate wine-growing region . The individual layers of chapel , church piece and Letten are located on site . There are also numerous old winegrowers' houses in the village itself. In the course of the Haingeraide , Hainfeld was involved in the so-called third Haingeraide , which was dissolved in the early modern period and which was partially subordinated to the community.

traffic

The Palatinate Oberland Railway ran through Hainfeld from 1913 to 1953 .

In addition, the state roads 507 and 512 run through the municipality. The former connects them with Birkweiler and Speyer and the latter with Landau and Neustadt. The district road 56 leads to Roschbach. The place is connected to the local transport network via the bus lines 500 and 501 of the Rhein-Neckar transport association operated by PalatinaBus , both of which lead to Landau and Neustadt.

tourism

The German Wine Route and the German Wine Route Cycle Route run through Hainfeld . The place is also the western starting point of the From Rhine to Wine Cycle Route .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Sister Agapita (1908 / 09–1988) was elected honorary citizen in 1983 because of her many years of service to the well-being of the Hainfeld citizens.
• Horst Schmid (* 1933), local mayor from 1987 to 2004, subsequently made an honorary citizen.

People who worked on site

• Martin Hemmer (1863–1947), Palatinate priest and prelate (monsignor) from Niederlustadt , active in the Archdiocese of Breslau , died as a refugee with his niece in Hainfeld. His grave in the local cemetery became a memorial and a regular meeting point for the displaced people of his last and long-standing parish of Schmottseiffen / Silesia.
• Nikolaus Lauer (1887–1980), Catholic theologian, died on site
• Viktor Carl (1925–2007), author and teacher
• Carl Werner Müller (1931–2018), classical philologist, died on site
• Annette Borell. 1987/1988 Palatine wine queen
• Birgit Schehl (* 1969), 1990/1991 German wine queen
• Thomas Hitschler (* 1982), politician (SPD), lives in Hainfeld.

Web links

Commons : Hainfeld  - Collection of Images

• Internet presence of the local community Hainfeld
• Literature about Hainfeld 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 (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 161 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2013
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Edenkoben, Verbandsgemeinde, eleventh result line. Retrieved April 13, 2020 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Arno Lentz: Hainfeld 1981-2006. Retrieved April 13, 2020 . 
7. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
8. ↑ Lergenmüller's Pfalz-Rheingau-Cuvée  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Rhine Palatinate on February 7, 2013  
9. ↑ State honorary pin for Bruno Koch from Hainfeld. (No longer available online.) In: Hainfeld.de. December 16, 2015, archived from the original on April 15, 2015 ; accessed on January 9, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Viktor Carl - Neuland Südpfalz - know brand eins. Retrieved December 22, 2017 . 
11. ^ Carl, Viktor .: Lexicon of Palatinate personalities . 3rd, revised. and exp. Aufl. Hennig Verlag, Edenkoben 2004, ISBN 3-9804668-5-X .