Hessheim

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '  N , 8 ° 19'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhine-Palatinate District
Association municipality :	Lambsheim-Hessheim
Height :	100 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.78 km 2
Residents:	3147 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	544 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67258
Area code :	06233
License plate :	RP
Community key :	07 3 38 012
Association administration address:	Mühltorstrasse 25 67245 Lambsheim
Website :	hessheim.de
Local Mayor :	Holger Korn ( SPD )
Location of the local community Heßheim in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis

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

geography

Hessheim from the air

Heßheim is 4 km west of the medium- sized town Frankenthal (Pfalz) and is enclosed from the north and east by the Frankenthal motorway junction , where the A 6 is crossed by the A 61 .

The Fasanenhof, Finkenhof, Hof am Hohen Rech, Lindenhof, Hof am Weinberg and Kastanienhof residential areas also belong to Heßheim .

In addition to Frankenthal, neighboring communities are Lambsheim in the south-west, Gerolsheim in the west, Heuchelheim in the north-west and Beindersheim in the north-east.

In the south-east, Heßheim is surrounded by the Nachtweidgraben , which flows into the Schrakelbach from the left at the eastern entrance to the town . This then flows east of the residential development and next to the route of the bypass road from south to north, to later flow into the Eckbach .

history

The place belonged to the district of Frankenthal until it was dissolved in 1969 and its eastern part, in which Heßheim was located, was added to the then Ludwigshafen district, since 2005 the Rhine-Palatinate district. In 1972 the community of Heßheim was formed, to which the independent communities of Beindersheim , Großniedesheim , Heßheim, Heuchelheim and Kleinniedesheim belonged. The Verbandsgemeinde Heßheim was dissolved on July 1, 2014, and the Verbandsgemeinde Lambsheim-Heßheim was newly formed from it and the community of Lambsheim, which had not been an association until then .

In June 2010 the population of the town center had to be evacuated. A farmer found a metal object in a field on June 23 and brought it to the local farm in the center of the village. There the find was identified as a live tank explosive shell from the Second World War . On June 24, the grenade was transported to the open field behind the farm by a robot from the ordnance disposal service and blasted in a controlled manner in a specially dug earth pit.

politics

Municipal council

Town hall of the former community of Heßheim

The municipal council in Heßheim consists of 20 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	11	6th	3	20 seats
2014	11	7th	2	20 seats
2009	11	7th	2	20 seats
2004	11	9	-	20 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group Heßheim e. V.

The Rhineland-Palatinate municipal election law stipulates that the absolute majority of the votes must also lead to an absolute majority of the seats. But although the SPD received an absolute majority in 2014, only 10 of the 20 seats were initially allocated to it due to an inadequacy in the evaluation program. She received the 11th at a later date at the expense of the FWG, which lost the third seat initially reported by the press. She now wanted to get this from the CDU via a recount. However, in the opinion of the local authority, the recounting would not have produced a different result in terms of the distribution of seats and was therefore rejected.

mayor

The local mayor of Heßheim is Holger Korn (SPD). In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with 81.76% of the vote.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In blue on golden Dreienberg standing a bareheaded peasant, wearing a silver skirt, red vest, black breeches and silver stockings, in his right hand a golden capital letters H cautious and accompanied stars of three six-pointed golden, one of which is right that the other two, one above the other, stand on the left. "

Culture and sights

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  Townscape

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  primary school

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  St. Martin's Catholic Church

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  Protestant Christ Church

See also : List of cultural monuments in Heßheim

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Heßheim is on the Deutsche Grumbeer- und Gemüsestraße , which runs from Speyer to Worms and is dedicated to the cultivation of potatoes and vegetables . Agriculture is a major occupation in the municipality , but a large proportion of the residents commute to work in the region (for example to Ludwigshafen , Mannheim , Frankenthal).

traffic

Although Heßheim is at the intersection of two motorways, there is no direct connection after the municipality had taken legal action against this in the 1980s. Although the legal dispute was lost in the last instance, the motorway connection was removed from the requirements plan of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate during the process. The community is only connected to regional traffic via state roads , especially the L 453 (Frankenthal– Grünstadt ). The next motorway connection is in Frankenthal-Nord (5 km) and requires driving through the Frankenthal industrial area. In addition to the L 453, the L 520 connects Heßheim with neighboring communities, to the west with Gerolsheim and Großkarlbach .

Around the year 2000, a traffic roundabout was built at the east end of the community towards Frankenthal . This comes up again and again in the discussion, because its narrow radius is held responsible for traffic obstructions and accidents. A short time after a sandstone portal was built on the mound in the middle of the roundabout with a view of the tower of the Protestant church, a car drove straight up the hill in the roundabout and caused the portal to collapse; it was replaced after several months.

From this roundabout, a two-lane bypass has been running the L 453 in the northeast around Heßheim since 2014. Because of the lawsuits filed by four affected farmers against the planning approval decision, the construction work was only started in November 2013 and completed after a year. The bypass leads to the second roundabout, completed in 2014, northwest of the municipality. In 2015/16, the L 520 was also extended from Gerolsheim, which since then has been running around the town in the northwest - also with two lanes. Heßheim thus has a continuous bypass.

Heßheim had a rail connection from 1891 to 1939, when the Frankenthal – Großkarlbach local railway ran through the town on or next to the main road.

education

Heßheim has a primary school and a communal kindergarten . The adult education center of the association is responsible for adult education .

media

The daily newspaper for Heßheim is Die Rheinpfalz , published in Ludwigshafen, with its local edition Frankenthaler Zeitung .

Sons and daughters of the church

• Friedemann Kessler (* 1949), pianist and piano teacher

Web links

Commons : Heßheim  - collection of images

• Literature about Heßheim 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. 164 f . (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ^ The Rheinpfalz, local edition Frankenthaler Zeitung . Ludwigshafen June 24, 2010.
4. ^ The Rheinpfalz, local edition Frankenthaler Zeitung . Ludwigshafen June 25, 2010.
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ↑ Section 41 (1) of the Rhineland-Palatinate Local Election Act (KWG) in the version dated January 31, 1994. Accessed on September 27, 2014 : "... When the seats are distributed ... receives the election proposal of a party or group of voters to which more than If half of the votes cast for the applicants of all nominations have been lost, no more than half of the seats to be allocated, he will be allocated another seat, if not different. ... " 
7. ↑ Christina Eichhorn (cei): recount: seats of the opposition unclear . In: Die Rheinpfalz, local edition Frankenthaler Zeitung . Ludwigshafen July 7, 2014, p. 20 .
8. ↑ Christina Eichhorn (cei): Almost everything stays the same . In: Die Rheinpfalz, local edition Frankenthaler Zeitung . Ludwigshafen July 11, 2014, p. 17 .
9. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Lambsheim-Heßheim, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results. Retrieved October 9, 2019 . 
10. ^ The Rheinpfalz, local edition Frankenthaler Zeitung . Ludwigshafen February 23, 2011.