Heppingen

Heppingen City of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 2 "  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 48"  E
Height :	90 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	916  (December 31, 2011)
Postal code :	53474
Area code :	02641
Location of Heppingen in Rhineland-Palatinate

Heppingen is a district and district of the city of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler in the Ahrweiler district in Rhineland-Palatinate . The place is at the foot of the land crown .

Heppingen, aerial photo (2016)

politics

Heppingen is one of ten districts in the city of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler. The district is represented by a local advisory board and a local mayor .

The town council consists of five members in the municipal election held on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Klaus Kniel (CDU) became mayor of Heppingen in 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for another five years with 79.53% of the votes.

Kniel's predecessor Bernhard Bitzen (CDU) did not run again in 2019 for reasons of age.

Economy and Transport

Fountain

The Heppinger Fountain, mentioned from 1565 in the scientific medical literature of the Renaissance by the doctors Johann Winter von Andernach and Jacob Theodorus Tabernaemontanus , is located in the village. At this point of is Apollinaris displaced Heppinger medicinal water gained.

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  Engraving of Heppinger Brunnenhäuser around 1840

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  Mountain Landskrone Ahrtal with Heppinger Brunnenhaus

gastronomy

Heppingen also became known beyond the borders of Germany through the chef Hans Stefan Steinheuer , who runs his multi-award-winning restaurant “Zur alten Post” in the village.

Rail transport

Heppingen is connected to rail traffic via Heimersheim station .

Streets

Heppingen is located between Bad Neuenahr and Heimersheim next to the A 61 ( Cologne - Koblenz ), does not have its own motorway connection, but has the B 266 feeder to the A 61.

schools

There is a primary school in Heimersheim. 140 students from the districts of Ehlingen , Gimmigen , Green , Heimersheim, Heppingen, Kirchdaun and Lohrsdorf are taught in the building, which was built in 1974 . A school kindergarten was also affiliated there until the 2013/14 school year .

Heppinger House

The former moated castle in Heppingen is now owned by the Graf Wolff-Metternich family .

Personalities

Sons and daughters

• Heinrich Bayer (1912–2011), German politician, born in Heppingen, lived in his house on Schulstrasse until his death
• Adelheid Streidel (* 1947) attacked Oskar Lafontaine with a knife at an election campaign event in Cologne-Mülheim and seriously injured him with a stab near the carotid artery .

Personalities who have worked in the place

• Paul Metternich (1853–1934), German diplomat, became known as the German ambassador to Great Britain (1903–1912) and the Ottoman Empire (1915–16) as well as in connection with the genocide of the Armenians .

Web links

Commons : Heppingen  - collection of images

• Literature about Heppingen in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Main statute of the city of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler. (PDF) § 2. City of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, April 7, 2020, accessed on July 28, 2020 . 
2. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Heppingen. Retrieved July 28, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} local advisory board list is available. Press release CDU Heppingen. In: Blick Aktuell. Krupp Verlags GmbH, Sinzig, April 28, 2014, accessed on July 28, 2020 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, association-free municipality, sixth row of results. Retrieved July 28, 2020 . 
5. ^ Heimersheim primary school ( memento of February 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on January 25, 2014
6. ↑ Former Heimersheim school kindergarten ( memento from February 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on January 25, 2015