Heuchelheim near Frankenthal

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 34 '  N , 8 ° 17'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhine-Palatinate District
Association municipality :	Lambsheim-Hessheim
Height :	100 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.76 km 2
Residents:	1281 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	222 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67259
Area code :	06238
License plate :	RP
Community key :	07 3 38 013
Association administration address:	Mühltorstrasse 25 67245 Lambsheim
Website :	www.heuchelheimbeifrankenthal.de
Local Mayor :	Frank Klingel (FWG)
Location of the local community Heuchelheim near Frankenthal in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis

Heuchelheim bei Frankenthal is a municipality in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Lambsheim-Heßheim .

geography

Heuchelheim, the most north-westerly town of the Lambsheim-Heßheim community, is on the border with the Bad Dürkheim district in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region . Dirmstein is the western neighbor, Worms , Großniedesheim , Beindersheim , Heßheim and Gerolsheim follow in clockwise direction .

The Eckbach flows on the southern edge of the municipality .

history

timeline

It was first mentioned in a document by the Franks in the 6./7. The town was founded in the 17th century under the name Huchilheim in the Lorsch Codex in 767 . The place name in its current form has been documented since 1410.

In 1185 the castle of Heuchelheim was mentioned for the first time in connection with the knight Heinrich von Heuchelheim and in 1190 it was listed in the fiefdom of Werner II von Bolanden . The former moated castle was on the eastern outskirts within the medieval city wall. The barren, mostly built-up last remains of the complex are now at Am Schloss 2 . Nothing is known about the origins of the castle, nor about the construction of the fortifications, the course of which can still be traced from maps from the 19th century. This fortification consisted of an outer ring that enclosed the entire village and had a 5 m wide moat and an inner wall with a quarry stone wall. Two other moats surrounded the castle. The outer ring had two gatehouses at the entrances to the village in the south (Heßheimer Strasse) and northwest (Hauptstrasse). During the Palatinate War of Succession , the fortifications including the gatehouses were largely destroyed; remnants of the curtain wall were completely removed in the 20th century.

Tomb slab from the 12th century, on the Protestant Church

In 1368 the castle and village were given to the eunuchs of Worms as a fief by Count Palatine Ruprecht I. In 1410 the sovereignty of Heuchelheim passed to the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken , from which it was given as an inheritance to the family of Eckbrechte von Dürkheim . From 1657 to 1741 the fiefdom was in the hands of Johann Konrad Blarer von Geyersburg and his descendants, after which it was given by Christian III. von Pfalz-Birkenfeld-Zweibrücken awarded to the Palatine court chancellor, Baron Jakob Tillmann von Hallberg .

In connection with the coalition wars , the Palatinate was placed under French administration in 1794 and belonged to the Donnersberg department from 1798 to 1814 . Heuchelheim was the seat of a mairie in the canton of Frankenthal , which was part of the Speyer arrondissement .

Due to the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna (1815), the Palatinate and with it Heuchelheim first came to Austria and in 1816 to the Kingdom of Bavaria on the basis of a state treaty . Heuchelheim was assigned to the Landkommissariat Frankenthal in the Rhine district in 1818, to the Frankenthal district office in 1862 and to the Frankenthal district (Pfalz) in 1939 . Heuchelheim has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

In 1969 the district of Frankenthal (Pfalz) was dissolved, Heuchelheim came to the district of Ludwigshafen , today the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis. Since 1972 Heuchelheim belonged to the community of Heßheim ; this merged with Lambsheim in 2014 to form the Verbandsgemeinde Lambsheim-Heßheim .

Population development

The original town center consisted of Kirchenstrasse and Hauptstrasse. In the Middle Ages, the fortification with two entrances made the Breite Straße a dead end . The first number of inhabitants named for 1602 was 40 farmsteads. From the middle of the 18th century there was likely to have been a relatively strong increase in the population. Exact numbers are not known, one can expect around 400 to 450 people. The population increased from 500 inhabitants in 1815 to 736 in 1840 due to immigrants. The houses were still concentrated in the area enclosed by the old fortification ring, only a few houses stood outside. As a result of emigrants to the USA , the population subsequently decreased again. From 1871 to 1905 the number stagnated at 600 inhabitants, in 1939 it was 635. During the operation (1891–1939) of the Frankenthal – Großkarlbach local railway , the town expanded slightly towards the north-west around 1900. From the 1950s onwards, further new housing estates were created there. In 1960 the town had around 810 inhabitants, a number that rose to around 1200 by the end of 2018.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Heuchelheim bei Frankenthal 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	3	2	11	16 seats
2014	4th	2	10	16 seats
2009	3	2	11	16 seats
2004	4th	2	10	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voters' Group Heuchelheim e. V.

mayor

The local mayor of Heuchelheim is Frank Klingel (FWG). In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with 84.82% of the vote.

coat of arms

The blazon of the coat of arms reads: "Split by gold and blue, on the right a red armored and tongued, gold-crowned half black eagle at the gap, on the left a golden sheaf of wheat tied with a red ribbon."

Culture and sights

The most important building and cultural monument is the Protestant Church from 1566, which was rebuilt in 1738. It stands on the site of a previous church from the 12th century.

The local history museum of the association has been housed in the old school and town hall of Heuchelheim since 1999. The listed building dates from 1821 and was extended in 1855/57.

The Jewish cemetery in Heuchelheim , 16.23 ares in size and located directly by the old cemetery at the Protestant church, was the central burial place for the Jews of the surrounding villages until the 20th century, and even for the city of Frankenthal in the 18th century. All of the tombstones that have been preserved date from before 1940.

See also : List of cultural monuments in Heuchelheim near Frankenthal

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  Protestant Church Heuchelheim

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  Former school and town hall, today a local museum

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  The last remains of the castle and palace

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  Former train station, now a private residence

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Heuchelheim wind farm

Although the place more and more a residential community for professionals in the Rhine-Neckar is, there are agricultural enterprises. To the northwest of the residential area, on the east and south slopes of the 125-meter-high umbrella mountain , wine is also grown . Heuchelheim is one of the most eastern wine-growing communities in the Palatinate . In the north of the district, six wind turbines were built by 2005 .

Public facilities

In Heuchelheim there is a kindergarten, a library and a local museum.

traffic

Heuchelheim is connected to Landesstraße  453 ( Grünstadt - Frankenthal ) in the south and west , and Landesstraße 456 leads to Großniedesheim in the northeast. Without junctions, the A 61 ( Koblenz - Speyer ) runs east of the town and the A 6 ( Saarbrücken - Mannheim ) south . The next connection is 8 km away in Frankenthal.

Personalities

Rudolf Schreiber is an honorary citizen of Heuchelheim. He was first deputy and from 1984 to 1994 local mayor. He volunteered for the Allgemeine Turnerbund Heuchelheim 1900, the senior citizens' room and the local history museum.

Web links

Commons : Heuchelheim bei Frankenthal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Local community Heuchelheim
• Literature about Heuchelheim near Frankenthal 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. ↑ Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Lambsheim-Heßheim, Verbandsgemeinde, fourth line of results. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .