Hochspeyer

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Coat of arms of the local community Hochspeyer
Hochspeyer
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Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '  N , 7 ° 54'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Kaiserslautern
Association municipality : Enkenbach-Alsenborn
Height : 267 m above sea level NHN
Area : 22.72 km 2
Residents: 4587 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 202 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 67691
Area code : 06305
License plate : KL
Community key : 07 3 35 015
Association administration address: Hauptstrasse 18
67677 Enkenbach-Alsenborn
Website : www.hochspeyer.eu
Local Mayor : Dominic Jonas ( CDU )
Location of the Hochspeyer community in the Kaiserslautern district
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Partial view of the Hochspeyers from the north with Humberg

Hochspeyer is a municipality in the Kaiserslautern district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It has been a member of the Enkenbach-Alsenborn community since July 1, 2014 . Hochspeyer is shown as a basic center in the state planning .

geography

location

Hochspeyer lies at an altitude of about 270  m above sea level. NHN on the northern edge of the Palatinate Forest in the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord biosphere reserve . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Fischbach , Frankenstein , Waldleiningen and Kaiserslautern .

Elevations and waters

The place is surrounded on all sides by wooded heights such as the Heiligenberg in the west and the Humberg in the south, where the Frankenweide adjoins. In the east on the border to Frankenstein, the 422 meter high Hohe Kopf extends . Located in the high Speyer settlement area stems from the high Speyerbach flowing direction West-East in. The Fischbach is only a short distance on the municipality mark just before its confluence with the Hochspeyerbach . In the southeast, the Leinbach forms the border with Waldleiningen.

District boundary

The boundary of the municipality of Hochspeyer runs on the north side between Fischbach and Hochspeyer roughly along the route of the bypass road B37, westwards to the Hochspeyerer Stich on the border with Kaiserslautern. From there it forms the western border of the district running southwards over the Heiligenberg Tunnel and the Heiligenberg and along the B48 to the historic stable (junction of the L504 to Kaiserslautern). From the stable , the (southern) border runs along the L504 to Waldleiningen, further along the outskirts, and then follows the Leinbachtal two thirds of the way to Frankenstein to about the level of the Mönchhöferfelsen . From there, the (eastern) border runs north over the Hohe Kopf to the Hochspeyerbach in the Neustadter Tal , then along the brook, past the former Franzosenwoog to shortly before Hochspeyer, where it meets the B37 again.

history

Development up to the 18th century

The name Hochspeyer is derived from the name of the Hochspeyerbach . The medieval name Hospira of the Hochspeyerbach is proven as early as the 10th century and was derived from the Speyerbach ( Spira ).

The oldest part of today's village of Hochspeyer is the Münchhof from the 8th or 9th century, which was independent until around 1800. Hochspeyer itself may not have been founded until after the turn of the millennium. Some sources attribute the foundation to the Leiningen family, others to the Counts of Saarbrücken.

In 1195, Hochspeyer was first mentioned in a document from the Otterberg monastery . In this document, Emperor Heinrich Vl. the monks their claim to ownership of the Münchhof (then: Hof Sendelborn).

From 1317 onwards, Hochspeyer was to be regarded as a condominium for a period of 480 years , i.e. as the territory of several counties. Around 1500 Hochspeyer had 18 households. In the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) the place was destroyed and remained deserted for 15 years. The cause of the complicated rulership was the early extinction of the male lineage of the Leininger in 1217 and the subsequent division of the legacy of the Leiniger house in 1237 and 1317. In the following centuries, territories were repeatedly exchanged between different owners of parts of Hochspeyer. However, Hochspeyer was never really divided as a village, but was administered jointly by the respective gentlemen, because the taxes were divided. The supraregional dominant manor house of the Electoral Palatinate only played a part as the owner of Hochspeyer, as the Electoral Palatinate only held one-sixth of Hochspeyer for 91 years from 1706 to 1797.

From the 19th century

The condominium only ended when the Palatinate was annexed by French revolutionary troops in 1797, and Hochspeyer became part of a nation-state for the first time in its history. The region was added to the Donnersberg department in 1798 , and the Münchhof is merged with Hochspeyer. Until 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Hochspeier was - as the spelling at the time - incorporated into the canton of Kaiserslautern and formed a community with the neighboring Fischbach . In addition, the place was the seat of a Mairie , which also included Waldleiningen and the community of Frankenstein and Diemerstein . In 1815 the place Austria was added. Just one year later, the place, like the entire Palatinate, changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 the community "Hochspeyer und Fischbach" belonged to the Land Commissioner Kaiserslautern ; from this the district office of Kaiserslautern emerged.

Industrialization led, among other things, to the establishment of a chemical factory (1880–1924) for the extraction of raw materials from the charring of beech wood.

During the First World War , which lasted from 1914 to 1918, the railway line was used to transport troops. In Hochspeyer, a hospital is temporarily set up in the old school. Citizens can alleviate the food shortage of 1916/17 by intensifying self-sufficiency.

Frankenstein has been part of the Kaiserslautern district since 1939 .

Second World War (1939–1945): The Hochspeyer traffic junction serves as a transit camp for refugees, workers ( Westwall ) and troops. At the end of 1944 the railway line in Hochspeyer was the target of bombing raids. On March 19, 1945, the Americans marched into Hochspeyer without resistance. After the Second World War, the place became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform , the municipality became the seat of the newly formed association of the same name in 1972 . On September 4, 1976, part of the municipality of Hochspeyer with 59 inhabitants was transferred to Waldleiningen. During the second half of the 20th century, Hochspeyer also grew considerably, for example several new building areas were created. The community has been part of the Enkenbach-Alsenborn community since 2014 .

Overview of the power relations
year event
12th century 1195 First documentary mention that the village of Hochspeyer belonged to the Frankenstein lordship and thus to the Counts of Leiningen.
13th century 1237 The heirs of Friedrich III. and Emich IV agree on the joint administration of the Frankenstein estate .
14th century 1317 The division of the Leininger into the Leiningen-Dagsburg and Leiningen-Hardenburg lines leads to the division of the ownership of Hochspeyer into two halves:
1/2
Leiningen-Dagsburg
¹ / ₂
Reign of Frankenstein (Leiningen-Hardenburg)
15th century 1416 After years of pledging, the Frankenstein reign is finally sold to the following counts and knights:
1/2
Leiningen-Dagsburg
¹ / ₆ L.-Hardenburg ¹ / ₆ Ritter Island Home ¹ / ₆ Nassau-Saarbr.
1467 Leiningen-Dagsburg dies out, the legacy is shared. Among other things, Hochspeyer falls to the Counts of Leiningen-Westerburg, Dagsburg to Leiningen-Hardenburg:
Leiningen-Westerburg L.-H.-Dagsburg Knight Island Home Nassau-Saarbr.
16th century 1550 The von Inseltheim knight dynasty is dying out, heirs are the Barons von Wallbronn, based in Gauersheim (Northern Palatinate):
Leiningen-Westerburg L.-H.-Dagsburg Freih.Wallbronn Nassau-Saarbr.
17th century 1680 Exchange of territory between the Counts of Leiningen-Westerburg and the Counts of Leiningen-Hardenburg:
⁴ / ₆
Leiningen-Hardenburg-Dagsburg
¹ / ₆ Freih.Wallbronn ¹ / ₆ Nassau-Saarbr.
18th century 1706 Area exchange between the Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken (Nassau-Weilburg) and the Electoral Palatinate :
Leiningen-Hardenburg-Dagsburg Freih.Wallbronn Electoral Palatinate
1792 Complex area swap of the Counts of Leiningen-Hardenburg, Wallbrunn (Wallbronn) and the Electoral Palatinate :
⁵ / ₆
Leiningen-Hardenburg-Dagsburg
¹ / ₆
Electoral Palatinate
1794 Conquest of the areas on the left bank of the Rhine , and thus Hochspeyers, by the French revolutionary troops :
¹ / ₁
Donnersberg Department (France)
19th century 1816 After the Congress of Vienna , the area of ​​today's Palatinate , and thus Hochspeyer, is awarded to Bavaria:
Rhine District ( Kingdom of Bavaria )
20th century 1947 After the Second World War , the new state of Rhineland-Palatinate was created during the French occupation :
Rhineland-Palatinate (Federal Republic of Germany)

religion

The Jewish community once resident there owned a synagogue , the interior of which was destroyed in the November pogroms in 1938 . There has also been a Jewish cemetery on site since 1927 .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Hochspeyer 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 7th 8th 5 20 seats
2014 11 4th 4th 20 seats
2009 9 6th 5 20 seats
  • FWG = Free Voting Group Hochspeyer e. V.

mayor

The local mayor is Dominic Jonas (CDU). In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected with 67.63% of the vote and is the successor to Hans Norbert Anspach (SPD), who did not run again.

Civic engagement

In 2008, to promote families and civic engagement , a local alliance for families was founded in cooperation with the municipal administration, citizens, educational institutions and associations .

In the 1990s there was the Neustadter Tal citizens' initiative in Hochspeyer , which unsuccessfully opposed the construction of the planned bypass.

coat of arms

Hochspeyer coat of arms
Blazon : "Divided by blue and red by a silver bar, above a red-armored silver eagle, below a patted floating silver cross, covered with a red capital letter H"
Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms of the local community Hochspeyer was only introduced in 1960. Above it shows a silver Leininger eagle on a blue background and below a silver bar cross ( Lords of Apremont ) with an initially blue H on a red background. In 1979 a corrected version with a red H and a silver bar between the fields was approved. In earlier times the coat of arms of Hochspeyerer showed a large silver cross on a blue background and a small golden letter H in the upper left quarter.

Local partnership

The local community of Hochspeyer has a partnership with the community of Leutenberg / Thuringia .

Culture

Buildings

The cemetery and the Jewish cemetery are designated as monument zones. There are also a total of 17 individual monuments, including the Münchhof.

Natural monuments

With the Mönchhoferfels and the Schreinerbrunnen there are a total of two natural monuments on the municipality marker .

Events

The tourist and cultural association of the Hochspeyer community organizes the cultural week every year with concerts, cabaret, revue performances, a craft market and a children's program.

Other regular events are the Triftfest in the Leinbachtal (together with the neighboring communities) and the Hochspeyer Christmas market .

The local Kerwe takes place in August, and the street festival Deichfest in September.

education and parenting

In Hochspeyer there is the Protestant kindergarten and two other kindergartens run by the local community. The cath. Kindergarten was closed in 2017 or was taken over by a local authority. This then moved into the former primary school building.

The Münchhofschule now only includes the Hochspeyer elementary school . An extension of the former secondary school was completed in 2008 and, due to the closure of the secondary schools in Rhineland-Palatinate, it was rented to the Kaiserslautern vocational school for several years. Today the primary school has moved into the building of the former secondary school.

The Kreisvolkshochschule Kaiserslautern offers courses for children and adults in its branch in Hochspeyer.

music

Several associations offer the opportunity to make music together, namely the brass band Hochspeyer 1948 eV, the Volkschor Hochspeyer eV, the male choir 1911 Hochspeyer and the Catholic and Protestant parishes with several choirs.

The district music school of the district of Kaiserslautern offers various lessons and courses for children and young people in Hochspeyer.

A commercial music school, for example for guitar lessons, has also established itself in the village. Other free music teachers are based there.

Sports

There are several sports clubs on site. The SG 2018 Hochspeyer e.V. offers a wider range of sports for all age groups. V. (created on May 25, 2018 through the merger of the two former sports clubs Grün-Weiß Hochspeyer and the Turn- und Sportverein 1882 e.V.), there is also the 1st Tennis Club Hochspeyer e. V., the Taekwondo Tiger Hochspeyer e. V. and other associations.

Recreational facilities

The toddler area of ​​the outdoor pool in Hochspeyer

The Hochspeyer outdoor pool is a solar-heated swimming pool with a wide range of options from toddlers' area (with a playground) to a play and fun area (with a slide) to a large swimming pool with a diving platform and extensive sunbathing areas.

In addition to the extensive network of marked hiking and cycling trails, there is an educational forest trail, a fitness trail in Hochspeyer, and in the surrounding area (on the Waldleiningen district) the hiking base for the Forsthaus Schwarzsohl .

The Nordic Walking Park of the Hochspeyer community, which was inaugurated in 2006, also includes three routes of the local community, which are signposted from the Leutenberger Hut on the outskirts on Trippstadter Straße:

  • Humberg route, 2.2 km (easy)
  • Bremenberg route, 4.6 km (medium)
  • Fitness route, 8.3 km (difficult).

Economy and Infrastructure

tourism

Hochspeyer offers numerous accommodations for travelers in inns, guest houses and holiday apartments. Parking spaces are available in the town center for mobile homes. There is a youth hostel on the outskirts and a swing golf course on the Geyersbergerhof .

There are several restaurants and places to visit.

hike

Themed hiking trail puzzling time signs : Mönchsweg with 28 stations

The area offers numerous marked hiking trails . In addition to the local hiking trails (10 numbered circular hiking trails), long-distance hiking trails run through the local community . The trails are in part also by bus or train developed ( Fuchsbus according Johanniskreuz ).

Regional long-distance hiking trails

White-blue hiking trail The white-blue hiking trail , coming from the Alsenz valley hiking trail via Alsenborn , runs past the train station in the direction of the Pfälzerwald-Vereinshütte Forsthaus Schwarzsohl and on to the French border.

Blue-yellow hiking trail The blue-yellow hiking trail , coming from Lauterecken via Otterberg , runs through the town center, towards Waldleiningen and also on to the French border.

Great West Palatinate Hiking Trail (main route) Barbarossa hiking trail Pfalzgrafen hiking trail The West Palatinate hiking trails ( black / white - Great West Palatinate hiking trail , blue - Barbararossa hiking trail, yellow - Pfalzgrafen hiking trail) run from Alsenborn , or Eselsfürth , or Frankenstein , through the town center towards the south.

Supraregional long-distance hiking trails

White Cross hiking trail The international long-distance hiking trail Nahegau-Wasgau-Vosges runs with the trail sign Weißes Kreuz coming from Niederhausen an der Nahe over the Donnersberg , through the center of Hochspeyer and further over Waldleiningen to Johanniskreuz (until here it is part of the southern route of the European long-distance hiking trail E 8 ) . From Johanniskreuz the route continues to Alsace to Bitsch and Wingen-sur-Moder .

Themed hiking trail puzzling time signs

In April 2008, the historical themed hiking trail Mysterious Signs of Time was inaugurated. The sections Mönchsweg I and Mönchsweg II have 28 stations on historical topics over a total length of almost 26 km and are motivated by the path of the monks in the Middle Ages from the Otterberg monastery to their Münchhof farm near Hochspeyer.

Mountain bike park, motorcycle tours and trail riding

Hochspeyer is located at the northern end of the Pfälzerwald mountain bike park as the start and end point of Tour 4 to Johanniskreuz. This route is 63 km long, includes 17 km of single trails and is signposted from Hochspeyer train station

For motorcyclists, Hochspeyer with the nearby motorways and the intersecting federal highways is a central traffic junction when driving into the Palatinate Forest. Hochspeyer offers the necessary infrastructure with accommodation, a gas station and a specialized motorcycle workshop. Guided tours through the Palatinate, for example to the Palatinate castles or a tour only for women, can be carried out from Hochspeyer in the summer months.

Hochspeyer has a Wanderreitstation and a horse farm with holiday program.

traffic

Hochspeyer station 2011
Trunk roads

The town is connected to national traffic via the federal highways B37 ( Kaiserslautern - Mosbach ) and B48 ( Bingen am Rhein - Bad Bergzabern ) and is in the immediate vicinity of the A6 and A63 motorways .

Rail transport

The full length of the Ludwig Railway was put into operation in 1849. The community initially received a train station on the western outskirts. The Heiligenberg Tunnel west of Hochspeyer is the westernmost of the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line , which emerged from the Ludwig Railway . With the Alsenz Valley Railway, opened in 1870 and 1871 , Hochspeyer received a new branch station in the east of the municipality, while the old station - henceforth known as "Alt-Hochspeyer" - continued to be in operation as a freight station until the 1930s. Hochspeyer station was renovated in 2004 and has half-hour connections to S-Bahn trains to Kaiserslautern / Homburg and Mannheim / Heidelberg and is regularly served by local trains to and from Bad Kreuznach , Bingen am Rhein and Koblenz main station.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Wilhelm Ludt (1890–1979), appointed on September 29, 1965 in recognition of his special services to the community. He is the author of the village chronicle "Hochspeyer - The history of a village" (see under literature) and numerous other local historical works (see web links, literature about Hochspeyer in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography)

Sons and daughters of the church

People who worked on site

  • Heinrich Neuner , holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
  • Heinrich Geiger, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit

literature

  • Wilhelm Ludt: Hochspeyer - The story of a village . Druckhaus Roch oHG, Kaiserslautern 1979.

Web links

Commons : Hochspeyer  - Collection of Images
 Wikinews: Hochspeyer  - in the news

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 - regional data
  3. William Ludt: Hochspeyer - The story of a village f, p. 18 (see  literature )
  4. a b Wilhelm Ludt: Hochspeyer - The history of a village , (see  literature )
  5. ^ Franz Neumer: Hochspeyer - A foray through past and present ( Memento from October 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  6. William Ludt: Hochspeyer - The story of a village , S. 30 (s.  Literature )
  7. ^ Institute for Franconian-Palatinate History and Regional Studies at the University of Heidelberg: Map of the Electoral Palatinate. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 7, 2009 ; Retrieved March 23, 2008 .
  8. William Ludt: Hochspeyer - The story of a village f, p 291st (see  literature )
  9. William Ludt: Hochspeyer - The story of a village ff, p 306 (s..  Literature )
  10. Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 179 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
  11. ^ Election results for the Hochspeyer municipal council in 2019
  12. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
  13. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Enkenbach-Alsenborn, Verbandsgemeinde, fourth line of results. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .
  14. William Ludt: Hochspeyer - The story of a village , p.7 (s.  Literature ).
  15. Joachim Baadte: "It worked". Large majority for the merger of TuS and Grün-Weiß. Die Rheinpfalz, May 28, 2018, accessed on November 20, 2019 .
  16. ( page no longer available , search in web archives: speech by the local mayor at the opening of the swingolf course )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.hochspeyer.eu
  17. ^ Official Journal VG Hochspeyer: The Keltenweg - with over 50 stations - is open , edition 17/2008, from April 23, 2008
  18. Working group of the association's municipalities in the region: Mountain bike park Palatinate Forest, Tour 4: Hochspeyer - Johanniskreuz - Hochspeyer. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 12, 2015 ; accessed on May 21, 2015 .
  19. ^ Verbandsgemeinde Enkenbach-Alsenborn: honorary citizen. see: honorary citizen of the local community Hochspeyer. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .