High places

This article covers the location in Rhineland-Palatinate. See also: highest cities .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 46 '  N , 7 ° 50'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Kreuznach
Association municipality :	Bad Kreuznach
Height :	138 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.49 km 2
Residents:	605 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	110 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55585
Area code :	06362
License plate :	KH
Community key :	07 1 33 045
Association administration address:	Rheingrafenstrasse 11 55583 Bad Kreuznach
Website :	www.hochstaetten-pfalz.de
Local Mayor :	Hermann Spieß
Location of the local community Hochstätten in the Bad Kreuznach district

Hochstätten is a municipality in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Bad Kreuznach community .

Geographical location

Hochstätten is located in the Alsenz Valley on Deutsche Alleenstrasse . The municipality of Alsenz is to the south, Hallgarten to the west, Altenbamberg to the north and Fürfeld to the east . Naturally, it belongs to the North Palatinate Uplands. In the Alsenz valley, the village is 140  m above sea level. NHN , the heights in the west and east reach around 300  m above sea level. NHN .

history

Archaeological finds from prehistory and early history indicate that people have lived here since the Stone Age. Remnants of settlements and traces of a Roman road can be found in the area from Roman times. The first clear documentary mention comes from the year 1366, when Hochstätten was pledged to the knight Dietz von Wachenheim by the brothers Konrad and Heinrich von Hohenfels, the lords of Reipoltskirchen. It was owned by changing rulers until the 16th century. From 1553, the Grumbach Counts and Rhine Counts are the owners, who sold the village to Pfalz-Zweibrücken in 1755 . In 1768 it came to the Electoral Palatinate . After the French Revolution , Hochstätten was incorporated into the Donnersberg department in 1792, and in 1816 the place became Bavarian . During the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate, Hochstätten was reclassified from the Rockenhausen district to the Bad Kreuznach district in 1969 . The second municipal and administrative reform led to the change to the Verbandsgemeinde Bad Kreuznach on January 1, 2017 after the dissolution of the Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg community. From an ecclesiastical point of view, Hochstätten, as a place in the Palatinate , still belongs to the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate and the Diocese of Speyer .

Population development

The development of the population of high places, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 302 1835 511 1871 625 1905 730 1939 629 1950 706

year Residents 1961 705 1970 723 1987 665 1997 657 2005 625 2019 605

Municipal council

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

mayor

The local mayor is Hermann Spieß. Since no successor was found in the local elections on May 26, 2019, or later, he agreed to remain in office for another 12 to 18 months, contrary to his original intention, and was unanimously elected by the local council in August 2019.

Culture and sights

The Protestant church of Hochstätten - with a late baroque hall from 1772 and a Gothic tower from the 13th century, the oldest part of the church - is still characteristic of the town today.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Hochstätten

Economy and Infrastructure

The community, which used to be dominated by viticulture , is now a residential community whose employees mainly commute to Bad Kreuznach and the Rhine-Main area. There is a communal library in the village community center and a community hall. The federal highway 48 , which meets the federal highway 420 here , leads through Hochstätten . In the village there is a train station of the Alsenz Valley Railway called Hochstätten / Pfalz.

Personalities

• Ilse Theobald, German Wine Queen 1966/1967
• Barbara Laubenstein, Nahe Wine Queen 1984/1985
• Sandra Laubenstein, Nahe Wine Queen 1996/1997

Name sponsorships

Bombardier Talent Hochstätten / Pfalz in Bad Kreuznach train station on the way to Bingen (Rhine) main station

Hochstätten is the namesake for a car from the Bombardier Talent series of railcars (643 001).

Web links

Commons : Hochstätten  - collection of images

• Internet presence of the municipality of Hochstätten / Pfalz
• Literature on high places in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography
• About the story: Article "Hochstätten" in regionalgeschichte.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Karl Beck: The Chronicle of Hochstätten . Ed .: Municipal administration and municipal council Hochstätten. Otterbach 1994, p. 137 .
3. ↑ Karl Heil: Hochstätten then and now - A walk through history . Ed .: Verkehrs- und Dorfschönerungsverein eV Hochstätten. Hochstätten 2016, p. 14-20 .
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Hochstätten. Retrieved September 13, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Beate Vogt-Gladigau: The withdrawal from retreat in Hochstätten. Allgemeine Zeitung, August 15, 2019, accessed on September 13, 2019 .