Hochstadt (Palatinate)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 14 '  N , 8 ° 13'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southern Wine Route
Association municipality :	Offenbach on the Queich
Height :	135 m above sea level NHN
Area :	15.44 km 2
Residents:	2530 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	164 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	76879, 76877 (Fuchsmühle)
Area code :	06347
License plate :	SOUTH
Community key :	07 3 37 041
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Konrad-Lerch-Ring 6 76877 Offenbach an der Queich
Website :	www.hochstadt-pfalz.de
Local Mayor :	Timo Reuther ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Hochstadt (Palatinate) in the southern Weinstrasse district

Hochstadt is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstrasse district in Rhineland-Palatinate . In the local dialect the place is called Houschd , its inhabitants Houschder . Hochstadt belongs to the community of Offenbach an der Queich .

geography

location

Hochstadt is located at about 135  m altitude in the southern part of the Rhine valley between Landau in the west and Speyer in the east.

Community structure

The community consists of the two districts Niederhochstadt and Oberhochstadt . Oberhochstadt also includes the Hochstadt station and Fuchsmühle residential areas .

Waters

The Hainbach , a right tributary of the Woogbach , which in turn is a left branch of the Rhine- tributary Speyerbach , flows through the community from southwest to northeast .

history

On the occasion of the donation of a meadow in Hohunstater marca (in the Hochstadt district) in pago spirensi (in Speyergau) by an Alaaolf to the Lorsch monastery , Hochstadt was first mentioned in the Lorsch Codex in 776 .

On June 7, 1969, the previously independent municipalities Niederhochstadt (then 1,467 inhabitants) and Oberhochstadt (744 inhabitants) were dissolved as part of the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform and merged to form the new local municipality Hochstadt (Palatinate). In 1972 it was assigned to the Offenbach an der Queich community , which has its administrative headquarters in the Offenbach community of the same name .

religion

At the end of 2013, 51.9% of the population were Protestant and 27% Catholic. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Hochstadt 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	FDP	FWG	total
2019	4th	8th	2	6th	16 seats
2014	5	6th	1	4th	16 seats
2009	5	6th	2	3	16 seats
2004	6th	7th	1	2	16 seats

Local mayor

Timo Reuther (CDU) became local mayor of Hochstadt on September 26, 2018. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with 88.40% of the vote. His predecessor Otto Paul (CDU), local mayor since 2004, resigned in 2018 for health reasons.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Divided by gold and red, above a floating black ring, below a floating eight-pointed silver cross."
	Founding of the coat of arms: It was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1976 and contains figures of the historical coats of arms of Nieder- and Oberhochstadt.

Culture and sights

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  Protestant church

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  Main street in the Niederhochstadt district

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  Old school house

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  Houschder Winzerturm

Natural monuments and sights

• Loess hollow ways
• Hochstadter Tower, an approx. 4.5 m high observation tower north of the village, called Houschder Winzerturm
• Wine trail
• Draisinenbahn ( Südpfalzdraisine , 1 km south)

See also : List of cultural monuments in Hochstadt (Pfalz)

Regular events

• Table tennis and football village championships
• Wine and Button Festival (second weekend in August)
• Kerwe (second weekend in September)
• Forest festival of VfB Hochstadt (celebration on May 1st)
• May 1st festival of the marching band
• Farm festival in the "Zum Ochsen" inn
• Country youth carnival
• D Wunsch reading hour (every second Friday in the Haus der Naturfreunde)
• Open day of the volunteer fire brigade (second weekend in June)

Culinary specialties

• Houschder Knepp (meatballs with horseradish )

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Agriculture and viticulture have shaped the place for centuries . Several companies produce quality and predicate wines on over 330 hectares of vineyards .

Vegetables , grain and sugar beet cultivation begins at the foothills of the Lössriedel , which runs from the west towards the Rhine plain . A fruit and vegetable wholesaler mainly sells products from the Palatinate region to food retailers and restaurants at home and abroad.

Another company deals with laser cutting technology and powder coating .

traffic

The federal road 272 (Landau – Speyer) south of the residential development provides the connection to the national road traffic. The Autobahn 65 ( Ludwigshafen - Karlsruhe ) runs in the west, the federal highway 9 (Speyer - Germersheim ) in the east. Until 1984 there was a train station in the SPNV (Germersheim – Landau) . Today, a handcar is operated on the disused route from time to time . The bus connection is made with line 590 .

education

• Hainbachschule Hochstadt
• Adult Education Center (in the Hainbach School building)

Personalities

Wine queen Katja Schweder

Honorary citizen

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• Werner Ehli, Former Mayor
• Fritz Walter, doctor
• Karl Wolf

Other personalities

• Johann Valentin Pressler, ancestor of Elvis Presley and Jimmy Carter who emigrated to America in 1709
• Zacharias Frank, great-grandfather of Anne Frank
• Katja Schweder (* 1980), Palatinate Wine Queen 2005/2006, German Wine Queen 2006/2007
• Katrin Hörner, Wine Princess 2009/2011 of the Association of Southern Wine Road Offenbach

literature

• Gerd Pressler: Over 1200 years of Hochstadt . Hochstadt 1982.

Web links

Commons : Hochstadt (Pfalz)  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Hochstadt in the SWR series Hierzuland
• Literature about Hochstadt 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 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 103 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 4), Certificate 2099, June 17, 776 - Reg. 1286. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 42 , accessed on May 15, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 166 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
5. ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2013.
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.
7. ^ Resolutions and notifications from the minutes of the 39th meeting of the Hochstadt municipal council. In: Official Gazette Verbandsgemeinde Offenbach an der Queich. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH, edition 48/2018, accessed on April 18, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Hochstadt: Timo Reuther elected the new mayor of the town
9. ^ The State Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Offenbach adQueich, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results. Retrieved April 18, 2020 . 
10. ^ Hochstadt: Mayor Otto Paul resigns after 14 years
11. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .