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	Coordinates: 49 ° 10 '  N , 8 ° 7'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southern Wine Route
Association municipality :	Landau country
Height :	157 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.18 km 2
Residents:	885 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density :	171 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	76831
Area code :	06341
License plate :	SOUTH
Community key :	07 3 37 043
Association administration address:	To 44 No. 31 76829 Landau in the Palatinate
Website :	www.impflingen.de
Local Mayor :	Holger Kurz (FWG)
Location of the local community Impflingen in the southern Weinstrasse district

Impflingen townscape

Impflingen is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstrasse district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Landau-Land association, which has its administrative headquarters in the city of Landau in the Palatinate .

Geographical location

The Quodbach flows in a west-east direction through the middle of the settlement area. Impflingen also includes the Birkenhof, Gertrudenhof, Petershof and Sonnenberghof residential areas . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Landau in der Pfalz, Insheim , Rohrbach and Billigheim-Ingenheim .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1135 in a document from the Klingenmünster monastery as Emphlingen . At times it had the status of an imperial village . Up to the end of the 18th century Impflingen belonged to the Electoral Palatinate and within this to the Oberamt Germersheim and the Amt Billigheim .

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Impflingen was incorporated into the canton of Annweiler and was subordinate to the Mairie Göcklingen . In 1815 the community had a total of 500 inhabitants. In the same year, Austria was struck. Just one year later, the place, like the entire Palatinate, changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . During this time the community moved to the canton of Landau . From 1818 to 1862 Impflingen was a member of the Landau Landau inspectorate ; from this the district office of Landau emerged.

From 1939 the place was part of the Landau district . After the Second World War , Impflingen became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . During the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform changed the community on June 7, 1969 in the newly created district Landau-Bad Bergzabern, in 1978 in South County Wine Trail is renamed . In 1972 the community was assigned to the newly formed Landau-Land association.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Impflingen consists of twelve 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	GREEN	FWG	total
2019	4th	4th	-	4th	12 seats
2014	6th	4th	-	2	12 seats
2009	6th	3	1	2	12 seats
2004	5	3	1	3	12 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group Impflingen e. V.

mayor

Holger Kurz (FWG) became local mayor of Impflingen on August 21, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with a share of 60.91% of the vote. Kurz's predecessor, Günter Flicker (SPD), did not run again after 20 years in office.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In gold, a red ring with a floating, rounded black cross on the inside."

Culture

There are a total of 17 objects that are listed as historical monuments in the municipality . At the end of the 1990s, there was still a tree in the municipality with apples of the Heimeldinger variety . The Impflinger Carneval Association annually selects prince and princess at carnival .

Infrastructure

economy

Impflingen is a wine-growing village and as such part of the Palatinate wine-growing region . The Abtsberg single site exists on site .

traffic

The federal highway 38 , which formerly crossed the town, was relocated with a bypass on the east side that was opened in August 2020 . Landesstrasse 554 and Kreisstrasse 54 branch off from the B 38 . The 541 bus of the Rhein-Neckar transport association connects the community with Landau in the Palatinate and Bad Bergzabern .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• John Peter Zenger (1697–1746), German-American publicist and publisher
• Eduard Schmurr (1906–1964), politician (FDP)

People who worked on site

• Hugo Schultz (* 1933), author, lives in Impflingen

Web links

Commons : Impflingen  - collection of images

• Website of the local community Impflingen
• Literature about vaccinees 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. 102 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
4. ^ Gerhard Sommer: For the first time three local councilors in Impflingen. Die Rheinpfalz, August 22, 2019, accessed on April 10, 2020 . 
5. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Landau-Land, Verbandsgemeinde, tenth line of the result. Retrieved April 10, 2020 . 
6. ↑ BMVI: New building opened to traffic as part of the B 38 , August 10, 2020, accessed on August 14, 2020