St. John's Cross
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St. John's Cross
Local parish Trippstadt
Coordinates: 49 ° 20 ′ 13 ″ N , 7 ° 49 ′ 32 ″ E
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| Height : | 470 m above sea level NHN | |
| Residents : | 14 (Apr 2006) | |
| Postal code : | 67705 | |
| Area code : | 06306 | |
Location of Johanniskreuz in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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 B 48 at Johanniskreuz
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Johanniskreuz is a hamlet with only a few permanent residents in the center of the Palatinate Forest ( Rhineland-Palatinate ). As a district, it belongs to the Palatinate municipality of Trippstadt in the Kaiserslautern district .
geography
location
Johanniskreuz is located in the southeastern municipal area on a mountain saddle at about 470 m above sea level. NHN north of the middle of the central massif of the Palatinate Forest, the Frankenweide , whose surrounding mountain peaks are up to 600 m high. The Elmsteiner Valley extends east of the village . The closest localities are the annexes Speyerbrunn , Erlenbach and Schwarzbach belonging to Elmstein as well as the Wilgartswieser district Hofstätten .
The core town of Trippstadt is about 4.5 km (as the crow flies) away. Immediately to the east of Johanniskreuz runs the municipality border between Trippstadt and Elmstein , which also represents the border between the districts of Kaiserslautern and Bad Dürkheim .
climate
1005 mm of precipitation falls annually , which is in the upper quarter of the values recorded in Germany. The driest month is September; Most of the precipitation falls in December, 1.6 times as much as in September.
Elevations and waters
The 527.9 meter high Steinberg rises around two kilometers south of Johanniskreuz .
The Frankenweide, in which the Palatinate main watershed runs, is bounded in the area of Johanniskreuz to the west, north and east by the valleys of the streams that spring around the hamlet. The Moosalb has its source immediately west of Johanniskreuz , a tributary of the Schwarzbach , which itself rises 1 km southwest of Johanniskreuz in the so-called Burgalbweiher . The water from these rivers first reaches the west via Blies and Saar to the Moselle and via this to the Rhine . A little east of Johanniskreuz rises with a body of water also named Schwarzbach , a left source river of the Speyerbach ; this flows eastwards directly to the Rhine.
history
The name of the spot is said to go back to knight Johannes von Wilenstein . He was lord of the nearby castle and had - allegedly unlawfully - in 1269 to a then existing Flurkreuz that the Lords of Hohenecken belonged to carve his coat of arms as a boundary marker. "Herr Johanns Creutz" was first mentioned in a document in 1551. Only remnants of the oldest cross are left, two more recent crosses were placed next to it.
At the end of the 18th century, a battle took place on site during the coalition wars.
Since the regional reform of 1972 , Johanniskreuz has belonged entirely to Trippstadt; previously were some of the houses, according to the historical borders, within the boundaries of the district Südwestpfalz lying community Wilgartswiesen .
Culture
Cultural monuments
With the forester's house, a cross and a fountain at the nearby Burgalbweiher there are a total of three objects on site that are listed .
nature
There is a very high population of oaks in the catchment area of Johanniskreuz. With the Hindenburg pine located around one kilometer south of the settlement area and a chestnut tree on the western edge of the village, there are a total of two natural monuments in the Johanneskreuz area .
Term "Palatinate Forest"
At a meeting of forest officials in Johanniskreuz, led by Ministerialrat Albert von Schultze , the name Palatinate Forest was found for the northern foothills of the Palatinate Vosges in August 1843 . Johanniskreuz is thus the "birthplace" of the Palatinate Forest, which until the beginning of the 20th century was assigned to the Vosges and Wasgen Forest in most travel descriptions .
Catholic Day
Johanniskreuz belongs to the Catholic parish Trippstadt. After the doctorate theologian Anton Fooß took over the pastoral position there in 1906, he initiated the first Speyer diocesan catholic convention in Johanniskreuz in 1908 . This Catholic Day became a firm tradition in the Speyer diocese and took place until 2007 at the location in Johanniskreuz that Fooß had chosen.
Well-known bishops, clergymen, politicians and other greats of Catholicism have been present at the annual Catholic days in St. John's Cross as guests, celebrants, preachers or speakers since 1908. At the event on July 19, 1931, the initiator Anton Fooß, who now lives in Würzburg, appeared again as the keynote speaker. He gave a speech on the 40th anniversary of Ludwig Windthorst's death with the title: "Windthorst and our time". It was to be the last of these Catholic days before World War II. In 1932 he was canceled because Chancellor Heinrich Brüning spoke at a major event of the Center Party in Ludwigshafen on the same day . From 1933 to 1945, during the National Socialist era , the Diocesan Catholic Days could no longer take place. The tradition only revived after the Second World War.
In 2007 it became clear that a large part of the old deciduous and coniferous trees on the assembly area are in danger of falling over. Because there is a lack of funds to carry out the necessary security work, the Catholic Day has not been held in Johanniskreuz since 2008.
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
Due to the geographic conditions, the forest and timber industry dominated the area for centuries. Johanniskreuz is the western starting point of a forestry path that leads via Taubensuhl to the forester's house Heldenstein .
traffic
Johanniskreuz has been a central point for traffic in the Palatinate Forest since ancient times. While the historically most important connection from Speyer to Metz ran in an east-west direction, the B 48 from Annweiler to Hochspeyer, which runs from south to north, is now the main traffic axis. From Queichtal to Hochspeyer, Johanniskreuz is the only settlement on this very winding road, especially to the north. The winding country road through the Elmsteiner Valley towards Neustadt an der Weinstrasse is also important for traffic . Further road connections in a westerly direction through the Karlstal to Trippstadt and to the south-west - Heltersberg , Waldfischbach-Burgalben - partly follow paths that were already used in the Middle Ages . The connections in the direction of Neustadt and Waldfischbach-Burgalben have now been combined to form state road 499 . From the latter, the state road 500 branches off , which touches the southern edge of the Trippstadter core community and leads to the federal road 270 .
As the junction of several scenic roads, Johanniskreuz has become a meeting point for motorcyclists . Due to the risk of accidents, the route through the Elmsteiner Valley is closed to motorcycles on weekends in the summer months.
The bus route 517 of the Rhein-Neckar transport association operated by Imfeld Busverkehr , which runs from Neustadt an der Weinstrasse via Helmbach, Appenthal and Elmstein to Iggelbach, also runs via Johanniskreuz during the summer season.
The closest train stations are Schopp an der Biebermühlbahn , Elmstein am Kuckucksbähnel (13 km each) and Wilgartswiesen and Rinnthal on the Landau – Rohrbach railway line (20 km).
tourism
Johanniskreuz has only a few permanent residents. But the hamlet has been a priority visitor destination in the region since the first efforts to develop tourism in the Palatinate Forest in the 19th century. Spa houses established themselves early and have since continued to exist as hotels. Since 2004, the House of Sustainability has also been a center of attraction with permanent exhibitions on sustainable management and future- oriented energy concepts.
The area around Johanniskreuz is part of the northern route of the Palatinate Way of St. James . The place is the eastern starting point of the Südwestpfalz-Tour cycle path, which goes west to the Glan-Blies cycle path . The youngest tourist facility in the Johanniskreuz area is the Pfälzerwald mountain bike park , for which five routes with a total length of over 300 km are signposted. Johanniskreuz is also the intersection of all long-distance hiking trails of the Palatinate Forest Association marked with a cross , including Saar-Rhein-Main and Franconia-Hesse-Kurpfalz . In addition, the Palatinate Forest Path , which leads from Kaiserslautern to Schweigen-Rechtenbach , runs through the village. There are also four forest historical hiking routes in the Johanniskreuz area.
In addition, the Deutsche Schuhstrasse runs through Johanniskreuz.
literature
- Hubert Zintl: Johanniskreuz. In the heart of the Palatinate Forest . A forest and forest story. Ministry for the Environment, Forests and Consumer Protection Rhineland-Palatinate / Landesforsten Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-00-019005-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
- ^ Johanniskreuz (I - III) / OT von Trippstadt. On: suehnekreuz.de, accessed on August 23, 2016 (illustrated website on the historical crosses).
- ↑ The Pilger (ed.): Katholikentag Johanniskreuz . Speyer 1931 (advertisement).
- ↑ Elmsteiner Tal again closed to motorcycles on weekends and public holidays. Bad Dürkheim district , April 5, 2016, accessed on August 23, 2016 .
Core location | Antonihof | Aschbacherhof | Bartelsberg | Bergfeld | Gutenbrunnen | Hasenberg | Heidenkopf | St. John's Cross | Karlstalhaus | Langensohl | Lauberhof | Meiserspring | Meisertal | Center hammer | Neuhof | Oberhammer | Sawmill | Deep pond | Under hammer | Weiherfelderhof | Wilensteinerhof | Wilensteinermühle