Kallstadt

This article describes the local church in Rhineland-Palatinate. For the district of Birkenau in the Odenwald, see Kallstadt (Birkenau) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 29 '  N , 8 ° 11'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Dürkheim
Association municipality :	Freinsheim
Height :	134 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.58 km 2
Residents:	1227 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	186 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67169
Area code :	06322
License plate :	DÜW
Community key :	07 3 32 028
Association administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 12 67251 Freinsheim
Website :	www.kallstadt.de
Local Mayor :	Thomas Jaworek ( CDU )
Location of the local community Kallstadt in the Bad Dürkheim district

Kallstadt

Main street with Salvatorkirche

Kallstadt an der Deutschen Weinstrasse is a municipality in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Freinsheim Association . The paternal grandparents of 45th US President Donald Trump come from Kallstadt, which made the community well known across the region.

geography

Kallstadt is about 10 km north of Bad Dürkheim on the Wine Route. The western part of the district and two exclaves are located directly on the edge of the Haard . The north-west of the district is part of the Felsenberg-Berntal nature reserve . In one of them there is a 493.5 meter high Peterskopf . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Herxheim am Berg , Freinsheim and Bad Dürkheim .

history

Romans, Middle Ages and early modern times

The area of ​​today's Kallstadt was on the Roman road , which connected Altenstadt in today's Alsace with the Rhineland, and was already a flourishing cultural landscape in Roman times. Numerous archaeological finds prove a settlement by merchants, former legionaries and also wine growers from approx. 79 BC. BC to at least 383 AD. Today's place has its origins in the settlement of a Franconian clan, which originated around 500 and whose head Chagilo was named after. The Hertlingshausen monastery and later the Stephansfeld monastery had properties in the village until the 16th century.

The place is first mentioned in 824 as Cagelenstat . In 985 he was the victim of the Sali church robbery . Originally an imperial village , it later came to the county of Pfeffingen (Homburg) and was given to the Monfort knights from 1321 and to the views of Lichtenberg from 1451 to around 1551. After that, until the end of the 18th century, Kallstadt belonged to the Leiningian estate as an Electoral Palatinate fief .

Since the 19th century

During the First Coalition War , the Left Bank of the Rhine was occupied by the French in 1794 . From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Kallstadt was incorporated into the canton of Dürkheim in the Donnersberg department and the seat of its own mairie , to which Leistadt also belonged. In 1815 the place had 680 inhabitants.

As a result of the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna , the area first became part of Austria in June of the same year , and in 1816 it was ceded to the Kingdom of Bavaria on the basis of a state treaty . Under the Bavarian administration, Kallstadt belonged from 1818 to the Landkommissariat Neustadt im Rheinkreis ; from this the district office of Neustadt emerged. Emigrants were not necessarily the poorest as elsewhere, but comparatively ambitious individuals striving for advancement.

In 1902, Kallstadt moved to the newly created Dürkheim district office before it was reintegrated into its Neustadt counterpart in 1931. From 1939 the place was part of the district of Neustadt . After the Second World War , the municipality within the French occupation zone became part of the Palatinate administrative district in the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform , the place changed on June 7, 1969 to the newly created district of Bad Dürkheim . Three years later it was assigned to the also newly formed community of Freinsheim .

Simone Wendel, who lives in Kallstadt, took up the fact that the paternal grandparents of US President Donald Trump, who has been in office since 2017, came from the town back in 2014 in her documentary Kings of Kallstadt . Therefore, the media also treated the site internationally in the course of the US presidential election campaign in 2016 .

religion

There was once a synagogue on site , which has since been converted into a residential building.

politics

Municipal council

The municipality of Kallstadt consists of 16 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FOAG	FWG	total
2019	3	5	3	5	16 seats
2014	4th	7th	-	5	16 seats
2009	4th	6th	-	6th	16 seats
2004	4th	5	-	7th	16 seats

• FOAG = Alliance of Livable Wine Roads
• FWG = Free Voter Group Kallstadt e. V.

mayor

The local mayor is Thomas Jaworek (CDU). In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with a share of 70.88% of the votes.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Over a golden battlement wall, inside a red imperial orb with a golden ring and a red cross, each with a blue loopholes, in blue a red-armored silver eagle."

Culture

Buildings

Bismarck Tower

There are 34 objects on site that are listed . Among them are the Protestant Salvator Church , which is the most important and, in its Gothic components, also the oldest building in the village, as well as the Bismarck Tower , which stands on the 497 m high Peterskopf within the Kallstadt exclave in the Palatinate Forest .

nature

There are a total of seven natural monuments on site .

tradition

The inhabitants of the community are given the nickname Brulljesmacher , " Show- off and Sprücheklopfer " from the inhabitants of the neighboring villages . The German Wine Route Marathon has been taking place on site since 1998 .

Infrastructure

economy

Kallstadt is a wine-growing town and as such part of the Palatinate wine-growing region . The large Kobnert site and the individual sites Annaberg , Kreidkeller , Kronenberg , Saumagen and Steinacker are located on site . The noble wine town has a long gastronomic tradition with its wine houses and was the starting point for high-quality customers. The wineries Annaberg , Henninger IV and Koehler-Ruprecht are located in Kallstadt .

traffic

The place is on the federal road 271 , which is identical in this area with the German Wine Road and on the district road 4 .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• The Hartung family of organ builders (see also Johann Michael Hartung )
• Wilhelm Heinrich von Creuzer (~ 1740–1794), ducal Palatinate-Zweibrücken Chamber President
• Norbert Scharf (1952–2010), SPD politician

The ancestors of two large business families in the United States emigrated from Kallstadt in the 19th century:

• Johann Heinrich Heinz (1811–1891), father of the Heinz ketchup company founder Henry John Heinz
• Friedrich Trump (1869–1918) and Elisabeth Christ Trump (1880–1966), parents of the entrepreneur Fred C. Trump and grandparents of the entrepreneur and 45th US President Donald Trump

Other

• Georg Münch , 1792/93 member of the Rhine-German National Convention
• Ernst Koehler (1890–1972), politician and mayor of Kallstadt
• Inge Bender, 1962/63 Palatinate Wine Queen

literature

• Ernst Merk: Heimatbuch des Edelweinort Kallstad. 1952.
• Christian Freund: Kallstadt in old views . 1985.
• Literature about Kallstadt in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

documentary

• Simone Wendel: Kings of Kallstadt . Documentation, Germany, 2014, 92 min.

Web links

Commons : Kallstadt  - collection of images

• Homepage
• Bernd Schwab: Freinsheimer Strasse in Kallstadt . Here the SWR State Show Rhineland-Palatinate , June 7, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Julia Niemann: Donald Trump's roots: King of New York, Knallkopf of Kallstadt. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 20, 2016.
3. ↑ Alexander Dluzak: Documentary tracks down Donald Trump's German ancestors. In: Deutsche Welle . February 29, 2016.
4. ↑ For example Kate Connolly: Kallstadt, Germany: on the trail of 'the Donald' in the Trump ancestral home. In: The Guardian . January 29, 2016.
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Kallstadt. Retrieved October 16, 2019 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Freinsheim, Verbandsgemeinde, sixth result line. Retrieved October 16, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Donald Trump: Kallstadt and his famous grandson. In: Deutschlandfunk , January 21, 2016.
9. ^ Documentary Kings of Kallstadt.