Children's home

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Dürkheim
Association municipality :	Leiningerland
Height :	172 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.96 km 2
Residents:	994 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	111 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67271
Area code :	06359
License plate :	DÜW
Community key :	07 3 32 029
LOCODE :	DE 89R
Association administration address:	Industriestrasse 11 ; 67269 Grünstadt
Website :	www.kindenheim.de
Local Mayor :	Albrecht Wiegner ( FWG )
Location of the local community Kindenheim in the Bad Dürkheim district

Kindenheim is a municipality in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Bad Dürkheim and is located in the northwest of the European metropolitan region of Rhine-Neckar . It belongs to the community of Leiningerland .

geography

location

Main street with the Protestant church

The municipality is a wine-growing place in the Palatinate near the northern end of the German Wine Route in the Alzeyer hill country . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Zellertal , Wachenheim , Bockenheim an der Weinstrasse , Quirnheim , Biedesheim , Ottersheim and Bubenheim .

Elevations and waters

The Kinderbach flows through the middle of the community . In the northwest extends the Kahlenberg , the southern summit of the Rosengarten is 305.6 meters high; the north summit measures 303.3 meters. In the northeast is the coal mountain . The Gerstenberg ( 319.3 m ) extends in the southwest of the district directly on the border to Quirnheim and Bockenheim .

history

In 817 the village was first mentioned as Cunerono . Later it was called Cunnenheim or Kinnenheim . During the time of the tribal duchies, the place was in the Duchy of Franconia . Until the end of the 18th century, the place belonged to Leiningen-Dagsburg .

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , the children's home - as it was called at the time - was incorporated into the canton of Grünstadt in the Département du Mont-Tonnerre and had its own mairie. In 1815 the place had 700 inhabitants. Based on the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna , the area was initially assigned to Austria in 1815 and ceded to the Kingdom of Bavaria in a state treaty in 1816 . From 1818 to 1862 the Kindenheim belonged to the Landkommissariat Frankenthal ; from this the district office of Frankenthal emerged.

From 1939 the children's home was part of the Frankenthal (Palatinate) district . After the Second World War , the place became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . 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, the children's home became part of the newly created community of Grünstadt-Land , before it was merged into the community of Leiningerland in 2018 .

religion

At the end of 2013, 54.9 percent of the population were Protestant and 12.7 percent Catholic. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Kindenheim 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	FWG	Per	total
2019	4th	7th	5	16 seats
2014	5	6th	5	16 seats
2009	5	7th	4th	16 seats
2004	8th	5	3	16 seats

FWG = Free Voting Group Kindenheim e. V.
Pro = voter group Pro Kindenheim e. V.

mayor

Local mayor Albrecht Wiegner (FWG) was re-elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 with 74.91% of the vote.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “In silver on a green background, two unclothed, naturally colored children, of whom the right oneholdsa golden hoe shouldered in the righthand, the left a golden vine knife (chair)in the lefthand, while both of them with the other hand hold an upright green one between them Hold a grape. "
	Crest Reason: It was founded in 1967 by the Mainzer Interior Ministry approved and is due to slightly different court seal from 1544. It refers talking on the place name.

Sights and culture

Cultural monuments

The Jewish cemetery and its Christian counterpart are each designated as monument zones.

In addition, there are a total of nine individual objects that are under monument protection , including the Protestant Church of St. Martin from the 16th century with a free-standing bell tower from the 19th century that characterizes the town. In front of it is a war memorial from 1914/18, a raised Bavarian lion made of yellow sandstone .

Another cultural monument is the Kreutzenberger winery . The Bauhaus architect Otto Prott built the house in the economically difficult 1920s in the modern style . In 2005 the house was carefully supplemented by a wine press house with a wine tasting room on the roof terrace in the style of that time. The architect Heribert Hamann received the “Wine Architecture Prize” for this.

church
Bell tower
War memorial 1914/18
Kreutzenberger winery

nature

Although located outside of the Palatinate Forest , the southeast of the district is part of the Palatinate Forest Nature Park . The only natural monument on site is the gorge, some of which is already in the Bockenheim district.

archeology

Roman Aion relief, found in 1925

In 1925, a Roman Aion relief made of sandstone was discovered in the cellar of a house , which is now in the holdings of the Historisches Museum der Pfalz in Speyer .

societies

In the City Museum Green City is a valuable flag of the choral society Kindenheim, with black, red and gold border, from the period around the 1849th

Flag of the children's home choir
Detail from the flag
Detail of the black, red and gold frame

Regular events

The Kerwe takes place every year on the 1st weekend in September.
The shooting club holds its local championships annually in the sports and leisure hall.
The TV Kindenheim organizes its sports week annually in the sports home and on the sports field.

economy

Kindenheim is a winegrowing town and as such part of the Palatinate wine-growing region . On site are the single layers Burgweg , Katzenstein , Sonnenberg and Vogelsang , all of which belong to the Grafenstück area.

Sons and daughters of the church

Heinrich Wilhelm David Heman (1793–1873), Jewish convert, Protestant missionary, educator

literature

Literature on children's home in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Kindenheim - collection of pictures

Local community Kindenheim on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Grünstadt-Land

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2013.

↑ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Municipal Council Election 2019 Kindenheim. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections.
↑ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Leiningerland, Verbandsgemeinde, twelfth line of results. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
↑ Elmar Schwertheim: The monuments of oriental deities in Roman Germany , Brill Verlag, 1974, p. 177, ISBN 9004039848 ; (Digital scan).

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

[2] KommWis, as of December 31, 2013.