Bad Dürkheim district
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Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ' N , 8 ° 7' E |
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Basic data | |
State : | Rhineland-Palatinate |
Administrative headquarters : | Bad Dürkheim |
Area : | 594.76 km 2 |
Residents: | 132,671 (Dec. 31, 2019) |
Population density : | 223 inhabitants per km 2 |
License plate : | DÜW |
Circle key : | 07 3 32 |
NUTS : | DEB3C |
Circle structure: | 48 parishes |
Address of the district administration: |
Philipp-Fauth-Straße 11 67098 Bad Dürkheim |
Website : | |
District Administrator : | Hans-Ulrich Ihlenfeld ( CDU ) |
Location of the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
The Bad Dürkheim district is a regional authority in the south of Rhineland-Palatinate in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region . The seat of the district administration is the association-free city of Bad Dürkheim , the most populous municipality is the association-free community Haßloch .
geography
location
The Bad Dürkheim district is located in the Palatinate between Ludwigshafen am Rhein in the east and Kaiserslautern in the west. The west of the district is part of the Palatinate Forest , the east still belongs to the Upper Rhine Plain , the middle is part of the hilly landscape on the German Wine Route , which stretches from north to south over a length of a good 30 km through the district.
Structure and boundaries
The district extends from north to south from Bockenheim to Haßloch , in an east-west direction from Frankenstein to Ellerstadt . It reaches its greatest extent with 42 km (as the crow flies) between Elmstein in the southwest and Dirmstein in the northeast.
Neighboring areas
The district borders clockwise in the north, starting with the district of Alzey-Worms , the independent city of Worms , the Rhine-Palatinate district , the independent city Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , the district Südliche Weinstrasse , an exclave of the independent city Landau in the Palatinate , to the district of Südwestpfalz , to the district and the independent city of Kaiserslautern and to the Donnersbergkreis .
cities and communes
(In brackets: residents on December 31, 2019)
Association-free cities and municipalities
- 1. City of Bad Dürkheim (18,575)
- 2. City of Grünstadt (13,504)
- 3. Haßloch (20,234)
Association communities with associated cities and local communities
The administrative seat of each municipality is marked with *.
The local community Ungstein was incorporated into the city of Bad Dürkheim on April 22, 1972. On March 16, 1974, the local community of Duttweiler became a district of the urban district of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse .
For lists of the term "area changes" see area reforms in Rhineland-Palatinate
history
The district of Bad Durkheim was born on June 7, 1969 as part of the administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate from parts of the two resolved counties Frankenthal (Palatinate) and Neustadt on the Wine Route (formerly Neustadt an der Haardt ) and the municipality Rodenbach from the dissolved district Kirchheimbolanden formed . On March 16, 1974, Duttweiler was incorporated into the urban district of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . The two old districts were created by the Kingdom of Bavaria , to which today's district area belonged from 1816. In 1946, both districts became part of the then newly created state of Rhineland-Palatinate and initially belonged to the administrative region of Palatinate , and from 1968 to Rheinhessen-Palatinate .
Population development
year | Residents | source |
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1970 | 115,700 | |
1980 | 116,000 | |
1990 | 124,400 | |
2000 | 133,800 | |
2010 | 132,757 | |
2018 | 132,660 |
Denomination statistics
According to the 2011 census , 42.5% of the population in 2011 were Protestant , 29.1% Roman Catholic and 28.4% were non-denominational , belonged to another religious community or did not provide any information. The number of Protestants and Catholics has fallen since then. Currently (as of May 31, 2020) of the 135,394 inhabitants, 48,525 (35.8%) are Protestant, 34,972 (25.8%) Roman Catholic and 38.4% are non-denominational or belong to another religious community.
politics
District council
The district council of the Bad Dürkheim district consists of 46 elected members and the district administrator as chairman.
Because of the special features of the Rhineland-Palatinate electoral system in local elections (personalized proportional representation), the percentages given are shown as weighted results that only represent the voting behavior in arithmetic.
The district assembly elections had the following results:
Parties and groups of voters | % 2019 |
Seats 2019 |
% 2014 |
Seats 2014 |
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CDU | 29.2 | 14th | 37.2 | 18th |
SPD | 20.7 | 10 | 27.8 | 13 |
GREEN | 15.7 | 7th | 8.9 | 4th |
FWG | 13.5 | 6th | 12.1 | 6th |
AfD | 10.6 | 5 | 5.1 | 2 |
FDP | 6.7 | 3 | 4.3 | 2 |
THE LEFT. | 2.7 | 1 | 2.7 | 1 |
Others | 0.9 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 |
total | 100.0 | 46 | 100.0 | 46 |
Voter turnout in% | 67.2 | 58.7 |
District administrators
Since 2001, the office of District Administrator, the highest administrative officer in the district, has been awarded by majority vote . An electoral term lasts eight years.
time | Surname | Political party | Remarks |
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1969-1979 | Hermann Scherer | SPD | |
1979-1988 | Hermann-Josef German | CDU | early withdrawal |
1988-1990 | Herbert Gustavus | SPD | as 1st district member provisionally |
1990-2001 | Georg Kalbfuss | SPD | |
2001–2012 | Sabine Röhl | SPD | Elected by direct vote in 2001 and 2009, died in December 2012 after a two-year illness. |
2012-2013 | Erhard Freunscht | CDU | as 1st district member provisionally |
2013– | Hans-Ulrich Ihlenfeld | CDU |
Hans-Ulrich Ihlenfeld was elected in the runoff election on April 7, 2013 with a share of the vote of 59.8%, after none of the original three applicants had achieved a sufficient majority in the direct election on March 17, 2013.
badges and flags
The Bad Dürkheim district has a coat of arms as well as a hoist and banner flag .
Blazon : “Split by a silver pole covered with two blue, green-stemmed grapes with green leaves: on the right in black a left-facing, red-armed golden lion; on the left in blue a silver eagle armored in red. " | |
The reason for the coat of arms: The Palatinate Lion stands for the Electoral Palatinate , which ruled the southern district from the Middle Ages to modern times , and the eagle for the Lords of Leiningen , who owned the northern area. The silver post symbolizes the German Wine Route , which leads through the district, for whose two large wine-growing regions Mittelhaardt-Deutsche Weinstrasse and Südliche Weinstrasse the two grapes stand. The coat of arms was awarded on January 22, 1973. |
Partnerships
For the district of Starnberg in Bavaria have existed since 1980 "friendly relations". In 1990 a formal partnership with the district of Stadtroda in Thuringia was decided, which in 1994 became part of the Saale-Holzland district . The most recent partnership has existed since 2000 with the Polish district of Kreuzberg OS . The district of Bad Dürkheim also oversees the partnership between the German Wine Route and the South Tyrolean Wine Route, which has existed since 1968 .
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
Wine- growing on around 7200 hectares of vineyards is typical for the district , but fruit and vegetables are also planted. Thanks to the mild climate, almonds , figs , oranges and lemons , for example , grow .
In addition to agriculture, tourism is another source of income for many residents of the district. In the Palatinate Forest Nature Park you will find the Kurpfalz Park , a wildlife protection park above the town of Wachenheim . The Holiday Park near Haßloch also attracts thousands of visitors to the Palatinate every year.
A pipeline for natural gas from Creos Deutschland GmbH and the NATO “Speyer – Fürfeld” pipeline run through the district .
traffic
The Bad Dürkheim district is well connected in terms of transport. The federal highway 6 (Mannheim – Saarbrücken) runs through the northern district area, the federal highway 65 (Karlsruhe – Ludwigshafen) grazes the southern district area near Haßloch. The Bundesautobahn 61 (Speyer – Ludwigshafen – Koblenz) passes just a few kilometers east of the district border and crosses both the A 6 and the A 65.
Local public transport is part of the Rhein-Neckar transport association . The important railway line of the Palatinate Ludwigsbahn Mannheim - Saarbrücken (- Paris ) and the Palatinate Northern Railway ( Neustadt an der Weinstrasse -) Bad Dürkheim – Grünstadt (- Monsheim ) run through the district . The Rhein-Haardtbahn (RHB) runs from Bad Dürkheim to Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, where it is networked with the tram thanks to the same gauge. On the other hand, the Lambrecht- Elmstein cuckoo barn is only served in museum traffic.
License Plate
When the new district was formed on June 7, 1969, the distinctive sign DÜW was assigned. It is derived from Bad Dürkheim and Weinstrasse and is still issued today.
literature
- Georg Peter Karn, Rolf Mertzenich: Bad Dürkheim district. City of Bad Dürkheim, municipality of Haßloch, municipalities of Deidesheim, Lambrecht, Wachenheim (= cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 13.1 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1995, ISBN 3-88462-119-X .
- Georg Peter Karn, Ulrike Weber (arrangement): Bad Dürkheim district. City of Grünstadt, Union communities Freinsheim, Grünstadt-Land and Hettenleidelheim (= cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 13.2 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2006, ISBN 3-88462-215-3 .
Web links
Further content in the sister projects of Wikipedia:
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- Website of the Bad Dürkheim district
- Statistical data for the Bad Dürkheim district at the Rhineland-Palatinate State Statistical Office
- Literature from and about the Bad Dürkheim district in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature on the Bad Dürkheim district in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20171222053010/http://www.statistik.rlp.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Verzeichnisse/AmtlichesGemeindeververzeichnis_2006.pdf p. 158
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1972
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1981
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1992
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 2002
- ^ State Chancellery Rhineland-Palatinate: Population. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .
- ↑ District Bad Dürkheim Religion , 2011 census .
- ↑ Bad Dürkheim district statistics , accessed on June 13, 2020.
- ↑ Explanation by the Land Returning Officer on weighted results.
- ^ Result of the election at the regional returning officer Rhineland-Palatinate
- ^ Morgenweb : Bad Dürkheim: District Administrator Röhl has passed away. December 7, 2012, accessed December 7, 2012 .
- ↑ Pfalz-Express: New district administrator elected for Bad Dürkheim: Hans-Ulrich Ihlenfeld is now taking off! April 7, 2013, accessed November 30, 2019 .
- ^ Bad Dürkheim district: Partnerships of the Bad Dürkheim district ( Memento from August 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive )