District of Germersheim

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Coat of arms of the district of Germersheim Map of Germany, position of the district of Germersheim highlighted

Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '  N , 8 ° 15'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
Administrative headquarters : Germersheim
Area : 463.35 km 2
Residents: 129,013 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 278 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : GER
Circle key : 07 3 34
NUTS : DEB3E
Circle structure: 31 municipalities
Address of the
district administration: 		Luitpoldplatz 1
76726 Germersheim
Website : www.kreis-germersheim.de
District Administrator : Fritz Brechtel ( CDU )
Location of the district of Germersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate
Niederlande Belgien Frankreich Luxemburg Baden-Württemberg Hessen Nordrhein-Westfalen Saarland Frankenthal (Pfalz) Kaiserslautern Koblenz Landau in der Pfalz Landau in der Pfalz Ludwigshafen am Rhein Mainz Pirmasens Speyer Trier Worms Zweibrücken Landkreis Ahrweiler Landkreis Altenkirchen (Westerwald) Landkreis Alzey-Worms Landkreis Bad Dürkheim Landkreis Bad Kreuznach Landkreis Bernkastel-Wittlich Landkreis Birkenfeld Landkreis Cochem-Zell Donnersbergkreis Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm Landkreis Germersheim Landkreis Kaiserslautern Landkreis Kusel Landkreis Mainz-Bingen Landkreis Mayen-Koblenz Neustadt an der Weinstraße Landkreis Neuwied Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis Rhein-Lahn-Kreis Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis Landkreis Südliche Weinstraße Landkreis Südwestpfalz Landkreis Trier-Saarburg Landkreis Vulkaneifel Westerwaldkreismap
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The district of Germersheim is a regional authority in the southeast of Rhineland-Palatinate . The seat of the district administration and at the same time the most populous municipality is the homonymous city ​​of Germersheim . The district comprises 31 local parishes , most of which belong to association parishes.

geography

location

The Rhine ( Upper Rhine ) forms the eastern district border and at the same time the state border with Baden-Württemberg , with the exception of part of the Elisabethenwörth island and the bridgehead near Germersheim , which belong to the district as areas on the right bank of the Rhine . The Lauter is mostly the southern border, which is also the state border with France . The district lies entirely in the Rhine Graben . It belongs to the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region and the cross-border region of Pamina .

Neighboring districts and cities

Neighboring districts and independent cities are:

Neustadt an der Weinstrasse Rhine-Palatinate District Rhein-Neckar district
Southern Wine Route district Neighboring communities Agricultural and urban district of Karlsruhe ( Baden-Wuerttemberg )
Arrondissement Wissembourg ( Département Bas-Rhin / France ) Lauterbourg District of Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg)

history

The district of Germersheim goes back to the Landkommissariat Germersheim formed on April 1st, 1818 by the Bavarian King Maximilian I , which was transferred to the district office in 1862 and to the district of Germersheim in 1939. After the Second World War , the district became part of the French zone of occupation . The establishment of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate was ordered on August 30, 1946 as the last state in the western occupation zones by decree No. 57 of the French military government under General Marie-Pierre Kœnig . It was initially referred to as the "Rhineland-Palatinate Land" or "Land Rheinpfalz"; the name "Rhineland-Palatinate" was only established with the constitution of May 18, 1947.

The administrative district itself has hardly changed in the course of its history. The only boundary correction in the course of the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform was the incorporation of Hayna into Herxheim on March 16, 1974, which left the district and became part of the Landau-Bad Bergzabern district (since 1978: Südliche Weinstrasse district ). From the end of the 1960s, the number of communities decreased slightly: Ober- and Niederlustadt were merged to form Lustadt on June 7, 1969 , Sondernheim was incorporated into Germersheim on April 22, 1972 and Büchelberg , Maximiliansau and Schaidt joined on June 10, 1979 on a voluntary basis by the city of Wörth am Rhein .

Population statistics

year Residents source
1864 50,980
1885 53,066
1900 52,796
1910 56,958
1925 57,437
1939 63,467
1950 67,515
1960 76,200
1970 92,500
1980 100,300
1990 109,000
2000 123,400
2010 124,838
2016 128.205
2020 136,396

Denomination statistics

According to the 2011 census , in 2011 27.7% of the population were Protestant , 45.1% were predominantly Roman Catholic and 27.2% were non-denominational , belonged to another religious community or did not provide any information. The number of Protestants and Catholics has fallen since then and with almost 40%, people who do not belong to any legally or corporately constituted religious community are a relative majority of the population. Currently (as of March 31, 2020) 23.5% of the population are Protestant, 37.7% Roman Catholic and 38.8% are non-denominational or belong to another religious community.

In 1871, of a total of 52,286 inhabitants in the then district office of Germersheim, 33,077 were Catholic (63.3%), 18,129 Protestant (34.7%) and 1,069 Jewish (2.0%). Of the remaining 11 people, 8 were Mennonites and 3 were Reformed.

politics

District administrators

The district office of Germersheim was headed by a district official, comparable to a district administrator . From April 1, 1920, the official title was District Chief Administrator .

Source: Series of publications on the history of the district of Germersheim , Volume 1.

The district has been headed by a district administrator since 1939 :

Source: Series of publications on the history of the district of Germersheim , Volume 1.

Fritz Brechtel ( CDU ) has been district administrator for the district of Germersheim since 2001 . After his first election in 2001, Brechtel was re-elected in 2009 after eight years in office. He was able to prevail with 69.3% of the votes against the competitor Rainer Strunk ( SPD ), who received 30.7% of the votes. On May 14, 2017, Brechtel was elected for a third term with 65.6%, the opposing candidate Nicole Zor from the SPD achieved 34.4%.

District council

Allocation of seats in the Germersheim District Assembly 2019
1
1
6th
9
5
3
15th
6th
1 1 6th 9 5 3 15th 6th 
A total of 46 seats
Election of the Germersheim District Assembly 2019
Participation: 61.9% (+ 5.6%)
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
31.2
20.0
13.6
13.5
10.5
5.8
2.8
2.5
n. k.
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
-9.3
-6.6
+5.6
+7.5
-0.4
+2.2
+0.2
+2.5
-1.8

The district assembly of the district of Germersheim consists of 46 district assembly members elected in a personalized proportional representation 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 last local elections led to the following allocation of seats in the district council (n.k. = not running):

Parties and groups of voters %
2019 		Seats
2019 		%
2014 		Seats
2014
CDU 31.2 15th 40.6 18th
SPD 20.0 9 26.6 12
GREEN 13.6 6th 8.0 4th
AfD 13.5 6th 6.0 3
FWG 10.5 5 10.8 5
FDP 5.8 3 3.6 2
THE LEFT. 2.8 1 2.6 1
The party 2.5 1 n. k. n. k.
REP n. k. n. k. 1.8 1
total 100.0 46 100.0 46
Voter turnout in% 61.9 56.3

badges and flags

  • Hoist flag

  • Banner flag

The district of Germersheim has a coat of arms as well as a hoist and banner flag .

Coat of arms of the district of Germersheim
 Blazon : “Dividedby black and blue by a silver wavy bar; above a growing, red crowned and armored golden lion , below a continuous silver cross ; in the blue heart shield a red-tongued and armored golden eagle . "
Justification of the coat of arms: The lion stands for the Palatinate and the cross for the Hochstift Speyer . Both rulers had a share in today's district area. The heart shield is the coat of arms of the city of Germersheim, which was once imperial and therefore carries the imperial eagle .

The coat of arms was approved on February 16, 1976.

partnership

There is a partnership with the Polish district of Krotoszyn .

Communities

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

Location of the district of Germersheim in the metropolitan region of Rhine-Neckar
Wörth am Rhein Germersheim Zeiskam Ottersheim bei Landau Knittelsheim Bellheim Scheibenhardt Berg (Pfalz) Hagenbach Neuburg am Rhein Jockgrim Neupotz Hatzenbühl Rheinzabern Steinweiler Erlenbach bei Kandel Kandel (Pfalz) Winden (Pfalz) Vollmersweiler Freckenfeld Minfeld Leimersheim Kuhardt Rülzheim Hördt Schwegenheim Lingenfeld Freisbach Weingarten (Pfalz) Westheim (Pfalz) Lustadt Baden-Württemberg Frankreich Speyer Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis Neustadt an der Weinstraße Landkreis Südliche Weinstraße Landau in der PfalzAssociation communities in GER.svg
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Association-free municipalities / cities :

Association members local communities and cities , classified according to their affiliation to the association communities :

  1. Bellheim * (8,682)
  2. Knittelsheim (1,065)
  3. Ottersheim near Landau (1,825)
  4. Zeiskam (2,215)
  1. Berg (Palatinate) (2,020)
  2. Hagenbach , City * (5,444)
  3. Neuburg am Rhein (2,555)
  4. Scheibenhardt (620)
  1. Hatzenbuehl (2.832)
  2. Jockgrim * (7,407)
  3. Neupotz (1,921)
  4. Rheinzabern (5,001)
  1. Erlenbach near Kandel (705)
  2. Freckenfeld (1,586)
  3. Kandel , City * (9,034)
  4. Minfeld (1,693)
  5. Steinweiler (1,954)
  6. Vollmersweiler (198)
  7. Winches (1,092)
  1. Freisbach (1,146)
  2. Lingenfeld * (5,758)
  3. Lustadt (3,406)
  4. Schwegenheim (3,056)
  5. Weingarten (Palatinate) (1,878)
  6. Westheim (Palatinate) (1,796)
  1. Hördt (2,596)
  2. Kuhardt (1,857)
  3. Leimersheim (2,556)
  4. Rülzheim * (8,197)

*) Seat of the association's municipality

For lists of the term "area changes" see area reforms in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Monuments

Cultural monuments in the district:

Natural monuments in the district:

traffic

Streets

The federal motorway 65 Karlsruhe-Ludwigshafen runs through the southern district area . Several federal highways and district roads run through the district, including the multi-lane federal road 9 Karlsruhe-Speyer and the federal road 272 .

At Germersheim ( Rudolf von Habsburg Bridge ) and at Wörth ( Rhine Bridge Maxau ) two bridges cross the Rhine .

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the GER distinctive sign when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is still issued today.

Rail transport

Here the Palatinate Maximiliansbahn-Gesellschaft opened the line from Neustadt an der Weinstrasse via Landau - Winden to Weißenburg in Alsace in 1855 . Since 1864/65 the line to Karlsruhe , which was built by Maximiliansau by the city of Karlsruhe , has branched off from here in Winden .

The district town of Germersheim received its first rail connection in 1864 by the Palatinate Ludwig Railway from Schifferstadt via Speyer . It was only continued to Wörth in 1876 by the Palatinate Maximiliansbahn, which also built the other railways in the district:

The rail network in today's district had thus reached an expansion of 92 km. Of these, the following routes were permanently closed for passenger traffic :

At times, three more lines (19 km) were affected, but they have since been reactivated.

The RheinNeckar S-Bahn system, established in 2003, comprises several lines and stops in the district. The tariffs of the Rhein-Neckar transport association and the Karlsruhe transport association apply in the entire district . Important railway junctions in the district are Germersheim , Wörth and Winden .

At Germersheim the Rhine bridge leads over the river of the same name.

shipping

Several municipalities in the district are located directly on the Rhine and have port facilities and berths there. At Leimersheim and Neuburg , fee-based Rhine ferries cross the river.

Honorary citizen

On January 12, 2017, Benno Heiter (CDU), honorary district member and deputy district administrator (from 2001 to 2014) and previously full-time mayor of the city of Germersheim (from 1982 to 2002), was named the district's first honorary citizen.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ^ Official Journal of the French High Command in Germany, No. 35 (1946), p. 292 .
  3. ^ Full text of the constitution of May 18, 1947 .
  4. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 162 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
  5. ^ Eugen Hartmann: Statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ed .: Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau. Munich 1866, population of the district offices 1864, p. 74 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau (ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Munich 1888, population of the district offices 1885, p. VI ( digitized version ).
  7. ↑ a b c d e f Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. kaiserslautern.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  8. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1972
  9. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1981
  10. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1992
  11. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 2002
  12. ↑ [1] , accessed on March 10, 2020
  13. ↑ District of Germersheim Religion , 2011 census
  14. ↑ Landkreis Germersheim municipal statistics , accessed on May 7, 2020
  15. ^ Results of the census in the Kingdom of Bavaria from December 1, 1871 by individual communities, 1873, p. 64 f.
  16. ^ Bavarian regional history. (PDF; 4.37 MB) Hanns Seidel Foundation / Reinhard Heydenreuter , Birgit Strobl , September 2009, accessed on June 23, 2018 .
  17. ↑ a b c d e Ludwig Hans : Germersheim district officials of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Biographical notes on Emmerich Joseph von Moers, Gustav Ott and Eduard Stumm . In: Series of publications on the history of the district of Germersheim . tape 3 , 2014, p. 123-144 .
  18. ^ Gustav Ott moved up in 1890 for the late Karl von Alwens in the Bavarian state parliament ( Chamber of Deputies , the second chamber of the Bavarian Estates Assembly ) and was a member of the Liberal Association from 1899 . In 1904 he left parliament.
  19. ↑ Müller, Karl. Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online , September 11, 2012, accessed on August 31, 2013 .
  20. ↑ At the time of the Autonomous Palatinate (1919 to 1924) when the situation was very confusing. Müller was probably the first district administrator . The exact term of office is unclear, for example for 1920/21 B. also mentioned the assessors Weibel and Neu and the official Reuter.
  21. ↑ a b c d Ludwig Hans : Germersheim district supervisors from 1920 to 1933: Dr. Karl Rieth, Wilhelm Keiler and Josef Endres . In: Series of publications on the history of the district of Germersheim . tape 4 , 2016, p. 143-160 .
  22. ↑ a b c Ludwig Hans : Ludwig Schmitt (1891 - 1973): District Administrator / District Administrator in Germersheim from 1.6.1937 - March 1945 . In: Series of publications on the history of the district of Germersheim . tape 5 , 2018, p. 149-152 .
  23. ^ A b Ludwig Hans : Of Land Commissioners, District Officials and District Administrators . In: Series of publications on the history of the district of Germersheim . tape 1 , 2010, p. 323-330 .
  24. ↑ Ludwig Schmitt was probably assigned to Lorraine at the time , but remained de jure district administrator in Germersheim. When he returned is unknown.
  25. ↑ Schug, Hermann. Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online , September 11, 2012, accessed on March 5, 2019 .
  26. ^ Official journal of the district of Germersheim, edition 17/2009. (PDF) (No longer available online.) District of Germersheim, June 16, 2009, archived from the original on September 10, 2014 ; accessed on September 10, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kreis-germersheim.de
  27. ↑ District election in the district of Germersheim on May 14, 2017 - final result. (PDF; 2.71 MB) www.kreis-germersheim.de, 2017, accessed on March 5, 2019 .
  28. ↑ Explanation by the Land Returning Officer on weighted results.
  29. ^ Result of the election at the regional returning officer Rhineland-Palatinate
  30. ↑ From the district and the region: Partner district Krotoszyn celebrates the 15th anniversary of district formation - delegation invited to a ceremony. Germersheimer Stadtanzeiger # 47/2013, November 22, 2013, p. 30.
  31. ^ Port of Germersheim. (No longer available online.) Stadtwerke Germersheim, archived from the original on October 26, 2016 ; accessed on September 10, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtwerke-germersheim.de
  32. ^ Rhine ferry Leimersheim. (No longer available online.) Www.rheinfaehre-leimersheim.de, archived from the original on September 11, 2014 ; accessed on September 10, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rheinfaehre-leimersheim.de
  33. ^ Germersheim district: Benno Heiter is the first and only honorary citizen in 200 years. www.pfalz-express.de, January 13, 2017, accessed on June 22, 2018 .