Southern Wine Route district
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Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ' N , 8 ° 3' E |
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| State : | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Administrative headquarters : | Landau in the Palatinate |
| Area : | 639.83 km 2 |
| Residents: | 110,521 (Dec. 31, 2019) |
| Population density : | 173 inhabitants per km 2 |
| License plate : | SOUTH |
| Circle key : | 07 3 37 |
| NUTS : | DEB3H |
| Circle structure: | 75 parishes |
| Address of the district administration: |
At the Kreuzmühle 2 76829 Landau in the Palatinate |
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| District Administrator : | Dietmar Seefeldt ( CDU ) |
| Location of the district of Südliche Weinstrasse in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
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The district of Südliche Weinstrasse is a regional authority in the south of Rhineland-Palatinate in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region . The seat of the district administration is located in the independent city of Landau in the Palatinate , which is completely enclosed by the district and is therefore not part of the district. Populous municipality is the municipality Herxheim bei Landau / Pfalz .
geography
location
The district derives its name from the first tourist route in Germany, the German Wine Route , the southern half of which leads from south to north through the district. This has a share in the Palatinate Rhine plain in the east and in the Palatinate Forest in the west. The largest rivers are the Queich and - near the border with France - the Lauter , which is called Wieslauter on the upper reaches .
Neighboring areas
The district borders in a clockwise direction in the west, beginning with the district of Südwestpfalz , an exclave of the independent city of Landau in the Palatinate , the district of Bad Dürkheim , the independent city of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and the districts of Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis and Germersheim . In the south it borders on the French department of Bas-Rhin .
history
The area of today's district belonged to Bavaria from 1816 , divided into the districts Bergzabern and Landau , from which districts later emerged. After the Second World War , the two districts of Bergzabern and Landau became part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946 and initially belonged to the administrative district of Palatinate .
The Landau-Bad Bergzabern district was created as part of the district reform on June 7, 1969. It was made up of the Bergzabern district without the communities Darstein , Dimbach , Lug , Schwanheim , Spirkelbach and Wilgartswiesen , which came to the Pirmasens district , as well as the Landau bis to the community of Diedesfeld , which was incorporated into Neustadt an der Weinstrasse .
On April 22, 1972, the six communities of Arzheim , Dammheim , Godramstein , Mörzheim , Nussdorf and Wollmesheim were incorporated into the independent city of Landau in the Palatinate. On March 16, 1974, Hayna from the district of Germersheim was added and became part of the municipality of Herxheim . On January 1, 1978, the district was renamed "Südliche Weinstrasse district".
Population statistics
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1970 | 104,400 | |
| 1980 | 95,200 | |
| 1990 | 101,600 | |
| 2000 | 109,400 | |
| 2010 | 109.002 | |
| 2016 | 110,885 |
Denomination statistics
According to the 2011 census , 34.6% of the population in 2011 were Protestant , 45.2% were predominantly Roman Catholic and 20.2% were non-denominational , belonged to another religious community or did not provide any information. The number of Protestants and Catholics has fallen since then. Currently (as of May 31, 2020) 30.2% of the population are Protestant, 39.7% are predominantly Roman Catholic and 30.1% are non-denominational or belong to another religious community.
politics
District council
The district assembly of the district of Südliche Weinstrasse consists of 42 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 district election on May 26, 2019 had the following result:
| Parties and groups of voters | % 2019 |
Seats 2019 |
% 2014 |
Seats 2014 |
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| CDU | 31.6 | 13 | 37.6 | 16 |
| SPD | 21.0 | 9 | 27.5 | 12 |
| B90 / greens | 15.6 | 7th | 9.8 | 4th |
| FWG | 13.8 | 6th | 13.1 | 5 |
| AfD | 9.5 | 4th | 5.2 | 2 |
| FDP | 5.7 | 2 | 4.2 | 2 |
| left | 2.8 | 1 | 2.7 | 1 |
| total | 100.0 | 42 | 100.0 | 42 |
| Voter turnout in% | 68.9 | 62.4 | ||
District administrators
- 1969–1982 Gerhard Schwetje (CDU)
- 1982–1988 Walter Link (CDU)
- 1988–1997 Gerhard Weber (CDU)
- 1997–2017 Theresia Riedmaier (SPD)
- since October 1, 2017 Dietmar Seefeldt (CDU)
Dietmar Seefeldt won the direct election on June 11, 2017 with a share of 50.12% of the vote against two competitors.
badges and flags
Hoist flag
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The district of Südliche Weinstrasse has a coat of arms and a flag.
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Blazon : “Divided by a silver oblique left bar: above in black a left-facing, red armored golden lion, below in blue a silver cross, each accompanied by a golden stalked grape with a leaf; on the whole covered with a red heart shield, inside a golden imperial crown. " |
| Reasons for the coat of arms: The grapes symbolize the German Wine Route, which gave the district its name. The Palatinate Lion stands for the Electors of the Palatinate and the cross for the Speyer Monastery . The imperial crown refers to the Trifels imperial castle , which is located in the district and where imperial insignia were temporarily kept in the Middle Ages . The coat of arms was awarded on June 24, 1970. |
Attractions
Castles, palaces, buildings
(Selection)
- Trifels Castle near Annweiler
- Fortified church with a fortified cemetery and Renaissance town hall from 1592 in Dörrenbach
- Villa Ludwigshöhe , former summer palace of King Ludwig I of Bavaria near Edenkoben
- Rietburgbahn , chairlift to Rietburg near Edenkoben
- Madenburg near Eschbach
- Landeck Castle near Klingenmünster
- Slevogthof Neukastel near Leinsweiler
- Wildlife and hiking park Südliche Weinstrasse near Silz
- Lindelbrunn Castle near Vorderweidenthal
- Kropsburg near Sankt Martin
- Neuscharfeneck Castle near Dernbach
- Ramburg castle ruins near Ramberg
- German Wine Gate near Schweigen-Rechtenbach
Excursion tips
(Selection)
- German Wine Route
- Südpfalz Therme in Bad Bergzabern
- Stork center in Bornheim
- Rietburgbahn in Edenkoben
- Forest shower near Gleisweiler
- Wildlife and hiking park in Silz
- Cactus land in Steinfeld
Museums
(Selection)
- Museum under the Trifels near Annweiler
- Westwall Museum Bad Bergzabern
- Tin figure museum in Bad Bergzabern
- Museum for Viticulture and City History in Edenkoben
- Mill museum Edenkoben
- Herxheim Museum
- Brush binder museum Ramberg
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
Larger industrial plants are rare. In the east, large parts of the district are characterized by viticulture , and tourism is becoming increasingly important there. Tourism has also become the most important source of income for the forest areas in the west, which make up around 43 percent of the district area and which used to be primarily used for forestry .
In the Future Atlas 2016 , the district of Südliche Weinstrasse was ranked 234 out of 402 districts, municipal associations and urban districts in Germany, making it one of the regions with a "balanced risk-opportunity mix" for the future.
traffic
Road traffic
14 km of the federal motorway 65 ( Karlsruhe - Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) run through the district . In addition, the district is accessed by several federal and district roads, including the B 10 , B 38 , B 48 and B 427 .
Rail transport
On the edge of the Upper Rhine Plain, the Palatinate Maximiliansbahn-Gesellschaft opened the Neustadt – Landau – Winden – Weissenburg (Alsace) line in 1855, with Maikammer-Kirrweiler, Edenkoben , Edesheim (Palatinate), Knöringen-Essingen, Insheim, Rohrbach (Palatinate) and Steinfeld (Pfalz), Kapsweyer and Schweighofen has a total of nine en route stations in the district. From here, the Winden – Bad Bergzabern railway branched off in 1870 , which, in addition to Bad Bergzabern, connects Barbelroth and Kapellen-Drusweiler to the rail network. In 1872 the Germersheim – Landau railway via Dreihof and Hochstadt followed as a cross connection . In 1874 the Palatinate Ludwig Railway Company ran the line from Landau to Annweiler and a year later through the Palatinate Forest towards Zweibrücken; other stops on the way in the district are Siebeldingen-Birkweiler, Albersweiler, Annweiler-Sarnstall and Rinnthal. Other short branch lines of the Palatinate Maximiliansbahn followed in 1892 from Rohrbach-Steinweiler via Billigheim-Ingenheim and Heuchelheim-Klingen to Klingenmünster ( Klingbachtalbahn ) and in 1898 from Landau via Offenbach an der Queich to Herxheim. After the founding of the Pfalzbahn , the narrow-gauge railway Speyer – Neustadt was added in 1905, which only served the Gommersheim station in the district .
The villages on the Weinstrasse between Neustadt and Landau were served by the Deutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft from 1911/1912 on a meter-gauge electric tram, the Pfälzer Oberlandbahn , which from 1936 was given a branch line from the Edenkoben depot to the Ludwigshöhe villa . The Palatinate Oberland Railway was the first railway (in a district of 20 km) to be shut down in 1953/55:
- 1953: Edenkoben – Landau Bhf = M = 12 km and Edenkoben – Villa Ludwigshöhe = M = 2 km
- 1955: (Neustadt Bhf–) Maikammer – Edenkoben = M = 6 km
In the period that followed, another 46 km from the 92 km long railway network were shut down:
- 1956: (Speyer Lbf–) Gommersheim (–Neustadt Lbf) = M = 2 km
- 1957: Rohrbach-Steinweiler –Klingenmünster 10 km
- 1976: (Winden–) Steinfeld – Schweighofen (–Weißenburg) 6 km (reactivated March 1, 1997)
- 1981: (Winden–) Barbelroth – Bad Bergzabern 8 km (reactivated September 4, 1995)
- 1983: Landau Hbf – Mörlheim – Offenbach – Herxheim 11 km
- 1984: Landau Hbf– Dammheim –Hochstadt (–Germersheim) 9 km
Transportation
The district is a member of the Rhein-Neckar transport association and the Karlsruhe transport association .
cities and communes
(Residents on December 31, 2019)
Association municipalities with their association members:
(Seat of the association *)
- Former parishes
The following communities have lost their independence since 1969:
- Arzheim , on April 22, 1972 in Landau
- Blankenborn , on March 20, 1971 in Bad Bergzabern
- Dammheim , on April 22, 1972 in Landau
- Godramstein , on April 22, 1972 in Landau
- Gossersweiler , on March 1, 1970 in Gossersweiler-Stein
- Graefenhausen , on June 10, 1979 in Annweiler
- Mörzheim , on April 22, 1972 in Landau
- Nussdorf , on April 22, 1972 in Landau
- Queichhambach , on April 22, 1972 in Annweiler
- Stein , on March 1, 1970 in Gossersweiler-Stein
- Wollmesheim , on April 22, 1972 in Landau
For lists of the term "area changes" see area reforms in Rhineland-Palatinate
Honorary citizen
In 2011 the former district administrator Gerhard Schwetje was made the first honorary citizen of the district.
License Plate
When the new district was formed, the distinctive symbol LD , introduced on July 1, 1956 for the Landau district in the Palatinate, was assigned. This was replaced on February 12, 1979 by the new distinctive sign SÜW, which is still valid today .
Web links
- Official website of the Southern Wine Route district
- Tourism and wine on the southern wine route
- Literature from and about the district of Südliche Weinstrasse in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature on the district of Südliche Weinstrasse 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 ).
- ↑ 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. 165 (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.
- ↑ 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
- ^ District of Südliche Weinstrasse Religion , 2011 census
- ↑ Landkreis Südliche Weinstrasse municipal statistics , accessed on June 15, 2020
- ↑ Explanation by the Land Returning Officer on weighted results.
- ^ Result of the election at the regional returning officer Rhineland-Palatinate
- ^ Pfalz-Express: District administration election Südliche Weinstrasse: The new district administrator is Dietmar Seefeldt. June 11, 2017, accessed December 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Südpfalz-Therme
- ↑ Steinfeld cactus land
- ↑ Future Atlas 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 23, 2018 . 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.
- ↑ ADD President congratulates Retired District President Gerhard Schwetje on becoming an honorary citizen of the Südl district. Weinstrasse ( Memento of the original from June 7th, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Supervision and Services Directorate April 18, 2011
Districts:
Ahrweiler |
Altenkirchen (Westerwald) |
Alzey-Worms |
Bad Dürkheim |
Bad Kreuznach |
Bernkastel-Wittlich |
Birkenfeld |
Cochem cell |
Donnersbergkreis |
Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm |
Germersheim |
Kaiserslautern |
Kusel |
Mainz-Bingen |
Mayen-Koblenz |
Neuwied |
Rhine-Hunsrück District |
Rhein-Lahn district |
Rhine-Palatinate District |
Southern Wine Route |
Southwest Palatinate |
Trier-Saarburg |
Vulkaneifel |
Westerwaldkreis
Independent cities:
Frankenthal (Pfalz) |
Kaiserslautern |
Koblenz |
Landau in the Palatinate |
Ludwigshafen am Rhein |
Mainz |
Neustadt an der Weinstrasse |
Pirmasens |
Speyer |
Trier |
Worms |
Zweibrücken
Independent cities: Frankenthal (Pfalz) | Heidelberg | Landau in the Palatinate | Ludwigshafen am Rhein | Mannheim | Neustadt an der Weinstrasse | Speyer | Worms
Districts: Bad Dürkheim | Mountain road | Germersheim | Neckar-Odenwald | Rhine-Neckar | Rhine-Palatinate | Southern Wine Route