Leimen (Palatinate)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 17 '  N , 7 ° 46'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southwest Palatinate
Association municipality :	Rodalben
Height :	459 m above sea level NHN
Area :	29.22 km 2
Residents:	951 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	33 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	66978
Area code :	06397
License plate :	PS , ZW
Community key :	07 3 40 027
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Am Rathaus 9 66976 Rodalben
Website :	leimen-pfalz.info
Local Mayor :	Alexander Frey
Location of the local community Leimen in the district of Südwestpfalz

The site of Leimen with the tilting head in the background

Leimen ( listen ^{? / I} ) is a municipality in the district of Südwestpfalz in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rodalben , within which it is the second largest in terms of area, but the smallest in terms of population. Leimen is a state-approved resort .

geography

location

Leimen is located in the Graefensteiner Land , a part of the Palatinate Forest . 91.5 percent of the municipal area is forested. In the southwest is Merzalben , in the northeast is Johanniskreuz . The next larger city is Pirmasens , located to the southwest . The municipality of Leimen is 500 meters above sea level, making it the highest resort in the Palatinate. The Schamborner Valley is located south of the settlement area. Leimen also includes the Röderhof hamlet and the Forsthaus Leimen residential area . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Heltersberg , Trippstadt , Wilgartswiesen , Merzalben and Clausen .

Surveys

Immediately north of the settlement area, the 473-meter-high Behetztköpfel extends ; northwest of it is the 451 meter high Kemmeterberg . The Schmale Kopf (499.2 meters) rises to the west of the district and the 522.3 meters high Kippkopf to the south . In the extreme northeast of the district are the Kirchberg , the Ramscheleck , the 595.6 meter high Badischköpfchen , the Heltersberg (about 595 meters) and the Hohe Heltersberg (531.4 meters). The 590.8 meter high Mühlenberg also stretches along the border with Merzalben .

Waters

The Rauschenbach rises to the north-west of the development and flows into the Schwarzbach from the left . The latter takes the horse brook from the left , which forms the northern border between Leimen and Trippstadt. The latter function is immediately taken over by the Schwarzbach, which then also forms the border with Heltersberg. It flows through the Schwarzbachtalweiher immediately at the district triangle of the said municipalities ; The Hölzenklingbächel opens in this area from the left ; a short time later it takes up the Ramschelbach and the Schleifenbächel , also from the left . The Merzalbe rises to the south-west to the east of the Leimen settlement area and after a few kilometers forms the border with Merzalben.

climate

The annual precipitation is 1071 mm. The rainfall is high. They are in the upper quarter of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 88 percent of the German Weather Service's measuring stations . The driest month is April, with the most rainfall in December. In December there is 1.5 times more rainfall than in April. The rainfall varies moderately. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at 45% of the measuring stations .

history

A Celtic grave near the Röderhof suggests that the area in the area of ​​today's Leimen was originally inhabited by Celts . It can be assumed that the place Leimen existed before the rule of Graefenstein . The first documentary mention of Leimen took place on May 27, 1152, when Pope Eugene III. the abbot Wolfram and the canons of the church St. Maria zu Wadgassen took under his protection and confirmed all their possessions. The text of the document in Latin in the cartular of the Wadgassen Abbey (Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz B 218 No. 603) reads as follows according to different prints, whereby the print from 1750 brings the word Leimam (glue), the print from 1850 the word decimam ( tithing):

“In Heseningen mansum unum, et Leimam, quam habetis ab ecclesia de Herbodesheim. Sub censu septem solidorum eidem ecclesiae a vobis vestrisque successoribus annis singulis persolvendo. "

“In Hesemingen mansum unum et decimam quam habetis from ecclesia de Herbodesheim. sub censu septem solidorum eidem ecclesie a uobis uestrisque successoribus annis singulis persoluendo. "

After the older pressure, the Wadgassen Abbey had acquired glue from Herbitzheim Monastery for a hereditary annual rate of seven solidi. Despite the remoteness of its geographical location, Leimen is one of the settlements in Westrich mentioned in documents as early as the 12th century . There is no news about when the Herbitzheim Monastery was founded or acquired. It is likely that the place was founded as the outer courtyard of the Herbitzheim Monastery on a relatively fertile plateau, which is rich in clay. Leimen belonged to the Bliesgau and the diocese of Metz .

Leimen belonged to the margraviate of Baden from 1560 to the end of the 18th century with the rule of Graefenstein . With the Thirty Years' War great suffering and misery came over the area. Leimen was almost extinct. In 1653 three citizens lived here. The old church had fallen apart. It was not thoroughly repaired until 1700.

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Laimen was - as the spelling at the time - incorporated into the canton of Waldfischbach and was subordinate to Mairie Merzalben . In 1815 the place had 340 inhabitants. in the same year, the place was initially added to Austria . A year later the place changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 the place was part of the Landkommissariat Pirmasens , which was then converted into a district office.

In 1939 Leimen was incorporated into the district of Pirmasens (from 1997 district of Südwestpfalz ) . After the Second World War , the municipality within the French occupation zone became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1970 the community was named a "state-approved resort". In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , it was assigned to the newly created Verbandsgemeinde Rodalben in 1972 .

religion

In the Middle Ages, a church that had existed for centuries was a symbol of the place. It is believed that it was built around 1350. In 1413 the chapel was given the patronage of “Our Lady”. This emerges from a document dated July 8, 1413.

"The mayor and council of the city of Annweiler certify that in court proceedings Claus Zolner and his housewife Demut, Bürgerin zu Annweiler, have prescribed an annual martini gul of a simmering oil for the brothers of our dear women in Leymen for 24 pfennigs and pledged the following properties." . "

Dieze Lauwer as well as the mayor and the council of Annweiler have sealed.

Catholic Parish Church of St. Catherine

The church was at the entrance to the village. According to ancient traditions, the chapel was visited by pilgrims from near and far. However, nowhere is it written that it was a pilgrimage chapel. In 1467 a pastor Clingeler is mentioned in Leimen for the first time: "Peter Clingeler pastor at the Liebfrauenkirche zu Leymen". Leimen was later assigned to the Speyer diocese . The year 1723 saw the separation of the villages of Leimen and Merzalben from the previous mother church, Rodalben. In 1782 the foundation stone was laid for a new church in the middle of the village. It was not until 1864 that Leimen was declared an independent parish.

The last expositus - that is, a chaplain "postponed" by the parish of Merzalben - Josef Ulrich became the first own pastor of Leimen. At that time the village had 547 souls. The church in the center of the village, built in 1782, served the community as a place of worship for 150 years until the third place of worship was built and consecrated in 1932. The current Catholic Church of St. Catherine of Alexandria has replaced the old church from 1350 as the symbol of the community.

At the end of 2014, 65.2 percent of the population were Catholic and 15.8 percent Protestant. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational. The Catholics belong to the Diocese of Speyer , the Evangelicals to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Leimen consists of twelve 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	CDU	FWG	total
2019	4th	8th	12 seats
2014	8th	4th	12 seats
2009	13	3	16 seats
2004	by majority vote		16 seats

• Free voter community Gräfenstein e. V.

mayor

Alexander Frey (FWG) became the local mayor of Leimen in 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with a share of 78.63% of the votes. Frey's predecessor was Klaus Gütermann (CDU).

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In gold, a red sloping bar, covered with a golden crook, each side with half a broken red wheel, both at an angle to the left with a blue sword, which is covered by the red sloping bar."
	Justification of the coat of arms: It was approved by the Mainz Ministry of the Interior in 1961 and reminds with the red sloping bar of the former affiliation to Baden .

Culture and sights

Buildings

Cultural monuments

Listed transverse house

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Leimen (Palatinate)

One of the cultural monuments is the Fritz-Claus-Stein located a short distance from the settlement area ; this is a memorial in honor of Fritz Claus , who is often referred to as the “singer of the Palatinate Forest”.

other structures

Since July 2019 there has been a new landmark at the entrance to the village - coming from Merzalben. It's a three meter high and five meter wide bench.

societies

The largest association in town is TuS Leimen, there is also a fruit and horticultural association , a men's choir, the Catholic church choir, a carnival association, a local branch of the Palatinate Forest Association and a local history association.

Knight stones

There are numerous knight stones on the parish of the municipality . Ritterstein 61 is called Schanze 1794 100 Schr. And refers to a hill from the time of the coalition wars .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

After the Second World War, the place became part of the Pirmasens Military Community, which has since been dissolved . The municipality was the seat of Raiffeisenbank Leimen eG , which in 2000 and a further merger in the following period was merged into VR-Bank Südwestpfalz Pirmasens-Zweibrücken .

traffic

State road 496 runs through the village . The county road 32 connects it to Waldfischbach-Burgalben . District road 33 branches off from the latter and serves to connect the Röderhof. There is a connection to long-distance traffic via the A 62 motorways in the west and the A 6 in the north.

education

There is a primary school in Leimen.

tourism

The Nahegau-Wasgau-Vogesen long-distance hiking trail marked with a white cross and the Donnersberg-Donon long-distance hiking trail marked with a red bar run through Leimen . The hiking trail marked with a yellow bar connects the community with Contwig and Germersheim and one that is marked with a blue dot with the main chair .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Hans-Jürgen Kaiser (* 1959), organist
• Georg Anstett (* 1968), triathlete
• Sarah Traubel (* 1986), opera and concert singer with a soprano voice

People who worked on site

• Wilhelm Kollmar (1871–1948), sculptor and ceramist, created the Fritz Claus Stone in Leimen in 1906
• Paul Thalheimer (1884–1948), painter and graphic artist, was responsible for the choir paintings and the church windows in the local Catholic Church in 1932
• Markus Zwick , the acting Lord Mayor of Pirmasens, lives on site

Web links

Commons : Glues  - collection of images

• Internet presence of the local community Leimen
• Literature about glue in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 109 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
4. ^ Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim : Historia Trevirensis Diplomatica et Pragmatica , Trier 1750, p. 565 Online
5. ^ Heinrich Beyer , Leopold Eltester , Adam Goerz : Mittelrheinisches Urkundenbuch , Vol. 1, Koblenz 1850, p. 625 Online
6. ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2014
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
9. ↑ Marianne Teuscher: Birthday: Alexander Frey turns 60 today. Die Rheinpfalz, April 9, 2018, accessed on April 3, 2020 . 
10. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Rodalben, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results. Retrieved April 3, 2020 . 
11. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .