Leistadt
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Leistadt
City of Bad Dürkheim
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| Height : | 220 m above sea level NHN |
| Residents : | 1194 (December 31, 2018) |
| Incorporation : | 7th June 1969 |
| Postal code : | 67098 |
| Area code : | 06322 |
 Leistadt from the north
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Leistadt is the highest district of the district town of Bad Dürkheim in eastern Rhineland-Palatinate . Special features of the place are its location on the slope of the Palatinate Forest to the Rhine plain and the Felsenberg-Berntal nature reserve with the distinctive fault line of the Rhine valley .
geography
location
The place is four kilometers north of Bad Dürkheim on a protected hill on the edge of the Haardt , which forms the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest. Its Leininger spur continues a few kilometers north-west of the village. Most of the rocks in these formations consist of red sandstone , which was formed from blown desert sand 250 million years ago .
At an average height of 220 m above sea level. NHN is Leistadt about 100 m higher than Bad Dürkheim and other neighboring communities. This is why the tourism industry also bears the suffix "Leistadt - closest to the sun."
Nature reserves
Large parts of the Leistadt district have been declared a nature reserve. These areas are part of a series of protected areas that have been designated along the Haardt. The Felsenberg-Berntal nature reserve , which is partly in the area of the Leistadt district, is the oldest of them. The overgrown nature reserve In the Rüstergewann is, according to the mayor Günther, a “hotspot for biodiversity”. B. rare plant and bird species.
The protected areas have emerged from previously intensively used agricultural areas. As part of the mechanization of viticulture , the areas that are now designated as protected areas became increasingly deserted, as manual work on the slopes was no longer worthwhile.
Hydrology
A special feature resulting from the location in the immediate vicinity of the Freinsheim community is the sewage disposal. At the beginning of the 1980s, the small two-stage sewage treatment plant was replaced by a pumping station that pumps all of the community's wastewater to the Höbel , after which it flows along state road 517 to Bad Dürkheim to the central sewage treatment plant in Bruch. The pumps have to overcome a height difference of around 40 m. As a result of this intervention, all of Leistadt's valleys became artificial dry valleys , as the drinking water is obtained in the winter valley and therefore does not come to light as surface water. The water of the Sandbach is not enough to fill the trench in the Bern valley and seeps away. About 50 years earlier, the water in Leistadt was pumped in the opposite direction, the area south of the Annaberges was used for water extraction. The valley house of this water supply now feeds a well via historical water pipes from a former Roman villa nearby. The elevated tank is still on the Eichelberg, but can no longer be used for the water supply, as some houses are higher up. The water pipe itself connects the water supply of Leistadt with the Annaberg waterworks.
history
Leistadt was first mentioned in a document in 1209, but its origins probably go back to the 6th century. In the Middle Ages it was one of the imperial villages .
When the village was completely destroyed by French troops during the War of the Palatinate Succession in 1689 , the original structure of a clustered village was lost and Leistadt developed into a street village . The predominant architectural style is the so-called house-courtyard development, in which the house on a property is on the border to the neighbor and the own courtyard maintains the distance to the other neighbor. In the early 1990s, for the first time in Rhineland-Palatinate since the Second World War, such a development was made mandatory for the new building area in Jan-Daniel-Georgens-Straße and then also in Stephansstück.
In the past, Leistadt was an independent local community in what was then the district of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . During the territorial reform of 1969, Leistadt was to be assigned to the Freinsheim community , because essential parts of the historical district belonged to Freinsheim as part of an inheritance and so Leistadt protrudes like a wedge into the community. But after a referendum on July 7, 1969, Leistadt became a district of Bad Dürkheim.
politics
Local advisory board
The district of Leistadt comprises one of five local districts in the city of Bad Dürkheim and therefore has a local advisory board and a local councilor .
The local council has seven members. In the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the advisory board members were elected in a personalized proportional representation. The distribution of seats in the elected local council:
| choice | SPD | CDU | FWG-LL | total |
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| 2019 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 seats |
| 2014 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 seats |
- FWG-LL = Free Voting Community Bad Dürkheim e. V. - Leistadt list
Mayor
Mayor is Axel Günther (FWG-LL). In the runoff election on June 16, 2019, he prevailed against the previous incumbent Karl-Heinz Neu (SPD) with a share of the vote of 58.25%, after none of the original three applicants achieved a sufficient majority in the local election on May 26, 2019 would have.
coat of arms
The coat of arms, which can also be found on the historic town hall, depicts three lilies on three mountains framed by two stars .
Sights and culture
The landmark of the village is the town hall from 1750. Its freely accessible external staircase, whose steps lead to a covered platform with a balustrade made of yellow sandstone, is worth seeing. The town hall bears the two bells of the Protestant church in its tower. The third bell is the so-called political bell and is still used to ring the death knell.
The only bell in the Protestant Leodegarkirche is not used to call to worship, but only rings during the Our Father . The Catholic Church of St. Michael is in an outstanding position on the southern outskirts.
Two well-signposted circular hiking trails start in Leistadt. Around Leistadt leads through Berntal, Wingert and Wald (duration approx. 2 hours) and the historic circular hiking trail leads to ten points of interest in the Palatinate Forest (duration approx. 2 hours).
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
The community is strongly influenced by viticulture and tourism . Numerous citizens, especially from Ludwigshafen and Frankenthal, have their second homes in the Lochacker, Rotsteig and Sandbach settlements , so that the population can grow by several hundred during vacation periods and on weekends.
traffic
The next train stations are in Bad Dürkheim and Freinsheim . There are two bus stops with connections to Bad Dürkheim and Grünstadt.
Regular events
The Leistadter Kerwe takes place at the beginning of July.
education
Leistadt owned a small village school with rooms in Waldstrasse and in the town hall until 1968. In preparation for the regional reform (1969), the primary and secondary school was moved to the newly built community school in Weisenheim am Berg . Eight years later, in 1976, the kindergarten opened . Also in 1976, the Leistadter primary school pupils were first enrolled in the Trift primary school (today Salierschule); the secondary school was henceforth the Valentin-Ostertag- School in Bad Dürkheim.
societies
Leistadt has a lively club life with a football club in 1933, a gymnastics club in 1921, a kerwee club, a music club, a United Singers Association (VSB), a Protestant church building association, farmers and winegrowers, a fruit and horticultural association and an advertising and tourist association.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the place
- Jan-Daniel Georgens (1823–1886), educator and doctor
- Kurt Dehn (1920–2000), musician and dialect poet from the Palatinate
- Otto Gödel (1922–2002), shoemaker, winemaker and local researcher
People who worked on site
- Wolf Heinecke (* 1929), painter and graphic artist
- Lothar Zirngiebl (1902–1973), headmaster and entomologist
- Theo Carlen (1928–1984), from 1957 to 1963 executive officer of the municipality
- Hans Drumm (1902–1974), from 1949 to 1968 school teacher, local researcher, organist and conductor in the community
literature
- Otto Gödel: Leistadt - from the history of a former imperial village . Leistadt 1994.
- Otto Gödel: Leistadt - a picture arch about the village and its inhabitants from 100 years . Leistadt no year
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ residents | District town of Bad Dürkheim. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .
- ↑ deutsche-wein-strasse.de: Roman circular hiking trail. ( Memento from May 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Otto Gödel: Leistadt - from the history of a former imperial village . Leistadt 1994.
- ↑ State Main Archives Speyer: Ganerbschaft.
- ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 158 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
- ^ City of Bad Dürkheim: Main statutes of the city of Bad Dürkheim. § 2 June 10, 2014, accessed on October 11, 2019 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Leistadt. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local Advisory Council Election 2014 Leistadt. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
- ↑ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see fourth row of results. Retrieved October 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Leistadter coat of arms.
Core city
districts:
Grethen |
Hardenburg |
Leistadt |
Seebach |
Ungstein
Neighborhood:
Hausen |
Jägerthal |
Pfeffingen |
Trift