Leutesheim

Leutesheim City of Kehl
Coordinates: 48 ° 37 '26 "  N , 7 ° 51' 23"  E
Area :	6 km²
Residents :	1394  (2014)
Population density :	232 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postal code :	77694
Area code :	07853
Village fountain

Leutesheim is a district of Kehl in the Ortenau district of Baden-Württemberg with almost 1400 inhabitants.

geography

Leutesheim is located in the Rhine Valley approx. 1.7 km east of the Rhine , which forms the German - French border here, and approx. 6.6 km north of Kehl. The city center of Strasbourg in France is approx. 10 km away. The village is crossed by the "Gieselbach".

history

middle Ages

The oldest surviving mention of Leutesheim, as "Lutensheim", comes from 1233. The village was in the Lichtenau district of the Lichtenberg lordship . It was a fiefdom of the Bishop of Strasbourg , with the first loan probably taking place in 1274. In 1335, the middle and younger lines of the House of Lichtenberg divided the country. The office of Lichtenau - and thus Leutesheim - fell to Ludwig III. von Lichtenberg , who founded the younger line of the house.

Anna von Lichtenberg (* 1442; † 1474) was the daughter of Ludwig V von Lichtenberg (* 1417; † 1474), one of two heirs with claims to the rule of Lichtenberg . In 1458 she married Count Philip I the Elder of Hanau-Babenhausen (* 1417, † 1480), who had received a small secondary school from the holdings of the County of Hanau in order to be able to marry her. The county of Hanau-Lichtenberg came into being through the marriage . After the death of the last Lichtenberger, Jakob von Lichtenberg , an uncle of Anna, Philipp I. d. Ä. 1480 half of the Lichtenberg rule. The other half went to his brother-in-law, Simon IV. Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . The office Lichtenau belonged to the part of Lichtenberg that the descendants of Philipp and Anna inherited.

Early modern age

Count Philip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1514–1590), after taking office in 1538, consistently carried out the Reformation in his county, which now became Lutheran . The village's agriculture was devoted to hemp - and later to tobacco growing , cattle breeding and fishing. Even gold panning was operated.

After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , In 1736 the inheritance - and with it the office of Lichtenau with Leutesheim - fell to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte von Hanau-Lichtenberg , Landgrave Ludwig (IX.) Von Hessen-Darmstadt .

Modern times

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss the Amt and Leutesheim were assigned to the newly formed Electorate of Baden in 1803 .

As a result of the municipal reform , Leutesheim was incorporated into Kehl on January 1, 1975.

religion

Church in Leutesheim

There is a Protestant parish in Leutesheim .

politics

Town hall Leutesheim

With the incorporation to Kehl in 1975, the office of mayor was created. The incumbent, and thus the chairman of the local council , has been Heinz Faulhaber (SPD) since 2014. Before that, Ernst Kleinmann held the office for 15 years.

The local elections on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

5 5 5 5  A total of 10 seats SPD : 5 Active for stranded wire : 5

Culture and sights

Sports

Multipurpose hall and fairground

The sport shooting club Leutesheim plays in the 2015/16 season in the fifth-class South Baden league.

SV Leutesheim represents the village in football.

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

In the south of the village there is a small industrial area that is exclusively operated by the manufacturer of plastic packaging, JACO - Dr. Jaeniche GmbH & Co. KG, is used. With over 120 employees, this is the largest employer in Leutesheim. Other small businesses are distributed in mixed areas within the village.

education

There is a kindergarten and a primary school in Leutesheim .

traffic

Leutesheim is crossed by the district road 5373, via which there is a connection to the L75 (until January 1, 2016: B36 ). Local public transport is served by the SWEG bus lines K4 and 403 .

literature

• Fritz Eyer: The territory of the Lords of Lichtenberg 1202-1480. Investigations into the property, the rule and the politics of domestic power of a noble family from the Upper Rhine . In: Writings of the Erwin von Steinbach Foundation . 2nd edition, unchanged in the text, by an introduction extended reprint of the Strasbourg edition, Rhenus-Verlag, 1938. Volume 10 . Pfaehler, Bad Neustadt an der Saale 1985, ISBN 3-922923-31-3 (268 pages).
• Friedrich Knöpp: Territorial holdings of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Hesse-Darmstadt . [typewritten] Darmstadt 1962. [Available in the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , signature: N 282/6].

Web links

Commons : Leutesheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the association "Active Village Leutesheim" about the village
• Brief portrait on the website of the city of Kehl

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eyer, pp. 99, 239; Knöpp, p. 13.
2. ↑ Eyer, p. 56; Knöpp, p. 13.
3. ↑ Eyer, pp. 56, 145.
4. ↑ Eyer, pp. 79f.
5. ^ Website of the city of Kehl.
6. ^ Website of the city of Kehl.
7. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 514 .
8. ↑ Final results of the Leutesheim local council election 2019. City of Kehl , May 31, 2019, accessed on June 8, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Homepage of the shooting club
10. ↑ OB visits Jaco ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2016 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.