Limburgerhof

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhine-Palatinate District
Height :	98 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9 km 2
Residents:	11,461 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	1273 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67117
Area code :	06236
License plate :	RP
Community key :	07 3 38 017
LOCODE :	DE LHF
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Burgunder Platz 2 ; 67117 Limburgerhof
Website :	www.limburgerhof.de
Mayor :	Andreas Poignée ( CDU )
Location of the municipality Limburgerhof in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis

Limburgerhof is an association-free municipality in the Rhine-Palatinate district in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region and is known nationwide through the BASF agricultural center Limburgerhof .

The community was not established until 1930 on land belonging to the communities of Mutterstadt , Neuhofen , Rheingönheim and Schifferstadt .

geography

Limburgerhof is located halfway between Ludwigshafen am Rhein and Speyer on a low terrace on the western edge of the "Bruch", an old loop of the Rhine that later silted up. To the west of Limburgerhof, another terrace edge extends in a north-westerly direction, which, as prehistoric and early historical sites show, was of great importance in terms of settlement geography.

Remains of the former fauna can be found in the diluvial low terrace. In May 1973, a mammoth skull was discovered north of the train station during sewer work at a depth of 5 meters , which is now in the Palatinate History Museum in Speyer.

Limburger Hof

The Limburger Gut from 1035 became the Limburger Hof in 1807. With a "forgiveness letter" dated February 16, 1035, the Salier emperor Konrad II awarded the village of Schifferstadt and its district to the Benedictine monastery of Limburg near Bad Dürkheim . The wooded area of the current Limburgerhof, south of the Böhlgraben, was part of this donation.

Deer hut

Mill wheel of the deer hut

The Rehhütte, first mentioned in 1590, is the oldest district still in existence today. A mill on the Rehbach was mentioned in a document as early as 1241. In the Thirty Years War all farms burned down. The reconstruction was carried out in 1654 by Elector Karl Ludwig with the establishment of a customs post.

Kohlhof

General view of the Kohlhof

After the devastation of the 17th century , the electors settled two Mennonite families who had emigrated from Switzerland as tenants at the Kohlhof at the beginning of the 18th century . This resulted in six farms. The Mennonite community still exists today. From 1816 to the end of 1929 the Kohlhof belonged to the municipality of Schifferstadt . In 1930 the Kohlhof was added to the Limburgerhof community, which was founded that year.

history

Until self-employment

prehistory

The first traces of human presence in the area of today's municipality are stone tools from the Middle Stone Age , which were found in the "Gänsberg" hill. People settled in the area of today's Limburgerhof as early as the Bronze Age .

In October 1958, an urn grave from the Bronze Age was found near the hunger ditch at Bundesstrasse 9 on the grounds of the Agricultural Research Station of BASF and a stool grave from the earlier Bronze Age was found in the sand pit Gewann Gänsberg as early as 1955.

Archaeological finds are missing from the following thousand years.

Roman times

In Roman times, a trunk road from Strasbourg to Mainz led across what is now the district. Several milestones are known of this road, but they were built into the foundations of the late Roman Altrip fort . According to the distance information on these milestones, which are related to Speyer, it could be calculated that at least two of these milestones must have been in what is now the Limburgerhof district.

On this Roman road there was probably a small Roman settlement in the northern area of today's town, of which, apart from a few stray finds, mainly cremation graves were found on the site of the former sugar factory. However, the find material has been lost since the Second World War . A second Roman settlement can be assumed based on reading finds at the Hungergraben in the southwest of the district. It is probably a Roman manor.

middle Ages

With the Roman finds, the archaeological sources from the Limburgerhof area break off. Merovingian and Carolingian finds are completely absent.

Foundation, endowment

Limburg Abbey near Bad Dürkheim

In 1035, Emperor Konrad II donated the village of Schifferstadt to the Limburg monastery near Bad Dürkheim , who owned it until 1571. The area of today's Limburgerhof remained in the possession of the Limburg monastery, even after Emperor Heinrich IV. Schifferstadt handed it over to the Speyer monastery in 1065 .

In 1481, Abbot Heinrich IV of the Limburg Monastery in what is now Bad Dürkheim abdicated and moved “ to the Limburger Hof near Speyer ”. At that time the area was still forested, it was only cleared around the year 1500. The foundation stone for Limburgerhof was laid around 1500 when the Limburg monastery set up a farmyard in the area of what is now the town , which was named after the mother monastery.

Modern times

Not only did the Thirty Years War bring much devastation to the region, but also the wars of the 18th century.

Memorial stone for the Vescay regiment

An eyewitness reports how the Austrian regiment Vescay suffered heavy losses of 520 men and 114 horses on May 24, 1794 at Rehbach:

“I entered the terrible theater of war, and the victims were still lying there, still unburied, around them the congealed masses of blood in deep furrows and mixed with the stagnant water of the Rehbach. The rising morning sun was reflected in the human blood, its rays bounced back from it and filled me with shudder and horror. This whole terrible area, devastated - devastated, lay covered with dead people and human blood before my eyes. Friend! Oh that I never saw such a terrible spectacle again! "

- Eyewitness report from 1794

In 1826, Count Waldner von Freundstein acquired the estate built by Francois Biechy in 1807. The castle and the three-story tower in the park are preserved from his buildings. In 1851 the merchant Carl Gottlob Reihlen built the Friedensau sugar factory and began growing sugar beet. The farm was transferred to BASF in 1898.

Until 1900 one cannot speak of one place, because apart from the three centers Hofgut, Bahnhof and Fabrik only a few houses existed at that time. Before 1900 there was the Rehhütte, the Kohlhof, the Limburger Hofgut, the Friedensau sugar factory and the Mutterstadt-Neuhofen train station. This area was crossed by the road from Speyer to Mutterstadt. They were outskirts of the four districts of Mutterstadt, Neuhofen, Rheingönheim and Schifferstadt.

When BASF built the "old" and the "new colony" with a total of 161 apartments for its workers in 1900 and 1914, the future of Ludwigshafen seemed to be mapped out as a place to sleep. With the development of ammonia synthesis and the establishment of the agricultural research station, more and more people settled there, and after long and tough struggles, a community of its own was finally formed, whereby the state authorities had to have the last word.

During the First World War , efforts began to establish Limburgerhof as an independent place. The sawmill owner Brendel at the "Mutterstadter Bahnhof" made the first official petition on March 14, 1918 and did not demand the formation of a separate community, but the formation of offices such as the police and the registry office. On December 31, 1920, seven citizens met and, following complaints from the local population, agreed to consider the following points as the most important, which can only be regulated by forming a community:

Establishment of a registry office,
School system,
Fire Department,
Cemetery affairs,
Housing assistance,
Water and light supply,
Food supply,
Fuel supply.

In the following years there was a chain of efforts from various directions. In 1922, a group requested the connection to Ludwigshafen. In turn, BASF recommended connecting to one of the four neighboring communities, if at all. The Ludwigshafen district office established that Ludwigshafen had no desire to be incorporated, but that the sugar factory played a major role for Rheingönheim. A summary of the four districts is in the general interest. In this report of April 20, 1922, however, it was also mentioned that the mother city was not averse to incorporation.

When the separatists paralyzed public life, the Speyer District Office determined on August 30, 1923 that the matter was momentarily dormant. In 1924 it was even announced that the files had been lost. In March 1925, the Speyer district office informed the government that the population was now 2,300 and that the situation was unsustainable.

Now party-political arguments came into the dispute. The participating communities calculated the party proportionality and adjusted their attitude to the issue of incorporation accordingly. It became more and more evident that no agreement was possible and that the higher-level departments felt compelled to intervene. The district office reported to the government of the Palatinate in Speyer on June 12, 1926 in a 39-page report about the conditions in the settlement at the "Mutterstadt station".

The Reichsbahn employee Jungmann was delegated to Munich by his fellow citizens because he knew the matter very well and because as a railway worker he could claim a free ticket. Later, the teacher Schwarz in Munich also vigorously campaigned for the formation of a community. Now in 1927 the Neustadt district office was asked by the Munich government to issue an arbitration award. The arbitration award of the Neustadt district office of November 30, 1927 pleaded for the formation of a new community from the four districts. The essence of the award was that an agreement on a voluntary basis was not possible. On March 30, 1928, the Bavarian Administrative Court rejected objections.

Since self-employment

Marking stone

On October 31, 1929, the State Ministry of the Interior in Munich sent the four municipalities involved a map showing the boundaries of the areas to be ceded. The date for the establishment of the town was January 1, 1930. For example, parts of the municipalities of Mutterstadt, Neuhofen, Rheingönheim and Schifferstadt (Limburgerhof, Kohlhof, Rehhütte and Friedensau) were merged to form the new Limburgerhof municipality. In order for this to be possible, the surrounding communities had to leave the following areas:

Mother city : 255 hectares
Rheingönheim : 63 hectares
Neuhofen : 238 hectares
Schifferstadt : 345 hectares

The parish of the community thus covered 901 hectares. Today (2006) there are 902.77 hectares. Of this, 385.13 hectares are built on, 434.43 hectares are used for agriculture and 83.21 hectares are forest. The meeting point is at the junction of the roads to Neuhofen, Mutterstadt and Ludwigshafen in front of the Protestant church.

Some of the municipalities involved initially refused to bear the costs of remeasuring the local borders and had to be urged to do so by the superior authorities. The naming could not be decided without controversy. There were written protests against the name “Limburgerhof”. The decisive factor for this name was BASF, which proved that its agricultural research station was already known all over the world under the name Limburgerhof.

Population development

1901: 0.0200 inhabitants

1910: 01,100 inhabitants

1920: 02,000 inhabitants

1930: 02,300 inhabitants

1939: 03,061 inhabitants

1950: 04,044 inhabitants

1960: 06,673 inhabitants

1970: 09,328 inhabitants

1979: 09,462 inhabitants

2006: 11,556 inhabitants

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Limburgerhof consists of 28 honorary council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the full-time mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	GREEN	FDP	REP	FWG	total
2019	8th	8th	4th	2	-	6th	28 seats
2014	11	9	2	1	-	5	28 seats
2009	9	9	2	2	-	6th	28 seats
2004	9	10	2	-	1	6th	28 seats

FWG = Free Voting Group Limburgerhof

mayor

Mayor since starting his own business in 1930:

Surname	Term of office	Remarks
Georg Schwarz	January 1, 1930 to January 30, 1933	elected, voluntary
Karl Netzsch	February 1, 1933 to March 1945	Nazi era
Georg Schwarz	April 1945 to December 30, 1948	used
Georg Schwarz	December 1, 1948 to February 17, 1950	elected, voluntary
Hermann Scherer	June 1950 to February 28, 1951	entrusted with the management
Hermann Scherer	March 1, 1951 to September 30, 1961	unsalaried
Hermann Scherer	October 1, 1961 to October 21, 1962	full-time
K. Georg Durchholz	January 4, 1963 to July 22, 1967	full-time
Harald Luther	February 1, 1968 to April 3, 1972	full-time
Heinrich Zier	22nd August 1972	elected, full-time
Peter Kern (SPD)	August 22, 2002 - March 6, 2010	directly elected, full-time
Peter Kern (SPD)	March 7, 2010 to August 21, 2018	directly elected, full-time
Andreas Poignée (CDU)	since August 22, 2018	directly elected, full-time

coat of arms

Coat of arms in the station underpass

	Blazon : "In a divided shield there is a black cross in silver at the top and a silver mill wheel in blue at the bottom."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The cross refers to the original affiliation to the Limburg monastery , the mill wheel refers to the oldest part of the municipality, the Rehhütte.

partnership

In the early 1970s, the Limburgerhof municipal council began to seek a partnership with a French municipality. These efforts intensified when Mayor Heinrich Zier took office, and with the support of the Rhineland-Palatinate-Burgundy Friendship Circle, contacts were made in 1973 with the French community of Chenôve in the Arrondissement of Dijon , on the southern outskirts of the city of Dijon . On May 18 and August 3, 1975, the partnership was officially decided in large events in Chenôve and Limburgerhof.

In 1977, 400 citizens from Chenôve paid a visit to Limburgerhof. In 1978, 228 German athletes met with the Chenôves clubs for a large sports festival. At the inauguration of the new town center in 1983, two names, "Burgunder Platz" and "Chenôver Straße", commemorate the partnership. To mark the 10th anniversary of the partnership in 1985, the exhibition “How does our partner live” was shown in both communities. In 1988 the first student exchange between schools took place. To mark the 20th anniversary of the partnership, the partnership documents were signed again in 1995.

Economy and Transport

Companies

In addition to the Friedensau sugar factory and the BASF agricultural research station, there were two old factories in the area of today's Limburgerhof, which existed as early as 1900: They were the Johann Brendel companies and the mealworm breeding company Claus. Both companies were known nationwide.

Friedensau sugar factory

Friedensau sugar factory around 1900

Before 1900, only the estate, the train station and the sugar factory standing alone dominated life in the current district, which was built directly on the boundary between Mutterstadt and Neuhofen and was of great importance for Limburgerhof until the 1930s. The assumption that the name was chosen after the Berlin district of Friedenau is not tenable.

In order to obtain land for sugar beet cultivation , Carl Gottlob Reihlen first leased the “Limburger Gutshof” in 1851, then bought it in 1857 and signed a demarcation agreement for beet areas with the Waghäusel sugar factory . The "Factory in Friedensau" was much larger than the Mannheim sugar company and employed up to 300 workers during the season. Until 1932, the company was run by the Frankenthal sugar factory and the Süddeutsche Zucker-Aktiengesellschaft. The raw sugar was transported to Frankenthal for refining. The criteria that made the sugar factory prosperous were:

good quality beets
low coal prices
low wages
favorable sales situation.

In the time of its existence, the sugar factory with 300 workers in the season dominated the townscape and with its sweet smell the air. Outside of the campaign, 30 people were enough to keep operations going.

J. Brendel Company

The J. Brendel company, specialty shop for fretwork - notch cutting - pyrography, supplied all the wood and tools required for fretwork. The dispatch to private customers was carried out by the post office, the dispatch to resellers by the railway. The crisis years 1928 to 1932 brought particular increases in turnover when many unemployed people tried to get a sideline by selling self-made woodwork. In addition, many schools and during World War I British and American prisoners of war in prison camps in Württemberg and Baden were supplied.

The company employed an average of 30 to 35 people, most of whom came to work from Neuhofen. When the order volume grew rapidly, the founder's daughters founded their own company, "Hofmann & Schmitt", for shipping, whereby the newly emerging process of printing saw templates on the boards had a positive effect.

After 1935, the Reich Labor Service and the Hitler Youth caused a decline in sales. After the Second World War and the currency reform , sales fell so much that the two companies were liquidated after 1951. But even 30 years later, orders were placed with the Brendel company, even at their old address “Mutterstadt 2, am Bahnhof”.

Advertisement for the Brendel company

Mealworm breeding Claus

The so-called "mealworm Claus" (Alfons Claus) not only drove away meal beetle larvae; but also soft and dry feed mixtures for all types of birds, special hamster and guinea pig feed, as well as medicinal feed for parrots.

In order to be able to produce these types of food, Alfons Claus obtained individual components from all over the world. He processed around 1.5 to 2 tons of honey from China, rowan berries from Russia, dried flies from southern France and Mexico or ant eggs from Finland per week.

Mealworm breeding went back to his grandfather Eckrich, a master glazier in Waldsee, who was a beekeeper on the side and kept native birds in his workshop, for which he put together the feed himself. Because he had to buy the mealworms at a high price, he soon started breeding himself. To do this, his daughter collected flour beetles and their larvae from the farmers' granaries, and in 1911 went into business with her husband, a former journeyman of her father's.

BASF Agricultural Center

The BASF Agricultural Center Limburgerhof was founded by Carl Bosch in 1914 and is now the headquarters of BASF for crop protection and the control center for activities in plant biotechnology. In addition, new types of fertilizers are being developed in Limburgerhof. The oldest lysimeter facility in Germany is located on the premises of the agricultural center .

The experimental work at the BASF agricultural center began in spring 1914 with four employees. Today (2007) there are around 1,400 employees.

Genetic engineering research no longer takes place in Limburgerhof. As BASF announced in January 2012, it relocated this division completely to the USA, as there is no acceptance for it in Europe.

Hotel Residenz Limburgerhof

The four-star Hotel Residenz Limburgerhof was opened in the 1990s and has 132 rooms with 175 beds. Meetings and conferences are held in its four event rooms.

Geothermal energy

The Ludwigshafen license area belonged to the now insolvent GeoEnergy GmbH and is currently owned by Deutsche ErdWärme GmbH & Co. KG.

traffic

Street

Limburgerhof was already on an important north-south connection in Roman times. When the Upper Rhine region was part of the Roman Empire, the highway from Strasbourg to Mainz ran from southeast to northwest across the present-day town. In 1853, 266 horse-drawn carts passed the road between Speyer and Oggersheim in what is now Limburgerhof every day . In 1973, 17,000 motor vehicles drove through the town.

Limburgerhof is now on the B 9 , which leads from Neulauterburg on the French border in the south via Mainz and Bonn to Kleve on the Dutch border in the north. Via this federal road, the place is also connected to the federal motorway 61 (E 31), which begins only a little north of the district .

The length of the road network in the municipality is about 44 kilometers.

rail

Limburgerhof train station, still Mutterstadt central station in 1900

Limburgerhof's development is closely linked to the construction of the Palatinate Ludwig Railway from Ludwigshafen to Saarbrücken by Paul Camille von Denis in the 1840s. A brother of Paul Camille von Denis, Jules Denis, built a villa in Rehhütte in 1880/81. The Limburgerhof station was originally the station of the municipality Mutterstadt and was far from the center of City's mother. This station provides a connection to the RheinNeckar S-Bahn .

building

town hall

Town hall on Burgunderplatz

The tower in the park

The town hall on the central Burgunder Platz was completed in 1983 according to plans by the Ludwigshafen architects Änne and Gerd Bauer. The construction costs amounted to 19 million marks. In addition to the council chamber and the 38 official offices, the building also contains a culture hall with a maximum capacity of 660 seats, which is used for theater, balls, conferences and seminars.

Castle

The little castle in the park used to be a mansion that was closely connected to the estate on the Rehhütte. It was bought by Johan Baptis Biéchy on August 12, 1807 for 14,000 francs. However, due to a dispute with the community of Schifferstadt over rights of way, he offered it for sale again a few years later. At that time it comprised 300 acres of forest and farmland, a house, stables and several other farm buildings. On October 18, 1823, Countess Friedericke Waldner von Freundstein (1793–1829) from Mannheim bought it for 30,000 guilders . Between 1825 and 1830 she and her husband Count Theodor Waldner von Freundstein (1786–1864) had a count's seat built on the site of the old manor house with a park, wild animal, game cellar, orangery and a tower. It is the only aristocratic palace of its kind in the Rhine-Palatinate district. In 1843 her son Adalbert Waldner de Freundstein took over the estate and quickly indebted it to such an extent that it had to be forcibly auctioned off in 1858. The new owner was Konrad Reihlen, who introduced the cultivation of sugar beet in the area and founded the "Friedensau" sugar factory in 1849. He bequeathed the estate to his son-in-law.

In 1898 the estate passed into the possession of Konrad Heppes, who sold it to BASF in 1899 for 100,000 marks . With the construction of company apartments , the number of residents whose children needed a school grew. The castle was converted into a school in 1902. At the same time, the largest room on the ground floor served both denominations as a prayer room. In 1955, BASF relocated part of its apprenticeship training to the castle. After the small castle no longer met the requirements of modern technical training, BASF relocated the training to the plant in Ludwigshafen. After that, the castle stood empty for a long time until BASF offered it to the Limburgerhof community for sale. In 1999 the local council decided to buy it. In view of the tight financial situation of the community, the renovation could not be commissioned immediately. Therefore, on December 1, 1999, the community foundation Schlösschen was founded for the purpose of raising donations and sponsors. As part of the community foundation, the Förderverein Schlösschen im Park is working on the renovation, operation and rental of premises for weddings, events and family celebrations. The roof, the Vetter-Kabinett in the attic and the "Gute Stube" in the upper floor have already been renovated; Work is currently underway on the ground floor, the kitchen on the ground floor and the basement. An elevator for the disabled was also installed.

Albert Schweitzer House

The Albert-Schweitzer-Haus is the community center of the Protestant parish Limburgerhof and is located in the western district. The Protestant Community Building Association Limburgerhof e. V. founded. After more than 20 years of discussion, planning and fundraising, it was planned by Peter Sulzer from Gleisweiler and carried out by an architecture firm in Ludwigshafen. The first groundbreaking took place on December 2nd, 2000, the inauguration on June 15th, 2002. Albert Schweitzer's daughter , Rhena Schweitzer, agreed to the naming in a personal letter.

BASF settlements

Old colony

Old colony

The old colony is a BASF workers' housing estate . It consists of one and a half storey, exposed brick buildings with pitched roofs. A small house garden belongs to every property. The houses have not been rented out for a number of years, but sold.

New colony

The New Colony is also a BASF workers' settlement . The focal point of these settlements is BASF's after-work house, which is intended to document the employer's care in the socio-cultural area.

Education, culture and social issues

Kindergartens

Catholic kindergarten
Daycare center Altes Rathaus
Child's house

Surname	carrier	Remarks
Children's garden in the Dietrich Bonhoeffer House	Protestant parish	The theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a representative of the Confessing Church and resistance fighter against National Socialism. large outdoor area
Katharina von Bora day care center	Protestant parish	Katharina von Bora was the wife of the reformer Martin Luther .
Daycare center Altes Rathaus	Limburgerhof community	Day care in open groups
Child's house	Limburgerhof community	Day care facility with mixed-age family groups
Montessori children's home St. Boniface	catholic parish of St. Boniface	Maria Montessori was an Italian doctor and reform pedagogue.
Villa motley	Limburgerhof community	The "Villa Kunterbunt" is the house of the Pippi Longstocking social educational and family support day care facility

schools

Carl Bosch School
Cathedral wood school
School center

Surname	carrier	Remarks
Carl-Bosch primary school	Limburgerhof community	The chemist Carl Bosch and Fritz Haber developed the Haber-Bosch process for ammonia production, patented in 1910 .
Domholz Primary School	Limburgerhof community	The Domholz forest belonged to the Speyer diocese.
Rudolf Wihr School Center	Rhine-Palatinate District	The Rudolf Wihr school center consists of a cooperative RealschulePlus.

Libraries

In addition to the community library, there is also the Catholic public library (KöB).

entertainment

Capitol plays of light

A cinema has survived in Limburgerhof that survived the great deaths of the 1970s. The "Capitol-Lichtspiele" organize the series "Frauenkino", a selection of films especially aimed at women, together with the community's equal opportunities officers.

theatre
Surname	Brief description
stage-Limburgerhof	Theater in the Limburgerhof inn
Little comedy	takes place in the cultural hall of the town center, 60 percent of the audience come from a radius of up to 100 kilometers

DARC-K42

Local group of the German Amateur Radio Club .

Historical Association of the Palatinate V.

Lecture series on historical and current topics

Choral society -MGV- 1903 Limburgerhof e. V.

three choirs: mixed choir, male choir and children's choir

1. Limburgerhof Carnival Association V.

Sports

Forest stadium
Carl-Bosch gym
School center
Golfpark Kurpfalz

sports clubs

society	Focus
Black Scorpions Kickboxing - Limburgerhof	Kickboxing
Budoteam Limburgerhof	Korean martial arts Taekwondo
Badminton club "Phönix" Limburgerhof	badminton
DLRG OG Limburgerhof	Swimming , water rescue
DJK SG "Palatia" Limburgerhof	Table tennis, fistball, women's gymnastics, athletics, shooting sports, basketball, rehabilitation gymnastics
Aquabella leisure pool	shared indoor and outdoor swimming pool with the municipality of Mutterstadt
Golfpark Kurpfalz	Golf , 27-hole course
1. Limburgerhof Carnival Association
LG MuLi	Running community Mutterstadt-Limburgerhof; marathon
Riding on the Kohlhof	Vaulting and therapeutic riding
Chess friends Limburgerhof	Chess in the 2nd Palatinate League / East and district class
Limburgerhof ski club	Ski & snowboard
Sports community in 1919 Limburgerhof	Soccer
Tatsu-Ryu-Bushido	japanese martial arts
Dance sport club "Grün Gold Casino" Limburgerhof	Standard and Latin American dances
Limburgerhof eV tennis club	Tennis & popular sports
Turngemeinde 1904 Limburgerhof (TG04)	Athletics, artistic gymnastics, shooting sports, judo, kickboxing, taekwondo, carnival, popular sports

Indiaca

In 1968 the first German Indiaca Championship took place in Limburgerhof.

Social

youth Center
youth Center

Surname	Focus
youth Center	Football, guitar, internet café, girls' club and pottery
SJD - The Falken Youth Center	socialist youth organization
Young Church of St. Bonifatius Limburgerhof	Youth work in the Catholic parish
Protestant family association	Child and youth care
VdK Limburgerhof	VdK

Ecumenical social station

The church nursing associations have been united in an ecumenical welfare station since 1978. Affiliated are the communities of Mutterstadt, Neuhofen, Altrip, Waldsee and Otterstadt.

The ecumenical social station Limburgerhof e. V. is responsible for the domestic supply of around 48,000 residents in the southern Rhine-Palatinate district. The constant growth of the facility is expressed in the continuous expansion and extension of its operational building. The facility is supported by the Catholic and Protestant parishes and sick and Elizabethan associations. Membership in these associations grants a discount of 25 percent for care that goes beyond what is authorized by the health insurers.

religion

On October 31, 2014, 31.309 percent of the population were Protestant and 30.73 percent were Catholic. The following denominations are represented in Limburgerhof with their own communities:

Protestant parish
Catholic parish
Mennonite Congregation Kohlhof
New Apostolic Church
Christian community ARCHE
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Protestant Church
Catholic Church
New Apostolic Church
Mennonite Church

Protestant parish

Drum dome

inner space

In 1846, the consistory of the Protestant regional church of the Palatinate decreed that the Protestant Christians on the Limburgerhof belong to the parish of Mutterstadt. With this decree, the Protestants at the Limburgerhof were recognized as a cohesive community and were no longer members of four different Protestant parishes. This also laid the foundation for a future church community. This independent parish was only set up on December 1, 1926 by the consistory.

The impetus to form its own parish came from BASF, whose management sent the following letter to the consistory in Speyer on December 21, 1901:

“We have the honor to announce that in autumn of this year we settled our new colony on the Limburgerhof with 62 families (31 Protestant, 31 Catholic). Together they represent a head number of 332 people, including 152 Protestants and 180 Catholics. Guided by the endeavor to ensure the protection of the church interests of our workers as far as possible, we allow ourselves to politely inquire whether the royal consistory sees itself in a position to make arrangements for baptisms to be carried out at the Limburgerhof. "

- Directorate of BASF 1901

The consistory complied with this request. In 1903, BASF made a hall in the “old school house” (Schlösschen im Park) available as a church service room and had a cemetery built for all denominations at the edge of the forest. In 1911, the church in the park was built by BASF as a simultaneous church and used by Protestants and Catholics. After the Catholics inaugurated their own church on March 7, 1937, the church in the park was continued to be used by the Protestants alone, but - due to the rapid growth of the place - it was soon no longer sufficient. It took a long time - due to the war - before a separate church could be built. After all, the church was built during the tenure of Pastor Jakob Jung according to the plans of the Speyer architect Egon Freyer. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on November 28, 1955, and the inauguration took place on January 6, 1957.

This church building is characteristic of the 1950s, but historical motifs are also reinterpreted - e.g. B. the direct lighting of the altar with a drum dome like in the baroque era . The free-standing tower is 31 meters high and received four bells in 1958. The motif of the church “nave” is expressed through the inclusion of “ portholes ” in the side walls of the church. The level (0.5 meters), which slopes slightly towards the choir, expresses the concentration on the altar and the Annunciation. In 1992 the church was listed as a historical monument.

In 2012 the bell tower had to be refurbished, especially the sound hatches. As the concrete cover was too thin, concrete parts peeled off. A new solution for the sound hatches was found in consultation with the State Monument Preservation. The concrete blocks were replaced by glass slats. This solution enables the tower to be illuminated from the inside. This lighting was designed by the Berlin light artist Ingo Bracke. By also illuminating the drum from the inside, the free-standing tower is connected to the building in a special way at night. The color of the lighting (Friday to Sunday) is based on the liturgical colors of the church year.

Catholic parish

Portal of the Catholic Church of St. Boniface

In 1845, the Speyer bishop Nikolaus von Weis consecrated a chapel in Limburgerhof for the family of Adalbert, Baron Waldner von Freundstein, in the park's observation tower. The Catholic residents of Limburgerhof were originally looked after by the Schifferstadt parish.

As early as 1909, the Episcopal Ordinariate in Speyer tried to build a prayer house with the BASF plant management. In the same year the plant management announced their intention to build a house of prayer for common use for their Protestant and Catholic workers, which was inaugurated on October 8, 1911. The little turret was so narrow in diameter that even the little bell could not be rung. BASF took care of the interior: altars , benches, organ and bell. She also paid for the organist and sacristan's salaries.

An independent Catholic parish was only established in 1922. The Catholic Church was built in 1935.

Pastor Johannes Fink brought the plans to build a Catholic parish church to a conclusion. In October 1935 the groundbreaking ceremony was carried out, so that on March 7, 1937 the church could be consecrated by Bishop Ludwig Sebastian .

Mennonite Congregation

Meetinghouse of the Mennonite Congregation, built in 1985

Memorial plaque on the Mennonite community house

The first public manifestation of religious life was Mennonite Day in August 1826 at the Kohlhof. Around 1790, after long negotiations, permission was given to build a house of prayer for the then 70 Mennonites. In 1887 the current church was built. In 1985 this was supplemented by a community hall.

In Limburgerhof, in the district of Kohlhof, there is the only Mennonite church in the Rhine-Palatinate district. Shortly before the end of the Second World War, she was hit by shrapnel. After the 1743 ban on continuing to bury Mennonites in Lutheran or Reformed cemeteries, the Mennonite community set up its own cemetery.

Sons and daughters of the church

Johann Wernz (1819–1895), Supreme Court Judge and Senate President at the Reich Court
Wolfgang Steuer (1915–1999), forester and politician (SPD), member of the Bavarian state parliament
Heinz Bille , holder of the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate

Picture gallery

town hall
Speyerer Strasse, the main shopping street
So-called "Steiger" at the entrance to the village
Kohlhof

literature

Rudolf Wihr: The Rehhütte Chronicle. Contribution to the history of the Ludwigshafen am Rhein district . Ludwigshafen a. Rh.-Gartenstadt 1937. (Reprint 1978, 2007.)
Rolf Schöningh (Red.): “That'll remember me”. Contributions to the history of Limburgerhof . Reprint. Historischer Verein der Pfalz eV / local group Limburgerhof, Limburgerhof 1997. (In the appendix: Supplements 1997 ) ISBN 3-99800340-0-3 .
Heinrich Zier (Ed.): Limburgerhof from 1972 to 2002. The development of a young community. Weiß and Hameier, Ludwigshafen 2002.
Hansjörg Bipp: Limburgerhof. Sutton, Erfurt 2005. (illustrated book) ISBN 3-89702-829-8 .

Web links

Commons : Limburgerhof - Collection of Images

Wikivoyage: Limburgerhof - travel guide

Limburgerhof community
Link catalog on Limburgerhof at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Literature about Limburgerhof in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

↑ Bernhard Kukatzki: " May the Lord be kind to us and live among us with his blessing." The Mennonite Congregation Kohlhof. In: Schifferstadt. History and stories. Stadt, Schifferstadt 1998, pp. 689–700.

↑ ^a ^b Schöningh: "That remembers me"

^ Reihlen, Carl Gottlob, factory owner, Friedens-Au (near Mutterstadt, today Limburgerhof), * January 18, 1799; † October 2, 1862

^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 . Page 515

^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections

↑ The Regional Returning Officer: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections

^ History of the Chenôve - Limburgerhof partnership ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

↑ BASF relocates green genetic engineering to the USA. In: zeit.de

↑ Small inquiry on geothermal energy in RLP Landtag RLP

↑ Presentation on December 1, 2016 ( memento from October 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Deutsche ErdWärme GmbH & Co. KG

↑ Werner Schreiner : Paul Camille von Denis - European transport pioneer and builder of the Palatinate railways . Ludwigshafen 2010. ISBN 978-3-934845-49-7 , p. 110.

↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: Bürgerstiftung Schlösschen )

^ Förderverein Schlösschen im Park ( Memento from January 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

↑ Rental of rooms for weddings, events and family celebrations ( Memento from December 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

^ Local association Limburgerhof (K42). Retrieved April 8, 2018 .

↑ kickboxen-limburgerhof.de

↑ Schachverein Chronik ( Memento from October 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

↑ Documentation: p. 71

↑ Municipal statistics . In: KommWis. October 31, 2014, accessed November 30, 2014 .

↑ Lighting of the tower

↑ Ernst-Christian Driedger: impressions of the war urge to peace , in: The Bridge. Anabaptist-Mennonite community magazine No. 2/2013, p. 48.

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