Lustadt

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Lustadt
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Coordinates: 49 ° 15 '  N , 8 ° 16'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Germersheim
Association municipality : Lingenfeld
Height : 113 m above sea level NHN
Area : 23.51 km 2
Residents: 3406 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 145 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 67363
Area code : 06347
License plate : GER
Community key : 07 3 34 018
LOCODE : DE LUJ
Community structure: 2 districts
Association administration address: Hauptstrasse 60
67360 Lingenfeld
Website : www.lustadt.de
Local Mayor : Volker Hardardt
Location of the local community Lustadt in the district of Germersheim
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Lustadt is a municipality in the district of Germersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate . In the Palatinate dialect used in the region, it is called Loscht . It belongs to the Lingenfeld community .

geography

location

Lustadt is located in the southeast of Rhineland-Palatinate between the Rhine and the Palatinate Forest in the Southern Palatinate region . The cities of Ludwigshafen and Karlsruhe are 36 km and 50 km away, respectively, and Speyer and Landau are 17 km away. The district town of Germersheim is located approx. 5 km south-east.

Community structure

The community consists of the two districts

  • Niederlustadt with the residential areas Auf der Heide, Im Röderfeld and Am Klärwerk
  • Oberlustadt with the residential areas An der Hohen Strasse, Auf der Büsche, bei der Ziegelei, Fuchsgarten, In den Niedergärten, Lachenmühle, Ludwigsmühle and Ober dem Dorf

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities of Lustadt are Bellheim , Freisbach , Germersheim , Weingarten (Palatinate) , Westheim (Palatinate) , Zeiskam (all districts of Germersheim) and Freimersheim (Pfalz) ( district of southern Weinstrasse ).

Waters

The Hofgraben flows through the municipal area from west to east , a left arm of the Queich estuary . In Lingenfeld it flows from the left into the Lingenfeld Altrhein , a western meander of the Rhine .

history

Lustadt is one of the oldest settlements in the district of Germersheim . The place was first mentioned in a document in 773 in the Lorsch Codex on the occasion of the donation of two acres of land in pago spirensi (in Speyergau) in Lustater marca (in the Lustadt district) to the Lorsch monastery .

The Heimbach Commandery stood between Zeiskam and Lustadt , a large medieval cloister of the Johanniter , later the Order of Malta, with a dominant influence on the region. The complex including the church was destroyed in the Peasants' War in 1525 . The Catholic parish church of St. Laurentius in Niederlustadt, a remarkable late Gothic building from 1510, dates from the same century .

In the course of the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform , the two communities Niederlustadt and Oberlustadt were merged to form the new community Lustadt with effect from June 7, 1969 .

Population development

If not listed separately, the source of the data is the State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate. The numbers refer to today's municipality, so Nieder- (N) and Oberlustadt (O) combined.

Population development of Lustadt from 1802 to 2017 according to the table below
year Residents (N / O)
1802 1,384 (562/822)
1815 1,729
1835 2,082
1849 2,425 (932 / 1,493)
1861 2,330 (862 / 1,468)
1871 2,305 (905 / 1,400)
1905 2,063
1939 2,286
year Residents
1950 2,572
1965 2,937
1970 2,967
1975 2,893
1980 2,785
1985 2,793
1990 3,021
1995 3.137
year Residents
2000 3,272
2005 3,376
2010 3,186
2013 3,280
2015 3,298
2017 3,323

religion

In 2012, 47.7% of the population were Protestant and 24.0% Catholic. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational. In 1871, of the 905 inhabitants of Niederlustadt, 81% were Protestant, 16% Catholic and 3% Jewish (29 people). Of the 1,400 inhabitants of Oberlustadt, 79% were Protestant, 12% Catholic and 9% Jewish (132 people).

politics

town hall

Municipal council

The municipal council in Lustadt consists of 20 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 SPD CDU FWG FWL WVL total
2019 5 5 6th 4th - 20 seats
2014 7th 4th 4th 3 2 20 seats
2009 7th 5 2 4th 2 20 seats
2004 6th 5 2 4th 3 20 seats
  • FWG = Free Voting Group of the local community Lustadt e. V.
  • FWL = Free electoral list of the local community Lustadt e. V.
  • WVL = Voters Association Lustadt e. V.

mayor

Volker Hardardt (independent) became mayor of Lustadt in 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with a share of the vote of 52.55%. His predecessor Ulrich Lothringen (CDU) had held the office for 25 years.

coat of arms

Lustadt coat of arms
 Blazon : "In red a silver ring divided by a silver bar and split at the top by a silver pole, in the lower half a floating eight-pointed silver cross."

It was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1973 and arose from the union of the symbols of the historical coats of arms of Nieder- and Oberlustadt.

Culture and sights

Buildings

  • Evangelical Christ Church in Niederlustadt

  • Catholic Church of St. Laurentius in Niederlustadt

Regular events

Every year around May 1st, the Loschter Handkeesfescht takes place on the Handkeesplatz in the Maiblumenwald between Lustadt and the neighboring municipality of Zeiskam , whose name would be Lustadter Handkäsefest in High German . The number of visitors to the largest local festival, which came about as early as 1925 on the initiative of Georg Lehr and Georg Ott and has been celebrated regularly since then, is around 40,000.

traffic

Lustadt is located immediately south of the two-lane federal highway 272 ( Landau - Schwegenheim ), which acts as a bypass, and four kilometers west of the four-lane federal highway 9 (Ludwigshafen-Karlsruhe), which is reached via the Schwegenheim junction.

The Lustadt station existed until the Germersheim – Landau railway line was closed in December 1991 . Since May 2006, a trolley service has been running on a large part of the old route as a tourist attraction . Lustadt is also on this section (Bornheim – Westheim). Daily public transport is offered here on bus route 590 .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Ulrich Lothringen, politician (CDU), local mayor from 1989 to 2014, was honored on January 11, 2015 for his services to the community.

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Augustin Violet (1799-1859), first teacher for the deaf and dumb in the Palatinate
  • Martin Hemmer (1863–1947), Catholic priest and prelate
  • Leo Mohr (1874–1918), physician
  • Jakob Nagel (1899–1973), State Secretary of the German Reichspost 1937–1945
  • Werner Doppler (* 1941), agricultural economist and economist at the University of Hohenheim

People who work or have worked on site

Web links

Commons : Lustadt  - Collection of Images
Wikisource: Lustadt  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 147 f . (PDF; 3 MB).
  3. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [trans.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 4), Certificate 2098, May 14, 773 - Reg. 876. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 42 , accessed on May 15, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 170 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
  5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Lustadt
  6. ↑ a b c List of officials and statistics of the Royal Bavarian Government District of the Palatinate, 1863, pp. XXVIII f. of the appendix
  7. ↑ a b Results of the census in the Kingdom of Bavaria from December 1, 1871 according to individual communities, 1873, p. 65
  8. ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2012
  9. ↑ Elections to the Lustadt local council 1974–2014. Verbandsgemeinde Lingenfeld, accessed on April 23, 2020 .
  10. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  11. ^ Timo Nagel: Lustadt: deputy against boss. Die Rheinpfalz, May 22, 2019, accessed on April 23, 2020 .
  12. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Lingenfeld, Verbandsgemeinde, fourth line of results. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .
  13. ↑ a b A blues for the new honorary citizen. January 13, 2015, accessed April 23, 2020 .
  14. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Gräber, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
  15. ^ Leisure magazine LEO: Folksy spicy delights. Ludwigshafen, April 30, 2009.