Moerzheim

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Moerzheim
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Mörzheim
Coordinates: 49 ° 10 ′ 9 ″  N , 8 ° 4 ′ 33 ″  E
Height : 197 m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.52 km²
Residents : 1140  (December 31, 2011)
Population density : 175 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 22, 1972
Postal code : 76829
Area code : 06341
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Location of Mörzheim in Landau in the Palatinate
The village of Mörzheim
The village of Mörzheim

Mörzheim is a district of Landau in the Palatinate . The place has around 1100 inhabitants. Until 1972 it was an independent municipality.

geography

location

Mörzheim is the southernmost district of Landau in the Palatinate. The area is characterized by extensive vineyards . The Schleidgraben rises on the northeast edge of the settlement and its right tributary Brühlgraben on the east .

climate

The wine-growing region is one of the climatically particularly favored regions of Central Europe . The average duration of sunshine is 1,800 hours, 200 of which are in the particularly vegetation-intensive summer months. The annual mean temperature is between nine and ten degrees Celsius. Even in the winter months the mean temperatures rarely drop below zero degrees.

history

Archaeological finds indicate human settlement in today's local area as early as the Neolithic . It is believed that the place got its name when a Frankish clan leader named Morin settled here after the Battle of Zülpich in 496 . The place was named after him Morinheim. Mörzheim is mentioned for the first time in 724 in the property register Traditiones Possessionesque Wizenburgenses as Mornßhaim . From the 7th century it was a fiefdom of the Weißenburg monastery , from 1205 it belonged to the Speyergau , which was headed as Vogt Count Friedrich I. von Leiningen.

From 1507 onwards, the village and its income are divided between the Electoral Palatinate and the Bishop of Speyer . This was the case until 1709, when Mörzheim was completely transferred to the Electoral Palatinate. There the village was subordinate to the Oberamt Germersheim and the Unteramt Landeck . In March 1793 , the place, together with 32 other municipalities, submitted an application to the French National Assembly to be admitted to the French Republic, which was accepted. Initially, the community belonged to the Canton of Billigheim .

From 1802 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , the place was incorporated into the canton of Bergzabern . In 1815 the place Austria was added. Just one year later, the place changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . A year later he moved to the canton of Landau . From 1818 to 1862 the community belonged to the Landau Landau commissioner ; from this the district office of Landau emerged. It was not until 1828 that the village was given its current name "Mörzheim".

During the First World War the village suffered 45 victims. In 1939 the place was incorporated into the Landau district. There were 85 victims to mourn during the Second World War . After the war, Mörzheim became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate, the place changed to the newly created Landau-Bad Bergzabern district on June 7, 1969 . On April 22, 1972 Mörzheim was incorporated into Landau.

politics

Local advisory board

A local district was formed for the Mörzheim district . The local council consists of eleven members, the chair of the local council is chaired by the directly elected mayor .

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 total
2019 4th 4th 3 11 seats
2014 5 3 3 11 seats
2009 4th 3 4th 11 seats
  • FWG = Free Voting Group Landau e. V.

Mayor

Dorothea Müller (CDU) is the head of the village. She was elected in the direct election on May 26, 2019 with a share of the vote of 82.59%.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Mörzheim
 Blazon : "In red, the silver capital letters D and M placed one above the other, accompanied by a six-pointed golden star on each side and below."

Town twinning

Mörzheim has a city partnership with the US Frederick in Maryland . Frederick was founded in 1745 by Johann Thomas Schley, an emigrant from Mörzheim.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Listed town hall

Mörzheim is a village with a traditional center. Many old restored half-timbered houses have been preserved and the many long-established winegrowers shape the townscape. Coming from the direction of Impflingen , immediately after the Aussiedlerhöfe on the left you can see a defense system from the Second World War , which was part of the Siegfried Line fortifications and served as an anti-tank line .

The house of Johann Thomas Schley, emigrant and founder of the American city of Frederick , Maryland , in which there is a restaurant, can also be seen in Mörzheim.

nature

In the middle of the settlement area is the natural monument natural springs and Hordtweiher . In spring, the rare wild tulip Tulpa silvestris blooms in the vineyards around Mörzheim . This tulip is considered to be the archetype of all tulips and grows wild in the vineyards.

Events

The Laetare parade takes place annually on a Sunday around the beginning of spring , as well as the wine festival in the third week in July.

Economy and Infrastructure

1923 Mörzheimer clay pit

Mörzheim is a winegrowing village and as such part of the Palatinate wine-growing region . At times there was a wine brand called Mörzheimer Lehmgrube .

State road 510 runs through Mörzheim . The place is connected to the local transport network via the bus routes 540 and 538 .

There is a kindergarten and a former school on site.

Sons and daughters of the place

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 169 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
  2. ^ City of Landau: main statute. (PDF) § 9 to November 10, 2017, accessed on October 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ City administration Landau in der Pfalz: Local council election 2019 Mörzheim. Retrieved October 24, 2019 .
  4. ↑ City administration Landau in der Pfalz: Local council election 2014 Mörzheim. Retrieved October 24, 2019 .
  5. ↑ City administration Landau in der Pfalz: Result of the election as mayor 2019 Mörzheim. Retrieved October 24, 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Mörzheim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files