May Chamber

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 18 '  N , 8 ° 8'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southern Wine Route
Association municipality :	May Chamber
Height :	151 m above sea level NHN
Area :	13.68 km 2
Residents:	4323 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	316 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67487
Area code :	06321
License plate :	SOUTH
Community key :	07 3 37 052
Association administration address:	Immengartenstrasse 24 67487 Maikammer
Website :	www.maikammer.de
Local Mayor :	Karl Schäfer ( CDU )
Location of the local community of Maikammer in the southern Weinstrasse district

May Chamber with Hambach Castle 2013

Maikammer general view from the summer mountain

Maikammer is a local community and a wine and recreation place in southwest Germany in the Palatinate south of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . It is located in the district of Südliche Weinstrasse , within which it is the sixth largest local community in terms of population and is the seat of the association of the same name .

geography

Geographical location

Maikammer lies in a vine- dominated landscape of the Weinstrasse at an altitude of 120 m to 300 m above sea ​​level . The west of the district protrudes into the Haardt , as the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest is called. There are several mountain passes such as the Hüttenhohl and the Hahnenschritt . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Diedesfeld, Kirrweiler (Palatinate) , Edenkoben , Sankt Martin (Palatinate) .

Elevations and waters

The community lies at the foot of the Kalmit , the highest elevation in the Palatinate Forest (673 m). Other elevations on the parish of the municipality next to the Kalmit are its foothills Kanzel (531.7 meters) and Hüttenberg (620.1 m), the north flank of the Schafkopf (617 m), the Rotsohlberg (607 m), the north flank of the Stotz (603 m) m), the northeast flank of the Breitenberg (545 m), the south flank of the Totenkopf (513 m), the Flachkopf (498 m) and the Wetterkreuzberg (401 m).

The Kropsbach flows in a west-east direction and grazes the southern edge of the settlement. In the far west of the Argenbach runs for around one kilometer through the municipality.

climate

Due to the mild climate, exotic fruits such as kiwis , lemons , almonds and chestnuts grow here alongside the wine .

history

Until the end of the 18th century the community belonged to the Speyer Monastery ; there she was subordinate to the Oberamt Kirrweiler .

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Maykammer with Alsterweiler - as the name was at the time - was incorporated into the canton of Edenkoben in the department of the Lower Rhine and had its own Mairie . In 1815 the community had a total of 1,780 inhabitants. In the same year, Austria was struck. Just one year later, the place, like the entire Palatinate, changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 "Maikammer und Alsterweiler" belonged to the Landau Landau commissioner ; from this the district office of Landau emerged.

After Maikammer and Alsterweiler had grown together, the community bore the double name Maikammer-Alsterweiler until May 31, 1938. From 1939 the place was part of the district of the Palatinate . After the Second World War , Maikammer became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform changed the place on 7 June 1969 in the newly created district Landau-Bad Bergzabern, in 1978 in South County Wine Trail is renamed . In 1972 Maikammer became the seat of the also newly formed association of the same name .

The latter was amalgamated with the community of Edenkoben on 1 July 2014 due to a state law . According to the ruling of the Constitutional Court of Rhineland-Palatinate on June 8, 2015 with the file number VGH N 18/14 , the forced merger is void and Maikammer is now an independent community again.

religion

The Catholic St. Kosmas and Damian Church

Interior of the church

In addition to the Catholic St. Kosmas and Damian Church, there is also the Alsterweiler Chapel with the “Maikammerer Altar” and a late Gothic triptych . The altarpiece is one of the few surviving examples of Gothic panel painting in the Palatinate . Probably completed around 1445, it is a valuable testimony to painting from the Upper Rhine. The Jews living in Maikammer were buried in Kirrweiler . On October 31, 2014, 53.6 percent of the population were Catholic and 23.8 percent Protestant. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Maikammer consists of 20 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	BL	Flat share	total
2019	5	12	-	-	3	20 seats
2014	3	12	3	2	-	20 seats
2009	3	12	3	2	-	20 seats
2004	3	11	3	3	-	20 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group Association of Maikammer e. V.
• BL = Bürgerliste e. V.

mayor

Karl Schäfer (CDU) became the local mayor of Maikammer on July 1, 1994. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for another five years with a share of 74.76% of the votes.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In black, a gold mark in the form of a rising arrow, the shaft of which ends in a cross."
	Justification for the coat of arms: It was approved by the Bavarian governor in 1937 and goes back to a seal from 1743.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Monument zone town center Maikammer

Cultural monuments

The Maikammer town center from the 16th century, the three centuries younger town expansion and the town center of Alsterweiler are designated as monument zones. There are also numerous individual objects that are under monument protection .

Other structures

Since 1984 there has been a stone bottle memorial on the market square , which is designed to place a traditional stick glass (bottle glass) inside. In addition, the Ullrich brothers, the inventors of the joint lock for folding meter sticks, have been given a monument in the form of an oversized folding rule above Maikammer. There is also a transmitter on the Kalmit .

nature

The Felsenmeer natural monument on the Hüttenberg is partly within the boundaries of the local community .

Sports

Maikammer has a heated outdoor pool with a wave slide and a climbing wall by the pool, an open-air hall with four tennis courts including an artificial turf with quartz sand and four squash courts. In addition, there is the recently built Kalmithalle and the artificial turf on which the TuS Maikammer plays its football matches. In the far south of the community district that lies Wine Road Stadium of SpVgg Edenkoben . There is also a Stoppomat for cyclists on the Kalmit .

Regular events

Locally find Mayday with Weintreff , the fountain Kerwe that wine Kerwe , the garden center , the Mineralientage Maikammer , the autumn market and car market place. On August 27, 2000, Maikammer opened the German Wine Road Adventure Day , which took place under the motto "Sunny Palatinate".

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Maikammer is a wine-growing town and as such part of the Palatinate wine-growing region . The large Mandelhöhe site and the individual sites Heiligenberg , Immengarten , Kapellenberg and Kirchenstück are located within the city limits . The Gutedel grape variety was grown in the municipality until the 19th century . The August Ziegler winery is located on site. There is also a branch of the Palatinate Clinic for Psychiatry and Neurology in Maikammer .

traffic

Since 1855 Maikammer has had a connection to the Neustadt – Wissembourg railway line , the former Palatinate Maximiliansbahn, with the Maikammer-Kirrweiler station located about one kilometer east of the town center . From 1912 to 1955 Maikammer was connected directly to the main train stations in Neustadt and Landau by the Palatinate Oberlandbahn , an electric overland tram. Except for wartime, the railway was mainly used for passenger transport. In addition, the place is connected to the local transport network via the bus lines 500 and 501 operated by PalatinaBus in the Rhein-Neckar transport association.

The Edenkoben motorway junction to the A 65 is located in the immediate vicinity of the municipality, with direct access and exits towards Karlsruhe or Ludwigshafen and Mannheim. The German Wine Route runs through the settlement area . The Kalmithöhenstrasse and the Totenkopfstrasse lead through the middle of the Palatinate Forest.

education

Maikammer is the location of a primary school with the Johannes Leonhardt School ; In addition, there is the Realschule Plus Maikammer-Hambach on site . From 1854, some members of the poor school sisters of St. Dominikus at the elementary school at the time.

tourism

Maikammer is the eastern end point of a hiking trail that is marked with a white-green bar . This connects him with, among others, Enkenbach-Alsenborn . In addition, with the Kalmithaus and the Totenkopfhütte, there are two huts of the Palatinate Forest Association on the municipality mark . In addition, the German Wine Route cycle route runs through the community.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Franz Allmaras , privy councilor
• Dieter Ziegler (1937–2019), winemaker and politician (CDU), member of the state parliament and minister in Rhineland-Palatinate, mayor of the Maikammer community

Sons and daughters of the church

• Heinrich Koch (* 1781; † 1861 in Bernstein , Burgenland ), important classical architect, mainly active in Vienna ( Palais Clam-Gallas ), Bohemia (Prague, Villa Kinský) and Hungary (castle in Fehérvárcsurgó )
• Jakob von Hartmann (1795–1873), officer, most recently General of the Infantry of the Bavarian Army
• Jakob Hildenbrand (1860–1933), politician (BVP)
• Gustav Ullrich (1860–1938), entrepreneur
• Johannes Wolf (1885–1961), winemaker and politician (BVP, CDU), member of the state parliament in Rhineland-Palatinate, mayor of the Maikammer community
• Holmes Zimmermann (1900–1957), actor
• Helmut Ziegler (1913–1971), politician (SPD)
• Karl Lackner (1917–2011), lawyer and professor of criminal law
• Dieter Ziegler (1937–2019), winemaker and politician (CDU), member of the state parliament and minister in Rhineland-Palatinate, mayor of the Maikammer community

People who worked on site

• Gregor Ata (1815–1899), Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church of Homs in Syria, visited the community
• Christoph Fuhrbach (* 1970), endurance athlete, set an unofficial German best with his bike in Maikammer in August 2009
• Ingobert Heieck (1936–1993), a German Roman Catholic friar, grew up there
• Christine Schneider (* 1972), politician (CDU), trained as a carpenter at the local Blumeyer joinery
• Anton Spiehler (1795–1867), Catholic priest, bishop's secretary, clergyman and cathedral chapter of the Diocese of Speyer, was a priest in Maikammer for a short time in 1827
• Gretel Stachel, Palatinate Wine Queen 1969/70
• The brothers Franz and Anton Ullrich invented an innovation in folding rules with a spring lock (Imperial Patent Office, patent specification No. 41417 patented on September 10, 1886, published on December 2, 1887). Folding rules with snap-in joints already existed before, however, this invention brought to simplify the handling with it. A monument to the Ullrich brothers was erected as inventors at the southern entrance to the village.

literature

• Johannes Leonhardt (among others): Chronicle Maikammer – Alsterweiler , Ortsgemeinde, Maikammer 1986 (contains among other things Leonhardt: History of Maikammer – Alsterweiler [originally published in 1928])
• Günter Schäfer, Martina Stöckl: Maikammer-Alsterweiler family register 1587–1918 / 1937 . May Chamber 2015.

Web links

Commons : Maikammer  - collection of images

 Wikinews: Maikammer  - in the news

• Official website of Maikammer
• Maikammer parish: Culture. Landscape. Digital ; with the Alsterweiler district
• Website for the Alsterweiler district
• Literature about Maikammer in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 506 .
3. ↑ Statistics of the German Reich, Volume 450: Official municipality directory for the German Reich, Part I, Berlin 1939, p. 269.
4. ↑ Judgment of the Constitutional Court of Rhineland-Palatinate from June 8, 2015 ( memento of the original from June 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 12, 2015 
5. ↑ Municipal statistics . In: KommWis. October 31, 2014, accessed November 30, 2014 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
7. ↑ Nachrichtenblatt Maikammer: Mayor Karl Schäfer awarded the “Golden Plaque of Honor” from the Maikammer community. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH (official announcements of the Verbandsgemeinde and the local communities, edition 30/2019), accessed on April 11, 2020 . 
8. ^ The State Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Maikammer, Verbandsgemeinde, second line of results. Retrieved April 11, 2020 . 
9. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
10. ↑ Author:  Koch, Heinrich . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).
11. ^ Website on Heinrich Koch