Mertesheim

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 34 '  N , 8 ° 8'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Dürkheim
Association municipality :	Leiningerland
Height :	201 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.2 km 2
Residents:	402 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	183 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67271
Area code :	06359
License plate :	DÜW
Community key :	07 3 32 036
Association administration address:	Industriestrasse 11 67269 Grünstadt
Website :	www.mertesheim.de
Local Mayor :	Kurt Wassner
Location of the local community of Mertesheim in the Bad Dürkheim district

Catholic Church of St. Valentin (formerly St. Martin), built around 1500

Gothic Madonna with building inscription (1504) above the main portal of the church

Mertesheim is a municipality in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Bad Dürkheim . It is located in the north-west of the European Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region and is part of the Leiningerland community .

geography

Mertesheim is located in the north of the district in the historic Leiningerland . The Eisbach , a left tributary of the Rhine, flows through the village from west to east . About 2 km to the east, the Eistal opens up on the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest to the hill country on the German Wine Route and the Rhine plain .

Neighboring towns are Quirnheim , Grünstadt , Neuleiningen and Ebertsheim, clockwise from the north .

history

Meldrisheim was first mentioned in a document in 771 . Early on, practiced in Green Town and Battenberg wealthy, Lorraine Abbey Glandern the patronage right on the preserved church (formerly St. Martin, St. Valentin). The often mentioned year 836 is based on a forged document. In 1212, Bishop Luitpold von Worms confirmed in a document that the abbot of St. Martin zu Glandern was allowed to use the slopes of the churches in Grünstadt and Mertesheim for the benefit of his monastery.

At Mertesheim there are sandstone deposits with a lighter and darker brown color, which is why it was previously called " Capuchin stone " and was mined for use. Brown sandstones from Mertesheim were u. a. built on the Worms Cathedral and the neighboring Johanneskirche .

The place belonged to the district of Frankenthal (Pfalz) until it was dissolved in 1969 and the western part, in which Mertesheim was located, was assigned to the new district of Bad Dürkheim.

religion

In 2007, 43.5% of the population were Catholic and 35.3% Protestant . The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Mertesheim consists of eight council members, who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

mayor

Local mayor is Kurt Waßner (independent). In a runoff election on June 16, 2019, he prevailed against the previous incumbent Doris Nietzsche (FWG) with a share of 67.43% of the vote. This election had become necessary because in the direct election on May 26, 2019, none of the original three applicants had received the necessary majority. In 2014, Nietzsche replaced Tony Schuck as local mayor, who had held this office since 2007.

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: "In red on a green three-mountain a striding, resisting silver stag with a golden recross instead of the antlers".

It was approved by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior in 1926 and goes back to a seal from the 16th century.

Sights and culture

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Mertesheim

→ Main article : List of natural monuments in Mertesheim

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Mertesheim is connected to Grünstadt in the east and Ramsen in the west via Landesstrasse  395, which is called Eistalstrasse here . It is also located on the Eistalbahn (Grünstadt-Ramsen). The Mertesheim stop is served by regional trains in regular intervals. The public transport system is in the transport association Rhein-Neckar integrated; its community tariffs apply.

Industry

Mertesheim is now a pure residential community. To the north of the residential area there are some pillars of a former industrial cable car that used to be used to transport sandstones.

Transmitter

On a hill south of the local community is the Mertesheim transmitter , a transmitter that supplies the town with radio.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Ludwig Mann (* 1952), architect, former chairman of the BDA, Rhineland-Palatinate regional association

literature

• Literature about Mertesheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Mertesheim  - Collection of Images

• Local community Mertesheim on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Grünstadt-Land

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Regest on the forged document of 836 ( Memento from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ Website on the history of Mertesheim ( Memento from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
4. ^ Franz Xaver Remling : Documented history of the former abbeys and monasteries in what is now Rhine Bavaria , Volume 2, page 76, Neustadt an der Haardt, 1836; (Digital scan)
5. ^ Walter Hotz: Der Dom zu Worms , Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1981, p. 43, ISBN 3534074122 ; (Detail scan of the Kapuzinerstein at Worms Cathedral)
6. ^ Annual report of Pollichia , volumes 25–27, p. 89, Bad Dürkheim, 1868; (Digital scan)
7. ^ Walter Bucher: Contribution to the geological and palaontological knowledge of the younger tertiary in the Rheinpfalz , Munich, 1913, Geognostische Jahreshefte, No. 26, pp. 1–103; (Detail scan)
8. ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2007
9. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Mertesheim. Retrieved October 14, 2019 . 
10. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Leiningerland, Verbandsgemeinde, 16th row of results. Retrieved October 14, 2019 . 
11. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate . Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .