Minfeld

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 4 '  N , 8 ° 9'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Germersheim
Association municipality :	Candelabra
Height :	125 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.41 km 2
Residents:	1693 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	201 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	76872
Area code :	07275
License plate :	GER
Community key :	07 3 34 020
Association administration address:	Gartenstrasse 8 76870 Kandel
Website :	www.minfeld.de
Local Mayor :	Martin Volz
Location of the local community Minfeld in the district of Germersheim

View from the west

View from the southwest

Meadows between crooked and straight dykes

Minfeld is a municipality in the district of Germersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Kandel .

geography

Minfeld lies between Karlsruhe and Landau in the Palatinate . Minfeld to additionally include the residential places Altmühle, Markhof, lap Berghof, Latvians Berghof, Rebenhof Rebenhof 1 and 2 neighboring municipalities are - clockwise - winds , Kandel , Wörth am Rhein and Freckenfeld . The Otterbach and its right tributary Neugraben partially form the border with Wörth and the Dierbach in the southwest the border with Freckenfeld.

history

The village was probably built around 700. In 982 it was first mentioned as Mundiveld , in 1053 the place was called Mundevelt and in 1267 Munernuelt . In 1053 the church was completed. In 1345 the palace was built by Heinrich von Lichtenberg, who owned the imperial village as a pledge. In 1379 King Wenzel Minfeld pledged it to the Electoral Palatinate . Hans Bübel from Minfeld became known as a leader in the Peasants' War in 1525. In 1556 Minfeld confessed to the Reformation. 1579 was the first mention of a school. In 1639 the plague broke out in Minfeld. Until the end of the 18th century the place belonged to Pfalz-Zweibrücken .

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Minfeld was incorporated into the Canton of Kandel . In 1814, Tsar Alexander of Russia, Emperor Franz I of Austria and King Wilhelm III. of Prussia a triumphal march through Minfeld. In 1815 the village was added to Austria after the Congress of Vienna .

In 1816 Minfeld fell to Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 the place belonged to the Landkommissariat Germersheim ; from this the district office of Germersheim emerged. In 1908 there was a connection to the water supply. In 1938 the west wall was built . Minfeld has been part of the district of Germersheim since 1939 . After the Second World War , the place 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 municipality was added to the newly formed Kandel association in 1972 . In 1982 Minfeld's 1000th anniversary took place.

population

Population development

The development of the population of Minfeld, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1814 972 1815 1,151 1835 1,253 1871 1,154 1905 1,114 1939 1,148 1950 1.105

year Residents 1961 1,147 1970 1,457 1987 1,488 1997 1,601 2005 1,581 2019 1,693

religion

In 2012, 43.9 percent of the population were Protestant and 37.4 percent Catholic. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Minfeld consists of 16 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	FDP	FWG	total
2019	7th	3	-	6th	16 seats
2014	5	2	-	9	16 seats
2009	4th	3	2	7th	16 seats
2004	6th	4th	1	5	16 seats

Local mayor

• 1949–1959: Ernst Zimmer (SPD)
• 1959–1971: Friedrich Schreiber (CDU)
• 1971–1972: Karl Weiß (CDU)
• 1972–1984: Felix Liedtke (FDP)
• 1984-2004: Clemens Nagel (SPD)
• 2004–2019: Manfred Foos (FWG)
• since 2019: Martin Volz (FWG)

Martin Volz was introduced to his office on September 5, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with a share of the vote of 60.33%.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In green, a red-roofed, silver house with golden wind flags at the corners, with two rows of black windows and no door."
	Foundation of the coat of arms: It was approved by the Bavarian king in 1841 and goes back to a court seal from 1495.

Parish partnership

Minfeld's partner municipality is Limours in the French region of Île-de-France .

Culture and sights

Protestant Church

Cultural monuments

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Minfeld

The town center is designated as a monument zone .

Around 1053 monks from Seltz built the (since the 16th century) Protestant church on the Kirchberg in the north-west of the village. Around 1500 the choir vaults and choir windows were rebuilt in the late Gothic style and side chapels and the sacristy were added. In 2006, a support association restored a medieval wall painting in the church. This shows the story of St. Martin, the apparition of the Lord and the Annunciation to Mary.

The pictures on the west wall of the choir arch, divided into three zones, are particularly vivid. The upper zone shows the adoration of the kings, the baptism of Jesus and the three temptations of Jesus in the desert. The middle zone shows the resurrection of Jesus , his ascension, the meeting of the risen Christ with Mary Magdalene, as well as the outpouring of the Holy Spirit (Pentecost). The lower zone shows the wise virgins and the resurrection on the last day.

Another special feature is the Winterhalter organ and a piscina , unique in the Palatinate , into which the "consecrated" water was poured. ( Picture )

nature

Natural monument emperor elm

The Bruchbach-Otterbachniederung nature reserve extends partially over the district of Minfeld. In the immediate vicinity on the federal highway 427 there is a large mountain elm , the so-called imperial elm , which is the only natural monument on site.

Events

The Bienwald Marathon , which has been held annually since 1976, runs through Minfeld .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

In Minfeld there is partly viticulture; as such, the community belongs to the Palatinate wine-growing region . The Herrenberg single site is on site .

traffic

Minfeld is in the area of ​​the Karlsruhe transport association . The nearest train station is Winden (Palatinate) , about four kilometers northwest of Minfeld. It is a hub for regional traffic; Trains to Neustadt , Landau , Karlsruhe , Bad Bergzabern and Wissembourg leave every hour or more frequently . The bus line 527 of the regional bus service south west also offers a connection from Minfeld to the Kandel train station on the 1864 railway line Winden – Karlsruhe . Although this runs through the district of Minfeld, the community was not given a train station, as a cattle watering well would have had to be relocated and this led to conflicts.

State road 546 within Minfeld

The federal highway 427 runs through the municipality of Minfeld . In the west of this branches off the state road 546 to Schweigen-Rechtenbach . The county road 16 provides a connection to Büchelberg and Scheibenhardt .

organization

The community belongs to the judicial district of the Kandel District Court .

tourism

In addition, the Petronella Rhine Cycle Path , which runs from Bad Bergzabern to Wörth am Rhein, runs through Minfeld.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Johann Casimir Häffelin (1737–1827), bishop, cardinal, Bavarian envoy to the Holy See, diplomat.

Personalities who have worked on site

• Karl Friedrich Scholler (1807–1863), theologian, writer and politician, from 1858 Vice Dean in Minfeld, died there.
• Clemens Nagel (* 1945), politician (SPD), local mayor from 1984 to 2004.
• Daniel Moriz Lehr (* 1954), sculptor and painter, created the object Tim in Minfeld.
• Pascal Ackermann (* 1994), racing cyclist. The Pascal-Ackermann-Weg in Minfeld was named after him.
• Janina Meißner (* 1995), Bundesliga soccer player, active in youth at SV 1946 Minfeld.

literature

• Rudolf Fendler: The Teutonic Order in Minfeld. Property and population conditions in the southern Palatinate village. In: AmrhKG * 52 (2000), pp. 151-176.

Web links

Commons : Minfeld  - Collection of Images

• Internet presence of the local community Minfeld
• Literature about Minfeld in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, 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 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ^ Georg Heeger : The Germanic settlement of the Vorderpfalz on the hand of the place names. Kaußler, Landau 1900, p. 30 .
4. ↑ Erhard Nietzschmann: The free in the country. Former German imperial villages and their coats of arms. Melchior, Wolfenbüttel 2013, ISBN 978-3-944289-16-8 , p. 55.
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
6. ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2012
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
8. ^ Fritz Hock: Minfeld: Council takes up work. Die Rheinpfalz, September 9, 2019, accessed on April 26, 2020 . 
9. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Kandel, Verbandsgemeinde, fourth line of results. Retrieved April 26, 2020 . 
10. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Gräber, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
11. ↑ KARAWATKI. In: Fritz Hock (Red.): Festschrift for the 1000th anniversary of the Minfeld community. Festival week from August 21 to 29, 1982. = Minfeld 982–1982. Minfeld municipality, Minfeld 1982.

Category: Place in the district of Germersheim Category: First mentioned in 982