Mother city
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Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ' N , 8 ° 21' E |
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| State : | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| County : | Rhine-Palatinate District | |
| Height : | 96 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 20.49 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 12,844 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 627 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 67112 | |
| Area code : | 06234 | |
| License plate : | RP | |
| Community key : | 07 3 38 019 | |
| LOCODE : | DE MDT | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Oggersheimer Strasse 10 67112 Mutterstadt |
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| Mayor : | Hans-Dieter Schneider ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the municipality of Mutterstadt in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis | ||
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Mutterstadt is an association-free municipality in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate and part of the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region .
The place is - contrary to what the name suggests - not a city, but a large village and does not derive its name from the word "mother", but from a medieval personal name Muothari (or Muther).
Mutterstadt is known for its internationally successful weightlifters and for the Pfalzmarkt , the largest German cooperative vegetable wholesale market.
geography
Geographical location
Mutterstadt lies on the Rhine plain in the east of the Palatinate and is about 10 kilometers from the center of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein .
- Neighboring places
- Dannstadt-Schauernheim (4 km, in the west)
- Limburgerhof (2 km, in the south)
- Ludwigshafen - Maudach (1 km, in the east)
- Ludwigshafen- Rheingönheim (in the southeast)
- Ludwigshafen- Ruchheim (in the north)
- Schifferstadt (5 km, in the southwest)
topography
The Mutterstadt corridor has hardly noticeable height differences. The western neighboring villages of Dannstadt-Schauernheim and Fußgönheim are only five to eight meters higher. Mutterstadt itself lies on the lower terrace, which drops three to five meters to the Rhine lowlands in the east beyond the boundary of the district.
geology
During the construction of the water tower, the subsoil was examined to a depth of 128 meters, with layers of different thicknesses of clay and sand alternating again and again.
history
The area of Mutterstadt was - as archaeological finds show - already inhabited in the Stone Age. In Roman times, a Roman road from Italy via Basel to Mainz passed the town.
The first Franconian settlements in the area were places with the name ending "-heim". Settlements with names ending in “-stadt” probably emerged a little later when the Franconian upper class was reinforced by new settlers. The place was first mentioned in a document in the Lorsch Codex when it was donated in 767 or 768 with "mutherstather marca" (mother town district). The ending " -stadt " does not refer to the founding of a city in today's sense, but to a "place".
On January 1, 1930, Mutterstadt ceded parts of the area to form the new Limburgerhof community.
religion
Denomination statistics
According to the 2011 census , 35.8% of the population were Protestant, 28.3% Roman Catholic and 35.9% were non-denominational , belonged to another religious community or did not provide any information. Currently (as of December 31, 2019) 28.9% of the population have the Protestant denomination and 25.1% the Roman Catholic. 46.0% belong to other denominations or religious communities or are non-denominational. The number of Protestants and Catholics has therefore decreased in the observed period, while the proportion of non-denominational increased.
Catholics
The Catholic community was heavily sponsored by the Palatinate authorities. Elector Johann Wilhelm even ordered that all Protestant churches, cemeteries and bells may be used by the Catholics. This went so far that in 1705 King Friedrich I of Prussia intervened and enforced the religious declaration of November 21, 1705, which regulated the holdings of the denominations. The preference for Catholics did not end there.
In 1701 only nine Catholic families lived in Mutterstadt. As early as 1714, however, a Catholic school was built and in 1718, 30 Catholic families with 40 school-age children lived in the village.
The Catholic Church is consecrated to St. Medardus , a French bishop of the 6th century who was invoked by the farmers as the weather saint.
The parish belongs to the parish "Saint Sebastian" with seat in Dannstadt.
Protestants
During the Reformation , the entire population converted to Reformed teaching. Around 1700 the population was almost exclusively Reformed. Only the following decades brought immigration of Lutheran and Catholic families.
The Lutheran congregation had only 9 families in 1719. Her relatives were small farmers and day laborers. In 1754 they moved their services to the ground floor of the town hall, which had become vacant after the construction of the Catholic church.
When the Reformed and Lutheran churches were later united, the enlarged church continued to suffice. In the meantime there is also the Evangelical Free Church of Mutterstadt, which belongs to the working group of Mennonite Brother Congregations .
Jews
Jewish life was first mentioned in Mutterstadt in 1719. In 1722 only a few Jews lived in the village. Their number rose to 171 in the 19th century, but then decreased again. In the time of the Electoral Palatinate, only a few Jews lived in Mutterstadt; however, their number quadrupled during the French period. The reasons for this lay in the revival of trade and industry when the mother city became the capital of the French canton in 1798 .
The Jewish community was so well integrated into the village community that the political community supported the construction of the synagogue in 1838 . The synagogue was burned down during the November pogrom in 1938 and the remaining 52 Jews were deported to the Camp de Gurs camp in southern France in 1940, ending the story of the Jews in Mutterstadt.
Muslims
The native city residents had contact with Muslims as early as 1919, when North African soldiers were stationed in the village during the French occupation of the Rhineland, who held their daily prayers in a barn and always had local spectators. As a result of the influx of guest workers in the 1960s, Turkish Muslims came to the town and organized themselves into their own Turkish-Islamic association.
politics
Municipal council
The municipal council in Mutterstadt consists of 28 voluntary council members who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the full-time mayor as chairman.
The distribution of seats in the municipal council:
| choice | SPD | CDU | GREEN | FDP | FWG | total |
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| 2019 | 11 | 8th | 4th | - | 5 | 28 seats |
| 2014 | 13 | 10 | 2 | - | 3 | 28 seats |
| 2009 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 4th | 28 seats |
| 2004 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 28 seats |
- FWG = Free Voting Group Mutterstadt e. V.
mayor
Mayor Hans-Dieter Schneider (SPD) was confirmed in office for another eight years in the election of March 1, 2015 with 94.92% of the votes cast. The new term of office began on July 1, 2015.
coat of arms
The blue coat of arms shows a slanting silver key with the beard turned upwards and goes back to a seal from the 15th century.
The key is the sign of Peter , the patron saint of the place. It has its origin in one of the two coats of arms that are attached to the front of the historic town hall. They show the Bavarian lion on the one hand and a key on Rautenfeld on the other.
Partnerships
In 2000, interested people founded the partnership association Mutterstadt e. V. to look for suitable partner communities in Europe. In 2001 the municipal council decided to establish official relations with a municipality in France and with a municipality in Poland.
In 2002, for example, a joint declaration was signed with the small Polish town of Praszka ( Opole district ) to establish a partnership. The search for a suitable community in France turned out to be difficult because of the large number of Franco-German community partnerships that already existed. Finally, a search message to the “Council of European Municipalities and Regions” led to success. The northern French municipality of Oignies from the Lille area got in touch . After mutual visits in 2004, the partnership certificate was signed.
A third partnership has existed since October 2011 with the municipality of Naturno in South Tyrol .
Buildings
Catholic parish church
The Catholic parish church of St. Medardus was built on the site of the first Catholic parish church after the old church was demolished in 1934. Originally the church in the village of Hillensheim, which was lost in the 13th century, was consecrated to St. Medardus, this patronage was later transferred to the mother town church. The previous building was used as a field chapel for a long time until it was demolished in 1934.
The Catholic parish became an independent parish in 1784 and used its church, built in 1754 and extended by 7 meters in 1836, until the 1930s. However, around 1930 this was no longer sufficient for the rapidly growing parish. The oldest part of the church was demolished and replaced by a larger new building. In the spring of 1935, however, the rest of the old building was also abandoned. The external dimensions of the church are 44 meters in length and 22 meters in width and offers 800 seats.
In the new building, the altars of the old church were revised. The two side altars from the Lower Parish Church of St. Sebastian in Mannheim were created around 1760. The high altar, which is around 200 years old, is dedicated to St. Medardus , the local saint of Hillensheim desert .
The outbreak of World War II prevented the tower from being built. So it was only completed in 1958. Six new bells were hung in the tower in 1962 and a tower clock with a Westminster striking mechanism was installed.
Protestant parish church
The formerly Catholic parish church of St. Mary of the Assumption was reformed in 1566 after the introduction of Calvinism in the Electoral Palatinate and until 1698 served exclusively the Reformed community and fell to the Reformed in 1707 in the course of the implementation of the religious declaration issued by Elector Johann Wilhelm in 1707.
On the site of today's Protestant parish church, a church is already occupied around the year 950. The current nave was built between 1754 and 1755 according to plans by the electoral court architect Franz Wilhelm Rabaliatti .
The church of the Reformed community received the organ built by the Stumm brothers in 1786 and was expanded in 1792 by adding a second gallery. In 1831 the church was completely renovated and the roof structure over the nave was redesigned. In 1882 a new bell was procured and the gatehouse by the enclosure was demolished.
Post office
The post office was built between 1927 and 1929 according to plans by the post office building officer Heinrich Müller. It is a free-standing building with a gable roof with an iron-studded door that is decorated with the imperial eagle. The building is an example of the modification of Bauhaus architecture in connection with traditional construction.
Former town hall
The former town hall was built in 1738 on the site of the royal court and the court of Mutterstadt. A coat of arms with the year 1568 is inserted in the front, which was obviously taken from an earlier building in the same place. In its left field it shows a righting lion, in its right field a key on a background of loosely lined up diamonds, which are now white and blue.
The building contained a room on the ground floor, which was originally used by Catholics, but since 1754 by Lutherans to hold their services. In 1790 the political community wanted to use this room to put down the fire engine and the scales and therefore advised the Lutherans to build their own church. However, the Lutheran congregation only had 42 families and would have been overwhelmed with the costs. So she asked the community to use the 400 guilders grant to build a syringe house and to continue to give them the room in the town hall. So the Lutherans stayed in the town hall until the unification of the Protestant churches in 1818.
The Museum of Local History is housed in this historic town hall, which is located directly opposite the modern town hall. The local history is documented here in pictures, graphics, maps and written explanations.
The time arrow display, a 60 cm wide backlit board, shows the events of world, regional and local history synchronously in text and images over 25 meters in three horizontal bands.
Water tower
The Mutterstadt water tower was built in 1931 and has a square base. With a height of 52.5 meters, it is one of the tallest structures in Mutterstadt.
A special feature is its reinforced concrete skeleton, in which eight outer and four inner supports hold the container support structure. The shape was a requirement of the local council.
Inside, an iron spiral staircase leads through the inner water tank to the tank ceiling. Today the tower is no longer necessary to maintain the line pressure, but it serves to avoid pressure fluctuations.
In 1989 the water tower was renovated and the industrial designer Friedrich Ernst von Garnier gave it a striking exterior painting with geometric motifs.
- Technical specifications
- Total height including foundation plate: 52.65 m
- Water level of the tank ( 141.5 m above sea level ) 45.60 m
- Balcony height: 36.70 m
- Side length of the floor plan: 12.80 m
- Wall thickness: 25 cm
- Storage volume: 560 m³
- Construction costs: 202,189.35 Reichsmarks
Palatinum
The Palatinum is the community center for events, culture and meetings. The variably usable space program offers space for up to 800 people. It is a combined sports and festival hall, which was completed in 1999.
In front of the Palatinum there is a work of art that depicts three motifs from the history of Mutterstadt :
- The bust stands for the Roman origin of the place.
- The woman running through the flax hackle represents the female part of the population.
- The gate construction with a male torso symbolizes the industrial location of the community and the male part of the population.
Jewish Cemetery
The Jewish cemetery on the street “Am Pfalzring” is a cultural monument .
education
School system
The development of the school system was influenced by the proximity of the city of Ludwigshafen. A higher school could not develop like this for a long time.
In 1832 the elementary school moved into a new building with four Protestant and two Catholic school sections. In 1867, under the influence of the pharmacist Bohlig, a "higher advanced training school" was set up, which had the task of imparting the knowledge to students that they would need to transfer to the 4th grade of the grammar school or the secondary school.
At the instigation of the pharmacist Bohlig, an attempt was made in 1869 to introduce so-called communal schools in which all children would be taught together regardless of their denomination. In 1874 the vote was repeated with an overwhelming majority in favor of the joint school. But the vote was challenged and everything stayed the same.
During the time of National Socialism, the two denominational schools were combined into a "German Community School". The Jewish denominational school had already been closed in 1925 due to insufficient student numbers.
- Elementary schools
- Primary school "Im Mandelgraben"
- Primary school "Pestalozzischule"
- Integrated comprehensive school in Mutterstadt
- The Integrated Comprehensive School Mutterstadt (IGS) is the only secondary school in the municipality of Mutterstadt. Your catchment area is predominantly the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis. The 750 to 800 students are taught by 70 teachers. It was founded in 1993 on the initiative of parents from what was then the district of Ludwigshafen, as there was great demand for places in comprehensive schools in the Mutterstadt area.
- Community College
- Volkshochschule Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis and local adult education center Mutterstadt
Community library
The community library in Mutterstadt is housed in the so-called “Neue Pforte” in the center of the village and offers 30,000 items to borrow.
Culture and leisure
music
The music and choral societies have a long tradition in Mutterstadt. The first men's choir was founded in 1860. The MGV 1860 , the "old singing club" often appears in choir community with the MGV 1864 Maudach. The MGV Frohsinn 1873 has a male and a female choir, which also appear as a mixed choir, as well as the project choir, which is dedicated to modern (often English-language) choral music. The choral society "Germania" was founded in 1877 as a male choir, a female choir was added in 1982, and since 2003 they have merged to form a mixed choir.
The Pfarr-Cäcilien-Verein as a mixed choir states that it was founded in 1924, but there was already a male choir in the Catholic Church in 1889. A children's choir is affiliated with it. The Evangelical Church Choir also helps organize church services and maintains concert music. There is also the Crescendo Choir, founded in 1996, whose repertoire includes gospels, musicals, and pop and jazz music.
Two music associations and two church music groups are active in the community. The trombone choir of the YMCA Mutterstadt has existed for over 60 years. He can be heard regularly at church services and concerts in the Protestant church. He can also be heard during worldly activities in the church. The brass band Mutterstadt 1928 e. V. was originally founded as the music department of the Catholic Workers' Association. In addition to helping to organize church services, the chapel can also be heard at many festivals. Own concerts are held regularly. The training of young musicians is important to the association. A youth orchestra has existed since 1992.
Mutterstadt is characterized by an active music scene, which was dominated by punk rock , crossover and heavy metal bands. Bands like XOX, Alice D. or later The Feebles, ZUARG and Ismir Egahl shaped a style by which you can recognize musicians from Mutterstadt. The music scene - the center of which is the local youth club - was continued by younger bands such as B. Shamrock, 50 PSE, Boiling Blood, Bon Storno 10, and the like. a. Through the initiative of parts of these bands, the first Waldpark Open Air was created in 2003, which has been taking place annually on the forest edge recreation area since then and offers regional bands of punk, metal and hardcore performance opportunities.
Parks and green spaces
Community forest
In the south of the district is the 130 hectare community forest. It is a deciduous forest with old oak trees. It is traversed in north-south direction by the Floßbach and bordered in the southwest by the Böhlgraben. Centuries ago the forest was many times its present size. In the 18th century, its wood was transported to the surrounding towns via trenches (raft stream). Since there was a strong demand for wood in the wood-poor Rhine plain, but transport by wagon made the wood more expensive, the authorities in the Electoral Palatinate had existing watercourses expanded for timber rafting. The trench had to be dug by the neighboring communities. In November 1741 the first wood was rafted as far as Fußgönheim. The business grew rapidly. In 1742 there was continuous rafting for the salt works from August to November .
The time of rafting caused the fields to be flooded. In 1770 farmers complained that fields could not be built all year round. The timber rafting business on the Floßbach flourished for almost 140 years, but quickly declined due to the increasing use of the railway, only to succumb completely in the early 1880s.
The local farmers wanted to use the forest as pasture, but the forest authorities insisted that the cattle be kept out of the forest. An ordinance of the elector enforced that the forest pastures were cleared and the forest stands renewed. The juniper plate in front was turned into fields. Hunting in the forest remained a stately privilege and was supervised by a "chicken catcher" from the Electoral Palatinate. From time to time larger hunts were held in which the community had to provide drivers and pay the bill that the manorial hunters left in the restaurants.
Forest recreation site
In 1916, BASF intended to transform part of the Mutterstadt forest into a public park, but then shied away from the costs. At the Waldhäusel, the workers' welfare organization has been organizing children's recreation every year during the school holidays since 1954.
In the years 1961 to 1964, the forest recreation site was set up at great expense with a 120 square meter covered lounge, a large kitchen and a 160 square meter dining room.
Sports
At the suggestion of Ernst Bohlig , the then "strongest man in the world", who had given a lecture on the value of physical fitness in the sense of gymnastics father Jahn , 15 men decided in 1886 to found a gymnastics club, which soon 54 men joined. In the same year, a second gymnastics club, the Turnerbund Germania, was founded. The gymnasts used a barn as a practice site before purchasing suitable land in 1907 and building a gym on it in 1908. After the First World War, the two gymnastics communities merged to form the “United Gymnastics Associations Mother City ” .
After the First World War, a local cartel of free sports clubs was formed, to which the "Arbeiter-Rad- und Kraftfahrerbund Solidarität", the "Freie Athleten-Klub Deutsche Eiche", the "Freie Sportverein" and the "Freie Wander- und Freizeitklub Edelweiß" belonged to.
In 1946, the "General Sports Club" was founded with the approval of the military government. In it, members of the former "United Gymnastics Clubs", but also the free sports cartel, the cycling association Schwalbe and the chess club joined together.
TSG mother city
TSG Mutterstadt 1886 is a major club in Mutterstadt . It offers its members a handball, athletics, chess, gymnastics, lawn power sports and aerobics department as well as opportunities for children and baby gymnastics.
In 1957, this club brought the first of twelve German team championship titles in weightlifting to Mutterstadt. The weightlifting department broke away from the big club in 1969 as AC Mutterstadt.
LTC mother city
The LTC 1993 Mutterstadt was formed in 1993 from former members of TSG Mutterstadt. It offers its members exercise opportunities in athletics, gymnastics / back school, badminton and athletic fitness. The focus is on children and young people with "parent-child gymnastics", "children's athletics" and "children's gymnastics lessons". The Mutterstadt Volkslauf, which is held annually in September in the Mutterstadt Forest, is well-known nationwide.
AC mother city
The AC Mutterstadt brought weightlifters out of international standing. Including the three world champions Rainer Dörrzapf , Ronny Weller and Joto Jotov . The club also sent seven athletes to the Olympic Games and provided a total of 108 German individual champions in weightlifting. With twelve German team championships (including the title under the name TSG Mutterstadt), the club is also the German record champion in weightlifting.
In 2002, however, the club withdrew from the weightlifting Bundesliga , stopped the weightlifting business and concentrated on recreational sports. The number of members fell from 1,200 to 350. In mid-2005, however, a new start in weightlifting was tackled in the Rhineland-Palatinate / Saar regional league. In the meantime, the club has recovered financially and is starting again with its first team in the first weightlifting Bundesliga.
Sports facilities
There are three large sports halls, the sports park, the bowling center and the weight lifting center for sports events. In addition, the indoor and outdoor pools were modernized and converted into the “Aquabella” fun and relaxation pool .
The swimming pool was created after an agreement between the two municipalities of Mutterstadt and Limburgerhof to build a joint pool with the participation of the district. For this, the Limburgerhof municipality dropped the intended small solution for a purely local pool. At the end of the 1960s, a communal indoor pool was built between the two locations. For this purpose, Mutterstadt is making 5.4 hectares of community-owned land available and the association for water supply guarantees the supply of water by installing a well gallery with pumping station.
The outdoor pool was built in 1978. A lot of repairs had to be done in the late 1990s. Since the examination of the building fabric revealed several significant structural damage, some of which were due to the design, the pool was about to be closed because regulations and standards could no longer be complied with. But after protests by the population and local politicians, the preservation of the pool was secured by state grants. Measures were taken to increase the attractiveness, including a large water slide (length: 74 meters), a new children's pool, a whirlpool and a small outdoor pool, which is heated in winter. In addition, the sauna has been redesigned and expanded to a capacity of 30 people.
leisure
societies
Social life is shaped by almost 70 clubs as well as numerous festivals such as street carnival with parade, kerwe and Christmas market. The former elementary school has been converted into a club house that is available to local clubs.
The community center Neue Pforte is also available with event rooms for clubs, organizations and private individuals.
Greenberry and Vegetable Street
A branch line of the Grumbeer- und Gemüsestraße, which was opened in 2005 and runs for 145 kilometers through the Vorderpfalz, runs through the village. Grumbeer (High German: "Grundbirne") is the Palatinate name for the potato , which nowhere in Germany can be harvested as early as in the Palatinate Rhine plain.
Regular events
Over 200 events take place in Mutterstadt every year, especially in the cultural and sporting fields. These include the carnival parade with street carnival on Shrove Tuesday, the Easter market, which has its origins in the Napoleonic era, and the forest festivals of the associations at the forest recreation site. In addition, on the weekend before the summer holidays, the Protestant parish celebrates the parish festival “Unter der Linde” and the Catholic parish on Corpus Christi in the “Ritterhof”.
The highlight is the kerwe , which is celebrated at the end of August. Associations and municipal administration have come together to form the “Kerwegemeinschaft” to manage the fairground between the town hall and the “Neue Pforte”. A road bike race is also held at the same time.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Street
Mutterstadt is located directly on the A 61 and A 65 motorways ( motorway junction Mutterstadt ) and on the federal highway 9 , but has no rail connection.
rail
The chance for a railway connection was already given in 1830 when the Palatinate Ludwig Railway was built . Instead of leading the route through the southern outskirts, the municipality decided to set up the station on the outermost edge of the district, in today's Limburgerhof . The local railway Feuriger Elias , which ran through the town from 1890, was not a replacement and was shut down in 1955. The opening of the local railway led to a noticeable decrease in migration to the city. Many workers now kept their place of residence, as many of them still owned local property.
In 1949, 16 pairs of trains ran daily, although the parallel bus line covered the route in half the journey time - albeit at a higher fare. During the day, the trains were usually not very busy, but during rush hour they often carried more than 300 passengers. In addition, there was the freight traffic, which was particularly strong at the time of the sugar beet harvest and the route was busy all day. It was believed that a bus company would not be able to cope with these transports, so that in 1952 the decision was made again in favor of the local railway, although the fiery Elias posed a great danger to the increasing traffic - especially in the narrow town throughputs. Diesel locomotives were procured to avoid nuisance caused by clouds of smoke. At first they could only be used for freight trains because they did not have any facility for heating the wagons. Only the use of heating cars made it possible to completely replace the steam locomotives. Eventually the advancing motorization forced the shutdown of the small train, so that in 1955 the last train went to Mundenheim and from then on the passengers were taken over entirely by a reinforced bus line.
Transportation
Mutterstadt is served by three regional bus routes every hour, which start from Ludwigshafen (Berliner Platz). The timetables of the lines are designed so that there is a 20-minute cycle between Mutterstadt and Ludwigshafen. During commuter times, there are connections directly to BASF so that you don't have to change to the tram in Ludwigshafen. The last bus leaves Ludwigshafen for Mutterstadt at 10:36 p.m. On weekends and public holidays there is still a bus at 11:36 p.m. and 12:36 a.m. Outside the bus times, there is also a call line taxi.
Agriculture
Land use
The favorable climatic conditions offer agriculture with the cultivation of special crops the possibility of intensive land use. The Mutterstadt Water Irrigation Association was founded to intensify soil cultivation.
Pfalzmarkt
The agricultural products are marketed in the Mutterstadt Pfalzmarkt (“Pfalzmarkt für Obst und Gemüse eG”), the largest cooperative wholesale vegetable market in the Federal Republic. It was founded in 1985, has 2,100 members and 250 producers, which makes it one of the most important marketers in Europe. 70,000 square meters of warehouse are available on 220,000 square meters of operating space. The logistics allow the timely handling of the transport of 250 trucks daily.
The 250 producers produce more than 120,000 tons of fruit and vegetables per year on a total area of 12,000 hectares. To ensure production, a strategic partnership was concluded with the Vorderpfalz sprinkler association and subsidiaries such as PGÜ-Pfalz-Gemüse GmbH and Taufrisch Vermarktungs GmbH were founded. 90 percent of the products are ordered by telephone. Harvest forecasts provide an orientation on quantity and price two weeks in advance.
In addition to fruit, the Pfalzmarkt supplies its customers with beans, spring onions, cabbage, carrots, radishes, lettuce and tomatoes, as well as fine vegetables such as asparagus, artichokes and broccoli.
Emigrants
In the area of Mutterstadt, resettlers' farms were built in the 1960s to give farmers the opportunity to expand.
silk
In the 18th century, Elector Karl Philipp founded a "silk worm factory". Under Karl Theodor, every new citizen had to plant two, and every sitter one mulberry tree. However, since it was not successful, the communities had to plant mulberry trees on village squares, commons , ditches and dams . In 1785, the “Seidenbau-Plantagen-Gesellschaft Rigal und Consorten zu Heidelberg” signed a contract with the municipality of Mutterstadt, in which the municipality transferred the full ownership of all the mulberry trees in its area to the Seidenbaugesellschaft and made additional spaces available to it. A separate chairman was appointed to oversee the trees. The planting of the cultures should be done in compulsory labor. Neither the rewards offered nor the punishments threatened, however, were able to overcome the dislike of the peasants. The French Revolution increased this aversion. Finally, in 1792, the Palatinate government lifted all the privileges of the silk building society. This marked the end of this hated culture, of which mulberry bushes can still be found in ditches and gardens.
flax
Flax cultivation played a significant role in the 18th and 19th centuries . The acreage increased from 92 hectares in 1789 to 160 hectares in 1830. In 1853 only 14 hectares were cultivated with hemp and flax. After that, the cultivation became meaningless. It was grown both for fiber and for its fruits. The authorities tried to preserve the good reputation of the linseed from the mother town . In 1769 it was found that some mother-towners were importing foreign flax seeds and selling them as local ones. Nevertheless, a few years later the mayor was accused of having imported eight Malter linseed from Schifferstadt at night and reselling it to Swabia as the mother town. The agricultural expert JN Schwerz reported from the Palatinate in 1814:
- “The flax is the main subject of Mother City's culture. It is mostly built for the seed, which is a special trade here. Many seeds that are sold under the name of Rigaer Leins were born in Mutterstadt. It is not infrequently bought up here, takes a little trip and returns in a year in a Russian suit. The story of the woman who once lost her ring and found it a few years later in the flaxseed that supposedly came from Riga can still be found in this area. If the seeds go as they did in 1814, then the flax is often worth more than the soil. The yield of 1 acre then amounts to 250 Rhenish guilders. "
The importance of flax cultivation can be seen from the fact that the poor harvest of 1826 brought the community into financial difficulties. On the other hand, it gave the place a certain wealth. The linseed was mostly shipped down the Rhine to Holland around 1850. The bast was bought by buyers from the Hunsrück, Franconia and Württemberg.
Sugar beet
The continental barrier imposed by Napoleon sparked efforts to replace the cane sugar imported from English colonies with sugar from sugar beet that they produced themselves . After the collapse of French rule, however, the cultivation of sugar beet was initially given up again. The sugar beets were later brought to Mundenheim on the local train “Feuriger Elias” until the 1950s and then loaded onto regular freight traffic.
vegetables
Mother city lies in a region that is called "Germany's vegetable garden". In the community close to the city, vegetable growing in the fields found its way early on. The focus was first on white cabbage . In 1919, however, in addition to 124 hectares of white cabbage, 93 hectares of other cabbage, 76 hectares of carrots, 9 hectares of swede, 1 hectare of onions and 2 hectares of other vegetables were identified.
Labor shortage
The larger farms have always been dependent on auxiliary workers. These used to come from smallholder families and from working-class families. But when the factories lured with increased wages and increased leisure time, a noticeable shortage arose. Today the seasonal workers come mainly from Poland. Attempts by the Federal Labor Office to win German unemployed people over to work in the fields failed. Most of the employed unemployed complained about the hard work and the low additional income.
Established businesses
Power station
As early as 1898, the local council planned a central light supply. In 1906 the local council dealt with it again, but a commission headed by the district doctor Mattem decided against electric light, as it was too expensive and not usable for cooking purposes. Instead, the commission recommended a gas works. But even this planning was unsuccessful.
In 1910, the municipal council decided to build a municipality-owned light and power system in connection with the overland control center and in 1912 commissioned the Rheinische Schuckert-Gesellschaft für electrical industry AG in Mannheim to create an electrical high-voltage power supply system for the municipality of Mutterstadt. The construction was completed despite resistance from homeowners who would not tolerate masts on their roofs. Another point of contention was the coverage of the remaining debt. But as early as 1915 the factory had a surplus. After the Second World War, the electrification of households led to an enormous increase in electricity demand.
The Pfalzwerke maintains a network control center on the edge of the industrial park. In the tower, which can be seen from afar, all the data relating to the power lines in the Palatinate converge so that individual power lines can be switched off or on from the power grid if, for example, repairs are no longer allowed to run on the lines.
Waterworks
The drinking water conditions in Mutterstadt have always been critical. Only a few wells gave good water. Including the "Good Well" mentioned as early as the 13th century.
Around 1890, the city of Ludwigshafen started negotiations with the municipality of Mutterstadt about the construction of a waterworks . This led to the construction of a waterworks, which went into operation in 1895, but which Mutterstadt did not join.
When typhoid fever occurred in 1912 , an examination of several wells revealed that the water they supplied was not flawless. Then put the adjunct Weber to make arrangements to better drinking water supply the application. But this suggestion was only taken up again in 1927.
The Bavarian State Office for Water Supply made the proposal that the communities of Mutterstadt, Neuhofen, Waldsee, Schifferstadt and Otterstadt should join forces to build a common water supply system. Their circle expanded through the communities of Dannstadt and Schauernheim. The "Zweckverband für Wasserversorgung, Palatinate Middle Rhine Group" was founded and approved in 1929. The water tower was completed in 1932.
The pumping station between Waldsee and the Old Rhine collects the groundwater from five shallow wells, presses it through all stages of purification and supplies the group area of 30,000 inhabitants with water.
industrial Estate
In the 52 hectare industrial area there are retail companies such as Metro AG , Bö-Schuh, Adler Modemärkte GmbH and the toy store Rofu Kinderland as well as car dealerships, an auction house, a hotel, an indoor and outdoor swimming pool, a bowling center, the sports park and manufacturing businesses (Carpentry, recycling, composting, dangerous goods forwarding, large bakery, and substation). This means that Mutterstadt is also a shopping center for the neighboring communities.
Infrastructure
220 kV / 110 kV substation of the Pfalzwerke at the industrial park with 124 meter high radio tower (Pfalzwerketurm). A 110 kV substation operated by Pfalzwerke is located in the immediate vicinity in the industrial area.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the church
- Johann von Mutterstadt , real name Johann Seffried (around 1400–1472), cathedral vicar in Speyer and early historian of the prince-bishopric .
- Ernst Bohlig (1846–1918), the son of a pharmacist, was considered the "strongest man in the world" at the end of the 19th century
- Rudolf Emmerich (1852–1914), hygienist and university professor
- Friedrich Minoux (1877–1945), industrialist
- Wilhelm Renner (1890–1952), industrial manager
- Alfred Dellheim (1924–2003), politician (SED)
- Fritz Schalk (1925–1996), politician (SPD), was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament from 1971 to 1987.
- Wolf Magin (1927–2009), graphic artist and painter
- Gustav-Adolf Bähr (1938–2020), cultural manager
- Jeanette Rott-Otte (* 1945), politician (SPD), was Rhineland-Palatinate minister from 1991 to 1994.
People who worked on site
- Michael Schnetter (1788–1854), Catholic pastor from 1822 to 1829, later cathedral chapter in Mainz
- Ewald Backe (1897–1968), former mayor (NSDAP), involved in the November 1938 pogroms in Mutterstadt
- Johannes Bähr (1902–1980), pastor and opponent of National Socialism. A parish hall is named after him.
- Hermann Belzner , local mayor from 1960 to 1973
- Katrin Kirchner (* 1944), author and journalist, lives on site
- Hannelore Klamm (* 1949), politician (SPD), member of the state parliament 1994–2014
- Rainer Dörrzapf (* 1950), held four junior world records and became world champion in weightlifting in 1972.
literature
- Dieter Birke: Festschrift for the 1200th anniversary of the community of Mutterstadt . Mother city: municipal administration, 1967
- Heinrich Eyselein: Mother City in the Past and Present . Südwestdeutsche Verlagsanstalt, 1967
- Erwin Renner, Wilhelm Heil: mother city . Sutton Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-89702-256-0
Web links
- Parish of Mutterstadt
- Literature about mother city in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 4), Certificate 2029, November 26th, 767 or 768 - Reg. 258. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 23 , accessed on September 4, 2017 .
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 515 .
- ^ City of Mother City Religion , 2011 census
- ↑ Mutterstadt population statistics as of December 31, 2019 , accessed on February 27, 2020.
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
- ↑ Naturno - Italy | GV Mutterstadt. Retrieved July 24, 2020 .
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