Neuhofen (Palatinate)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 25 '  N , 8 ° 26'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhine-Palatinate District
Association municipality :	Rheinauen
Height :	97 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.3 km 2
Residents:	7194 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	585 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67141
Area code :	06236
License plate :	RP
Community key :	07 3 38 020
Association administration address:	Ludwigstrasse 99 67165 Waldsee
Website :	www.neuhofen.de
Local Mayor :	Ralf Marohn ( FDP )
Location of the local community Neuhofen in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis

Neuhofen in der Pfalz is a municipality in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . Since July 1, 2014, it has been part of the newly formed Waldsee Association , which was renamed the Rheinauen Association on January 1, 2016 . Neuhofen is part of the European Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region and is designated as a basic center according to state planning .

geography

location

Neuhofen is located in the Upper Rhine Plain on the lower terrace on the northwestern edge of a peninsula-shaped ridge of the high bank zone. The municipality is part of the "Pfälzische Rheinauen" conservation area .

Community structure

The residential areas Haus Kief, Waldmühle, Waldpark and Römerhof also belong to Neuhofen .

Neighboring communities

Clockwise from west to southwest: Limburgerhof , Ludwigshafen am Rhein , Altrip , Waldsee , Schifferstadt

Rehbach

The Rehbach is of particular importance for the development and the present day townscape of Neuhofen . It is not a natural body of water, but an artificial branch of the Speyerbach , which was used for mills and for drifting wood. A bridge west of the Rehhütte, over which the Rehbach crosses the Ranschgraben , also testifies to the unnatural origin .

In the Neuhofen district, the Rehbach used to flow from Schifferstadt in the southwest via the mill at the Rehhütte to Neuhofen. Here it flowed past the Gässelbach and the cemetery to the Unterwald over the forest mill there and finally into the Rhine at Rheingönheim . The Gässelbach (today Burggasse ) is a street that flowed into the Rehbach and which was the nucleus of Neuhofen. Here water was taken and laundry was washed. Later there were washing areas with meadows for bleaching laundry in the area of ​​today's partnership area .

In 1975 the Rehbach was diverted due to heavy pollution and the associated odor nuisance. It now flows northwards from the Rehhütte along the B 9 . From the bridge to Limburgerhof it turns in a long arc to the east and then flows over the monkey meadows north of the Unterwald between Neuhofen and Ludwigshafen-Rheingönheim. From the forest mill it follows its old course to the Rhine again. Thanks to the construction of sewage treatment plants in the neighboring communities, the Rehbach is now cleaner than it was before it was built. The former Rehbachbett now serves under the name Rehbachwanderweg as pedestrian and bicycle through the town. He also left his mark on Neuhofen in the names Rehbachschule , Rehbachhalle , Rehbachstrasse and with the Rehbachfest .

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  Rehbach after the forest mill

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  At the monkey meadows

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  Forest mill

history

Events

The later Neuhofen came into the possession of its founders on May 9, 1194 through a document issued on the Trifels by Emperor Heinrich VI . (“Emperor Heinrich VI. Declares that through his hands, Abbot Gottfried von Weißenburg with his fellow brothers and ministers, the Hofgut in Medenheim and Rechholz, which Eberhard von Ried from the Weissenburg Monastery carried as fief , to Abbot Herman von Himmerod and his monastery as property ") Neuhofen was first mentioned by name in 1209 ( Nova Curia ) in a document from the Bishop of Speyer on the occasion of a dispute between the Himmerod monastery and the Palatinate farmers of Mutterstadt . Permission to build a church in Neuhofen was granted in 1318 by Bishop Emich von Speyer. The patron saint of the Church is St. Michael.

restored half-timbered house in Ludwigshafener Strasse

The Himmerod monastery sold its last property in Neuhofen on May 2, 1513 for 2000 gold guilders. During the Thirty Years' War Neuhofen was plundered, destroyed and the population terrorized several times. The residents moved to the neighboring cities. Few families returned after the war, Huguenots moved there. From 1797 to 1815 Neuhofen belonged to the French Republic ( Département du Mont-Tonnerre ) like the whole of the Palatinate on the left bank of the Rhine . In the middle of the 19th century, the Palatinate Ludwig Railway to Saarbrücken was built by Paul Camille von Denis . A train station was built on the Friedensau between Mutterstadt and Neuhofen. The Limburgerhof community was founded from the districts of Neuhofen, Mutterstadt, Rheingönheim and Schifferstadt around the train station. Neuhofen loses 238 hectares, including its district Rehhütte. The Rehbach was diverted in 1975, it was moved out of the place.

Population development

Neuhofen had 200 people around 1585, which fell to the historic low of 28 after the end of the Thirty Years' War . In the First World War were 87 soldiers in the Second World War, 188 soldiers. According to the census, around 1950 there were 3641 inhabitants, in 2012 there were already 7091 people living in Neuhofen.

Road map from 1790

Economic development

Even when Neuhofen was founded, the mills on Rehbach played a major role. There were at least three mills, two of which still exist today. The Waldmühle (formerly Mannheimer Walkmühle ) is now a restaurant, the mill wheel is dry. The mill in the Rehhütte district, which has been part of Limburgerhof since 1930, has been owned by BASF together with the Rehhütte estate since 1898. The mill wheel is still in operation at times. There is also a device for rafting wood ( wood drift ).

Fishing is also likely to have been an important economic factor in earlier times, because the Rhine ran close to the place until 1584.

Until the Second World War, peat digging was also practiced in the Woog and Erlenbruch, as evidenced by ponds, ditches and swamp forests in this area. In agriculture there was some viticulture in the south of the village, this area is now called Speyerer Wingert .

With the construction of the train station and the founding of the sugar factory, industrialization came to the village. The people of Neuhofen were also able to get to Ludwigshafen am Rhein quickly by rail, making Neuhofen a place of residence for workers from BASF and the other chemical plants.

Building materials in the form of sand and gravel continued to be mined in Neuhofen. Of this, the Kistner pond and the Ochsenfeld (extension of the Old Rhine ) remain as a connected nature reserve and the Schlicht quarry pond . In Altrip and Waldsee, a whole series of other lakes were created, most of which are now used as local recreation areas. (The Steinerne Brücke quarry pond was used to harvest gravel, but was expressly planned for use as a bathing lake.)

politics

town hall

Municipal council

The municipal council in Neuhofen consists of 22 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	GLN	total
2019	6th	7th	6th	3	22 seats
2014	12	8th	2	-	22 seats
2009	10	7th	5	-	22 seats
2004	9	9	4th	-	22 seats

• GLN = Green List Neuhofen

mayor

The former full-time mayor was directly elected for eight years. From 2001 to 2017 Gerhard Frey was the first directly elected mayor of Neuhofen. From 2001 to 2014 he was full-time mayor (FDP) and from 2014 to 2017 he was full-time local mayor (independent). The honorary local mayor is now elected for five years. Ralf Marohn has been honorary local mayor of Neuhofen since June 1, 2017. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office with 77.80% of the votes.

coat of arms

The current coat of arms (since 1976) is blue at the bottom left and gold at the top right. In the middle of it is a crook with the handle turned to the right, which ends at the bottom in a diamond standing on its tip. The color of the rod changes to the background. A book is shown above to the right of the stick, to the left of the stick three balls, two of which are below and the third in the middle above. The balls don't touch.

The old coat of arms (documented since 1791) shows Saint Nicholas on a gold background . He wears a blue robe, a silver halo, in his right hand a silver crook and in his left hand a red book with three golden balls on it. Two of the balls are on the bottom, the third in the middle. Saint Nicholas was the patron saint of the lost village of Medenheim (see history).

Town twinning

A partnership is maintained with Heillecourt near Nancy in France .

Culture and sights

Museums

• Otto Ditscher Gallery

Buildings

Otto Ditscher House

• Waldmühle im Unterwald (formerly Mannheimer Walkmühle am Rehbach, closed)
• Protestant church (probably goes back to the church from 1318 )
• new catholic church with parish center (consecrated 1964 )
• Otto Ditscher House (old school)
• Jewish cemetery (between Neuhofen and Waldsee / Landstrasse and Woog).

See also: List of cultural monuments in Neuhofen

Natural monuments

Neuhofen old Rhine

Origin of the Woog, Erlenbruch and Altrhein

• "Woog" nature reserve
• "Neuhofener Altrhein " nature reserve
• "Kistner-Weiher" nature reserve

Regular events

• Rehbach Festival on the Rehbachweg (July)
• “Kerwe” ( church consecration ) on the partnership square on Sunday after Michael (29 September), the patron of the church from 1318
• Rehbach tournament of the Badminton department of TuS Neuhofen
• Carnival parade , ceremonial meetings of the Tusnesia, masked balls of VfL, coronation ball and festival of the TuS
• Spring and farmers market on the partnership square in May
• Christmas market on the partnership square (November / December)
• Fisherman's festival in the riding hall (June)
• TuS handball week with an everyone's tournament
• VfL football tournament for everyone
• Fire Brigade Festival (August)
• May festival in the forest park ( May 1st )

language

The dialect spoken in Neuhofen is Upper Palatinate .
Long-established residents of Neuhofen do not refer to themselves as "Neuhofener", but as "Neiheffer" ("Neuhöfer").

Churches

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  Evangelical Church (formerly St. Michael)

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  Catholic St. Nicholas Church

• Protestant parish Neuhofen
• Catholic parish of St Nicholas
• Evangelical Free Church Congregation Neuhofen ( Baptists )

Economy and Infrastructure

Neuhofen is primarily a residential community for employees of companies in the Rhine-Neckar triangle . Neuhofen also has an industrial park in the west of the town.

traffic

The B 9 leads west directly past Neuhofen. The junctions to the motorways 61 , 65 and 650 are only a few kilometers away. The surrounding cities of Ludwigshafen (8 km to the city center), Speyer (12 km to the city center) and Mannheim can be reached by car within a few minutes, and Worms , Heidelberg and Bad Dürkheim are only a little further.

The Limburgerhof train station and the Ludwigshafen - Rheingönheim tram stop can be reached by bike in a few minutes, and a bus ring line connects Neuhofen with the surrounding communities.

An expansion of the Ludwigshafen - Mannheim tram network to Neuhofen has been a topic of discussion for decades, especially from Neuhofen local government. All public transport can be used at uniform prices within the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN).

Neuhofen also has a good network of cycle paths. A special feature is a cycle path on the north-south axis, which runs through the center of the village with the help of three underpasses and enough descents without coming into contact with the car traffic.

education

• Rehbachschule (primary school), one of currently (April 2018) only 21 primary schools in Rhineland-Palatinate with a permanent bilingual class train. This was introduced for the 2010/11 school year.
• Until 2005, Neuhofen was also responsible for the Rudolf Wihr secondary school together with Limburgerhof , which is located between Neuhofen and Limburgerhof on the Limburgerhöfer district. There is a secondary school in the same place.

Realschule and Hauptschule were merged into one school center in spring 2005 under the sponsorship of the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis. However, Neuhofen and Limburgerhof together have an exit clause with which the two municipalities can take over the secondary school again as municipal authority.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Commerce Councilor Dr. phil. re. Carl Reiss (* 1843, † 1914, appointed 1913), was also an honorary citizen of Mannheim
• Anna Reiss (sister of Carl Reiss, * 1836, † 1915, appointed 1914)
• Michael Kraushaar (* 1876, † 1968, appointed 1966), Mayor before and after the " Third Reich "
• Otto Ditscher (* 1903, † 1987, appointed 1973), painter
• Kurt Sturm (* 1929, † 1995, appointed 1994), long-time mayor

Sons of the community

• Otto Ditscher (1903–1987), painter
• Karl Striebinger (1913–1981), national soccer player
• Lothar Horlacher (1933-2016), politician (SPD)
• Wolfgang Frombold (* 1959), track and field athlete

Personalities who have worked on site

• Manfred Kaltz (* 1953), national soccer player
• Rudolf Wihr (1885–1936), local history researcher
• Georg Valentin Wambsganß (1879–1942), politician and Protestant pastor
• Werner Owart (1923–2017), organ builder, organist

literature

• Rudolf Wihr: Der Neue Hof (Nova Curia) - Neuhofen and Affolterloch as the economic center of the Upper Rhine property of the Himmerod Abbey in the Eifel , self-published, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, 1932
• Rudolf Wihr: The Rehhütter Chronik - Contribution to the history of the Ludwigshafen am Rhein district , self-published, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, 1937
• Theodor Frosch: Families in Neuhofen, 1651-1910 , (Ortssippenbuch Neuhofen in series B, No. 143 of the German Ortssippenbuch of the Central Office for Persons and Family History Berlin - Frankfurt am Main 1997)
• Neuhofen through the ages , texts: Horst Heiler, Geiger-Verlag, Horb a. N., 1985

Web links

Wikisource: Neuhofen (Pfalz)  - Sources and full texts

Commons : Neuhofen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Internet presence of the community of Neuhofen
• Link catalog on Neuhofen at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
• Literature about Neuhofen 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. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 105 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
4. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 . Page 515
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Neuhofen. Retrieved October 9, 2019 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Municipal elections 2014 Neuhofen. Retrieved October 9, 2019 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2009, city and municipal council elections
8. ↑ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Rheinauen, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results. Retrieved October 9, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Primary schools with bilingual teaching: Primary school: Bildungsserver Rheinland-Pfalz. Retrieved April 7, 2018 . 
10. ^ Bilingual school. Accessed April 7, 2018 .