Obrigheim (Palatinate)

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Obrigheim (Palatinate)
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Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '  N , 8 ° 12'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Bad Dürkheim
Association municipality : Leiningerland
Height : 147 m above sea level NHN
Area : 10.81 km 2
Residents: 2806 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 260 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 67283
Area code : 06359
License plate : DÜW
Community key : 07 3 32 041
Community structure: 5 districts
Association administration address: Industriestrasse 11
67269 Grünstadt
Website : www.obrigheim-pfalz.de
Local Mayor : Stefan Muth ( SPD )
Location of the local community Obrigheim (Pfalz) in the Bad Dürkheim district
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Obrigheim (Pfalz) is a municipality in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Bad Dürkheim and is located in the north-west of the European metropolitan region of Rhine-Neckar . It belongs to the community of Leiningerland .

geography

Obrigheim is located in the extreme northeast of the Bad Dürkheim district, right on the border between the Palatinate and Rheinhessen . The main town and its smaller districts are lined up from southwest to northeast on the central Eisbach , where the hilly landscape gradually merges into the Rhine plain . Albsheim to the right and Mühlheim to the left of the watercourse follow one after the other for about 5 km , then Heidesheim and Colgenstein to the right and finally the main town of Obrigheim and the Neuoffstein factory on the left. In addition to the districts mentioned, the residential areas Krausmühle and Schloßmühle also belong to the community.

Neighboring towns are clockwise and starting in the north Bockenheim , Offstein , Obersülzen and the city of Grünstadt .

history

The main town has been known since around 1250 and was probably owned by the Counts of Leiningen at that time . The ending heim indicates Franconian origin, but there is no written evidence for this. A local nobleman named Ulricus de Obernkeim was mentioned in a decree of the council of the imperial city of Speyer in 1352 ; he could have come from Obrigheim.

The Weissenburg Abbey belehnte 1390 Count Friedrich VII. Von Leiningen-Dagsburg of goods in Obrigheim, see also Leiningen-Heidenheim .

From 1467 to 1505 the place was owned by the Electoral Palatinate . In 1557 it was called Oberkum uff der Wissen , this almost coincides with today's dialect name Owwerkumm . On a map from 1735 the village was called Oberheim , and in 1739 the place name commonly used today appeared for the first time.

Today's districts were mostly mentioned earlier: Mühlheim in 761, Albsheim 788, Colgenstein around 1000, Heidesheim 1277. Above Mühlheim, where the Eisbach still has a steep slope and cut deep into the terrain, there used to be at least two mills . Another, which worked as a sawmill , was on the flatter terrain in what is now Neuoffstein. The castle of the Count's House of Leiningen-Heidesheim was burned down in 1794 by troops from the French Revolution .

On June 7, 1969, today's community of Obrigheim (Palatinate) was re-formed from the previously independent communities of Albsheim an der Eis (then 489 inhabitants), Colgenstein-Heidesheim (724), Mühlheim an der Eis (283) and Obrigheim (1068) . At the same time, the district membership changed, as the previous district of Frankenthal (Palatinate) was dissolved. In 1972 the community was assigned to the then newly formed community of Grünstadt-Land , which was merged into the community of Leiningerland in 2018.

religion

At the end of 2014, 51.9% of the population were Protestant and 17.5% Catholic. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational. The Protestant residents of the community belong to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate , the Catholics to the Speyer diocese .

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Obrigheim 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 total
2019 8th 2 10 20 seats
2014 10 2 8th 20 seats
2009 9 2 9 20 seats
2004 7th 2 11 20 seats
  • FWG = Free voter group for all districts of Obrigheim (Pfalz) e. V.

mayor

Stefan Muth (SPD) became the local mayor of Obrigheim in 2009. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for another five years with a share of the vote of 50.55%.

Muth's predecessors were Wolfgang Nitzsche (FWG, local mayor from 1989 to 2009) and Alfred Nitzsche (from 1969 to 1989).

Partner municipality

The town has had a partnership with the French community of Crèvecœur-le-Grand since 1988 .

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Obrigheim
 Blazon : "Divided by blue and gold, above a red armored silver eagle, holding a horizontally placed golden key in its claws, below a defying, leaping red doe pierced at the neck by a red arrow."

It was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1970 .

Reasons for the coat of arms: The doe comes from the old coat of arms of Obrigheim and the Leininger eagle comes from the coats of arms of Albsheim, Colgenstein-Heidesheim and Mühlheim. The key symbolizes the Weissenburg Monastery.

Attractions

Of the five churches in Obrigheim, the four today are of Protestant architectural significance.

Albsheim an der Eis - The Protestant Church Albsheim (formerly St. Stephan) is one of the most important Romanesque church buildings in the Palatinate. In many village churches that belonged to the diocese of Worms in the Middle Ages, a tower shape emerged in the 11th century, the outer structure of which enlivened not only walls, but cornices, arched friezes, pilaster strips and blind arcades. With the choir tower of the Peterskirche in Kirchheimbolanden from the 12th century and the demolished tower of Eisenberg, the 50 m high Albsheimer tower (after 1150) also belongs to the type in which cornices with arched friezes extend from corner and central bars and the tower on top of all Divide pages into equal fields. Despite the separation by the cornices, the central stave continues on the other floors. The choir was given a vault in 1520 and the large east window was added in 1749. Here is the oldest organ in the Palatinate that is still being played ; It was created in 1730 by Johann Valentin Senn from Seebach, which is now part of Bad Dürkheim .

Colgenstein - The first Colgenstein church was mentioned in the " Codex Edelini " for the year 985. In the so-called Salian church robbery , this basilica and the associated court property fell to Duke Otto I. The tower from the 12th century is still preserved from the Romanesque successor building; the pairs of windows grouped one above the other on its four storeys are reminiscent of those of the Speyer Cathedral , and the oldest bell in the Palatinate probably rings here. A late Gothic font dates from 1509.

Mühlheim - The Mühlheim church was built by Count Jofried von Leiningen-Hardenburg in the 1330s. At the beginning of the 17th century the House of Leiningen-Heidesheim had it converted into a castle church, with the burial place of the count's family in the choir . The organ, built by Johann Michael Stumm in 1738 , is the best preserved Stumm organ in the Palatinate.

Obrigheim - The church of Obrigheim was originally a chapel of St. Giles, a branch of the parish of Colgenstein. The tower from around 1500 still stands from the old chapel. The church was rebuilt in 1865, and in 1910 an additional floor was added to the tower.

  • Townscape

  • Protestant Church Albsheim an der Eis

  • Protestant Church Mühlheim

  • Prot. Colgenstein Church

  • Protestant Church Obrigheim

  • Catholic Church

  • Rosengarten village community center

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Offstein sugar factory in Neuoffstein

The largest employer in the area since 1873 and with more than 500 employees also the largest employer in the community of Grünstadt-Land is the sugar factory in Neuoffstein, which is now a manufacturing branch of Südzucker AG . In addition to the sugar beets processed there, wine is grown in agriculture . The agriculturally used area of ​​almost 1000 hectares is divided into 75% sugar beet fields and 25% vineyards.

traffic

The parts of the community are connected from southwest to northeast via state road 395, which leads from Grünstadt to Worms . At Grünstadt- Asselheim the B 271 is reached and via this (5 km south at the Grünstadt junction) the A 6 . The B 47 ( Kaiserslautern –Worms) passes around 4 km north of the municipality and connects to the A 61 ( Koblenz – Speyer ) to the northeast .

The Palatinate Northern Railway Monsheim –Grünstadt runs in the far west of the municipality on the edge of the Albsheim district, the Albsheim (Eis) stop is served by regional trains in the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle . The railway line Worms – Grünstadt, which previously crossed the municipality along the Eisbach and served mainly to connect the sugar factory, has been closed in the eastern section (sugar factory – Worms). The public transport system is in the transport association Rhein-Neckar integrated (VRN), apply the Community tariffs.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Alfred Nitzsche (1919 / 20–2014), from 1952 to 1969 member of the municipal council and subsequently from 1969 to 1989 mayor, was made an honorary citizen in 1994 in recognition of his services to Obrigheim.

Sons and daughters of the church

Other personalities

Personalities not born in Obrigheim, but connected with the community:

  • Marcus Held (* 1977), member of the Bundestag , grew up in the Mühlheim district.
  • Ellen Müsel (* 1990), 60th wine countess of the Leiningerland as Ellen I in 2009/10 , grew up in Obrigheim and lives there.
  • Torben Müsel (* 1999), soccer player, grew up in Obrigheim.
  • Anna-Lena Müsel (* 1995), in 2016/17 as Anna-Lena I. 67th wine countess of the Leiningerland and 2018/19 Palatinate wine princess, grew up in Obrigheim.

literature

Web links

Commons : Obrigheim  - Collection of Images

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 (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 140 (PDF; 3 MB).
  3. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 191 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
  4. ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2014.
  5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data.
  6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: City Council Election 2019 Obrigheim. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .
  7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections.
  8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local council election 2009 Obrigheim. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  9. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local council election 2004 Obrigheim. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Mayoral election: who wants again? Die Rheinpfalz, May 3, 2018, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
  11. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Leiningerland, Verbandsgemeinde, 19th line of results. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Kathrin Schnurrer: Obrigheim: Wolfgang Nitzsche gives up council mandate. Die Rheinpfalz, January 30, 2020, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
  13. ↑ a b Official Journal: Obituaries: Alfred Nitzsche. Association and local community. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH, official gazette of the Verbandsgemeinde Grünstadt-Land and the local communities, edition 9/2014, accessed on February 24, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Gaby Sprengel: To the point: 30 years of jubilee. Die Rheinpfalz, April 25, 2018, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
  15. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
  16. ^ Rudolf Kraft: Das Reichsgut im Wormsgau , Hessischer Staatsverlag, 1934, p. 157; (Detail scan)
  17. ↑ Fearsome in all directions: Baptism as the central Easter theme; famous baptismal fonts in the churches around Grünstadt attest to old traditions / by Martin G. Nickol. - number Ill. Topic on Saturday: Löwentaufsteine ​​im Leininger Land, In: The Rheinpfalz / Unterhaardter Rundschau. Volume 53 (1997), No. 74 from March 29; Lion fonts