Peppenkum

Peppenkum community Gersheim
	Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 38 ″ N , 7 ° 17 ′ 10 ″ E
Residents :	350 (2004)
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Postal code :	66453
Area code :	06844
Location of Peppenkum in Saarland
	View of Peppenkum

Peppenkum is a district of the municipality of Gersheim in the Saarpfalz district ( Saarland ). Until the end of 1973 Peppenkum was an independent municipality in the Homburg district .

location

Peppenkum is located on the Bickenalb in the Parr in Bliesgau .

history

Peppenkum was first mentioned in a document in 1308 when the Hornbach monastery bought goods in "Boppenkeim". The territorial affiliation always followed Medelsheim , the former official seat.

After the French period (1794 to 1814), Peppenkum came to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 due to the resolutions at the Congress of Vienna (1815) . Under the Bavarian administration, the municipality was assigned to the mayor's office in Medelsheim and the canton of Neuhornbach in the Zweibrücken regional commissioner .

As part of the Saarland regional and administrative reform , the previously independent municipality of Peppenkum was assigned to the municipality of Gersheim on January 1, 1974.

politics

The districts of Peppenkum and Utweiler together form a municipality. Of the nine seats in the local council, six belong to the CDU and three to the SPD . Mayor is Wolfgang Mann (CDU).
(Status: municipal elections 2009)

regional customs

An old local custom is the “Brother Konrad Ride” that takes place on Whit Monday . It is named after the patron saint of the neighboring town of Utweiler , Konrad von Parzham , and goes back to a "horse procession" that originally led to the pilgrimage site of Blieskastel every year . In 1935 this was banned. Since 1936 the “Brother Konrad Ride” has been carried out instead, which leads from Medelsheim via Peppenkum to Utweiler.

Web links

Commons : Peppenkum - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 809 .
^ Gersheim - local councils. Gersheim community, accessed on April 4, 2020 .

[1] Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 809 .

[2] Gersheim - local councils. Gersheim community, accessed on April 4, 2020 .