Rödersheim-Gronau

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhine-Palatinate District
Association municipality :	Dannstadt-Schauernheim
Height :	104 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.24 km 2
Residents:	2913 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	354 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67127
Area code :	06231
License plate :	RP
Community key :	07 3 38 022
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Am Rathausplatz 1 ; 67125 Dannstadt-Schauernheim
Website :	roedersheim-gronau.de
Local Mayor :	Thomas Angel (FWG)
Location of the local community Rödersheim-Gronau in the Rhine-Palatinate district

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Rödersheim-Gronau is a municipality in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Dannstadt-Schauernheim .

history

The municipality of Rödersheim-Gronau was newly formed in the course of the municipal reform on June 7, 1969 from the previously independent municipalities of Rödersheim and Alsheim-Gronau and renamed on October 1, 1969.

Roedersheim

Rödersheim is a Franconian foundation from the 6./7. Century, which was recorded for the first time in 858 in a document from King Ludwig the German in the form "Ratherisheim". In this document Ludwig certifies the transfer of the usufruct of the place from the possession of the cathedral monastery to Speyer to the Speyer Bishop Gebhard I. for life. With the obligation mentioned there for the “annual delivery of 4 bottles of wine”, Rödersheim is one of the oldest documented wine-growing communities in the Palatinate. Rödersheim remained under the sovereignty of the Speyer Monastery until it was annexed to France in 1797.

After the Napoleonic period, Rödersheim, an independent municipality since 1817, was assigned to the Neustadt Land Commissioner in the “Bavarian Rhine District ”, later Palatinate (Bavaria) . In 1862 the land commissioner's office was renamed “Neustadt an der Haardt District Office” and in 1939 to “Neustadt an der Haardt District”. With an interruption from 1902 to 1931, when Rödersheim belonged to the Dürkheim district office , Rödersheim remained with Bavaria until 1946 and then came to the newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate. After the Neustadt district was dissolved with effect from June 7, 1969, it was merged with Alsheim-Gronau and reclassified into the Ludwigshafen district.

Gronau

The former part of the name Alsheim refers to that of the Franks in the 6./7. Place founded in the 18th century, which was first mentioned in 778 in the Lorsch Codex as "Alasheim". With Gronau the former castle was referred to the northeast was the place and whose origin is obscure.

Alsheim, first part of the Franconian tribal duchy, then the German royal state, retained its immediate imperial status until 1331. In that year, as part of the imperial bailiwick of Speyer , it was pledged by Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian to the Palatinate, later Electoral Palatinate , and remained until 1797 in the Electoral Palatinate.

The castle Gronau was mentioned for the first time in 1341 on the sale by the Knights Heinrich Knebel von Katzenelnbogen to the Palatine. From 1363 onwards, the village and castle were lent jointly to different noble families until the ruins of the castle, which was rebuilt in 1784 and destroyed by Austrian troops in 1795, were removed and the area leveled.

After French rule, which lasted from 1797 to 1814, the community initially belonged to the Speyer Land Commissioner , later the Speyer District Office, and from 1886 to the newly formed Ludwigshafen District Office, from which the Ludwigshafen am Rhein district emerged in 1939 . In 1921 Alsheim was renamed Alsheim-Gronau .

religion

St. Leo on Marienplatz

In 2007, 51.4 percent of the population were Catholic and 25.6 percent Protestant. The remainder belonged to another religion or were non-denominational.

The baroque Catholic parish church of St. Leo in the Rödersheim district was built in 1738 on the foundations of the previous building. Earlier church buildings (the first church in the village was first mentioned in a document in 946) were repeatedly destroyed. The altars date from the time of the "plait style" in the phase between baroque and classicism. Furnishing elements that were added later were adapted in terms of design so that the church offers a unique position in the region from an art-historical point of view. Both side altars come from the Capuchin Church in Mannheim, which was demolished in 1839 .

After a plague epidemic in the 17th century, the 69 surviving residents of the village of Rödersheim vowed in 1648 to celebrate the feast of Saint Sebastian on January 20th as a day of fasting and abstinence. This tradition has been preserved to this day.

protestant church

The Protestant parish of Rödersheim-Gronau is looked after from Meckenheim and belongs to the Neustadt deanery.

The church building is a hall building with a turret, which was built between 1746 and 1753 under the direction of the Mannheim architect Franz Wurth . The last renovation with a new color scheme for the interior took place in 2014.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Rödersheim-Gronau consists of 20 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	ÖDP	FWG	total
2019	4th	7th	-	9	20 seats
2014	3	10	-	7th	20 seats
2009	3	11	2	4th	20 seats
2004	4th	10	2	4th	20 seats

FWG = Free Association of Voters Rödersheim-Gronau

mayor

The local mayor of Rödersheim-Gronau is Thomas Angel (FWG). In the runoff election on June 16, 2019, he prevailed with 63.36% of the vote, after none of the original three applicants had achieved the necessary majority in the first ballot. Angel became the successor to Karl Arnold (independent), who had not taken office after 20 years.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Split by silver and blue, on the right the gold crowned Mother of God in blue robe, standing on a golden crescent moon, the gold crowned child on the left arm, in the right holding a blue orb with gold ribbons and cross, on the left a four-towered golden (water -)Castle."

It was approved by the Neustadt district government in 1977 . Our Lady comes from the old coat of arms of Rödersheim, the castle that of Alsheim-Gronau.

literature

Winfried Seelinger: Families in Alsheim-Gronau and Rödersheim from 1404 to 1904. Rödersheim-Gronau 2004.
Josef Zech et al .: From the history of Rödersheim-Gronau. Rödersheim-Gronau 1978.
Sebastian Arnold et al .: Turning times: 2nd volume of the Ortschronik. Rödersheim-Gronau 2009.
Sebastian Arnold: The Rödersheim gold bracteate and the lady from Blackenbrunnen. Rödersheim-Gronau 2010.
Sebastian Arnold: Cigars change the small world. Munich: GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2012.

Web links

Commons : Rödersheim-Gronau - Collection of images

Rödersheim-Gronau website
Literature about Rödersheim-Gronau in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

↑ 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. 194, 204 (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.
↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 4), Certificate 2030, June 1, 778 - Reg. 1409. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 23 , accessed on February 13, 2016 .
^ Wilhelm Volkert, Richard Bauer: Handbook of the Bavarian offices, municipalities and courts 1799-1980 . Munich 1983, p. 515 .
↑ Komwis ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Church website Rödersheim
^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Municipal Council Election 2019 Rödersheim-Gronau. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
↑ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Dannstadt-Schauernheim, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).