Rülzheim

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Rülzheim
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Coordinates: 49 ° 9 '  N , 8 ° 18'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Germersheim
Association municipality : Rülzheim
Height : 110 m above sea level NHN
Area : 16.66 km 2
Residents: 8197 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 492 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 76761
Area code : 07272
License plate : GER
Community key : 07 3 34 025
LOCODE : DE RZI
Association administration address: At Deutschordensplatz 1
76761 Rülzheim
Website : www.ruelzheim.de
Local Mayor : Just listen
Location of the local community Rülzheim in the district of Germersheim
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View of Rülzheim

Rülzheim ( South Palatinate : Rilze ) is a municipality in the district of Germersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is the administrative seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Rülzheim , to which it also belongs.

geography

Geographical location

The place is in the southern Palatinate part of the Upper Rhine Plain , in the triangle between Germersheim , Wörth am Rhein and Landau in the Palatinate . In the south, the Rottenbach, which was dammed up shortly before, grazes the local area. In the southwest, Rülzheim is bordered by an extensive forest. In the north of the district there is a large agriculturally used plain, which extends in a north-westerly direction to Landau. The Klingbach , which comes from the Palatinate Forest and flows through Rülzheim, flows into the nearby Rhine via the Michelsbach .

The community also includes the living spaces In der Lohe , Katharinenhof and Untermühle .

Neighboring communities

Rülzheim borders on the following municipalities:

Knittelsheim Bellheim
Herxheim ,
Herxheimweyher   		Neighboring communities Heard
Hatzenbühl Rheinzabern Kuhardt ,
Leimersheim

climate

The annual precipitation is 746 mm. The precipitation is in the middle third of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower precipitation values ​​are registered at 51 percent of the German Weather Service's measuring stations . The driest month is February, with the most rainfall in June. In June there is 1.7 times more rainfall than in February. The rainfall varies moderately. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at 41 percent of the measuring stations .

history

Early history and the Middle Ages

Former synagogue

The area of ​​Rülzheim has been settled since the Neolithic Age and is located on an old north-south traffic route on the (flood-proof) left high bank of the Rhine . Traces of settlement can also be found on the Roman road, which was also built there, from Roman times , which also establish a connection to the nearby, important terra sigillata industry in Rheinzabern - called tabernae . In 2014, a hoard from late antiquity (see hoard from Rülzheim ) attracted public attention because it was handed over to the preservation authorities by a robbery under the pressure of investigations. The illegal robbery excavations destroyed valuable information about the treasure. In addition, it remains unclear whether pieces of the treasure have already been sold (see antique stealing ). The find includes u. a. golden decorations of a stately robe, silver dishes and the remains of a gold-plated and silver-plated folding chair.

The place Rülzheim was mentioned for the first time in 774 as "Rotlehesheim" in the Lorsch Codex . It can be counted among the places that were created during the Frankish conquest . In the Middle Ages , Rülzheim became part of the Speyer Monastery , the "owners" were the knights of the Teutonic Order .

Modern times

After the Palatinate War of Succession , the place came to France as part of Alsace and formed the northernmost border settlement in the Lauterburg Oberamt . In 1799, Rülzheim - as it was called at the time - was incorporated into the canton of Landau and later in the canton of Kandel . In 1816, Rülzheim, like the other areas of the Speyer monastery on the left bank of the Rhine , became part of the Bavarian Rhine District . From 1818 to 1862 he was a member of the Landkommissariat Germersheim ; from this the district office of Germersheim emerged.

Rülzheim has been part of the Germersheim district since 1939 . After the Second World War , the place became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . The formerly strongly agricultural community (especially tobacco and sugar beet cultivation ) experienced a strong economic boom during this time through the settlement of manufacturing and service industries. In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , the municipality was added to the newly formed association of the same name in 1972 .

population

Population development

If not listed separately, the source of the data is the State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Population development of Rülzheim from 1802 to 2018 according to the table below
year Residents
1802 1,752
1815 2,225
1835 2,533
1849 3,007
1861 2,939
1871 2,898
1905 3,370
1939 3.823
year Residents
1950 4.172
1965 5,235
1970 5,338
1975 5,734
1980 6,033
1985 6,569
1990 7.162
1995 7,670
year Residents
2000 8,018
2005 7,801
2010 7,815
2013 7,773
2015 7,833
2017 7,972
2018 8,121

religion

In 1871, of a total of 2,898 inhabitants, 86 percent were Catholic, 14 percent Jewish and nine people - 0.3 percent - Protestant. In February 2015, 56.3 percent of the population were Catholic and 18.2 percent Protestant. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Rülzheim consists of 24 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 GREEN FDP Active FWG AfD total
2019 2 6th 3 1 7th 2 3 24 seats
2014 2 9 - 1 10 2 - 24 seats
2009 2 10 - - 10 2 - 24 seats
2004 2 12 1 - 8th 1 - 24 seats
  • Active = Active Citizens e. V.
  • FWG = Free Voters Group Rülzheim e. V.

mayor

The local mayor is directly elected for a term of five years.

In the election on May 26, 2019, Reiner Hör (Active Citizen), who has been in office since 2006, was re-elected with 61.31 percent. From 2006 to 2014 Hör was also mayor of the Rülzheim community .

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Rülzheim
 Blazon : "In red on bogigem grassy green ground a golden armored knight with an open visor on silver goldbewehrtem Ross with golden bridles, in the right one with a golden Tatzenkreuz besteckte golden rod cautious."
Justification for the coat of arms: The coat of arms, approved in 1842, is based on the old town seal with the inscription "The Rilzheim Court Insigil Anno 1721". The knight of the motif is the church patron St. Mauritius , who is usually depicted with the cross flag. On the coat of arms, the cross is on a pole, which probably represents a lance.

Culture and sights

Catholic Parish Church of St. Mauritius
Protestant Christ Church in Hoppelgasse
Renovated leisure center "Dampfnudel"

Cultural monuments

The street ensemble Mittlere Ortsstrasse and Neue Landstrasse and the Jewish cemetery are designated as monument zones. The latter is located outside the village on the road to Herxheimweyher. In the almost 49 ares large cemetery, which was laid out in 1826, there are still around 420 tombstones.

There are also several individual objects that are under monument protection :

nature

The only natural monument on site is the plane tree on Deutschordensplatz .

Recreational facilities

Rülzheim had a leisure pool called "Moby Dick", which was completely renovated in 2002, but closed in December 2011. These included a sauna, a large spiral slide and a heated outdoor pool with a slide. Next to it there is an event hall, a campsite, a tennis facility, the “Mhou” ostrich farm , which opened in 2007 , a petting zoo, a swimming lake and a club hut village. Since October 2015 an "Alla-Hopp" facility has been created in Rülzheim on the old festival grounds. The exercise and play facility for everyone was financed by the Dietmar Hopp Foundation . At the edge of the forest on Rheinzaberner Straße is the Rülzheimer Peter-Becht-Stadion. Several designated Nordic walking trails lead through the community forest.

In addition, there is the “Dampfnudel” leisure center (Lage) from 1974, which was originally developed as an open-air hall with a special air-cushion roof by the Krupp company from Essen. Due to the similarity to traditional pastries from the Palatinate , the leisure center with the white dome that can be seen from afar and an outer diameter of 36 meters was known regionally as “steam noodle”. From spring 2010 to autumn 2011 the building was renovated and the air-cushion roof replaced with a rigid construction.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Rülzheim is the seat of the trading company MTS MarkenTechnikService and the automotive supplier ITK Engineering . The Swiss company Kardex also has a local branch. The community is also part of the VR Bank Südpfalz business area .

Some tobacco drying sheds (location) are reminiscent of the tobacco growing of the 19th and 20th centuries in Rülzheim and the surrounding area. Rülzheim is the namesake of the so-called Rülzheimer shed; This is a long, three to four meter high wooden shed with a flat gable roof. This type of dandruff appeared in the 1970s; older scales were usually shorter, but significantly higher. Some copies of the Rülzheimer shed have been preserved around 300 m north of the train station.

traffic

Former reception building of the station, which was served until the end of 2010

Since December 2010, the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn has been using the S51 and S52 trams via Rülzheim. With Rülzheim train station and Rülzheim leisure center, the town itself has two stops on the Schifferstadt – Wörth railway line , which was opened in full in 1876. Since the end of December 2010, the former has been replacing the former train station located around 250 meters southwest . Both stops are located in the network area of ​​the Karlsruhe Transport Association (KVV) as well as that of the Rhein-Neckar Transport Association (VRN) . In addition, bus route 554 runs through Rülzheim, which connects to Rheinzabern and Landau in the Palatinate .

On the eastern edge of the village, the motorway-like B 9 runs . Rülzheim is connected to the expressway with two connections, Rülzheim North and Rülzheim South . The A 65 is about nine kilometers west of Rülzheim and can be reached via the state road 493 , which runs through the town with Vorderweidenthal and Hördt. The closest connection point is Rohrbach . The state road 540 runs in a north-south direction through the middle of the municipality and connects it with Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and Berg . From this the state road 553 branches off to Leimersheim.

Authorities

As the seat of the association , Rülzheim also houses its administration. Apart from Rülzheim, Hördt, Kuhardt and Leimersheim also belong to the association.

education

In Rülzheim there are four kindergartens, a primary school and the integrated comprehensive school in Rülzheim, which introduced an upper school level from autumn 2015. The place also has a Catholic public library. In addition, the Foundation for Ecology and Democracy is based in the municipality.

energy

Rülzheim has its own municipal works, which, as an energy supply company, cover the network areas Rülzheim and Hördt. In addition, there is a district heating supply in Rülzheim with its own combined heat and power plants , which was designed and implemented as a model project of the Federal Republic of Germany by the then Mayor Helmut Braun, who previously worked as a senior engineer at ABB.

tourism

The PWV club hut Rülzheim, inaugurated in 1981, is located on site . In addition, Rülzheim is the end point of the so-called Saar-Rhein hiking trails with the marking black point on a white bar and one that is marked with a yellow-red bar and starts in the Wellbachtal . The southern route of the Palatinate Way of St. James also runs through the community .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Karl Werner Geeck (* 1941), the only living honorary citizen of Rülzheim, former headmaster of the RGS Rülzheim and writer
  • Helmut Braun (1928–1994), mayor and mayor of the association for 25 years, former chief engineer at ABB and multiple patent holder

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Otto Huber MFSC (1871–1954), Comboni missionary and missionary pioneer in North Africa
  • Adolf Wolff (1910–1998), veterinarian
  • Udo Bentz (* 1967), Catholic clergyman, auxiliary bishop and vicar general in Mainz

People who worked on site

Dieterskirchel near Rülzheim

Web links

Commons : Rülzheim  - 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. 148 (PDF; 3 MB).
  3. ^ FAZ February 19, 2014 ; A robber in the magic forest - the destruction of a spring during the migration period. Archeology (February 21, 2014) .
  4. ↑ www.morgenweb.de
  5. ↑ Karl Josef Minst [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 4), Certificate 2154, June 12, 774 - Reg. 1030. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 58 , accessed on February 15, 2016 .
  6. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Rülzheim .
  7. ↑ a b c Official directory and statistics of the Royal Bavarian Government District of the Palatinate, 1863, p. XXXV of the appendix.
  8. ↑ a b Results of the census in the Kingdom of Bavaria from December 1, 1871 according to individual communities, 1873, p. 65.
  9. ↑ Ewois , as of February 28, 2015.
  10. ↑ Wahlen.vg-ruelzheim.de
  11. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections .
  12. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Rülzheim, Verbandsgemeinde, last line of results. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
  13. ↑ www.mobydick.de
  14. ↑ Albert Weigel: Tobacco cultivation and development of the tobacco drying sheds in Hatzenbühl. In: Working group for house research: Yearbook for house research, Volume 41. House research and economic history in Rhineland-Palatinate. Report on the meeting of the working group for house research in Sobernheim / Nahe from 24.-28. September 1990, Jonas Verlag für Kunst und Literatur GmbH, Marburg 1993, p. 129.
  15. ↑ Mainzer-Studienstufe (MSS) ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . IGS Rülzheim website. Retrieved January 18, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.igs-ruelzheim.de