Rüssingen

The title of this article is ambiguous. Rüssingen is also the German name of the French community Russange in the Moselle department.

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '  N , 8 ° 5'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Donnersbergkreis
Association municipality :	Goellheim
Height :	223 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.84 km 2
Residents:	529 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	109 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67308
Area code :	06355
License plate :	KIB, ROK
Community key :	07 3 33 064
Association administration address:	Freiherr-vom-Stein-Strasse 1–3 67307 Göllheim
Website :	www.ruessingen.com
Local Mayor :	Steffen Antweiler (FWG)
Location of the local community Rüssingen in the Donnersbergkreis

The townscape of Rüssingen

Rüssingen is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Göllheim community .

geography

The community is located between Kaiserslautern and Worms in the Alzeyer hills belonging Göllheimer hills . The Wiesenbach, a tributary of the Ammelbach on the left, flows through it .

Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Albisheim , Immesheim , Ottersheim in the northeast, Biedesheim to the southeast and Göllheim and Marnheim to the west . 80.5 percent of the district area of ​​Rüssingen is used for agriculture. The Lindenhof residential area also belongs to Rüssingen . In the northeast of the district on the border with Immesheim and Ottersheim the 300.3-meter stretches ruler .

history

Rüssingen is an old settlement area. Archaeological finds uncovered in the Rüssing area document settlements from the Neolithic , the older Early Bronze Age and the older Iron Age . The most famous of the prehistoric and early historical finds is the "Rüssinger ploughshare" made of limestone.

Rüssingen was first entered in the Lorsch Codex in 773 . Several land donations to Lorsch Abbey are recorded there for the end of the 8th century . The meaning of the place name is not clear, alternatively it is interpreted as "place where there were many horses" or "place with the people of Hrusso". In later times the village seems to have come into imperial possession and to have been lent to Werner II von Bolanden as an imperial fief by the Counts of Leiningen around 1190 . Rüssingen came to the Sponheim-Dannenfels possessions in the form of the Kirchheim rule and fell to Philip I of Nassau-Saarbrücken in 1393 . The closed outer front of the village suggests that Rüssingen was fortified in the Middle Ages, but there is no documentary evidence of this. There is documentary evidence of a lower nobility dynasty, the Lords of Rüssingen, who lived in the village from 1135 to 1424 and were in the service of the Lords of Bolanden as feudal people .

Until 1574 it was under the rule of Nassau-Saarbrück, from 1574 until the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops under the sovereignty of Nassau-Weilburg . From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Rüssingen was incorporated into the Canton of Göllheim and was subordinate to the Mairie Göllheim . In 1815 the place had a total of 280 inhabitants. In the same year it was added to Austria . Just one year later, the place, like the entire Palatinate, changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 Rüssingen belonged to the Land Commissioner Kirchheim - later Kirchhheimbolanden ; from this the district office of Kirchhheimbolanden emerged.

From 1939 the place was part of the Kirchheimbolanden district . After the Second World War , Rüssingen became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , Rüssingen moved to the newly formed Donnersbergkreis in 1969 ; three years later, the community was incorporated into the Göllheim Association, which was also newly formed .

religion

Rüssingen has been Lutheran since the Reformation. A Catholic parish was established again during the reunification period; after the death of the Catholic priest in 1696, the position was not filled again. Initially supervised by Kirchheimbolanden , the Catholics were finally assigned to the new parish in Göllheim in 1707 . The Kreuzkapelle was once located about 500 meters northwest of the village .

politics

Municipal council

Election to Rüssingen City Council 2019

Participation: 52.9% (+ 2.9%)

 %

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

25.1

21.0

54.0

SPD

Green

FWG

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

 % p

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

-4.4

± 0.0

+4.5

SPD

Green

FWG

The municipal council in Rüssingen consists of twelve 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. Before the 2019 election, there were eight council members.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	GREEN	FWG	total
2019	3	2	7th	12 seats
2014	2	2	4th	8 seats
2009	3	2	3	8 seats
2004	3	1	4th	8 seats

mayor

Term of office	Surname	Year of birth
1849-1881	Georg Bernhard I	1805
1881-1904	Johann Kleinhanß
1904-1918	Peter Bernhard I.
1919-1920	Philipp Janson	1854
1920-1924	Philipp Wendel I.
1924-1937	Johannes Schlicher
1937-1945	Gustav Eicher
1945-1946	Josef Hofmann
1946-1948	Jakob Ullmer
1948-1989	Edgar Janson	1920
1989-2009	Pure Dedores	1936
since 2009	Steffen Antweiler

The local mayor is Steffen Antweiler. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with 83.95% of the vote.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In blue a silver jumping single horse, gold-armored, manned and tailed."

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

Listed wingert house

The main street is designated as a monument zone . Like its neighboring communities Biedesheim and Ottersheim, Rüssingen is a typical elongated street village . The main street is characterized by almost completely closed historical buildings, mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries, classicist courtyard buildings.

In addition, there are a total of five individual objects that are under monument protection , including a Protestant church .

Approximately halfway between the village and the quarry there is also a vineyard house (Wingert house), which is atypical for the area ; Such buildings are mainly found in the Rhine-Hessian area . The limestone, beehive-shaped house - similar to Italian trulli - is now in the middle of fields, but indicates that it was used as a vineyard , alternatively known as "Wingert". In the 1980s it was plastered with cement during maintenance work.

See also : List of cultural monuments in Rüssingen

nature

The only natural monument on site is the old pear tree on Göllheimer Straße. The Adolphslinde was a 700 year old linden tree northwest of the village, with a trunk circumference of 8 m. According to legend, Adolf von Nassau camped one day before the Battle of Hasenbühl against Albrecht of Austria near Rüssingen in 1298 and broke off a branch of this tree as a crest ornament . Galgen and Schindanger were very close in the Middle Ages, so the assumption is that the linden tree was the court tree of the place. The tree fell victim to a storm in October 1952. Today there is a newly planted linden tree not far from the spot. The local poet Rudolf Dietz (1863–1942) mentions them in one of his poems.

societies

The soccer club TuS Rüssingen exists on site and has played in the Southwest soccer association league since 2014 .

Regular events

Kerwe (Kirchweih): two Kerweborsch reading out the Kerwerede

• Village festival on the third weekend of June
• Kerwe the first weekend in September
• “Gaulssteig hike” in October
• Nikolausmarkt on the second weekend of Advent

To the place every year on Sunday Laetare Stabaus instead of from the Kerwe youth is organized.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Rüssingen belongs to the Palatinate wine-growing region . Is the individual situation on the ground Breinsberg that the major site Schnepfenflug from Zellertal belongs.

The Dyckerhoff quarry, which cannot be overlooked, is about 500 meters north of the village . Limestone has been mined here for cement production since the 1960s. The mighty quarry, with its striking yellow and white silhouette, characterizes the village from afar and has now become a retreat for wild animals.

traffic

Der Kreisstraße 69 runs through Rüssingen and connects to Ottersheim and Göllheim. From this, the district road 70 branches off to Biedesheim. Over by Mainz to Kaiserslautern running A 63 is in the West following the long-distance transport.

Personalities

• Albert Lauermann, sculptor, founder of the stucco factory Albert Lauermann , came from Rüssingen
• Mario Basler (* 1968), soccer player, played sporadically for TuS Rüssingen from 2013 to 2016

Web links

Commons : Rüssingen  - Collection of images

• Local community Rüssingen on the website of the Göllheim association
• Literature about Rüssingen 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 (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2020. S. 135 (PDF; 1 MB).
3. ↑ ^{a b} M. Hoffmann: The Göllheim Association - A cultural and historical travel guide. Göllheim 1997.
4. ↑ Michael Frey: Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal. bayer. Rhine circle. Volume 1. Speyer 1837, pp. 215-216.
5. ↑ Berthold Schnabel : The former Kreuzkapelle near Rüssingen. In: Submerged villages and small settlements in the Northern Palatinate. 1996.
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: City Council Election 2019 Rüssingen. Accessed August 31, 2019 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections.
8. ^ Archives of the local parish
9. ↑ Local community Rüssingen (ed.): Rüssingen tells its story . 2018 (local history).
10. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. Retrieved on August 31, 2019 (see Göllheim, Verbandsgemeinde, tenth line of the result).