Rohrbach (Palatinate)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '  N , 8 ° 8'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southern Wine Route
Association municipality :	Herxheim
Height :	139 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.25 km 2
Residents:	1805 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	195 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	76865
Area code :	06349
License plate :	SOUTH
Community key :	07 3 37 068
Association administration address:	Obere Hauptstrasse 2 76863 Herxheim
Website :	www.rohrbach-pfalz.de
Local Mayor :	Thomas Kienzler (FWG)
Location of the Rohrbach community in the Südliche Weinstrasse district

Rohrbach is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstrasse district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Herxheim Association .

geography

Rohrbach is located in the Upper Rhine Plain in the southern Palatinate between Landau in the Palatinate (approx. 8 km away) and Karlsruhe (approx. 30 km away). The Lettenhof residential area also belongs to the community . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Insheim , Herxheim near Landau / Pfalz , Steinweiler , Billigheim-Ingenheim and Impflingen .

The Klingbach is to a large extent the Gemarkungsgrenze to Steinweiler. The Kaiserbach brushes the southwestern edge of the settlement before it flows into the Klingbach from the left. The Quodbach , also a left tributary of the Klingbach, forms the border with Insheim in the east. Rohrbach is located in the conservation area "Klingbachtal-Kaiserbachtal".

history

The place is first documented in 693. The village was originally free of the empire , but since the 14th century the empire pledged it to the Electoral Palatinate .

Until the end of the 18th century it belonged to the Electoral Palatinate office Billigheim , which was subordinate to the Oberamt Germersheim . A battle of the French Revolutionary War took place near Rohrbach on June 29, 1793 . The Austrian troops under Field Marshal Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser fought back the French army and thus thwarted the relief of Mainz .

From 1792 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Rohrbach was initially incorporated into the Canton Billigheim and after its dissolution from 1802 into the Canton Bergzabern . In 1815 the place Austria was added. Just one year later, the place changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 the place was part of the Landkommissariat Bergzabern , which was then converted into a district office.

In 1939 the place was incorporated into the Bergzabern district. After the Second World War , Rohrbach became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . During the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform changed the community on June 7, 1969 in the newly created district Landau-Bad Bergzabern, in 1978 in South County Wine Trail is renamed . In 1972 the community was assigned to the also newly formed Verbandsgemeinde Herxheim .

religion

The Jews living in the village were buried in Annweiler .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Rohrbach consists of 16 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	FDP	FWG	total
2019	4th	4th	-	8th	16 seats
2014	4th	6th	-	6th	16 seats
2009	3	5	2	6th	16 seats
2004	3	6th	3	4th	16 seats

mayor

Thomas Kienzler (FWG) became the local mayor of Rohrbach on August 27, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he prevailed against the previous incumbent Peter Feser (CDU), who had held the office for ten years, with a 55.05% share of the vote.

coat of arms

The Landesarchiv Speyer (Mr. Debus) describes the Rohrbach coat of arms in 1977 as follows:

Blazon : "Under the black head of the shield, a golden shieldwith three black tipson the left flank, on the golden background of which a black mark in the form of an" 8 ", the upper circle of which is not completely closed."

Justification of the coat of arms: Until 1977, Rohrbach did not have an approved municipal coat of arms , but it did have an old court seal from 1698, which showed the ban mark in the oval shield. The colors black and gold are reminiscent of the former belonging to the Electoral Palatinate . The black head of the shield and the three spikes on the sides were taken from the coat of arms of the old gentry family "von Rohrbach", which, however, was on a silver instead of a gold background. The knight dynasty was of considerable importance for the place from the 13th to the 15th century.

Parish partnership

With Axams in Tirol (Austria) is one since 1978 community partnership .

Simultaneous Church of St. Michael in Rohrbach

Culture and sights

Monuments

There are a total of 27 objects that are listed as historical monuments in the municipality .

Rohrbach Südpfalz train station

The former station building was renovated and refurbished. There is now a restaurant, a kitchen studio and office and seminar rooms.

museum

In the Pfiesterhaus, a restored half-timbered house from the 16th century, a patronage association looks after the community's own village history collection.

Supraregional events

• Wine festival

The Rohrbach Wine Festival , which takes place annually on the second weekend in June, is known far beyond the municipality's borders and is one of the most popular festivals of its kind.

• Wurschtzippel Kerwe

On the first weekend in October the traditional Wurschtzippel Kerwe takes place on the square in front of the village community center.

• Rohrbacher cinnamon magic

The Rohrbacher Advent market "Zimt Zauber" takes place on the second weekend of Advent. The organizer donates the proceeds to a charitable cause.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Rohrbach is a wine-growing town and as such part of the Palatinate wine-growing region . The individual layers Almond Path and Schäfergarten exist on site .

traffic

Rohrbach train station

The Rohrbach (Pfalz) station on the Neustadt – Wissembourg railway line, opened in 1855, is located on the eastern edge of the settlement and is part of the Rhein-Neckar transport association (RNV) and the Karlsruhe transport association (KVV) tariff area ; operationally it is now just a stopping point. Until the opening of the Steinweiler stop, it was called Rohrbach-Steinweiler . There are hourly regional train connections to Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and Karlsruhe ; Regional express trains and trains on the Neustadt – Wissembourg route pass through Rohrbach without stopping. From 1892 to 1968 Rohrbach was also the starting point of the Klingbachtalbahn , which led to Klingenmünster .

Rohrbach is located directly on the A 65 ; which crosses the extreme east of the district in north-south direction. The Rohrbach junction is located on site . State road 554 and district road 21 run right through the village .

education

The Rohrbach primary school offers a state study seminar for teaching at primary and secondary schools, the PAMINA Rohrbach study seminar .

Personalities

• Berthold Schnabel (* 1943), regional historian, was on-site head of history at the state study seminar for teaching at primary and secondary schools
• Rosi Eichenlaub (* 1958), soccer player, runs a logistics company in Rohrbach

literature

• Philipp Elsner: Knight families of the lower nobility in the late Middle Ages and their castle in Rohrbach. A contribution to the local history of the southern Palatinate village of Rohrbach in the Herxheim community. Rohrbach, June 1993
• Gudrun Elsner Rohrbacher picture sheet. Walks through the old Rohrbach with pictures from days gone by. Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar, ISBN 3-89570-397-4

Web links

Commons : Rohrbach  - Collection of Images

• Web presence of the Rohrbach community
• Literature about Rohrbach 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 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 102 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ↑ Erhard Nietzschmann: The free in the country. Former German imperial villages and their coats of arms. Melchior, Wolfenbüttel 2013, ISBN 978-3-944289-16-8 , p. 65.
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
5. ↑ Public notice. Constituent meeting of the local council. In: Mitteilungsblatt - Official Journal of the Herxheim Association. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH, edition 26/2019, accessed on April 18, 2020 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Herxheim, Verbandsgemeinde, fifth row of results. Retrieved April 18, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Kienzler wins election - Rohrbach gets new mayor. Pfalz-Express, May 26, 2019, accessed on April 18, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Gerhard Sommer: Rohrbach: Mayor Peter Feser will run again in the election. April 1, 2019, accessed April 18, 2020 . 
9. ^ "Culture and event station": Designer Steverding transforms Rohrbacher station into a regional highlight . In: Pfalz-Express . ( pfalz-express.de [accessed on February 11, 2017]).