Roxheim (Bobenheim-Roxheim)

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Roxheim
Roxheim coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 34 ′ 42 "  N , 8 ° 21 ′ 58"  E
Incorporation : 7th June 1969
Postal code : 67240
Area code : 06239
Roxheim (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Roxheim

Location of Roxheim in Rhineland-Palatinate
Bettinger tomb, Roxheim cemetery, with a reduced version of the Immaculate from the Trier Marian column

Roxheim is the smaller part of the municipality of Bobenheim-Roxheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate Rhein-Palatinate district .

location

Roxheim is located in the Upper Rhine Plain in the southern part of the local community. In the meantime, the place has grown together structurally with Bobenheim, so that spatial separation is no longer possible.

history

Until the end of the 18th century, the place belonged to the Hochstift Worms . From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Roxheim was incorporated into the canton of Frankenthal and was subordinate to Mairie Bobenheim . In 1815 the place had a total of 410 inhabitants. From 1818 to 1862 the place was part of the Landkommissariat Frankenthal , which was then converted into a district office.

In 1938 the place was incorporated into the Frankenthal district. After the Second World War , Roxheim became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . As part of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate, Roxheim was merged with the neighboring community of Bobenheim am Rhein on June 7, 1969 to form the new local community of Bobenheim-Roxheim . At the same time, the place changed to the district of Ludwigshafen, which has been called Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis since 2004 .

From 1888 to 1895 the later Cardinal Franziskus von Bettinger was the local pastor in Roxheim. His mother died there in 1890 and her grave monument to Gottfried Renn is preserved in the cemetery. His Immaculata figure is a reduced version of the artist's monumental statue on the Trier Marian column .

Infrastructure

The local history museum Bobenheim-Roxheim is located in the center of Roxheim . There is also the Catholic Church of St. Maria Magdalena in the village . From 1885 there was a synagogue in the village , which was abandoned in the 1930s and then converted into a residential building. There was also a Jewish cemetery for a time .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Georg Biundo (1892–1988), Protestant clergyman and historian

Sons and daughters of the place