Ruchheim

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Ruchheim
district of Ludwigshafen
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Area : 9.61 km²
Residents : 6,072
Population density : 631.84 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 67071

Ruchheim is a district and at the same time one of the ten districts of the independent city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein in Rhineland-Palatinate .

geography

location

Ruchheim from the south

Ruchheim is about nine kilometers west of the city center and can be reached via the motorway. The place is located in a low terrace of the Rhine plain and has only slight differences in altitude. The altitude varies only between 94 and 95 meters above sea level. As a result, the groundwater level is also very high. As a result, most houses used to be built without a basement. Even the cemetery could hardly be used without filling it up and was therefore filled up by about one meter. On the other hand, this location offers favorable conditions for irrigating the fields and thus for growing vegetables.

The 929 hectare district borders the communities of Maxdorf and Eppstein in the north, Fußgönheim in the west and Mutterstadt in the south (all of which are Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis ). In the east lies the Ludwigshafen district of Oggersheim .

climate

Ruchheim lies in the Upper Rhine Plain, which is protected from cold easterly winds by the Odenwald and from stormy westerly winds by the Palatinate Forest . Therefore, mainly winds from the north and south blow here. The winds from the southwest are most common. This makes the area one of the least rainy regions in Germany. The mean annual temperature is around 10 ° C.

Due to its location west of Ludwigshafen, Ruchheim is largely spared from the industrial emissions from the city of Ludwigshafen. An old saying goes:

“ Two hours from the mountains and two hours from the Rhine is good. "

history

Memorial plaque at the community center
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Ruchheim was first mentioned in a document in the Lorsch Codex in 771 when it was donated.

In 1700 Ruchheim was sold to the von Russicon family from Basel . This converted the moated castle into a baroque castle complex, of which the house and parts of the surrounding wall are still preserved.

On March 16, 1974, Ruchheim was incorporated into Ludwigshafen. At that time the place had 2409 inhabitants. In the meantime it has grown to approx. 6200 inhabitants.

The history of Ruchheim is also summarized on a plaque on the community center.

Surname

The oldest known name of Ruchheim can be found in the Lorsch Codex in the form of Richinisheim , which should mean something like home of Richin . The name Richinesheim appears in a document from the Weißenburg monastery in 895. In a document from the same monastery from the 10th century it is called Ruochheim (Home of Ruoch). In 1271 the place name is given as Rucheim. From 1600 the current spelling Ruchheim appears for the first time. However, the name Rugheim is still spelled in 1836.

About the spelling of the name there is a gladly told anecdote from 1972, in which the SPD local association celebrated its 70th founding party in the Zum Schwanen hall . On the stage it was written in big red styrofoam letters:

" 70 years of the SPD Ruchheim "

Then the landlord Kurt Gerhardt came into the hall and scolded:

" What did you do then? Since when has Ruchem been writing with zwä 'h'? "

The question confused the whole congregation and all comrades began to spell. No one was sure how the place name would be spelled correctly. So they picked up the phone book and were relieved to find that they had spelled Ruchheim correctly after all.

Culture

Attractions

Fountain with Paul Münch

In front of the palace there is a fountain that reminds of the dialect poet Paul Münch , who was born in Ruchheim in 1879 .

school

At the Astrid Lindgren Primary School, around 220 children are taught in nine classes up to grade 4.

Day care centers

The two day care centers in Ruchheim have space for a total of 215 children.

religion

In Ruchheim there is a Catholic and a Protestant parish. In addition, from 1850 to 1940 there was an independent Jewish community that owned a synagogue .

politics

Local advisory board

The political body for the local district is the Ruchheim local council and the local mayor . The local council has seven members. He can be heard on all important questions relating to the local district.

For the composition of the local council, see the results of the local elections in Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

Mayor

The mayor of Ruchheim is Dennis Schmidt (CDU). He prevailed in a runoff election on June 16, 2019 with a share of 54.51% of the vote against the previous incumbent Heike Scharfenberger (SPD). This election became necessary after none of the original four applicants had achieved the necessary majority in the local elections on May 26, 2019 .

societies

The Gesangverein 1862 Ruchheim is a male choir that was founded in 1862 and is one of the oldest choirs in Ludwigshafen and the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis. The choir community Ruchheim 1975 is a mixed choir that was founded in 1975.

sports clubs

The most important clubs in Ruchheim include the SVR (Sportverein-Ruchheim) and the TVR (Turnverein-Ruchheim), which has more members.

Economy and Transport

The Rhein-Haardtbahn and a bus line operated by Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (RNV) run through Ruchheim . The place is also close to the federal highway 650 , federal highway 61 and federal highway 9 .

Ruchheim has a riding stables. The Leuchtfeuerhof in Ruchheim was built in 2005 on the site of a former vegetable farm and is one of the 14 full-time agricultural businesses in this district of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. It got its name based on a quote from the native Ludwigshafen philosopher Ernst Bloch , who described his hometown as one of the first seaside towns in the inland and as such performed a beacon function. The Leuchtfeuerhof is known in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region as a horse company, here primarily as a riding school.

Sons and daughters of the place

literature

  • Friedrich Barth: Ruchheim yesterday and today . City archive Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen 1986. ISBN 3-924667-11-X .
  • Karl Senck: The Leit hans said it. Ruchheim anecdotes . Self-published, Ludwigshafen 1997.
  • City archive of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Stefan Mörz , Klaus Jürgen Becker (eds.): History of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein: Vol. 1. From the beginnings to the end of the First World War . Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2003, ISBN 3-924667-35-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Die Rheinpfalz, Marktplatz LU, March 9, 2011
  2. ↑ a b Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 4), Certificate 2082 August 19, 771 - Reg. 663. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 37 , accessed on January 20, 2016 .
  3. ↑ 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. 185 (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.  
  4. ↑ Quoted from Karl Senck: The Leit hänn's said. Ruchheim anecdotes . Ludwigshafen: self-published, 1997
  5. ^ City of Ludwigshafen am Rhein: Main statute for the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. § 2, main statute of July 22nd, 1974, last amended by statute of May 15th, 2019. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. Ludwigshafen, see sixth row of results. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Ludwigshafen-Ruchheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 27 ″  N , 8 ° 19 ′ 46 ″  E