Sausenheim

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Sausenheim
City of Grünstadt
Sausenheim coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 32 ′ 55 ″  N , 8 ° 9 ′ 25 ″  E
Height : 190 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 1675  (Jun 30, 2007)
Incorporation : 7th June 1969
Postal code : 67269
Area code : 06359
Townscape
Townscape

Sausenheim is a district of Grünstadt in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate with around 1675 inhabitants. Until 1969 it was an independent community.

geography

Sausenheim is located at the northeastern end of the Palatinate Forest on the northern foothills of the Haardt , towards the Rhine plain. The distance to the eastern Rhine-Neckar conurbation with Ludwigshafen am Rhein and Mannheim is about 30 kilometers, the distance to the next largest city in the west, Kaiserslautern , is about 35 kilometers. The Sausenheimer Graben rises on the northeastern edge of the settlement . The landscape is characterized by vineyards and the hills of the Haardtrandes with a view of the castle village of Neuleiningen . With a linden tree at the monument and a linden tree at the church, there are two natural monuments on site .

Above Sausenheim, on the other side of the BAB 6 , flows the very rich Queckbrunnen , from which a water pipe led to the Grünstadt stoneware factory in the 19th century . Near it there is a cliff formation with the relatively large by local standards Fuchshöhle .

history

Sausenheim (from Heim des Suso ) was first mentioned in 772 in the Lorsch Codex . The right of patronage over the place was incumbent on the Maria Münster monastery located in Worms .

Until the end of the 18th century the place belonged to Leiningen-Westerburg . From 1798 to 1814, when the left bank of the Rhine was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Saussenheim - as it was spelled at the time - was incorporated into the canton of Grünstadt in the Donnersberg department and was the seat of its own mairie . In 1815 the place had 500 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 he was a member of the Frankenthal Land Commissioner ; from this the district office of Frankenthal emerged.

From 1939 Sausenheim was part of the Frankenthal (Palatinate) district . After the Second World War , the place became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform , the place was incorporated into Grünstadt on June 7, 1969. At the same time he moved to the newly created Bad Dürkheim district. In addition to the historic village center, there are three building areas that were developed in the 20th century. In the 1950s, new residential buildings were built west of the village center towards the neighboring village of Neuleiningen . In the late 1970s the building area lime originated east of the old village and finally in the 1990s, the building area Kaiser hedge north of the village. Overall, the built-up village area has more than doubled as a result. The population rose to around 2,300.

coat of arms

Sausenheim coat of arms
Blazon : " St. Peter growingin gold, with a silver nimbus and blue cloak, in the right hand a raised silver key , in the left a red book with gold fittings"

politics

Local advisory board

The district of Sausenheim is designated as a local district and therefore has a local advisory board and a local councilor .

The local advisory board consists of seven local advisory board members. In the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the advisory board members were elected in a personalized proportional representation. The distribution of seats in the elected local council:

choice SPD CDU FWG total
2019 3 3 1 7 seats
2014 3 3 1 7 seats

Mayor

The mayor is Gerd Walther (SPD). In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with 58.27% of the votes.

Culture

The high altar donated by Canon Martin Augsthaler in the cath. Stephanskirche

Are located on site a total of 17 properties under conservation are, including the two churches.

In the Protestant St. Peter's Church there is, among other things, an extraordinary baptismal font from the 15th century, and in the Catholic Church of St. Stephen there is a baroque sandstone high altar from 1728, which was donated by the Worms canon Martin Augsthaler .

A wine kerwe with the largest carriage parade in the Palatinate takes place every third weekend in September. The route of the German Wine Road marathon, which has been held since 1998, leads through Sausenheim, among other places.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Sausenheim is in the "bacon belt" of the Rhine-Neckar triangle . Many residents are commuters who visit their workplaces in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , Mannheim , Frankenthal (Palatinate) or Worms every day by car. The largest employer in town is the Sausenheimer Wellpappenfabrik . Wine has been grown in Sausenheim for over 1200 years . There are now around fifteen medium-sized wineries and several hobby winemakers. Since 2013, BrauArt Sausenheim has also been a local brewery.

traffic

Sausenheim owned a train station on the Grünstadt – Altleiningen railway line, which opened in 1903 and on which passenger traffic came to a standstill in 1967. The place is located on the federal highway 6 and in close proximity to the German Wine Route . State road 453 runs through the town itself .

Personalities

  • Georg Seiblin (1529–1591), lawyer and diplomat in the service of the Duchy of Worms, was awarded corn and wine gels on site
  • Martin Augsthaler (before 1711– ~ 1749), clergyman, had an altar built in the Catholic Church
  • Johann Schlesinger (1768–1840), portrait and still life painter in Mannheim and Heidelberg, lived here in old age and also died in Sausenheim.
  • Emil Müller (1864–1918), pastor, local historian, historian and book author, took over the local parish in 1901
  • Ludwig Kern (1902–1942), sculptor, created the local war memorial
  • Lisa Ryzih (birth name Russian Елизавета Владимировна Рыжих, Jelisaweta Vladimirovna Ryschich; born September 27, 1988 in Omsk, Soviet Union) is a German pole vaulter of Russian origin who lives there.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Website of the city administration of Grünstadt with section on Queckbrunnen
  2. Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 3), Certificate 1310, July 22nd, 772 - Reg. 786. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 192 , accessed on April 6, 2016 .
  3. Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 165 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
  4. ^ City of Grünstadt: Grünstadt local councils. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
  5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Sausenheim. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
  6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local council election 2014 Sausenheim. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
  7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Grünstadt, association-free municipality, second line of results. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
  8. ^ The Rhine Palatinate: Sausenheim: Gerd Walther remains local chief. August 15, 2019, accessed October 12, 2019 .