Schwegenheim

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '  N , 8 ° 20'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Germersheim
Association municipality :	Lingenfeld
Height :	123 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.27 km 2
Residents:	3056 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	249 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67365
Area code :	06344
License plate :	GER
Community key :	07 3 34 028
Association administration address:	Hauptstrasse 60 67360 Lingenfeld
Website :	www.schwegenheim.de
Local Mayor :	Bodo Lutzke (FWG)
Location of the local community Schwegenheim in the district of Germersheim

Schwegenheim is a municipality in the district of Germersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate . It has belonged to the Lingenfeld Association since 1972, along with five other surrounding communities .

geography

Geographical location

Schwegenheim lies in the Rhine plain between the Haardt ( Palatinate Forest ) and the city of Speyer on the Rhine. The Hainbach flows through Schwegenheim .

Neighboring communities

The following cities and municipalities border the municipality. They are called clockwise starting in the north:

• Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis : Harthausen and Römerberg
• Germersheim district : Lingenfeld , Westheim and Weingarten
• District of Southern Wine Route : Gommersheim

Community structure

Schwegenheim also includes the Bründelsberg, Vorderlohe and Hof Sonnenfeld residential areas .

climate

The climate in Schwegenheim is, like in the whole of the Vorderpfalz and the adjacent Kurpfalz, relatively mild (warm summers, almost snowless winters). The annual average temperature is 9 ° C.

history

Antiquity

Inscription from 1712 on the house at Hauptstrasse 79

At the time of the conquest of Gaul by Gaius Julius Caesar, the tribes of the Triboker or Wangionen lived in the region around Schwegenheim . After the conquest, the province of Germania superior and the Rhine formed the border between the Roman Empire and Germania. Later even smaller parts east of the Rhine were conquered and decumates to the Roman province of Agri . When more and more Franconian and Alemannic tribes oppressed this province, it was abandoned in 275/276 and the Limes moved back to the Rhine. After the Ostrogoths invaded Italy in 405, the Roman troops were withdrawn from the Palatinate in 406.

middle Ages

In a deed of donation from 985, the community Suaebechenheim was first mentioned as the property of the Weißenburg monastery .

Modern times

In the 15./16. In the 19th century, Schwegenheim became a common part between the Speyer Monastery and the Electoral Palatinate in the joint Landeck district . In 1709, the Speyer Monastery gave its share to the Landeck office. Schwegenheim was therefore undivided into the Electoral Palatinate until 1797. As a result of the Revolutionary Wars , Schwegenheim came to the Département du Mont-Tonnerre in Napoleonic times and was finally slammed into Bavaria after the Congress of Vienna . After the Second World War, Schwegenheim became a Rhineland-Palatinate municipality.

In 1989 Schwegenheim won the gold plaque in the national competition " Our village should be more beautiful ".

Population development

If not listed separately, the source of the data is the State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate.

year Residents 1802 825 1815 1,258 1835 1,346 1849 1,420 1861 1,463 1871 1,449 1905 1,391

year Residents 1939 1,536 1950 1,757 1965 2,036 1970 2,057 1975 2,077 1980 2,207 1985 2,294

year Residents 1990 2,336 1995 2,470 2000 2,830 2005 2,938 2010 2,918 2013 2,892 2017 3,006

religion

In 2012, 46.0 percent of the population were Protestant and 24.1 percent Catholic. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational. In 1871, of a total of 1,449 inhabitants, 1,216 were Protestant (84 percent), 189 were Catholic (13 percent) and 44 were Jewish (3 percent).

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Schwegenheim consists of 20 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	08th	3	09	20 seats
2014	09	3	08th	20 seats
2009	09	-	11	20 seats
2004	10	3	07th	20 seats

mayor

year	Local mayor	Political party
1974-1999	Kurt Kaufmann	SPD
1999-2019	Peter Goldschmidt	SPD
since 2019	Bodo Lutzke	FWG

Bodo Lutzke took up his post on August 16, 2019. In the runoff election on June 16, 2019, he prevailed with a share of 60.62% of the vote, after none of the originally three applicants had achieved a sufficient majority in the direct election on May 26, 2019.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In silver, a blue horseshoe with downward facing studs." It was approved by the Interior Ministry in Mainz in 1964 and goes back to a seal from 1698.

Community partnerships

Schwegenheim entered into partnerships in 1974 with the village of Pichl in the municipality of Gsies in South Tyrol , in 1986 with the municipality of Lobsann in Alsace and in 1991 with Herzfelde in Brandenburg .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

The agricultural products thrive quite early in the Rhine valley - also in Schwegenheim - such as radishes, salads, potatoes, strawberries, asparagus, even almonds and honeydew melons. But also in autumn the local farmers and direct marketers offer a wide range of apples, pears and pumpkins.

traffic

Schwegenheim is connected to the national road network via federal highways 9 ( Kranenburg - Lauterbourg ) and 272 (to Landau in the Palatinate ). Until 1956 Schwegenheim had a train station and was connected to the narrow-gauge local railway Speyer – Neustadt (Pfefferminzbähnel). The train station is now a residential building.

energy

Since 2006 Schwegenheim location of three wind turbines at 49 ° 16 '6 "  N , 8 ° 21' 46"  O .

Four more wind turbines were built in 2019.

The first three systems mentioned have a total height of 150 meters, the other four one of 200 meters.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Julius von Kennel (1854–1939), German zoologist, entomologist and university professor
• Jakob Degen (1859–1947), administrative officer and district administrator in Kronach

People who worked on site

• Sarah Stricker (* 1980), journalist and writer

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Schwegenheim

Web links

Commons : Schwegenheim  - Collection of Images

• Schwegenheim Web presence of the community of Schwegenheim
• Literature about Schwegenheim 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 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 148 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved July 26, 2019 . 
4. ^ ^{A b c} Official directory and statistics of the Royal Bavarian Government District of the Palatinate, 1863, p. XXXVII of the appendix.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the census in the Kingdom of Bavaria from December 1, 1871 according to individual communities, 1873, p. 65.
6. ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2012
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
8. ↑ Schwegenheim: Bodo Lutzke sworn in as mayor. Pfalz-Express, August 18, 2019, accessed on April 24, 2020 . 
9. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections, individual results
10. ↑ Nadine Klose: Schwegenheim: Lutzke and Jäger go into the runoff election. Die Rheinpfalz, May 26, 2019, accessed on April 24, 2020 . 
11. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .