Landstuhl
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Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ' N , 7 ° 34' E |
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| State : | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| County : | Kaiserslautern | |
| Association municipality : | Landstuhl | |
| Height : | 248 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 15.33 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 8368 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 546 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 66849 | |
| Area code : | 06371 | |
| License plate : | KL | |
| Community key : | 07 3 35 022 | |
| City structure: | Core city and 8 districts / districts | |
| Association administration address: | Kaiserstraße 49 66849 Landstuhl |
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| City Mayor : | Ralf Hersina ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the city of Landstuhl in the Kaiserslautern district | ||
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The Sickingenstadt Landstuhl is the administrative seat of the Landstuhl Association and the most populous city in the Kaiserslautern district in Rhineland-Palatinate . Landstuhl is a state-approved resort and according to state planning as a middle center.
geography
location
In the north, Landstuhl borders the - predominantly dry - West Palatinate moorland and the Sickinger stage . To the south and east it lies on the edge of the Palatinate Forest . The Sickinger Höhe begins a few kilometers south . The 453-meter-high Hörnchenberg also extends to the south of the urban area . The 428 meter high Bildachen extends further to the southwest .
The next bigger cities are:
| city | distance | direction |
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| Kaiserslautern | about 20 km | east |
| Homburg | about 30 km | west |
| Pirmasens | about 33 km | southern |
| Zweibrücken | about 40 km | southern |
| Saarbrücken | about 55 km | west |
| Ludwigshafen am Rhein | about 80 km | east |
| Mannheim | about 82 km | east |
| Mainz | about 95 km | northeast |
| Bad Kreuznach | about 96 km | northeast |
Neighboring communities
The city borders clockwise in the north, beginning with the city of Ramstein-Miesenbach , in the northeast with Kindsbach , in the southeast with Bann , in the south with Oberarnbach , in the southwest with Mittelbrunn , in the west with Langwieden and Hauptstuhl .
City structure
The individual districts and districts are marked with official numbers.
| Official Num. | Core city | Residents |
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| 01 | center | 3,600 |
| 02 | Kirchberg | 3,011 |
| Core city as a whole | 6,611 | |
| Official Num. | Districts | Residents |
| 03 | Dairy | 1.313 |
| 04 | Atzel | 312 |
| 05 | Breitenwald | 232 |
| 06 | At Rothenborn | 150 |
| 07 | Bildacherhof | 93 |
| 08 | Kahlenberg | 85 |
| 09 | Resin furnace | 15th |
| Total districts | 2,200 | |
| City overall | 8,811 | |
(Population as of December 31, 2017)
climate
Every year there is 886 mm of precipitation . That is a lot and is in the upper quarter of the values recorded in Germany. Lower values are registered at 76% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is April, the wettest December. In December there is 1.5 times more rainfall than in April. The precipitation hardly varies and is very evenly distributed over the year. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at only 6% of the measuring stations .
history
Early and Middle Ages
The earliest traces of permanent settlement in the Landstuhl area are the stone wreath graves from the La Tène period (500 BC to the birth of Christ). The Heidenfels , a spring sanctuary between Landstuhl and Kindsbach, which was visited by the Gallo-Roman provincial population until Roman times, dates from the time of the Celts . A burial field in the area of the Roman settlement has been identified and researched, and its use from the 1st to the end of the 4th century is documented by coin finds.
The place Landstuhl became the center of the rule of the same name in the middle of the 12th century; Around 1160 Emperor Barbarossa had Nanstein Castle built on the mountain south of the city . The entire village was surrounded by a city wall, into which Nanstein Castle and, later, Landstuhl Castle were integrated in the east. In 1326 Landstuhl was first mentioned as a city in a document .
Modern times
After various owners, Landstuhl came to the von Sickingen family at the end of the 15th century as part of the Landstuhl estate , which existed until the end of the 18th century. The most famous member of this family was Franz von Sickingen . After his defeat in the Palatinate Knight Uprising, he had to retreat to Nanstein Castle, where he was seriously wounded during the siege by the Archbishop of Trier , the Count Palatine of the Rhine and the Landgrave of Hesse when shelling the fortifications and his injuries on May 7, 1523 he laid. Landstuhl Castle was demolished in 1732.
From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Landstuhl was the seat of the canton of the same name and of the Mairie of the same name , which also included Bann and Kindsbach. In the same year, Austria was struck. Then the place changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 Landstuhl was part of the Landkommissariat Homburg , which was then converted into a district office.
Since part of the district office - including Homburg itself - was added to the newly created Saar area in 1920 , the city moved to the newly created district office in Kaiserslautern and was a district office branch until 1938. From 1939 he was the seat of the Landstuhl district of Kaiserslautern . After the Second World War , Landstuhl became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , the city became the seat of the association of the same name in 1972 . The town has had the name "Sickingenstadt" since July 14, 1995.
population
Population development
The development of the population of Landstuhl, the values from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses :
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religion
In 2012, 45.1 percent of the population were Catholic and 27.8 percent Protestant . The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational. The Catholics belong to the Diocese of Speyer , the Evangelicals to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate . The Jewish community once resident there owned a synagogue , the interior of which fell victim to the November pogroms in 1938 ; its members were buried in Herschberg until 1896 .
politics
City council
The city council in Landstuhl consists of 24 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary city mayor as chairman.
The distribution of seats in the city council:
| choice | SPD | CDU | left | FWG | total |
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| 2019 | 8th | 12 | 1 | 3 | 24 seats |
| 2014 | 11 | 13 | - | - | 24 seats |
| 2009 | 6th | 13 | - | 2 | 24 seats |
| 2004 | 5 | 15th | - | 3 | 24 seats |
mayor
Mayor of Landstuhl is Ralf Hersina (SPD). In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with 55.81% of the vote.
coat of arms
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Blazon : "In gold, a black tin gate with an open red portcullis and two towers flanking a black sign with five silver bolts 2: 1: 2 at the top."
The coat of arms was approved by the Mainz Ministry of the Interior in 1962 and goes back to a court seal from 1637. |
Twin cities
Landstuhl maintains two city partnerships :
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Pont-à-Mousson , France , since 1967 -
Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg (district of Bad Kreuznach ), since 1998
Sights and culture
Cultural monuments
The old cemetery, which was used in the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as the Jewish cemetery are designated as a monument zone .
There are also numerous individual objects that are under monument protection , including the following objects:
The Nanstein castle was destroyed by the French in 1689. The Sickinger cubes come from Roman times ; they are the remains of a column grave from the 2nd century. The old chapel is the still preserved choir of the former medieval church of St. Andreas. On the Kirchberg west of the city stands the Bismarck Tower , which was donated in 1900 by the industrialist Carl Ferdinand von Stumm-Halberg (1836–1901) and is 19 meters high. The Villa Benzino is also a listed building .
nature
There are a total of six natural monuments on site , including the sequoia trees between Landstuhl and Langwieden . With a height of more than 41 meters and a trunk diameter of more than 2 meters, they are among the tallest trees in Rhineland-Palatinate. They were planted in 1868 by the " Freiherrlich von Stummschen " chief forester Schütz.
In addition, the nature reserves Moorwiesen-Ringgasser Bruch and Eastern Palatinate Moorniederung are partly within the Landstuhl district.
Customs and clubs
The city is home to, among other things, the fanfare parade “Sickinger Herolde” Landstuhl e. V. There is also the TuS Landstuhl and the Landstuhl Children's Theater , which in 2011 won the Emichsburg Prize of the Palatinate Dialect Poet Contest .
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
The city is the seat of VR-Bank Westpfalz , Imfeld Busverkehr and the clinic network Nardini Klinikum .
In Landstuhl there is a Deutsche Post delivery point that covers the entire district of Kaiserslautern . The Liebherr Group has its headquarters outside the city . Furthermore, there is a location of the BMW Euler Group in Landstuhl , the market leader in the field of sales of motor vehicles for BMW in the Southwest Palatinate region .
Hornbach Baustoff Union has a branch in the industrial area . The Haber - Textile Services GmbH and Torpedo Group (Torpedo Garage) operate individual sites in Landstuhl.
The Broadway cinema is partly on the city limits . Even McDonald's operates a branch at the city limits to Ramstein-Miesenbach.
traffic
- rail
In 1849 the Ludwigsbahn running through the city was completed. The public transport in the transport association Rhein-Neckar integrated (VRN). In Landstuhl, the railway to Kusel branches off from the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway ; the latter emerged from the Ludwig Railway. Intercity stop at Landstuhl station only rarely, these were largely replaced by the regional express RE 1 (Mannheim – Koblenz) in the 2014 timetable change . The S1 and S2 lines of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn stop at the station .
- Street
The national road 363 leads north to south through the city and runs from Glan-Münchweiler until after Steinalben . The Kaiserstraße , laid out by Napoleon and running in a west-east direction, is identical on site to Landesstraße 395 . The state roads 465 and 69 lead to the Saarland border at Zweibrücken. The state road 470 creates a transverse axis to the state roads 363 and 395. The district road 60 leads in the southern direction to the border with the district of Südwestpfalz .
Landstuhl is connected to the national road network by the A 6 ( Saarbrücken - Waidhaus ) and A62 ; the latter passes the Hörnchenberg tunnel south of the city . In the immediate vicinity of the village is the Landstuhl-West motorway junction , which is already in the Ramstein-Miesenbach district. The so-called Sickingen bus operates in the city and serves all parts of the city as well as the city center.
tourism
Many hiking trails lead through the village or nearby, including the northern route of the Palatinate Way of St. James . The Franconian-Hesse-Kurpfalz long-distance hiking trail marked with a red cross and the Saar-Rhine hiking trail with a black point on a white bar also lead through the middle of the city . One that is marked with a green-yellow cross runs through the southwest of the district . In addition, the Sickinger Mühlenradweg leads through Landstuhl. In addition, the city is the northern end of a mill trail that runs through the Wallhalbtal .
dishes
In Landstuhl there is a district court that belongs to the regional court and OLG district of Zweibrücken .
Authorities
In the small town of Landstuhl there is a police station belonging to the West Palatinate police headquarters . In addition, some of them are located outside of the city, there are offices of the Employment Agency and TÜV Rheinland , as well as a vehicle registration authority that is responsible for the entire district. A branch of the Kusel-Landstuhl tax office is located in the center.
military
Since 1952 there was the military airfield Landstuhl Air Base northeast of the city , which at the end of 1957 was merged with the neighboring Ramstein Air Force installation under the name Ramstein-Landstuhl Air Base and later renamed Ramstein Air Base .
The US armed forces operate the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC) military hospital complex in Landstuhl above the actual city center - on the Kirchberg - with specialist clinics for all kinds of wounds. It is the largest facility of its kind outside the USA.
The medical center serves u. a. as a health care facility for the many thousands of members of the wide-ranging Kaiserslautern Military Community . This has been of strategic importance since around 1991: In almost all military conflicts outside the USA, for example in Southeastern Europe, the Near and Middle East, the Landstuhl Military Hospital has recently been the first stop for wounded military personnel on their way back to the United States. Already in the 1991 Gulf War and during the operations in the former Yugoslavia ( Yugoslavia war ) wounded were stabilized, treated and cared for before it for further treatment or follow-up to the Landstuhl US were flown.
Wounded people from Iraq (see Iraq war ) and Afghanistan (see ISAF ) are currently being treated here. The LRMC and the armed forces stationed in the area are employers for many German civilian employees in a relatively structurally weak region.
In addition to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center , Landstuhl also has the US Army's satellite communication facility on the Breitenwald ( Sat Comm Site Breitenwald ) and a heliport there .
education
Landstuhl has the following ten schools with over 2000 students:
General education schools
- Primary school In der Au
- Theodor Heuss Primary School
- Integrated comprehensive school Am Nanstein and Realschule plus (school association IGS Landstuhl)
- St. Katharina secondary school
- Sickingen high school
Vocational schools
- Vocational school in the Kaiserslautern district
- Private vocational school Haus Nazareth
- Nikolaus von Weis School
Special schools
- Jakob Weber School
- Rehabilitation West Palatinate
In 2008 the Social Pedagogical College of the Diocese of Speyer celebrated its 75th anniversary. The vocational training areas of social assistance, education, curative education and care for the elderly are offered here. Organizationally, the private vocational school Haus Nazareth is closely linked with housekeeping, social care and economics courses. In the economic area, it is also possible to acquire the school-based part of the technical college entrance qualification. The Catholic secondary school St. Katharina can look back on almost 50 years . On Sickingen High School, formerly nor Latin School Landstuhl called, was already Ludwig Thoma taught. In Landstuhl there is also an external branch of the Kaiserslautern vocational school (including the pedagogy department ), the integrated comprehensive school Am Nanstein and Realschule (emerged from the state Konrad-Adenauer- Realschule (KARLA) and the state Friedrich-Ebert- Hauptschule ) as well as the Jakob -Weber- special school .
Personalities
Among the personalities who have been made honorary citizens is the architect Rudolf von Perignon .
In the 19th century, the merchant and art collector Joseph Benzino and Cardinal Franziskus von Bettinger were born in Landstuhl .
Due to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center located in the city, many Americans were born in Landstuhl in the 20th century, whose fathers were temporarily stationed in and around Kaiserslautern, including the actor LeVar Burton , the musician Rob Thomas and the basketball player Shawn Bradley and the presenter Heather De Lisle .
Web links
- Website of the city of Landstuhl
- virtual tour through the old town
- Historic downtown tour through Landstuhl (English)
- Circuit dans la vieille ville de Landstuhl (French)
- Retail concept for the city of Landstuhl 2016. (PDF; 2.5 MB) Society for Market and Sales Research mbH, March 24, 2016, accessed on July 24, 2017 .
- Literature about Landstuhl in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ a b State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
- ↑ a b The history of the Landstuhl Tax Office, Kusel-Landstuhl Tax Office, accessed on August 1, 2013.
- ↑ Population as of December 31, 2015
- ↑ Population as of December 31, 2016
- ↑ Population as of December 31, 2017
- ↑ Landstuhl.de Population, as of May 31, 2018
- ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2012
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Landstuhl, Verbandsgemeinde, sixth row of results. Retrieved November 1, 2019 .
- ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
- ↑ Landstuhl's sequoias
- ↑ Information on the Fanfarenzug ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 30, 2015
- ↑ Information on Hornbach's head office in Landstuhl , accessed on July 16, 2017
- ↑ Information on Haber's head office in Landstuhl , accessed on July 16, 2017
- ↑ Information on Torpedo Garage's head office in Landstuhl , accessed on July 16, 2017
- ↑ Information about the Broadway cinema in Landstuhl / Ramstein-Süd ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 16, 2017
- ↑ Facts and figures on the 2016/17 school year at the schools in Landstuhl , accessed on July 16, 2017
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