Sondernheim
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Sondernheim
City of Germersheim
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| Height : | 110 m above sea level NHN | |
| Residents : | 2043 (Apr 22, 1972) | |
| Incorporation : | April 22, 1972 | |
| Postal code : | 76726 | |
| Area code : | 07274 | |
Location of Sondernheim in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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Sondernheim , in Palatinate Sunnre , is a former municipality in the southeast of the Palatinate ( Rhineland-Palatinate ). Today it belongs to the district town of Germersheim as a district .
geography
Sondernheim is three kilometers south of Germersheim in the Rhine plain on the left bank of the Rhine . Since the river was straightened in the 19th century, it has been bordered by an arm of the Old Rhine , a loop of the river that has been cut off , while the Neurhein flows past at a distance of one kilometer to the east. A little further up the Rhine, near the north Baden village of Liedolsheim , the first verifiable breakthrough in a meander of the Rhine between Lauterburg and Worms was made as early as 1391 .
The Sondernheim threshold is important for navigation on the Rhine . At this shallow at the height of the place, which is caused by harder rock in the river bed , shipping traffic has to be stopped relatively early when the tide is low .
The Spiegelbach , an arm of the Queich that branches off to the right , flows into the Old Rhine on the outskirts of the district .
history
The village of Sondernheim was first mentioned in a document in 1309, but is probably much older. In 1426 Sondernheim, which at that time belonged to the Germersheim Servite Order as a branch , received a chapel. Before that, the Germersheim church had to be visited. In 1556 the Reformation was introduced in Sondernheim as in the entire Electoral Palatinate. However, the predominant religion changed several times in the Electoral Palatinate (in addition to the Catholic and Protestant beliefs as well as the Calvinist beliefs from the end of the 16th to the beginning of the 17th century). Sondernheim's church building, possibly still the chapel from 1426, was already in poor condition in the first half of the 17th century, so that the Sondernheim population returned to church in Germersheim by the end of the century at the latest. It was not until 1727 that the now ruinous building was replaced by a new church. The church that still exists today was completed in 1868.
On April 22, 1972, Sondernheim was incorporated into the district town of Germersheim.
Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1770 | 239 |
| 1802 | 263 |
| 1849 | 895 |
| 1861 | 889 |
| 1871 | 850 |
| 1895 | 930 |
| 1939 | 1267 |
| 1972 | 2043 |
In 1871, out of a total of 850 inhabitants, 681 were Catholic (80 percent) and 169 Protestant (20 percent).
politics
District
The district of Sondernheim is the only local district in the city of Germersheim and has its own local advisory council and a local councilor .
Local advisory board
The local council consists of 13 members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
The distribution of seats in the local advisory board:
| choice | SPD | CDU | Green | FWG | REP | total |
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| 2019 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | - | 13 seats |
| 2014 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 5 | - | 13 seats |
| 2009 | 2 | 6th | 1 | 4th | 0 | 13 seats |
Mayor
Friedrich Rentschler (FWG) became the mayor of Sondernheim in 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for another five years with a share of the vote of 53.21%. His predecessors were Rolf Glück, the first directly elected mayor Gerd Herr (FWG, term of office 1999–2009) and Walter Müller (CDU).
Culture and sights
Buildings
Regular events
- The summer parade takes place every year on Sunday Laetare .
- The Kerwe (Kirchweih) in Sondernheim was mentioned as early as 1565. The festival takes place annually in August.
- Sondernheimer Christkindlmarkt annually on the 3rd weekend in Advent
traffic
The supraregional road network can be reached from Sondernheim via federal highway 9 ( Ludwigshafen - Wörth am Rhein , junctions Germersheim-Süd or Bellheim-Nord).
Sondernheim is connected to the Schifferstadt – Wörth railway line with a stop . The Karlsruhe Stadtbahn has been serving this route between Germersheim and Wörth since December 2010 .
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- Franz Lang , Catholic pastor from 1923 to 1948, appointed in 1948
- Heinrich Scherer , Mayor from 1932 to 1945, appointed in 1968
- Valentin Moos , later Bruno Moos, People's Missionary in Brazil, appointed in 1969
Sons and daughters of the place
- Franz Hardardt, later Frank Hardart (* October 22, 1850, † September 10, 1918), since 1858 in the USA , 1902 co-founder of the Horn & Hardart vending machines in Philadelphia and New York
- Franz Immig (1918–1955), German soccer player
Web links
- Sondernheim's website
- Local administration Sondernheim
- Literature about Sondernheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ germersheim.eu: Ludwig Hans: Mentioned for the first time as "sundirn": Stories and history from the past of the Sondernheim district (PDF)
- ^ Joseph Probst: History of the city and fortress Germersheim. 1895, p. 210 ff.
- ↑ a b 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. 177 (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.
- ↑ a b Joseph Probst: History of the city and fortress Germersheim. 1895, p. 216.
- ↑ a b c List of officials and statistics of the Royal Bavarian Government District of the Palatinate. 1863, p. XXXVIII of the appendix.
- ↑ a b Results of the census in the Kingdom of Bavaria from December 1, 1871 according to individual communities. 1873, p. 65.
- ^ Official register of municipalities for the German Reich based on the 1939 census. 2nd edition 1941, p. 171.
- ^ Main statute of the city of Germersheim. (PDF) Section 2: Districts (§ 3 to 5). June 19, 2019, accessed April 25, 2020 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Sondernheim. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
- ↑ template Allocation of seats in the local council election in Sondernheim 2014. Accessed April 25, 2020 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2009 Sondernheim. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
- ↑ In short: The election goes to Rentschler. Die Rheinpfalz, May 26, 2014, accessed on April 25, 2020 .
- ^ Tomma Schröder: Rentschler remains the Sondernheim mayor. Die Rheinpfalz, May 27, 2019, accessed on April 25, 2020 .
- ^ 15th anniversary of the Germersheim City Library. Mayor Rolf Glück. Friends of the Germersheim City Library, accessed on April 25, 2020 .
- ↑ About us. Free voter group Germersheim-Sondernheim, accessed on April 25, 2020 .
- ↑ The Rhine Palatinate of August 13, 2010: When Kerwemontag became a free night
