Steinfeld (Palatinate)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 3 '  N , 8 ° 2'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Southern Wine Route
Association municipality :	Bad Bergzabern
Height :	152 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.89 km 2
Residents:	1821 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	122 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	76889
Area code :	06340
License plate :	SOUTH
Community key :	07 3 37 076
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Koenigstrasse 61 76887 Bad Bergzabern
Website :	www.steinfeld-pfalz.de
Local Mayor :	Matthias Neufeld ( CDU )
Location of the local community Steinfeld in the district of Südliche Weinstrasse

Steinfeld ( Palatinate Schdääfld ) is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstrasse district in the south of Rhineland-Palatinate and a border town with France . It belongs to the Bad Bergzabern community . The community gained national fame as the residence of the long-standing Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Kurt Beck .

geography

Steinfeld is located in the south of the Palatinate near the German-French border . With the neighboring villages of Schaidt , Kapsweyer and Schweighofen , the Steinfeld community forms the so-called cattle line . The south of the district protrudes into the Bienwald . The Otterbach running in a west-east direction touches the north of the district. The Bruchbach runs immediately south of the settlement area . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Niederotterbach , Vollmersweiler , Wörth am Rhein (Schaidt district), Scheibenhardt , Salmbach (F), Wissembourg (F) and Kapsweyer.

Steinfeld includes the districts of Kleinsteinfeld and Schaidt train station as well as the Bienwaldziegelhütte residential area, which is located directly on the border with France .

history

Steinfeld was first mentioned in a document dated April 4, 1250.

From the end of the 18th century, the community was part of the French Republic , then part of the Napoleonic Empire until 1815 , and incorporated into the canton of Bergzabern in the department of the Lower Rhine . In 1815 it was added to Austria . Just one year later, like the entire Palatinate, it moved to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 Kapsweyer belonged to the Land Commissioner Bergzabern ; The Bergzabern district office emerged from this . In the course of the Palatinate uprising , Steinfeld was also attacked by neighboring towns in June 1849, which ultimately contributed to the indictment .

Barriers of the west wall

From 1938 onwards, over 100 systems of the west wall were built in and near Steinfeld , including bunkers , hump lines , anti-tank trenches and barbed wire obstacles . A year later, the community was incorporated into the Bergzabern district.

At the beginning of the Second World War , the residents of Steinfeld were evacuated to Lichtenfels in Upper Franconia, as the place was in the so-called " Red Zone " directly on the border with France. In contrast to the neighboring towns, whose residents were able to return in July 1940, Steinfeld remained cleared until the summer of 1942, as the town had been declared a "new order community" by Gauleiter Josef Bürckel . According to the ideas of the National Socialists, a "model village" should be built on the Siegfried Line. A third of Steinfeld's houses were demolished; the planned new buildings were not built due to the war, so that many residents became homeless. At the end of the war, Steinfeld was evacuated again. In fighting between German and American troops, 90% of the houses were damaged or destroyed.

After the war, the municipality within the French occupation zone became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate. During the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform changed the place on 7 June 1969 in the newly created district Landau-Bad Bergzabern, in 1978 in South County Wine Trail is renamed . In 1972 Steinfeld was assigned to the also newly formed community of Bad Bergzabern . In 2000 the 750th anniversary celebration was held.

religion

At the end of 2013, 64.2% of the population were Catholic and 16.3% Protestant . The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational .

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Steinfeld consists of 16 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	7th	9	-	16 seats
2014	7th	9	-	16 seats
2009	7th	7th	2	16 seats
2004	7th	6th	3	16 seats

mayor

1793–1795 Jakob Stümpf 1796–1797 Mathes Gast 1797–1800 Georg Charré (also Scharre) 1800–1812 Mathes Nist 1812–1815 Johann Adam Bast 1815–1819 Johann Andreas Boxleydner (school teacher) 1819–1835 Wendel Kornmann 1835–1848 Georg Heinrich 1848-1857 Cornelius Labbe 1857–1868 Bernhard Schuler 1868–1875 Philip Kuntz 1875–1885 Jakob Wilhelm 1885–1895 Kaspar Paul 1895–1900 Martin Vogel

1900–1905 Georg Vogel 1905–1920 Martin Vogel II 1920–1932 Franz Kuntz (interruption from January 18 to March 1, 1924) 1932–1938 Cornelius, Bast 1938–1945 Fritz Kirch (Mayor's Office) 1945 - End of the war Fritz Henninger (acting) 1945–1946 Cornelius Bast 1946–1970 Ludwig Wißmeier, CDU 1970–1989 Willi Gerdon, CDU 1989–1994 Kurt Beck , SPD 1994–2014 Marie Thérèse Müller, SPD 2014–2019 Marc Steinbrecher, CDU since 2019 Matthias Neufeld, CDU

In the direct election on May 26, 2019, Matthias Neufeld was elected for five years with 56.37% of the vote.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In blue a golden sloping bar covered with a red key with a downward-facing beard, set above on the left by a square, faceted silver stone, on the lower right by a floating isosceles silver cross." In the great book of arms of the Palatinate , a crosier from Weißenburg Abbey is incorrectly mentioned in the reason . What is meant, however - as in the reason for the Schweighofen coat of arms - is the Petrus key, which also stands for the Weißenburg monastery.

Foundation for the coat of arms: It was approved in 1983 by the Neustadt district government . The stone goes back to a seal from 1754. The cross reminds of the Speyer monastery and the key of the Weißenburg monastery .

Partner communities

A partnership with the Dirlewang store in Unterallgäu has existed since October 16, 1982 . The partnership emerged as a result of personal contacts between singers and musicians from both communities.

Culture and sights

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  Crossroads outside the residential area

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  Scots pine natural monument

• The southern Palatinate dialect spoken in Steinfeld belongs to the Upper Palatinate dialect group .
• The blueberry harvest and music festival takes place every year on the first weekend in July. A blueberry princess is crowned.
• In 2007, the first section of the Westwall hiking trail was opened near Steinfeld . It was built by the association founded in 2003 for the preservation of the Siegfried Line and runs alongside former anti-tank trenches .

See also : List of cultural monuments in Steinfeld

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Cactus land

Steinfeld is a wine-growing village and as such part of the Palatinate wine-growing region . The Herrenwingert single vineyard is located on site . The cactus land offers exotic plants.

traffic

Steinfeld is located on the Maximiliansbahn (Neustadt – Wissembourg), which opened in 1855 . The nearest train station was initially Schaidt, which was located in the far east of the district far from the core community near the neighboring town. A few years later it was renamed Schaidt-Steinfeld . From the middle of the 1870s, Kapsweyer station was an additional option for boarding nearby.

Nevertheless, Steinfeld favored a local train stop. One of these was not built until 1928 on the southern outskirts. He received a small station building and was solely responsible for passenger traffic . The community had to contribute 20,000  Reichsmarks to its establishment and was contractually obliged not to set up parallel motor vehicle traffic. The Schaidt-Steinfeld station was then given its original name again. In 1975 passenger traffic between Winden and Wissembourg was stopped, but was reactivated in 1997. A reopening of the former Schaidt station was not made in favor of the reopening of a nearby stop for the neighboring community.

Since then, the tariffs of the KVV and VRN transport associations have been in effect . The Steinfeld stop is served hourly by regional trains to Wissembourg and Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (via Winden and Landau ).

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Willi Gerdon was local mayor from 1970 to 1989 and in 1982, as chairman of the Concordia music club, initiated the community partnership with Dirlewang. On May 24th, 2009 he was awarded honorary citizenship for this.
• Kurt Beck , the then Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, who as a citizen of the community was local mayor from 1989 to 1994, was awarded honorary citizenship on May 24, 2009.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Hugo A. Katus (* 1951), cardiologist and university professor, President of the German Society for Cardiology

People who worked on site

• Franz Vogel (1850–1926) was the local chaplain.

Web links

Commons : Steinfeld  - Collection of Images

• Association for the preservation of the Siegfried Line
• Literature about Steinfeld 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. 160 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ Information board Steinfeld des Westwallweg, printed in: Karola Fings , Frank Möller (ed.): Zukunftsprojekt Westwall. Ways to a responsible handling of the remains of the Nazi system. Liebe, Weilerswist 2008, ISBN 978-3-941037-05-2 , p. 105.
4. ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2013.
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.
6. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Bad Bergzabern, Verbandsgemeinde, penultimate row of results. Retrieved April 23, 2020 . 
7. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate . Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
8. ↑ The anti-tank ditch near Steinfeld. west-wall.de, accessed on March 19, 2017 (with photos of the systems). 
9. ↑ The History of Concordia. musikverein-steinfeld.de, accessed on November 11, 2018 . 
10. ↑ ^{a b} story. (PDF; 21.72 kB) steinfeld-pfalz.de, p. 3 , accessed on February 3, 2019 .