Steinweiler

This article describes the community in Rhineland-Palatinate. See also: Steinweiler (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '  N , 8 ° 8'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Germersheim
Association municipality :	Candelabra
Height :	129 m above sea level NHN
Area :	11.88 km 2
Residents:	1954 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	164 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	76872
Area code :	06349
License plate :	GER
Community key :	07 3 34 030
Association administration address:	Gartenstrasse 8 76870 Kandel
Website :	www.steinweiler.eu
Local Mayor :	Michael Detzel ( CDU )
Location of the local community Steinweiler in the district of Germersheim

Steinweiler , "Stäweiler" in Palatine, is a municipality in the district of Germersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Kandel .

geography

Steinweiler is located in the southern Palatinate , between Landau in the Palatinate (approx. 9 km away) and Karlsruhe (approx. 27 km away).

Neighboring communities (clockwise) are: Rohrbach (Pfalz) , Erlenbach bei Kandel , Kandel and Winden .

To Steinweiler includes the living spaces Ark Weyermühle, Palatino Ranch (until 2013 Blättnerhof) Erlenhof, Lindenhof, Rosenhof, Rottmühle, Seehof, and Sudetenhof Fohlenhof.

history

Development up to the Middle Ages

After the Roman era , the area south of the Rülzheim - Insheim - Billigheim line was hardly populated. The Steinweiler settlement was only likely to have emerged during the land expansion that was carried out by clearing around 600.

On November 10, 968, Emperor Otto the Great prepared a certificate with which he gave the Steinweiler farm in Speyergau to his wife Adelheid . The certificate is kept in the General State Archives in Karlsruhe . At the same time as the Steinweiler farm, Otto gave her other properties in northern Alsace .

In the deed of donation mentioned above, the place Steinweiler is referred to for the first time as "Steinwiläre" and 14 years later in another deed as "Steinwilri", in 987 it is again referred to as "Steinwilre". This notation was in use for about 350 years. In 1348 the name "Steinweyler" came into use for the first time and from around 1585 the current name "Steinweiler" was in use. 38 documents from the Middle Ages relating to Steinweiler are stored in the main archive in Munich . One of them shows that in 1100 the Bishop of Speyer transferred his Steinweiler court to his cathedral chapter .

Steinweiler belonged to the office of cheap home . The office, known as Obershultheißerei or Amtmannschaft, was originally a royal country and was not subject to any territorial rule ( imperial free ). Its residents were not subject to serfdom and were referred to as "king people". The town of Billigheim and the villages of Archenweyer, Klingen, Rohrbach and Steinweiler belonged to the office.

Early modern age

Castle from the 18th century.

On July 25, 1622, imperial riders, who consisted mainly of Croats , attacked the village of Steinweiler under the leadership of the imperial general Tilly as a result of the Thirty Years' War . The church and almost the whole village were burned down. The residents who could not escape in time were killed. After the departure of the “ Imperialists ” at the beginning of 1623 , there was some calm for several years. Only a weak crew remained .

On January 1, 1632, the Swedes came to the southern Palatinate . Allegedly they came as the liberators of the Protestants . But the attacks by the soldiers were so serious that three months after their arrival the residents left the village and sought refuge in the forests and mountains. Many died there of hunger and disease. The Swedes stayed until the summer of 1635. After their withdrawal, imperial troops returned. These were later replaced by the French . In the meantime the famine had become so great that the cemeteries were guarded at night because it was feared that the newly buried would be dug up again and consumed. But this war also ended in 1648. Already in 1666, however, foreign armies were moving across the southern Palatinate. With these armies came the plague .

The population suffered greatly during the War of the Spanish Succession (1702–1714). During this time the Landau fortress was besieged four times and each time the besiegers in the surrounding villages requisitioned everything they needed to supply their troops . This went so far that in the late 1704 many Steinweiler residents again left the village in their distress to seek refuge in remote areas.

Steinweiler under French rule

On December 17, 1792, the freedom tree with the Jacobin cap was planted in Steinweiler . As early as December 14, 1792, Steinweiler, together with 31 other southern Palatinate municipalities, sent the French National Convention a formal request for admission to the French Republic . On March 28, 1793, the National Convention in Paris approved the request of the 32 localities. Because of the war that had broken out in the meantime, the execution of this decision had to be postponed until 1795.

The year 1795 brought a major change in the rural ownership structure in Steinweiler. The large monastery and church properties that had previously been leased were already confiscated in 1791 and declared national property. Now they have been publicly auctioned. The approximately 884 acres of fields and meadows that came up for auction were shared by a few well-funded farmers and merchants . The Mannheim merchant Heinrich Hartmuth bought the vast majority of the goods . He and his later heirs Osthoff had become the richest people in Steinweiler. On October 13, 1799, the farmstead belonging to the Speyer diocese with outbuildings and adjoining gardens in Niedergasse was auctioned. Hartmuth and Osthoff bought this too. It remained in the possession of this family until shortly before the Second World War the Steinweiler community acquired it as a community center.

Hartmuth was a great supporter of Napoleon . At his instigation, on the occasion of the birth of Napoleon's son in 1811, the Napoleon column was erected, which still stands at the exit of the village to Kandel today. Another stone witness from Napoleon's time, the rest bench on Kandeler Strasse, was destroyed in the last war and no longer rebuilt.

Since the middle of the 19th century

The revolution of 1848/49 also had supporters in Steinweiler. A vigilante group was founded, but it was never involved in acts of war.

At the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 Steinweiler was III with strong troop contingents. Army occupied. When the war was carried into France after the Battle of Weissenburg , the village was again free of troops. After the victorious end of the war, a peace linden tree was planted in front of the former parish hall. 34 Steinweilerers took part in the campaign against France.

Steinweiler's favorable development after the victorious war lasted 43 years. Then the First World War broke out. 46 Steinweiler residents lost their lives in the material battles on the western and eastern fronts. After the end of the war, the Palatinate received a French occupation. 117 men and women from Steinweiler were killed in the Second World War . In the last year of the war there were also material losses from the artillery fire. After the end of the war there were years of hunger. Reconstruction could only begin in 1950.

In the following decades Steinweiler experienced a revolutionary development. Two new development areas were built in the south and east of the village. The smallholders gave up agriculture and looked for work in industry . Steinweiler became a typical residential community. The village ditches disappeared, water pipes, sewers , sewage treatment plant and morgue were built. The village streets have been repaired. The new construction of the village community center forms a preliminary conclusion.

Population development

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

year Residents 1802 1,511 1815 1,754 1835 1,831 1849 1,628 1861 1,531 1871 1,544 1905 1,453

year Residents 1939 1,356 1950 1,458 1965 1,533 1970 1,552 1975 1,550 1980 1,524 1985 1,508

year Residents 1990 1,518 1995 1,637 2000 1,755 2005 1,805 2010 1,899 2013 1,945

religion

In 2012, 41.2% of the population were Catholic and 38.4% Protestant . The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational . In 1871, of a total of 1544 inhabitants, 783 were Protestant (50.7%), 754 were Catholic (48.8%), 6 were Mennonite (0.4%) and one person was Jewish (0.1%).

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Steinweiler 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	FWS	total
2019	5	7th	4th	16 seats
2014	6th	8th	2	16 seats
2009	7th	6th	3	16 seats
2004	7th	6th	3	16 seats

FWS = Free Voter Group Steinweiler

mayor

Michael Detzel (CDU) became mayor of Steinweiler on July 22, 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for another five years with 80.45% of the votes. His predecessor Norbert Forstner (SPD) had held the office for 20 years.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In red a silver bar, above a left-facing golden goose foot with a silver leg, below a heap of silver stones in the shape of a nine-mountain."
	Justification for the coat of arms: It was approved by the Bavarian King in 1841 and goes back to a court seal from 1626.

Economy and Infrastructure

Rail transport

Steinweiler has had a barrier-free stop on the Neustadt – Wissembourg railway line on the western outskirts since 2000 . There regional trains of the R51 run approximately every hour on the way between Neustadt (Weinstraße) main station and Karlsruhe main station . The Rohrbach (Palatinate) train stop , located to the north on the same railway line, was called Rohrbach-Steinweiler before 1999 .

Public transport

At the Steinweiler stop, bus line 593 runs via Steinweiler Rathaus to the Kandel school center .

Sons and daughters of the church

• Carl Gander (1855–1899), politician (NLP)

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Steinweiler

Web links

• Official website of the local community Steinweiler
• Historic village festival Steinweiler
• Literature about Steinweiler 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. ↑ Palatino Ranch
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . (PDF; 3 MB). [[Category: Wikipedia: Template error / Template: Municipality directoryRP |]]
4. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate: Steinweiler
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Official directory and statistics of the Royal Bavarian Government District of the Palatinate, 1863, p. XXXIX of the appendix
6. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the census in the Kingdom of Bavaria from December 1, 1871 according to individual communities, 1873, p. 65
7. ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2012
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
9. ↑ ^{a b} Steinweiler has a new mayor. Steinweiler community, July 28, 2014, accessed on February 13, 2020 . 
10. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Kandel, Verbandsgemeinde, fifth row of results. Retrieved April 26, 2020 . 
11. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
12. ↑ Michael Heilmann and Werner Schneider: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt – Strasbourg . Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2005. ISBN 3-934845-27-4 , p. 11.