Verbandsgemeinde Grünstadt-Land

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Coat of arms of the community of Grünstadt-Land
Verbandsgemeinde Grünstadt-Land
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Coordinates: 49 ° 34 '  N , 8 ° 11'  E

Basic data (as of 2017)
Existing period: 1972-2017
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Bad Dürkheim
Area : 104.84 km 2
Residents: 19,981 (Dec. 31, 2015)
Population density : 191 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : DÜW
Association key : 07 3 32 5003
Association structure: 16 municipalities
Association administration address
:
Industriestrasse 11
67269 Grünstadt
Mayor : Dieter Emmer (1972–1984), Werner Beyer (1984–1995), Eugen Ackermann (1996–2010), Reinhold Niederhöfer (2010–2017)
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Location of the association in the Bad Dürkheim district

The Verbandsgemeinde Grünstadt-Land was an administrative unit in the legal form of a regional authority in the Bad Dürkheim district ( Rhineland-Palatinate ). The association community consisted of 16 independent local communities , the administrative seat was in the eponymous association-free city of Grünstadt . This was in the middle of the Verbandsgemeinde, without being a part of it.

On January 1, 2018, the community of Grünstadt-Land was dissolved, the associated communities were assigned to the new community of Leiningerland .

Geographical location

The administrative area of ​​the Verbandsgemeinde was in the northeast of the Palatinate ( Vorderpfalz ). It stretched from the north-eastern Palatinate Forest in the west over the northern part of the German Wine Route near Grünstadt, which runs in the hilly country of the Palatinate wine-growing region , to Dirmstein in the east, where the vineyards merge into the Upper Rhine Plain .

geology

The Verbandsgemeinde contributed to three types of landscape: low mountain range , rift valley and lowland . The mountain part - the Palatinate Forest and its edges Haardt and Leininger Sporn - consists mainly of red sandstone , the flat areas are covered by young fluvial sediments. The enormous subsidence zone of the Upper Rhine Graben cannot be seen on the surface of the earth - except at the edge of the grave near Battenberg and Bobenheim - but it can be geophysically proven to a depth of around 20 km.

Association members communities

Local parish Area (km²) Residents
Battenberg (Palatinate) 5.45 406
Bissersheim 2.57 447
Bockenheim on the Wine Route 11.24 2.157
Dirmstein 14.67 2,947
Ebertsheim 5.29 1,242
Gerolsheim 4.81 1,731
Grosskarlbach 5.26 1,142
Children's home 8.96 1,021
Kirchheim an der Weinstrasse 8.98 1,905
Kleinkarlbach 2.70 881
Laumersheim 4.86 883
Mertesheim 2.20 420
Newcomers 9.07 804
Aspic 3.52 618
Obrigheim 10.81 2,605
Quirnheim 4.45 772
Verbandsgemeinde Grünstadt-Land 104.86 19,981

(Residents as of December 31, 2015)

history

The community of Grünstadt-Land, together with the city of Grünstadt and the community of Hettenleidelheim, formed the largest part of the historical Leiningerland . The Verbandsgemeinde was formed on the basis of the Thirteenth State Law on Administrative Simplification in the State of Rhineland-Palatinate of March 1, 1972, which came into force on April 22, 1972. Until then, the administrative structures from the Palatinate (1816–1946) existed. During the administrative reform of 1972, the local congregations retained their political independence.

On February 24, 2016, the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament passed a law in its last plenary session before the state elections, according to which the municipalities of Grünstadt-Land and Hettenleidelheim can merge with effect from January 1, 2018 to form the new municipality of Leiningerland .

Population development

The development of the number of inhabitants based on the area of ​​the Verbandsgemeinde Grünstadt-Land at the time of its dissolution; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents
1815 11,864
1835 14,226
1871 12,532
1905 13,039
1939 13,601
1950 16,262
year Residents
1961 16,622
1970 16,885
1987 17,364
1997 19,568
2005 20,388
2015 19,981

politics

Association municipal council

The Verbandsgemeinderat Grünstadt-Land consisted of 32 voluntary council members who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 25, 2014 , and the full-time mayor as chairman. From 2004 to 2014, when the population was over 20,000, the association council had 36 council members.

Distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice SPD CDU GREEN FDP FWG total
2014 11 10 2 1 8th 32 seats
2009 12 10 2 3 9 36 seats
2004 12 12 2 2 8th 36 seats
1999 13 11 1 1 6th 32 seats
  • FWG = Free Voting Group Grünstadt-Land e. V.

Top management

The last mayor was Reinhold Niederhöfer (SPD), who was elected for eight years with 56.4% of the vote on June 13, 2010.

His predecessors were Dieter Emmer (1972–1984), Werner Beyer (1984–1995) and Eugen Ackermann (1996–2010), all also SPD.

coat of arms

Coat of arms gruenstadt-land.jpg

The coat of arms created in 1973 is divided or split into four segments. Three of them provide information about the regional rulership from the Middle Ages to the present: on the top right on a blue background, a silver eagle with red reinforcement , turned to the right, symbolizes the noble family of Leiningen , on the top left stands on a black background, turned to the right and also reinforced in red, the golden lion of Pfalz (without the Kurkrone ) as a symbol of belonging to Bezirksverband Pfalz , lower right diagonally on a black background, with the tip pointing up to the right, the silver key of bishopric Worms . At the bottom left on a blue background, today's main line of business is coded together with the geographical location of the municipality and its structure: A golden bunch of grapes with two leaves and 16 berries indicates that the municipality is located in the two fertile floodplains of Eckbach and Eisbach and 16  viticulture operating municipalities.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b tbss (Timo Benß): Fusion: Green light for VG Leiningerland . In: Die Rheinpfalz , local edition Frankenthaler Zeitung . No. 47 . Ludwigshafen February 25, 2016, p. 16 .
  2. a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
  3. State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local election Rhineland-Palatinate 2014, Verbandsgemeinderat
  5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Election of the mayors of the association communities