Waldböckelheim
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Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ' N , 7 ° 43' E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
County : | Bad Kreuznach | |
Association municipality : | Rudesheim | |
Height : | 195 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 18.58 km 2 | |
Residents: | 2169 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 117 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 55596 | |
Area code : | 06758 | |
License plate : | KH | |
Community key : | 07 1 33 107 | |
LOCODE : | DE ZWM | |
Association administration address: | Nahestrasse 63 55593 Rüdesheim |
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Local Mayor : | Helmut Schmidt ( SPD ) | |
Location of the local community Waldböckelheim in the Bad Kreuznach district | ||
Waldböckelheim is a municipality in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rüdesheim . Waldböckelheim is located in the Nahe wine-growing region and is designated as a basic center according to state planning .
geography
Waldböckelheim is located north of the Nahe in the Rhenish Slate Mountains and is surrounded by three extinct volcanoes. The location is on the southern edge of the Soonwald nature park and is therefore in the Nahe valley. The highest point is the Welschberg at 336.3 m above sea level. NHN in the northern municipality. One of these three extinct volcanoes is the Heimberg , on which the Heimberg Tower was built in the spring of 2008 in the neighboring town of Schloßböckelheim . The Göttelsteiner Felsen nature reserve , which separates Waldböckelheim to the north from the neighboring municipality of Bockenau , offers a habitat for endangered and protected plant species.
To Waldböckelheim include also the living spaces wire heads, Forestry House, Goose mill house in front of Leo's Ruh, Marienpforterhof, Sudetenlandhof and the former railway station in the south of Waldböckelheim.
history
The place was first mentioned on February 10, 824 as Becchilenheim . The prefix Wald- was added in the 13th century to differentiate itself from Gau-Bickelheim . In December 1105, Emperor Heinrich IV was held prisoner by his son Heinrich V in Böckelheim Castle. The Böckelheim Office was formed together with the surrounding towns. After changing ownership several times, it belonged to the Electoral Palatinate for more than 300 years .
On January 5, 1800, the Schinderhannes carried out a robbery on a carriage near Waldböckelheim with the victims Dr. Kannstadt and the Reinach brothers.
On January 1, 1969, the Steinhardt part of the area with 121 inhabitants was umgemeindet from Waldböckelheim to Sobernheim .
- Population development
The development of the population of Waldböckelheim in relation to today's municipality; the values from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:
year | Residents |
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1815 | 978 |
1835 | 1,359 |
1871 | 1,562 |
1905 | 1,582 |
1939 | 1,397 |
year | Residents |
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1950 | 1,692 |
1961 | 1,898 |
1970 | 2,193 |
1978 | 2,286 |
1987 | 2,277 |
year | Residents |
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1997 | 2,380 |
2005 | 2,361 |
2011 | 2,236 |
2017 | 2.156 |
2019 | 2,169 |
politics
Municipal council
The municipal council in Waldböckelheim 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 |
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2019 | 7th | 5 | 4th | 16 seats |
2014 | 7th | 5 | 4th | 16 seats |
2009 | 6th | 5 | 5 | 16 seats |
2004 | 8th | 5 | 3 | 16 seats |
- FWG = Free Voting Community Waldböckelheim e. V.
mayor
The local mayor is Helmut Schmidt (SPD). In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with 81.62% of the votes.
Economy and Infrastructure
In Waldböckelheim there are two kindergartens, a primary school, an integrated secondary school and a volunteer fire brigade. The federal road 41 leads directly past Waldböckelheim . In Staudernheim there is a train station on the Bingen – Saarbrücken line . The local winemakers who operate a large number of wineries are of particular economic importance.
In September 2019, an Aldi Süd and a REWE store opened directly on the B 41.
Landmark
Waldböckelheim's landmarks are the two churches. The Catholic Church of St. Bartholomew, built in the Romanesque style from 1833 to 1835 in the center of the village, and the Protestant mountain church on the Kirchberg , built in the neo-Gothic style from 1863 to 1867 .
The Catholic Church has an unusual double tower front for a rather small town, which can probably be explained by the Simultaneum , which still existed at the time of construction .
Personalities
Born in Waldböckelheim
- Mina Koch (born February 22, 1845 as the daughter of pastor Karl August Schapper ), musician and hymn composer ( star I look to )
- Bernhard Sutor (born April 11, 1930), political scientist and Christian social ethicist
Other personalities
- Waldemar Woehl (1902–1976), editor, composer and music teacher
- Clemens Kost (1903–1973), politician and member of the state parliament
- Doris Emmerich (* 1954), German Wine Queen 1974/75
- Bettina Dickes (born April 10, 1971), politician, former member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament (2006–2016), and district administrator of the Bad Kreuznach district (since 2017), lived in Waldböckelheim for some time.
literature
- Reiner Seil: Chronicle of the local community Waldböckelheim. Waldböckelheim 1999, ISBN 3-9805511-4-8 .
See also
- List of cultural monuments in Waldböckelheim
- List of natural monuments in Waldböckelheim
- Göttelsteiner rocks
Web links
- Internet presence of the local community Waldböckelheim
- Literature about Waldböckelheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ^ A b State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved August 11, 2020 .
- ↑ ordinance on the nature reserve "Göttel Steiner rocks". (PDF) In: Landscape Information System Rhineland-Palatinate (LANIS-RLP). February 4, 1982. Retrieved June 20, 2018 .
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2020. S. 22 (PDF; 1 MB).
- ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 185 (PDF; 2.8 MB; footnote 72).
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. Retrieved on September 15, 2019 (see Rüdesheim, Verbandsgemeinde, 28th line of results).
- ↑ Wineries near Waldböckelheim. In: Winzer.de. Retrieved June 20, 2018 .