Wattenheim

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 31 '  N , 8 ° 4'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Dürkheim
Association municipality :	Leiningerland
Height :	312 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.53 km 2
Residents:	1623 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	130 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67319
Area code :	06356
License plate :	DÜW
Community key :	07 3 32 047
Association administration address:	Industriestrasse 11 67269 Grünstadt
Website :	www.wattenheim.de
Local Mayor :	Carsten Brauer ( CDU )
Location of the Wattenheim community in the Bad Dürkheim district

View of Wattenheim

Wattenheim is a municipality in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Leiningerland , within which it is the ninth largest in terms of population and the second largest in terms of area after Dirmstein .

geography

Location and structure

Wattenheim is located in the Palatinate Forest on the eastern edge of its stump forest sub-area on a gently rising mountain cone in the Palatinate in the so-called Leiningerland . The western part of the district extends to the Diemersteiner Wald . The east of the district already belongs to the Eisenberger basin , which belongs to the Rheinhessen table and hill country . Geologically, Wattenheim is located on the older elevated terrace and the younger main terrace of the Eisbach , which, however, runs beyond the municipal marker.

Wattenheim also includes the Görlesgrund, Hammermühle , Hetschmühle , Keckenhütte, Neuwoog and Schmelz residential areas . In a clockwise direction, neighboring communities are Hettenleidelheim , Neuleiningen , Altleiningen , Carlsberg , the exclave of Neuleiningen , Bad Dürkheim , Fischbach , Enkenbach-Alsenborn , Ramsen and Eisenberg (Palatinate) .

Surveys

The 439.4  m high Schafkopf as well as the Salzleckerberg and the Heidenberg are located in the far west of the district . Further to the east are the 444  m high Hohe Bühl , whose south- eastern flank belongs to the municipality, and the 424  m high Große Türkberg . In the middle of the settlement area there is also an unnamed, 337.1  m high elevation.

Waters

The Rothbach , a left tributary of the Eckbach , flows through the district in a west-east direction ; partially it forms the boundary to Carlsberg. On site it flows through the Karst pond and the Hetschmühlweiher . Its right tributary Seckenhäuser Brunnenbach also forms the border to Carlsberg for the last hundred meters before the confluence.

history

Foundation, Leininger and takeover by the Blumencron family

Office building of the Lords of Blumencron, Wattenheim, Hettenleidelheimer Strasse 13

Coat of arms of the von Blumencron family, detail from the memorial in the Prot. Church of Wattenheim

Various finds suggest that the Romans founded a branch in Wattenheim. The first mention of Wattenheim in 793 in the Lorsch Codex is considered controversial. The place was probably first mentioned in 1221. In the 13th century, the Templerhaus Kirchheim had some properties in Wattenheim.

In 1690 the French devastated the entire County of Leiningen in the War of the Palatinate Succession . The sovereign, Count Philipp Ludwig von Leiningen-Westerburg-Rixingen, was impoverished and, moreover, had to pay the cost of national defense. For this purpose he borrowed money several times on favorable terms from the Kurmainzer Oberfeld war commissioner knight Franz Georg von Blumencron , the son of Maximilian Adam von Blumencron , and in 1692 gave him the village and the district of Wattenheim as a pledge. Wattenheim was almost exclusively Lutheran, but the Blumencron family professed their support for the Catholic Church. Therefore, the believer suggested to the Leininger to give him half of the village of Obrigheim in place of Wattenheim , since most of the subjects there were Catholic. Count Philipp Ludwig agreed to this. The supreme liege lord for Obrigheim was the Bishop of Speyer , without whose consent a transfer was not possible.

Philipp Ludwig von Leiningen found himself unable to pay his accumulated debts and took out a further loan of 4,000 thalers. In return he gave the Blumencron family a small portion of his county as compensation. Count and knight von Blumencron signed a contract on February 16, 1695, with which the latter came into the unrestricted possession of half the village of Obrigheim, provided that the Speyer bishop as overlord gave his consent. Otherwise the sale applies to Wattenheim. When after three years the bishop still had not given his approval, Blumencron renounced Obrigheim and was satisfied with Wattenheim. This led to a new contract between debtor and creditor on May 17, 1698. The family coat of arms of the Barons von Blumencron went into the current municipal coat of arms.

Lordship of Wattenheim

Memorial monument for Jakob Christoph Peter von Blumencron and his wife Maria Anna née von Schildeck; Protestant Church Wattenheim

Epitaph for Ignatius Ferdinand von Vogelius , donated by his wife and children, Liebfrauenkirche (Worms)

From May 17, 1698, the first owner of the Wattenheim estate was the Kurmainzer Oberfeldkriegsommissar, knight Franz Georg von Blumencron (1651–?), Son of Maximilian Adam Ludwig von Blumencron , a veteran of the Thirty Years' War and land commissioner, who was ennobled by Emperor Leopold I in 1690 of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg . He never came to power personally, but left it to his children, who jointly exercised government affairs with changing leadership and expanded Wattenheim into their residence.

His successor was initially Franz Georg's son, Maximilian von Blumencron, lieutenant colonel in the Palatinate regiment on horseback in Folleville. He had the government building at Hettenleidelheimer Strasse 13 built, in which the bailiff also resided; Maximilian von Blumencron is mentioned for the last time in 1725.

After him, his younger brother Jakob Christoph Peter (1696 – around 1738) took over local rule. He was the Privy Councilor of the Prince Abbot of Fulda , had the representative Wattenheim town hall built in 1730 and married Maria Anna von Schildeck (1713–1785) from Fulda in 1733 and Vogelius von Schildeck (1713–1785); she was the daughter of the princely Fulda chancellor and bailiff of Bieberstein , Gerhard Georg Vogelius von Schildeck. This later became the most important owner of the place due to the early death of her husband and her relatively long life. She was extremely popular with her subjects, which is why a memorial was erected to her and her husband, who died young, in the Wattenheim cemetery next to what was then the simultaneous church - now an exclusively Protestant church. Apparently damaged in the French era, the preserved parts are now inside the church. The touching memorial inscription says, among other things, about the woman who died in Worms in 1785:

"In deep bond with God, in growing wisdom towards her own, with benevolence towards the poor and with great humanity towards everyone, she was more mother than mistress to her subjects."

The only surviving child of Jakob Christoph Peter von Blumencron and his wife Maria Anna, born von Schildeck, was the heiress Helene von Blumencron (1738–1802), who on November 5, 1771 in Wattenheim, married Baron Ignatius Ferdinand von Vogelius (1740–1784) married, who came from the same family as her mother. The young couple became co-rulers of the Wattenheim estate while their mother was still alive. As co-local lord, Ignatius Ferdinand von Vogelius laid the cornerstone in 1772 for the baroque extension of the town's simultaneous church (today's Protestant church). After her husband's early death in 1784 and her mother's death a year later, the widowed Baroness Helene Vogelius, née von Blumencron, ruled the place alone until she was expelled by French revolutionary troops. Her two daughters Maria Anna Friederike (1775–1844) and Maria Agnes Carolina (1778–?) No longer came to the government. After Helene von Vogelius took over the government, the local rulership bore the double name "Blumencron-Vogelius" .

From the end of the 18th century

During the First Coalition War , fighting took place in the area around Wattenheim between 1793 and 1795, and the entire area was temporarily occupied by the French. In 1793 the widowed local mistress fled with her two daughters from the French revolutionaries to Fulda. The French Republic confiscated the entire property of the baronial family in Wattenheim. In 1797 the village came under the Peace of Campo Formio - finally confirmed by the Treaty of Lunéville (1801) - to the canton of Grünstadt of the French Département du Mont-Tonnerre (Donnersberg) with the seat of government in Mainz . Around 1800 Wattenheim became the capital - French chef-lieu - a Mairie . Shortly before her death in 1802, Helene von Vogelius sued the French state, to which the area had now passed, for the return of her goods. This was granted, but without the right to any compensation. As can be seen from a foundation note from 1821 in the Wattenheim Catholic church book, at least the daughter Maria Anna Friederike, married to Baron Carl Friedrich Wilhelm von Ziegesar, also appears to have stayed in Wattenheim for a while later. The couple from Ziegesar lived in Mannheim and in December 1831 had their goods in Wattenheim auctioned off to a large number of local private parties.

In 1815 Wattenheim had a total of 770 inhabitants. After the fall of Emperor Napoleon , the Palatinate became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna and an exchange treaty with Austria . Under the Bavarian administration, the municipality of Wattenheim belonged to the Landkommissariat Frankenthal ; from this the district office of Frankenthal emerged.

From 1939 Wattenheim was part of the Frankenthal (Palatinate) district . After the Second World War , the place became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , the community moved to the newly created district of Bad Dürkheim on June 7, 1969 . Three years later, Wattenheim became part of the newly created community of Hettenleidelheim , before it was merged into the community of Leiningerland in 2018 .

religion

Christianity

The Catholics belong to the Diocese of Speyer and are subordinate to the Dean's Office in Bad Dürkheim , the Protestants to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate .

In 1220 and 1221 the present Protestant church was incorporated into the Höningen monastery. In the 16th century, the then Protestant Wattenheim had its own parish, which at that time also owned the neighboring Leidelheim . Until the end of 2015, Wattenheim also owned a parish on the Catholic side, which belonged to the Grünstadt parish community. Since 2016 it has been the St. Alban branch of the parish of St. Luke in Hettenleidelheim.

Judaism

A Jewish community once existed on site , which at the time belonged to the Dürkheim-Frankenthal district rabbinate . However, efforts by their Altleiningen counterpart to dissolve them failed. There was a synagogue in the village , the interior of which was destroyed in the November pogroms in 1938 . During the modern era, the influence of many Jews in and around Wattenheim established the trading language Lotegor in the area . The dead were buried in Grünstadt .

statistics

In 2013, 40.2 percent of the population were Protestant and 33.3 percent Catholic. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational.

politics

Municipal administration of Wattenheim

Municipal council

The municipal council in Wattenheim consists of 16 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman. The previous regular election was declared invalid in October 2014, as there were irregularities in the nomination of candidates by WG Nagel . For this reason, a re-election took place in 2015.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	WGN	total
2019	6th	6th	2	2	16 seats
2015	9	4th	1	2	16 seats
2014	7th	6th	2	1	16 seats
2009	6th	8th	2	-	16 seats
2004	6th	8th	2	-	16 seats
1999	5	7th	4th	-	16 seats

• WGN = Nagel electoral group

mayor

In the 2019 local elections, Carsten Brauer (CDU) was directly elected local mayor with 51.56 percent of the vote . He won against his predecessor Andreas Werle (SPD). This had replaced Ernst-Albert Kraft (CDU) in 2014.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Split by red and blue, on the right a continuous golden cross, on the left a red-clad tatar with a red fur hat with gold braid and black boots, the left hand propped up on the hip, in the right a curved silver sword with a golden handle."
	Justification of the coat of arms: It was approved by the Mainz Ministry of the Interior in 1958 and goes back to a court seal from 1733 in which the fields were swapped. The cross comes from the coat of arms of the Counts of Leiningen-Westerburg and the Tatar that of the Blumencron family.

	In 1902, Wattenheim was awarded a coat of arms, which, unlike the current coat of arms, shows the Leininger eagle on the right, with the Westerburger cross as a heart shield and in a split shield - heraldically wrong - has two blue fields side by side. This was corrected when the present coat of arms was awarded in 1958.
Coat of arms 1902–1958

Culture and sights

The Protestant Church

The Catholic Church in the background

Buildings

Cultural monuments

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Wattenheim

The town center is designated as a monument zone ; there are also a total of 27 individual monuments, including the menhir of Wattenheim . The history of today's Protestant church goes back to the time of the first crusades. In the village center, the Catholic Church, a rising neo-Gothic hall , which in the years 1892 and 1893 by the architect Wilhelm Schulte I. was built.

other structures

In the middle of the forest area is the so-called Wasener Cross .

nature

The west of the municipality marker is in the Palatinate Forest Nature Park , which in turn belongs to the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord Biosphere Reserve , which is protected by UNESCO . With the Scheidtaler Brunnen and the avenue of trees at the sports field, there are a total of two natural monuments within the municipality . In the west of the district in the middle of the Palatinate Forest is the Ritterstein 283 . It bears the name Ruins Langenthaler Hof and refers to the courtyard of the same name, which was demolished in 1853, but where the remains of the wall remained.

societies

Locally the football club ATSV Wattenheim that in the season there 2009/10 in the Verbandsliga Südwest he then withdrew voluntarily and out of.

Events

On Sunday Laetare, the Stabaus takes place every year on a Sunday .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

In the past, silver ore was mined on site to a small extent. In the 18th century there was a hammer mill on site that was run by Johann Nikolaus Guinand from the Gienanth family of industrialists . Wattenheim is also the seat of the comic book publisher Salleck Publications . In addition, there is the Meißner Verlag on site .

traffic

State road 520 within Wattenheim

Street

Wattenheim is connected to the supraregional road network via the Federal Motorway 6 , which was completed in this area in 1937 and which was tied through to Frankenthal in 1940 . At the Wattenheim exit you will find the autobahn maintenance depot, which is subordinate to the Montabaur autobahn office, and the Wattenheim telecommunications group. In addition, the Palatinate resting place is located in this area ; further to the west is the Entenpfuhl / Türkberg car park . In the area of ​​the municipality there is also a green bridge over the motorway .

Federal highway 47 begins immediately north of the autobahn and leads to Hettenleidelheim and Eisenberg, among other places. The state road 520 is its southern continuation and leads among other things via Altleiningen and Kirchheim an der Weinstraße to Heßheim . District road 32 branches off from this and runs along the Rothbach to the east of Altleiningen.

rail

The closest train station is Eisenberg (Pfalz) train station on the Eistalbahn, which opened in 1876 . Plans to continue this through the community failed; instead it was tied through in 1932 via Ramsen to Enkenbach .

tourism

The place is also the starting point for small and large hikes. The Staudernheim-Soultz-sous-Forêts long-distance hiking trail marked with a blue bar and the Saar-Rhein-Main long-distance hiking trail marked with a yellow cross lead through the district . At the Wasener Kreuz there is also a hiking trail that is marked with a green and white bar and runs to Sankt Martin .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Anton Meißner († 2013), local history researcher and local chronicle, earned services in relation to the processing of local history

Barbara Pfister, 1898

Sons and daughters of the church

• Barbara Pfister (1867–1909), mystic and stigmatized
• Richard Schäfer (1872–1932), pastor
• Daniel Meininger (1876–1964), publisher
• Hans Schneickert (1876–1944), police chief
• Hermann Schwamm (1900–1954), priest, professor of theology, writer
• Karl Dieter (1903–1956), detective, SS-Sturmbannführer and camp commandant
• Freddy Christmann (1931–2007), musician
• Egon Christmann (1932–2006), musician

People who worked on site

• Mario Basler (* 1968), a soccer coach and former soccer player, played for the local soccer club from 2006 to 2010
• Eduard Eppelsheim (1837–1896), physician, practiced on site
• Leonhard Haß , 1792/93 member of the Rhine-German National Convention
• Andreas Kröhler (* 1966), football player, played for ATSV Wattenheim from 1973 to 1964
• Caspar II. Lerch (~ 1480–1548), knight, acquired land on site
• Kornel Mayer (born September 30, 1917 in Kubin; † February 28, 1980), leader of the Original Donauschwaben brass band , died on site

literature

• Anton Meißner: New contributions to the local and church history of Wattenheim . Part 1. Wattenheim Catholic Parish Office, Wattenheim 2005.
• Hans Othmar Müller von Blumencron: Maximilian Adam Ludwig . Ancestor of the family of Blumencron. In: Würzburger Diözesangeschichtsblätter, Volume 67 . 2005, p. 371–372 ( excerpt from Franz Georg von Blumencron in the Google book search).
• Hans Friedrich von Ehrenkrook: Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Volume 16. German Aristocratic Archives, 1957, p. 48 .
• Literature about Wattenheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Wattenheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Local community Wattenheim
• Local community Wattenheim

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. 140 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ Bad Dürkheim district
4. ↑ Würzburger Diözesangeschichtsblätter, Volume 67, 2005, p. 372; Information on Franz Georg von Blumencron
5. ↑ Johann Georg Lehmann : "Documented history of the castles and mountain palaces in the former districts, counties and lordships of the Bavarian Palatinate" , Volume 3, Kaiserslautern 1863, p. 316 ( Google Books )
6. ↑ Georg Melchior von Ludolf : "Electa Iuris Publici" , supplement volume, 1st piece, 1725, p. 238 ( Google Books )
7. ^ Anton Meißner: New contributions to Wattenheim local and church history , part 1, Verlag Kath. Pfarramt Wattenheim, 2005, p. 96.
8. ↑ Website on Mr. Vogelius von Schildeck
9. ^ Heinrich Peter Noll: From the past of the parish Hofbieber , Fulda, 1907, p. 12; Scan to Gerhard Georg Vogelius von Schildeck
10. ^ CA Starke: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Volume 134, 2004, p. 288; Detail of the Vogelius family and von Schildeck
11. ^ Anton Meißner: New contributions to Wattenheim local and church history , part 1, Verlag Kath. Pfarramt Wattenheim, 2005, p. 107.
12. ^ Reports on German regional studies , Volume 63, 1989, p. 490.
13. ^ Official and Intelligence Gazette of the Royal Bavarian Rhine District , year 1831, pp. 890–895 scan
14. ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2013
15. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal Council Election 2019 Wattenheim. Retrieved October 14, 2019 . 
16. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections.
17. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Direct elections 2019. Accessed on October 14, 2019 (see Leiningerland, Verbandsgemeinde, last line of results). 
18. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
19. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Bad Dürkheim district. Mainz 2020, p. 96 f. (PDF; 5.1 MB).
20. ^ Official Journal of the Hettenleidelheim Association. (PDF) In: doc.vg-ll.de. February 28, 2013, accessed April 24, 2019 .