Weingarten (Palatinate)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '  N , 8 ° 17'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Germersheim
Association municipality :	Lingenfeld
Height :	123 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.67 km 2
Residents:	1878 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	282 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67366
Area code :	06344
License plate :	GER
Community key :	07 3 34 032
Association administration address:	Hauptstrasse 60 67360 Lingenfeld
Website :	weingarten-pfalz.de
Local Mayor :	Stefan Becker ( CDU )
Location of the local community Weingarten (Pfalz) in the district of Germersheim

Weingarten (Pfalz) ( Palatine : Wingerde ) is a municipality in the district of Germersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Lingenfeld community .

geography

Weingarten is located about 12 kilometers northwest of the district town of Germersheim , about 16 kilometers northeast of Landau in the Palatinate and about 13 kilometers southwest of Speyer .

Weingarten has a common border with the following communities: Freisbach , Lustadt , Schwegenheim , Westheim (Pfalz) (all districts of Germersheim) and Freimersheim (Pfalz) ( districts of the southern Weinstrasse ).

The community also includes the living spaces Am Gartenweg 1 to 3, Draishof 1 and 2, Weiherhof, Wiesenhof, Am Hohen Rain, In der Schäferei, Am Kreuzweg and Hainbachhof.

history

Coat of arms of the Knights of Weingarten

Remains of a viaduct of the Gäubahn

The Gäudorf Weingarten can look back on over 1200 years of history. It was first mentioned in 771 under the name Wingarda . The family of the Knights of Weingarten, documented since 1226 and extinct in 1685, comes from here . The remains of his castle , located northwest of today's village and destroyed in 1525, were removed in the 18th century. Today many street names still point to it, so there are u. a. a Ritter-von-Weingarten-Straße or a Straße Am Schlossberg. August Becker reports in his book The Palatinate and the Palatinate that in Weingarten, in the 17th century, the Electoral Palatinate clerk Beuerlin lived, who wrote the chronicle of King Dagobert of Little France, which was the “political bible ” of the Palatinate farmers at that time .

The local railway Speyer – Neustadt ran through Weingarten from the beginning of the 20th century to 1956 , between Freisbach and Weingarten the remains of a viaduct , which are under monument protection, can still be seen. The name of Bahnhofstrasse also bears witness to this time.

Population development

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

year Residents 1802 676 1815 958 1835 1126 1849 1158 1861 1090 1871 1075 1905 1027

year Residents 1939 1157 1950 1237 1965 1375 1970 1356 1975 1322 1980 1286 1985 1307

year Residents 1990 1334 1995 1366 2000 1541 2005 1566 2010 1680 2013 1714 2017 1790

religion

In 2012, 39.9 percent of the population were Protestant and 38.1 percent Catholic. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational. In 1871, out of a total of 1,075 inhabitants, 562 were Protestant (52 percent), 493 were Catholic (46 percent) and 20 were Jewish (two percent).

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Weingarten (Palatinate) 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	5	6th	5	16 seats
2014	4th	6th	6th	16 seats
2009	5	6th	5	16 seats
2004	7th	5	4th	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group of the local community Weingarten (Pfalz) e. V.

mayor

Stefan Becker (CDU) became local mayor of Weingarten on July 1, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 78.60% of the vote. His predecessors were Thomas Krauß (FWG, term of office 2009–2019), Kurt Seifert (SPD, 1994–2009) and Peter Settelmeyer.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Argent, a grünbeblätterte and -bestielte blue grape."
	Justification of the coat of arms: It was approved by the Bavarian king in 1841 and goes back to a court seal from 1776.

Parish partnership

There has been a partnership with the municipality of Vieillevigne in the Loire-Atlantique department in France since 1994 .

Sports

The SV 1946 Weingarten played three years in the fourth division Oberliga Southwest before it was disbanded in 2005 and 2007 as SV Weingarten in 2007 was re-established.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Philipp Brunnemer (1867–1942), executed social democratic resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
• Gerhard Settelmeyer (* 1940), football player

People who worked on site

• Steffen Bohl (* 1983), played football at SV Weingarten from time to time

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Weingarten (Palatinate)

Web links

Commons : Weingarten  - Collection of images

Wikisource: Weingarten (Pfalz)  - Sources and full texts

• Website of the local community Weingarten (Pfalz)
• Literature about vineyards 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. 148 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Weingarten (Palatinate)
4. ^ ^{A b c} Official directory and statistics of the Royal Bavarian Government District of the Palatinate, 1863, p. XLII of the appendix
5. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the census in the Kingdom of Bavaria from December 1, 1871 according to individual communities, 1873, p. 65
6. ↑ KommWis, as of December 31, 2012
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
8. ↑ Stefan Becker: Mayor and alderman. Local community Weingarten (Pfalz), accessed on April 24, 2020 . 
9. ^ The State Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Lingenfeld, Verbandsgemeinde, penultimate line of results. Retrieved April 24, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Lutz Schwab: Stefan Becker is Weingarten's newcomer. Die Rheinpfalz, May 27, 2019, accessed on April 24, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Alfred Gadinger, Gerhard Beil and Kurt Seibert receive the Freiherr vom Stein plaque. Pfalz-Express, October 23, 2013, accessed on April 24, 2020 . 
12. ↑ ^{a b} Jumelage. Local community Weingarten (Pfalz), accessed on April 24, 2020 . 
13. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3