Weyher in the Palatinate

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Weyher in the Palatinate
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Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '  N , 8 ° 5'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Southern Wine Route
Association municipality : Edenkoben
Height : 267 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.16 km 2
Residents: 562 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 109 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 76835
Area code : 06323
License plate : SOUTH
Community key : 07 3 37 084
Association administration address: Poststrasse 23
67480 Edenkoben
Website : www.weyher.de
Local Mayor : Andreas Möwes
Location of the local community Weyher in the Palatinate in the district of Südliche Weinstrasse
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Weyher in der Pfalz is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstrasse district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Edenkoben .

geography

location

The place is four kilometers southwest of Edenkoben between the Palatinate Forest and the Rhine . The settlement area is in the Weinstrasse region , the west of the district lies in the Haardt , as the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest is called. The Modenbach valley extends in the southwest . Further west in the Palatinate Forest, the Weyher Forest is also an exclave to the local community that it received in the course of the Haingeraide .

The Buschmühle residential area also belongs to the community . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Rhodt unter Rietburg , Hainfeld , Burrweiler , Edesheim (exclave), Hainfeld (exclave) and Ramberg . In a clockwise direction, the forest enclave borders on other enclaves of Edesheim, Hainfeld and Landau in the Palatinate .

Surveys

The 618  m above sea level. NHN high Blättersberg is considered to be Weyher's local mountain, although it is already on the border of the neighboring municipality of Rhodt unter Rietburg. In the west of the district the 557  m above sea level rises . NHN meter high Frankenberg . Part of the Kesselberg massif is also located in the municipality . The forest enclave includes the northeast flank of the Alder Head .

Waters

The Modenbach grazes the southwestern edge of the district and passes the Buschmühle; However, it does not affect the settlement core of the municipality. Within the Weyher forest area, he takes the Meisentalbach from the left . To the north of the development, the Leißelgraben touches the municipal marker for a short distance.

history

Finds of stone coffins and foundations of a Roman villa from the 2nd century south of the parish church bear witness to the first settlement. Finds from the fifth century, for example goods from the Eifel, show that Weyher survived the end of the Roman Empire as a trading place and has been continuously settled since then.

The name of the place mentioned for the first time in the Lorsch Codex as Wilere in 777 is derived from the Old High German villare ( hamlet ). The dialect assimilated Wîlre to Wîr. In the New High German diphthong it became Weyher. The place belonged to the Speyer Monastery until the end of the 18th century ; there the place was subordinate to the Oberamt Kirrweiler ..

After the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops (1794), the place belonged to the French and then part of the Napoleonic Empire from 1798 to 1804 . During this time Weyer was - as it was spelled at the time - in the canton of Edenkoben in the Donnersberg department and owned his own Mairie . In 1815 the community had a total of 630 inhabitants. Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna , the region first came to the Austrian Empire in 1815 and to the Kingdom of Bavaria on the basis of the Treaty of Munich (1816) . Weyher belonged in the newly created Rhine district from 1818 on to the Landau commissioner ; from this the district office of Landau emerged.

From 1939 the place was part of the district of the Palatinate . After the Second World War , Weyher became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . During the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform changed the place on 7 June 1969 in the newly created district Landau-Bad Bergzabern, in 1978 in South County Wine Trail is renamed . In 1972 Weyher in the Palatinate became part of the newly formed community of Edenkoben .

In the state competition " Our village has a future " in 2015, Weyher was awarded gold and qualified for the national decision. In addition, Weyher was awarded the special prizes “Interior Development” and “Exemplary Ecological Achievement” at the state decision. Weyher was honored as a Golddorf in the 2016 national decision of the village competition.

population

Population development

The development of the population of Weyher in the Palatinate, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents
1815 630
1835 762
1871 652
1905 707
1939 675
1950 762
1961 729
year Residents
1970 739
1987 560
1997 612
2005 546
2011 550
2017 562
2019 562

religion

In 2013, 71.3 percent of the population were Catholic and 13.2 percent Protestant. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational.

politics

Municipal council

The council in Weyher consists of twelve council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019Template: future / in 3 years in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

mayor

Andreas Möwes became the local mayor of Weyher in 2012. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with a share of 71.76% of the votes. His predecessors were Hans-Jürgen Schwaab and Jürgen Volkert.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Weyher in the Palatinate
Blazon : "Divided by silver and blue, above a rooted green linden tree, below a silver mark in the form of two rising arrowheads stacked on top of each other."
Foundation of the coat of arms: It was approved by the Bavarian Prince Regent in 1902 and goes back to a seal from 1726. The colors silver and blue are reminiscent of the former affiliation to the Speyer monastery .

Culture

Cultural monuments

Listed Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul

The town center is designated as a monument zone ; In addition, there are a total of 25 individual objects that are listed , including the Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul.

nature

The rock of the Frankenburg ruin is designated as a natural monument . The Haardtrand - Hinkelberg nature reserve is also within the boundaries of the municipality . The entire municipality - including the area beyond the Palatinate Forest with buildings and surrounding vineyards - is part of the Palatinate Forest Nature Park , which in turn belongs to the cross-border Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord Biosphere Reserve .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Weyher is a wine-growing place and part of the Palatinate wine-growing region . The Michelsberg vineyard belongs to the place . In the course of the Haingeraide , Edenkoben was involved in the so-called third Haingeraide , which was dissolved in the early modern period and which was partially subordinated to the community.

traffic

State road 506 runs through Weyher , which runs from Albersweiler via Dernbach , Ramberg and Rhodt unter Rietburg to Edesheim.

Weyher in the Palatinate is connected to the local transport network via the PalatinaBus- operated bus line 500 of the Rhein-Neckar transport association, which leads to Landau and Neustadt an der Weinstrasse. The closest train stations are Edesheim and Edenkoben on the Palatinate Maximiliansbahn from Neustadt to Wissembourg .

tourism

Swiss house

An eight kilometer long branch line of the Palatinate Keschdeweg runs through the community , which connects the town with Burrweiler and Edenkoben, as well as the panorama route of the German Wine Route . In addition, the municipality is located on a hiking trail that is marked with a red dot and one that is marked with a red bar . There are also two hikers' huts in the Palatinate Forest, the Amicitia Hut and the Schweizerhaus .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Jakob Ziegler (1894–1974), winery owner and politician (CDU), honorary citizen of the community

People who worked on site

  • Anton Straub (1852–1931), Catholic priest, was a chaplain on site at times
  • Jakob Schwalb (1872–1934), Catholic priest, was at times a chaplain on site

Web links

Commons : Weyher in der Pfalz  - collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, 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. 161 (PDF; 3 MB).
  3. Karl Josef Minst [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 4), Document 2167, March 31, 777 - Reg. 1333. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 62 , accessed on May 15, 2018 .
  4. State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data. Retrieved May 30, 2019 .
  5. KommWis, as of December 31, 2013. Accessed May 30, 2019 .
  6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved July 30, 2019 .
  7. Steffen Gall: In Weyher, many residents lend a hand. Die Rheinpfalz, February 9, 2018, accessed on April 13, 2020 .
  8. The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. Retrieved on April 13, 2020 (see Edenkoben, Verbandsgemeinde, last line of results).
  9. ^ Ivonne Trauth: New Year's reception of the community Weyher. January 11, 2019, accessed April 13, 2020 .
  10. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate . Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
  11. General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Southern Wine Route district. Mainz 2020, p. 97 ff. (PDF; 10 MB).