Winden (Palatinate)

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Coat of arms of the local community of Winden
Winden (Palatinate)
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Winden highlighted

Coordinates: 49 ° 6 '  N , 8 ° 7'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Germersheim
Association municipality : Candelabra
Height : 143 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.21 km 2
Residents: 1092 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 340 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 76872
Area code : 06349
License plate : GER
Community key : 07 3 34 034
Association administration address: Gartenstrasse 8
76870 Kandel
Website : www.vg-kandel.de
Local Mayor : Peter Pouch ( SPD )
Location of the local community of Winden in the district of Germersheim
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Winden is a municipality in the district of Germersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Kandel .

Winden lies in the Rhine plain in front of the mountains of the Upper Mundat Forest between Karlsruhe and Landau in the Palatinate .

The village has a rural character and the structure of the town center is characterized by agriculture. The Franconian house-yard construction is predominant. In the district of Windens, fruits, vegetables and wine ripen in addition to the usual field crops.

history

The place name "Winden" is traced back to the settlement "In den Weiden". This settlement is said to have consisted of three courtyards, of which the Rosenhof is said to have been the largest.

The place was first mentioned in 1194 as "Wineden". In 1280 Johann von Scharfeneck appears as the owner of Castle von Winden, which was destroyed by Croats in 1622.

Winden is one of those villages that were shaped by Huguenots in the course of the resettlement of the southern Palatinate after the Thirty Years War .

Winden was one of a group of 32 places in the southern Palatinate that submitted an application for annexation to France in March 1793. The place had been the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken heard and has now been attached to the French state by decree of 14 March 1793 and the the department Niederrhein belonging Canton Kandel assigned.

With the construction of the railway lines Maximiliansau – Winden, Landau – Wissembourg (both Palatine Maximiliansbahn ) and the Winden – Bad Bergzabern line , Winden became a railway junction from 1864 onwards.

Population development

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

year Residents
1802 368
1815 489
1835 538
1849 504
1861 598
1871 528
1905 538
year Residents
1939 626
1950 744
1965 707
1970 710
1975 748
1980 765
1985 768
year Residents
1990 832
1995 887
2000 1,033
2005 1,056
2010 1,074
2015 1,084

religion

In 2012, 49.6 percent of the population were Protestant and 26.6 percent Catholic. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational. In 1871, out of a total of 528 inhabitants, 467 were Protestant (88.4 percent) and 61 Catholic (11.6 percent).

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Winden consists of 16 council members, who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

mayor

Peter Beutel (SPD) became the local mayor of Winden in September 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with 87.77% of the vote. Bag replaced Roland Laubach, who had held this position since 1994.

coat of arms

Winden coat of arms
 Blazon : "Split by black and silver, on the right a red armored, tongued and crowned golden lion walking to the left, three blue diamonds next to each other on the left."
Justification for the coat of arms: It was approved by the Mainz Ministry of the Interior in 1951 and goes back to a municipal seal from 1789.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Club life

Associations such as a choir, a church choir, a country women’s club, a football club, the Winden tennis club "Blau-Weiß" in 1982 (founded in 1982), the sports club SF Germania Winden (founded in 1919), the Winden volunteer fire brigade , the German Scouting Association Sankt Georg Stamm " Marco Polo “Winden (founded in 1993 (settlement), 2001 (trunk)) and a senior citizens club offer citizens a choice of leisure activities.

our village should become more beautiful

The very positive overall picture of the local community - the sum of visual, social and communal aspects - helped Winden to first place in the state decision in 1984, 1985, 1995 and 1997 in the competition " Our village should be more beautiful - our village has a future ". In 1985, Winden won a federal gold medal. In 1996, Winden was awarded the Prize of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate for "special ecological services in the community".

Winden station in 2005 shortly before the renovation

traffic

Winden is traditionally an important railway junction. The station is on the Palatinate Maximiliansbahn from Neustadt an der Weinstrasse to Wissembourg . The routes to Karlsruhe and Bad Bergzabern also branch off here .

In addition, Winden is connected to the federal highway 427 and the nearby federal highway 65 .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

People who worked on site

literature

  • Werner Esser: Winden, the village in the pastures. Winches 2006, ISBN 3-00-018649-2 .
  • Lilo Beil : May bug summer (= The Gontards crime novels ).

Web links

Commons : Winden  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ^ Karl Moersch : History of the Palatinate . Pfälzische Verlagsanstalt, Landau / Pfalz 1987, p. 453.
  3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Winden .
  4. ↑ a b c List of officials 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. ↑ a b Winden has voted: The new mayor is Peter Beutel. Pfalz-Express, September 21, 2014, accessed on April 26, 2020 .
  9. ^ The State Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Kandel, Verbandsgemeinde, last line of results. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .
  10. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .
  11. ^ Club life in Winden ( Memento from October 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )