Zeiskam

This article deals with the local church in Rhineland-Palatinate. For the noble family named after the place see Zeiskam (noble family) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 14 '  N , 8 ° 15'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Germersheim
Association municipality :	Bellheim
Height :	117 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.85 km 2
Residents:	2215 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	250 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67378
Area code :	06347
License plate :	GER
Community key :	07 3 34 036
Association administration address:	Schubertstrasse 18 76756 Bellheim
Website :	www.zeiskam.de
Mayoress :	Susanne Lechner (FWG)
Location of the local community Zeiskam in the district of Germersheim

Zeiskam is a municipality in the district of Germersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Bellheim .

geography

Geographical location

The place is in the southern Palatinate between Germersheim and Landau in the Palatinate .

Waters

In the south of the community (Zeiskamer Mühle) runs the lower course of the Queich , which flows into the Rhine in Germersheim . In addition, the Fuchsbach , a derivative of the Queich, around which a Zeiskamer legend is entwined, and the Hainbach coming from the Haardt also flow through Zeiskam .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 774 in the Lorsch Codex as Zezzincheim . It is the headquarters of the " Noble von Zeiskam " (960–1604), whose last representative was Wilhelm Christof.

In the vicinity of Zeiskam stood the Order of St. John Commandery Heimbach . It was destroyed in the Palatinate Peasants' War in 1525. In 2000 Zeiskam became the state winner in the competition Our village should become more beautiful .

Population development

Coat of arms of the Lords of Zeiskam on the epitaph of Wilhelm von Löwenstein († 1579), St. Ulrich parish church, Deidesheim

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

year Residents 1802 1,071 1815 1,506 1835 1,703 1849 1,840 1861 1,824 1871 1,769 1905 1,877

year Residents 1939 1,892 1950 2,155 1965 1.963 1970 1,902 1975 1,854 1980 1,815 1985 1,755

year Residents 1990 1,853 1995 2,043 2000 2.163 2005 2,270 2010 2,205 2013 2,218

Religions

In 2012, 42.8 percent of the population were Protestant and 35 percent Catholic. The rest belonged to another religion or were non-denominational. In 1871, of a total of 1,769 inhabitants, 1,233 were Protestant (70 percent) and 536 were Catholic (30 percent).

politics

Municipal council

The municipality council in Zeiskam 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 Klaus Weiß as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	BfZ	total
2019	-	3	9	4th	16 seats
2014	6th	4th	6th	-	16 seats
2009	3	4th	9	-	16 seats
2004	3	4th	9	-	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voters Group VG Bellheime e. V.
• BfZ = citizens for Zeiskam e. V.

mayor

From 1800; Source up to 1974:

year mayor 1797-1812 Tobias Guth 1813-1839 Konrad Guth 1839-1843 Andreas Loeffler 1843-1848 Konrad Frey 1848-1879 Jakob Sutter 1879-1885 Peter Wolf 1885-1892 Adam Braunig 1892-1895 Johannes Sutter 1895-1915 Jakob Bräunig 1915-1919 Johann Friedrich Guth 1919-1920 Friedrich Herzog 1920-1922 Jakob Seiler 1922-1929 Fritz Mees

year mayor 1929-1933 Theodor Wolf 1933-1934 Hermann Stubenbordt 1934-1945 Jakob Sutter 1945-1946 Theodor Wolf 1946-1953 Otto Wolf 1953-1969 Arthur Braunig 1969-1981 Heinrich Butz 1981-1989 Emil Foerst 1989-2009 Roland Humbert 2009-2014 Peter Herzog (FWG) 2014-2019 Klaus Weiß (SPD) since 2019 Susanne Lechner (FWG)

In the direct election on May 26, 2019, Susanne Lechner was elected for five years with 61.11% of the vote.

coat of arms

Banner, coat of arms and flag

The coat of arms description reads: "In silver two diagonally crossed natural onions with green tubes, angled at the top by a floating black capital letter Z, at the bottom by a village symbol in the form of a blue disc elevated by a golden Greek cross".

It goes back to a seal from 1571.

Community partnerships

• Since 2001 there has been a partnership with Roccastrada in Tuscany, Italy
• In January 2008 the Zeiskam municipal council decided to enter into a further partnership with Monts in France. The solemn sealing of this partnership took place on October 11, 2008.

Culture and sights

Baroque main altar in St. Bartholomew

Attractions

• Town hall, built in 1833, two-story, classicistic by Leo von Klenze , the architect of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
• Catholic Church of St. Bartholomew, built 1754/55, two baroque altars and a rococo pulpit (1838–1844)
• Evangelical church, built in 1838/1844 according to plans by August von Voit , neo-Romanesque, valuable organ
• Beer cellar, built in 1842, historic vaulted cellar for storing natural ice that was used to cool beer
• Birthplace of the Napoleonic general Jacob-François Marulaz (1769–1842) at Kronstrasse 26
• Gothic pointed arch, monument at the site of the former abbey church of the Heimbach Commandery (since spring 2011)

See also : List of cultural monuments in Zeiskam

art

The artist guest house Gawrisch at Hauptstraße 14 supports and promotes mainly Eastern European artists. The scholarship requires a well-founded academic training.

Culture

In Zeiskam there are some culturally active associations that are known far beyond the region, including the first trombone choir association in Germany was founded here.

Regular events

• Social ball (1st Saturday in January, organized by: Liederkranz Choirs)
• Carnival ball (organizer: TB Jahn Zeiskam)
• Social ball (2nd Saturday after Carnival, organized by: Gesangverein Frohsinn)
• Easter tournament - judo tournament age group U11 and U14 (2 weeks before Easter, organizer: 1. Budoclub Zeiskam)
• Good Friday fish meal (Organizer: AV Petri Heil Zeiskam)
• Football - weekly tournament (organizer: TB Jahn Zeiskam)
• Whitsun tournament with jumping and driving (organizer: riding and driving club)
• Fisherman's Festival (Organizer: AV Petri Heil Zeiskam)
• Wine and music festival (last weekend in June, organized by: Cäcilienverein)
• Zwewwelfescht (1st weekend in August, organizer: Gesangverein Frohsinn)
• Kirwe (Last weekend in August, organizer: Zeiskam municipality)
• Kirwemontag (Kirwemontag, organizer: 1. Budoclub Zeiskam)
• Wine and press festival (last weekend in September, organizer: Liederkranz choirs)

The onion sovereignty

For the first time in 1999, for the 1225th anniversary, Miriam I, an onion queen, was elected. Since then, a new highness has been crowned every one to two years at the beginning of the Kirwea. The Highnesses represent Zeiskam nationwide at trade fairs, parades and even across Europe in the partner communities. Since 2006, the onion queen has been supported by an onion princess at her side so that they can better attend to the numerous appointments together.

The Highnesses:

• 1999-2000 Miriam I.
• 2000-2002 Carolin I.
• 2002-2004 Tanja I.
• 2004-2005 Stefanie I.
• 2005-2006 Anna I.
• 2006–2007 Onion Queen Anna I and Onion Princess Lisa I.
• 2007–2009 Onion Queen Stefanie II and Onion Princess Katharina I.
• 2009–2010 Onion Queen Bianca I. and Onion Princess Ronja I.
• 2010–2011 Onion Queen Ronja I. and Onion Princess Lena I.
• 2011–2012 Onion Queen Lena I. and Onion Princess Alicia I.
• 2012–2013 Onion Queen Alicia I. and Onion Princess Laura I.
• 2013–2014 Onion Queen Laura I. and Onion Princess Michelle I.
• 2014–2015 Onion Queen Luisa I and Onion Princess Laura II.
• 2015–2017 Onion Queen Melanie I. and Onion Princess Svea I.
• 2017-2019 Onion Queen Sandra I. and from 2018 Onion Princess Leonie I.
• since 2019 onion queen Leonie I.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Zeiskam is known for its vegetable growing. The cultivation of onions is traditionally important . The agricultural cooperative “ Pfalzmarkt ”, based in Mutterstadt, operates a branch in Zeiskam. The share of those employed in agriculture is declining, but there are large farms with a total of 499 hectares of agricultural land that continue to contribute to the agricultural character.

In the south of the municipality is the “In der Sauheide” industrial park, where several companies have settled, including various transport and building materials companies, a beverage wholesaler and the like. a.

traffic

The federal road 272 runs north of the municipality and runs from Landau ( A 65 ) to Schwegenheim ( B 9 ).

Zeiskam was connected to the rail network via the Germersheim – Landau railway line . However, the connection was closed in 1998 after passenger traffic was terminated in 1984 and goods traffic in 1991. Since 2006 it has been used for tourism again for trolley transport. In normal traffic, the service is handled with the bus line 590 .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Zeiskam awarded four people honorary citizenship.

• Fritz Riemer (* 1948), council member, 1st councilor and agricultural representative
• Roland Humbert (* 1942), Mayor from 1989 to 2009
• Johann Vogel (1865–1935), senior teacher
• Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934), President of the Reich

Sons and daughters of the church

• Friedrich Humbert (1887–1941), politician (SPD)
• Josef Braun (1889–1955), politician (CDU), Lord Mayor of Mannheim, member of the state parliament
• Otto Herzog (1900–1945), politician (NSDAP)
• Eugen Braun (1903–1975), farmer and politician (ZENTRUM, CDU)
• Edith Székely (1909–2012), Swedish psychoanalyst of German-Jewish origin
• Klaus Sinn (* 1936), German soccer player and coach (SV Waldhof Mannheim)

People who worked on site

• Ursula “Uschi” Eid (* 1949), politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), from 1998 to 2005 Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, since 2015 President of the German Africa Foundation .

literature

• Kurt Andermann : The Lords of Zeiskam: Portrait of a family of the Palatine lower nobility. In: Historical Association of the Palatinate: Messages of the Historical Association of the Palatinate. 98 Verlag des Historisches Verein, Speyer 2000, pp. 97–118; ISSN  0073-2680 , ZDB -ID 502503-5 .
• Jakob Kling: Zeiskam through the ages: 774–1974 - A home book for the 1200 year celebration. 1974.
• Edgar Schnell: Zeiskam in the Third Reich - Documentation about the time of National Socialism. Zeiskam municipality, 1995.
• Edgar Schnell: Zeiskam in the past and present - a portrait in words and pictures. Zeiskam municipality, 1999.
• Edgar Schnell: Zeiskamer under Napoleon's flag. Zeiskam municipality, 2009.
• Edgar Schnell: Zeiskamer onion area. Zeiskam municipality, new edition 2014.
• Edgar Schnell: Zeiskam - On life in the "good old days". 2nd Edition. Zeiskam municipality, 2014.
• Klaus Sütterlin: King Johann, knight on the European scene. Knecht Verlag, Landau 2003, ISBN 978-3-930927-77-7 .

“I am Johann, Count of Luxembourg and King of Bohemia. My father, Henry VII, was Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. At the age of 14 I met my beautiful bride, Princess Elisabeth of Böhmen for the first time in August 1310 in the Johanniter-Kommende Heimbach zu Zeiskam near Speyer ... "

• Johann Vogel: Johanniter-Comthurei Heimbach and neighboring towns in the past. Zeiskam, 1910.
• Johann Weber: Castle and Church at Zeiskam. 1913.

Web links

Commons : Zeiskam  - collection of images

• Internet presence of the local community Zeiskam
• Sights in Zeiskam
• Catholic Church Zeiskam
• French page on Jacob-François Marola, dit Marulaz
• Literature about Zeiskam 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. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 4), Certificate 2112, December 29, 774 - Reg. 1135. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 46 , accessed on February 20, 2016 . 
3. ^ Klaus Sütterlin: King Johann, knight on the scene of Europe. Knecht Verlag, Landau 2003. ISBN 978-3-930927-77-7 . P. 64 ff.
4. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate: Zeiskam
5. ^ ^{A b c} Official directory and statistics of the Royal Bavarian Government District of the Palatinate, 1863, p. XLIII of the appendix
6. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the census in the Kingdom of Bavaria from December 1, 1871 according to individual communities, 1873, p. 65
7. ↑ Ewois, as of July 31, 2012
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
9. ↑ Jakob Kling: Zeiskam through the ages: 774–1974.
10. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Bellheim, Verbandsgemeinde, last line of results. Retrieved April 25, 2020 . 
11. ^ Karl Heinz Debus: The great book of arms of the Palatinate. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1988, ISBN 3-9801574-2-3 .