Bellheim is a municipality in the
district of Germersheim in the
German state of
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...
. It is situated west of the
Rhine
), Surselva, Graubünden, Switzerland
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, approx. 13 km east of
Landau
Landau ( pfl, Landach), officially Landau in der Pfalz, is an autonomous (''kreisfrei'') town surrounded by the Südliche Weinstraße ("Southern Wine Route") district of southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a university town (since 1990 ...
and 15 km northwest of the city of
Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...
.
![Bellheim-Brauerei-St](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Bellheim-Brauerei-St._Nikolaus-01-gje.jpg)
It is home to the Bellheimer Brauerei (part of Park & Bellheimer AG), a brewery that produces the Bellheimer Lord, Bellheimer Silberpils, and Bellheimer Naturtrüb beers and Bellaris mineral waters.
Bellheim is the seat of the ''
Verbandsgemeinde
A Verbandsgemeinde (; plural Verbandsgemeinden) is a low-level administrative unit in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt. A Verbandsgemeinde is typically composed of a small group of villages or towns.
Rhineland- ...
'' ("collective municipality")
Bellheim.
Bellheim station
Bellheim station is a station in the village of Bellheim in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Deutsche Bahn classifies it as a category 6 station and it has two platform tracks. The station is located in the network of the ''Karlsruher Ve ...
is on
Schifferstadt–Wörth railway
The Schifferstadt–Wörth railway or Speyer line is a uniformly double track and electrified main line in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Between Schifferstadt and Germersheim it is part of the network of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn. Betwe ...
and is served by the
Karlsruhe Stadtbahn
The Karlsruhe Stadtbahn is a German tram-train system combining tram lines in the city of Karlsruhe with railway lines in the surrounding countryside, serving the entire region of the middle upper Rhine valley and creating connections to neighbou ...
.
Current and former residents
![Anton Spiehler JS](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Anton_Spiehler_JS.jpg)
* Anton Spiehler (1795-1867), Catholic bishop secretary, spiritual council and cathedral capitular of the Diocese of Speyer
* Michael Bayersdörfer (1867-1940), politician and Reichstag deputy (BVP) 1924-1933
* Manfred Kramer (born 1939), politician (CDU), member of the
Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate
The Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag is the state diet of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Article 79, Section 1 of the Rhineland-Palatinate constitution provides: "The Landtag is the supreme organ of political decision-making, el ...
1981-2003
* Richard Bolz (born 1947), former General of the
German Army Aviation Corps
The German Army Aviation Corps (german: Heeresfliegertruppe) is a special unit within the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr). The German Army Aviation Corps is a branch of the German Army (''Heer''), containing all its helicopter units. The German ...
*
Georg Gawliczek
Georg Gawliczek (2 February 1919 – 4 September 1999) was a German football manager and former player.
References
*
1919 births
1999 deaths
People from Opava District
German footballers
Association football wingers
MSV Dui ...
, (1919-1999), 1955/56 football trainer of Phönix Bellheim
* Andy Becht (born 1974), jurist and politician (FDP), lives in Bellheim
References
External links
Bellheim local government siteBellheimer beer
Germersheim (district)
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