Hettenleidelheim (
Palatine German: ''Hettrum'') is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a
municipality
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belonging to a ''
Verbandsgemeinde
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Rhineland- ...
'', a kind of collective municipality – in the
Bad Dürkheim
Bad Dürkheim () is a spa town in the Rhine-Neckar urban agglomeration, and is the seat of the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
Location
Bad Dürkheim lies at the edge of Palatinate Forest on the German Wine ...
district in
Rhineland-Palatinate
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,
Germany
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. Until 2018, it was the seat of the
like-named ''Verbandsgemeinde''.
Geography
Location
The municipality lies in the north of the
Palatinate Forest Nature Park
The Palatinate Forest Nature Park (german: Naturpark Pfälzerwald) lies in the south of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany and borders on France. The nature park covers an area of and some 76% of its area is under the woods of the Palatinate Fore ...
(''Naturpark Pfälzerwald'') in the vicinity of the watershed between the Eisbach and the Eckbach, which flow by the municipality to the north and the south respectively. To the town of
Eisenberg to the north, it is 2 km.
History
In 1155, Hettenleidelheim had its first documentary mention and was originally made up of two centres: Hitenheim (later ''Hettenheim'') and Luttelheim (later ''Leidelheim''). Both fell under the Ramsen Monastery's lordship in the
Middle Ages
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, passing to the Bishopric of Worms in 1485 after the monastery's dissolution. Municipal union under a common village court goes back to 1556. In the time of the
Reformation
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, Hettenheim and Leidelheim, along with the outlying
Protestant
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parishes of
Eisenberg and
Wattenheim
Wattenheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
Location
Wattenheim lies on a cone-shape ...
, became
Lutheran
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. However, already by about 1634, when the
Catholic
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party got the upper hand in the
Thirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history
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, the two municipalities were first reassigned to the Catholic parish of
Neuleiningen
Neuleiningen is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
Location
On a foothill near the northe ...
, and then in 1705 and 1707, the united municipality was raised to a Catholic parish in its own right. From the mid 19th century, and increasingly as of about 1870, the quarrying of the local highly fireproof clays grew into the municipality's main branch of industry, expanding to industrialized recovery in 1901. After the
Second World War
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, though, this industry was disrupted. Until 1969, the municipality belonged to the now abolished district of Frankenthal. In 2005, Hettenleidelheim celebrated its 850-year jubilee.
Religion
Represented in the municipality are some 1,500
Catholic
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and 1,000
Protestant
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Christians
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, each group with its own parish, and a few Muslims. The Protestants moved to the community mainly in the latter half of the 20th century. The Catholic parish of St. Peter with its branch St. Georg, Tiefenthal, today form with Wattenheim and
Altleiningen
Altleiningen is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
Location
The municipality lies at an e ...
a parish community. The Protestant parish is an autonomous branch of Wattenheim.
The
Jew
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ish community that once existed in the municipality (
synagogue
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in Wattenheim) is still witnessed by two old hidden graveyards that were used from the 18th to the 20th century, and where there are some gravestones worth seeing.
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Politics
Municipal council
The council is made up of 20 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:
Mayor
Since 2016, the Mayor of Hettenleidelheim has been Steffen Blaga (CDU).
Deputies
# Norbert Unterländer (CDU)
# Dominik Wellstein (SPD)
# Maria Altheimer (CDU)
Coat of arms
The German blazon reads: ''In Schwarz ein schrägrechtsgestellter silberner Schlüssel mit abwärtsgekehrtem Bart, unten rechts begleitet von einem schwebenden goldenen Andreaskreuz.''
The municipality's arms
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*Arm or arms, the upper limbs of the body
Arm, Arms, or ARMS may also refer to:
People
* Ida A. T. Arms (1856–1931), American missionary-educator, temperance leader
Coat of arms or weapons
*Armaments or weapons
**Fi ...
might in English heraldic
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language be described thus: Sable a key bendwise argent, the wards in chief and turned to dexter, in base dexter a saltire Or.
The arms were approved by the now abolished ''Regierungsbezirk
A ' () means "governmental district" and is a type of administrative division in Germany. Four of sixteen ' ( states of Germany) are split into '. Beneath these are rural and urban districts.
Saxony has ' (directorate districts) with more res ...
'' government in Neustadt in 1979 and go back to a seal from 1758. The key symbolizes the High Foundation of Worms Worms may refer to:
*Worm, an invertebrate animal with a tube-like body and no limbs
Places
*Worms, Germany, a city
**Worms (electoral district)
*Worms, Nebraska, U.S.
*Worms im Veltlintal, the German name for Bormio, Italy
Arts and entertainme ...
whose patron was Saint Peter
Saint Peter; he, שמעון בר יונה, Šimʿōn bar Yōnāh; ar, سِمعَان بُطرُس, translit=Simʿa̅n Buṭrus; grc-gre, Πέτρος, Petros; cop, Ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ, Petros; lat, Petrus; ar, شمعون الصفـا, Sham'un ...
.[Karl Heinz Debus: ''Das große Wappenbuch der Pfalz''. Neustadt an der Weinstraße 1988, ]
Town partnerships
Hettenleidelheim fosters partnerships with the following places:
* Blanzy
Blanzy () is a Communes of France, commune in the Saône-et-Loire Departments of France, department in the Regions of France, region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.
Geography
The Bourbince forms part of the commune's northeastern b ...
, Saône-et-Loire
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Saône-et-Loire is Bo ...
, France
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since 1978
Culture and sightseeing
Buildings
Catholic church – The Catholic Church stands in the constituent community of Leidelheim and was built from 1720 to 1724; from 1898 to 1901 it was expanded. It possesses two noteworthy stone Baroque
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altars from the time of its building.
Railway station – The old railway station
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is a work in dark sandstone
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Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates) ...
from the late 19th century.
''Kriegerhain'' – The ''Kriegerhain'', or “Warriors’ Grove”, in Hettenheim's lower village harbours various monuments and noteworthy gravestones from the 17th century. The lands once served as the churchyard for Hettenheim's mediaeval
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Saint Stephen's Chapel (''Stephanus-Kapelle''), which between 1720 and 1724 was forsaken in favour of the then newly built parish church in Leidelheim.
Jewish graveyards – Next to the Warriors’ Grove lies the older of the municipality's two Jewish graveyards (18th century); the newer one was laid out in the 19th century on the boulevard that leads to Tiefenthal.
''Alte Schule'' – Unusual is the ''Alte Schule'', or “Old School”, built in the late 19th century with a crenellated tower; it now serves as the “house of clubs”.
Municipal festival hall – The spacious ''Gemeindefesthalle'' came into being in the 1920s and was renovated about 2000. It was built by the gymnastic club ''Gut Heil'' using prestressed concrete
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.
Local history museum – The ''Heimatmuseum'' with its ''Karl Blum Archive '' tells the municipality's history and also the history of quarrying clay.
Natural monuments
Towards Eisenberg lies the ''Erdekaut'' protected area
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.
Music
Concerning themselves with performing music are Saint Peter's Catholic Church Choir (''Katholischer Kirchenchor St. Peter''), the ''Sängerbund Frohsinn'' (“singers’ league”) and the Miner's Wind Orchestra (''Bergmannsblasorchester'').
Regular events
* ''Waldfest'', or Forest Festival (in the ''Birkenschlag''): Whit Monday
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* Kermis
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(church consecration festival, locally known as the ''Kerwe''): last weekend in August
* ''Barbara'' ''markt'': early December
Economy and infrastructure
Economy
Hettenleidelheim once earned its livelihood from quarrying clay. This economic activity has since been given up.
Transport
The municipality lies near the Autobahn
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Autobahn 6 and can be reached through the Wattenheim
Wattenheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
Location
Wattenheim lies on a cone-shape ...
interchange (1 km). From 1895 to 1990, there was a railway
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link to Ebertsheim
Ebertsheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
Location
The municipality lies in the no ...
connecting with the ''Eistalbahn'' (another railway between Grünstadt
Grünstadt ( pfl, Grinnschdadt) is a town in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany with roughly 13,200 inhabitants. It does not belong to any ''Verbandsgemeinde'' – a kind of collective municipality – but is nonetheless th ...
and Enkenbach); passenger service was ended as early as 1954, and until the line was permanently closed, it was used only for goods transport. The railway to Grünstadt can nowadays be reached by bus, which goes to Eisenberg station.
Public institutions
As seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde
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Rhineland- ...
'', Hettenleidelheim is home to this body's administration.
Education
Hettenleidelheim has its own primary school
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; secondary school
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s are available in neighbouring places.
Famous people
Honorary citizens
* Karl Blum, local historian
Sons and daughters of the town
* Jakob Schwalb (1872–1934), Catholic priest, deacon in Göllheim, Nazi
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victim.
* Nikolaus Osterroth (1875–1933), politician (SPD), member of the Weimar National Assembly
* Georg Schmidt (1902–1962), politician (Zentrum), Member of the North Rhine-Westphalia
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n ''Landtag''.
Famous people associated with the municipality
* Werner Holz, painter and graphic artist
* Theo Rörig, sculptor
* Dr. Heinrich Schwalb, physician and patron
* Hans and Wiltrud Werner, landscape painters
References
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