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'' – a
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belonging to a ''
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'', a kind of collective municipality – in the
Bad Kreuznach Bad Kreuznach () is a town in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a spa town, most well known for its medieval bridge dating from around 1300, the Alte Nahebrücke, which is one of the few remaining bridges in th ...
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in
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 ...
,
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. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Bad Kreuznach, the seat of which is in the like-named town. Hochstätten is a
winegrowing Viticulture (from the Latin word for ''vine'') or winegrowing (wine growing) is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes. It is a branch of the science of horticulture. While the native territory of ''Vitis vinifera'', the common grape vine, ran ...
village. The municipality also markets itself as a recreational destination with the self-given nickname ''das Tor zur Pfalz im Erholungsgebiet Rheingrafenstein'' ("the gateway to the Palatinate in the Rheingrafenstein Recreational Area").


Geography


Location

Hochstätten lies in the
Alsenz Alsenz () is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Alsenz has an area of 12.88 km2 and a population of 1,647 (as of December 31, 2020). Culture and sights In the centre of the village is the Re ...
valley on the German Avenue Road. Being a winegrowing village, it is surrounded by
vineyards A vineyard (; also ) is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes and non-alcoholic grape juice. The science, practice and study of vineyard production is known as viticulture. Vineyards ...
. Hochstätten's elevation is 140 m above
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.


Neighbouring municipalities

Clockwise from the north, Hochstätten's neighbours are the municipalities of Altenbamberg, Fürfeld,
Winterborn Winterborn is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe a ...
,
Alsenz Alsenz () is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Alsenz has an area of 12.88 km2 and a population of 1,647 (as of December 31, 2020). Culture and sights In the centre of the village is the Re ...
(these last two lying in the neighbouring Donnersbergkreis),
Hallgarten Hallgarten is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Charles Hallgarten (1838–1908), German-American banker, philanthropist and social reformer * George W. F. Hallgarten (1901–1975), German-American historian


Population development

Hochstätten's population development since
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ic times is shown in the table below. The figures for the years from 1871 to 1987 are drawn from census data:Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz – Regionaldaten
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Religion

Ecclesiastically, Hochstätten belongs, as it long has, to the
Evangelical Church of the Palatinate Evangelical Church of the Palatinate (german: Evangelische Kirche der Pfalz (Protestantische Landeskirche)) is a United Protestant church in parts of the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, endorsing both Lutheran and Calvinist o ...
and the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer The Diocese of Speyer (lat. Dioecesis Spirensis) is a diocese of the Catholic Church in Germany. The diocese is located in the South of the Rhineland-Palatinate and comprises also the Saarpfalz district in the east of the Saarland. The bishop's ...
. As at 30 September 2013, there are 634 full-time residents in Hochstätten, and of those, 395 are
evangelical Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide Interdenominationalism, interdenominational movement within Protestantism, Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being "bor ...
(62%), 101 are
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(16%), 19 belong to other religious groups and 119 either have no religion or will not reveal their religious affiliation.


Municipal council

The municipal council is made up of 12 members, elected by
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might be blazoned as follows: or, in base a trimount vert issuant from which an oak tree leafed of fifteen and fructed of ten, all proper, surmounting the trunk a wolf courant sable langued gules. The arms were inspired by an old seal, apparently the only one relating to Hochstätten, and it is not known what the
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stand for or where they came from. The arms do not contain the Wheel of Mainz, the Raugravial division of the field ("party per pale") or any of the many elements marshalled in
Palatine Zweibrücken Palatine Zweibrücken (), or the County Palatine of Zweibrücken, is a former state of the Holy Roman Empire. Its capital was Zweibrücken (french: Deux-Ponts). Its reigning house, a branch of the Wittelsbach dynasty, was also the Royal House of ...
's or the Electoral Palatinate's arms, nor is any charge readily identifiable as
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or
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n. The arms therefore do not seem to relate to the village's territorial history, unlike many civic coats of arms in Germany. The
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words for the charges (''Eiche'' – oak tree; ''Baum'' – tree; ''Blatt'' – leaf; ''Eichel'' – acorn; ''Wolf'' – wolf; ''Dreiberg'' – trimount) do not resemble the name Hochstätten in any way, so the arms would not seem to be canting, which is also common in German civic heraldry. The arms have been borne since 22 October 1981.


Railway namesake

Hochstätten is also the name of a
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Bombardier Talent trainset (643 001).


Culture and sightseeing


Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in
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 ...
's Directory of Cultural Monuments: *
Protestant Protestantism is a Christian denomination, branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Reformation, Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century agai ...
church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * Chris ...
, Hauptstraße – Late Baroque
aisleless church An aisleless church (german: Saalkirche) is a single-nave church building that consists of a single hall-like room. While similar to the hall church, the aisleless church lacks aisles or passageways on either side of the nave and separated fro ...
, 1772,
Gothic Gothic or Gothics may refer to: People and languages *Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes **Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths **Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...
former quire tower * Friedhofstraße – two-arch
bridge A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or rail) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually somethi ...
across the
Alsenz Alsenz () is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Alsenz has an area of 12.88 km2 and a population of 1,647 (as of December 31, 2020). Culture and sights In the centre of the village is the Re ...
and the (now filled-in) millrace,
sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates) ...
, earlier half to middle of the 19th century * Hauptstraße – bridge across the Alsenz, two arches, sandstone-block, marked 1880 * Hauptstraße 14 – house, partly
timber-frame Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
, essentially from about 1600, remodelled in the 18th century * Old
Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
Graveyard, "am Judenkirchhof" (monumental zone) – area with gravestones from the 18th to early 20th century * New Jewish Graveyard,Landkreis Bad Kreuznach: Inhaltsverzeichnis des Kreisrechtes
retrieved 31 October 2011.
Am Feilerpfad (monumental zone) – area laid out within the
Christian Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρι ...
graveyard, recorded 1912-1935


Jewish graveyards

The first
Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
graveyard was laid out in the early 19th century. By the middle of that century, it was already filled with graves, and the Jewish community applied to expand it. This application was approved, and then implemented about 1880. It may have been expanded once again. The graveyard's area is 740 m2 and 19 gravestones are still preserved. Datable stones come from 1873 to 1924. In 1912, another Jewish graveyard, adjacent to the
Christian Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρι ...
graveyard, without any delimitation, was laid out on the outer, right-hand side of the Christian graveyard. The last burial in the Jewish graveyard was in 1935 (Fanny Kahn ''née'' Strauss, died on 13 November 1935). Preserved here are twelve graves with seven readable gravestones. During the Third Reich, the graveyards were not destroyed. The old graveyard lies west of the village in the forest, in the cadastral area "Am Judenkirchhof", lot 1628, while the new graveyard lies north of the village within the Christian graveyard, in the cadastral area "Am Feilerpfad", lot 1248.


Clubs

Currently active in Hergenfeld are the following clubs: *''Fussball- und Sportverein'' —
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and
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*''Gesangverein (Männerchor "Germania")'' — singing club (men's
choir A choir ( ; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which ...
) with: **Music department **Theatre department *''Anglersportverein'' — angling club *''Verkehrs- und Dorfverschönerungsverein'' — transport and village beautification club *''Förderverein Freunde der Feuerwehr'' — "Friends of the Fire Brigade" promotional association *''Krankenpflegeverein'' — nursing association


Wines

Hochstätten is known for its
winegrowing Viticulture (from the Latin word for ''vine'') or winegrowing (wine growing) is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes. It is a branch of the science of horticulture. While the native territory of ''Vitis vinifera'', the common grape vine, ran ...
. Once precious locations have had to be given up because the steep slopes had become ever more troublesome to work, and thus unprofitable. The vines on the southern slopes, on soil that is in part
slaty Slate gray is a gray color with a slight azure tinge that is a representation of the average color of the material slate. As a tertiary color, slate is an equal mix of purple and green pigments. Slaty, referring to this color, is often used ...
, produce good wine, known far beyond the borders of the
Nahegau The Nahegau was in the Middle Ages a county, which covered the environs of the Nahe and large parts of present-day Rhenish Hesse, after a successful expansion of the narrow territory, which did not reach the Rhine, to the disadvantage of the Worms ...
as ''Hochstätter Liebesbrunnen''. Today, about 32 ha (80 acres) of
vineyard A vineyard (; also ) is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes and non-alcoholic grape juice. The science, practice and study of vineyard production is known as viticulture. Vineyards ...
s are worked. Hochstätten was home to Ilse Theobald, German Wine Queen "Ilse I" in 1966–67, and also to Barbara Laubenstein, the Nahe Wine Queen "Barbara I" in 1984–85. Sandra Laubenstein shared this honour in 1996–97.


Economy and infrastructure


Public institutions

Hochstätten has at its disposal the only municipal
library A library is a collection of materials, books or media that are accessible for use and not just for display purposes. A library provides physical (hard copies) or digital access (soft copies) materials, and may be a physical location or a vir ...
in the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg. In 1983, when the municipal library, then housed in two trunks, was woken out of its long slumber, there were 580 books. Since then, the offering has grown markedly, and so has the number of readers. The library currently has 3,493
book A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arr ...
s and audiobooks,
DVD The DVD (common abbreviation for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any kin ...
s and
CD-ROM A CD-ROM (, compact disc read-only memory) is a type of read-only memory consisting of a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains data. Computers can read—but not write or erase—CD-ROMs. Some CDs, called enhanced CDs, hold both comput ...
s. Hochstätten also has a village community centre.


Transport

Running through Hochstätten is '' Bundesstraße'' 48, which leads to ''Bundesstraße'' 420. Within the village itself is a
railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...
on the Alsenz Valley Railway (''Alsenztalbahn'').


References


External links


Municipality's official webpage

Hochstätten in the collective municipality's webpages
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