Kirchheim an der Weinstraße (or Kirchheim an der Weinstrasse) is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
belonging to a ''
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- ...
'', 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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.
Geography
Location
![2009-Kirchheim-Eckbach-45](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/2009-Kirchheim-Eckbach-45.jpg)
The municipality lies in the northwest of the
Rhine-Neckar
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urban agglomeration. It sits at an elevation of just under 150 m above
sea level
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near the north end of the
German Wine Route
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. To the west rises the
Haardt at the
Palatinate Forest’s eastern edge, and to the east stretches the
Upper Rhine Plain
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. Through the municipality, from west to east, flows the
Eckbach, regionally known as ''die Eck''. Kirchheim an der Weinstraße belongs to the
''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Leiningerland, whose seat is in
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 t ...
, although that town is itself not in the ''Verbandsgemeinde''.
Neighbouring municipalities
Clockwise from the north, these are the town of
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 t ...
and the villages of
Bissersheim,
Herxheim am Berg
Herxheim am Berg is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a Municipalities of Germany, municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim (district), Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germa ...
and
Kleinkarlbach
Kleinkarlbach 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 is a winegr ...
.
History
Down on the Eckbach floodplain lay the municipality’s beginnings. It was here that the seeds were sown that grew into the village on the Eckbach’s right (south) bank, spreading up from there. On the other hand,
archaeological
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finds make it clear that this place was settled as early as the
Bronze Age
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.
Until 1952, the village’s name was ''Kirchheim an der Eck'' and it belonged to the district of Frankenthal, until this was abolished in 1969. After Kirchheim’s reassignment to the new district of
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 ...
had been completed that same year, it was also assigned in 1972 to the likewise newly formed
''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Grünstadt-Land.
In 2006, the
National Democratic Party of Germany
The National Democratic Party of Germany (german: Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands or NPD) is a far-right Neo-Nazi and ultranationalist political party in Germany.
The party was founded in 1964 as successor to the German Reich Party ...
(NPD) tried to open an advanced training centre in Kirchheim. To this end, the former ''Gräfliche Leininger Mühle'' (“
Comital Leiningen Mill”), whose commercial building had for quite some time served as an inn, was to be acquired and converted. The attempt at acquisition, however, failed because the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Grünstadt-Land caused it to be put under
monumental protection, with the attendant ban on any modification thereto.
[www.redok.de: ''Keine Mühle für die NPD'', 20. August 2006](_blank)
(abgefragt 17. August 2007) On the night of 13 and 14 May 2006, the building was heavily damaged by an unexplained act of
arson
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. Suspected as perpetrators were, on the one hand, militant NPD opponents, and on the other, the party itself, wanting to push the purchase price down.
[Pressemeldung des Polizeipräsidiums Rheinpfalz, Ludwigshafen, 16. Mai 2006](_blank)
(abgefragt 17. August 2007) In early 2009, the commercial building that was not under monumental protection was torn down, and the rest of the complex is to be restored.
[Die Rheinpfalz, Lokalausgabe Unterhaardter Rundschau: ''„Stein des Anstoßes wird beseitigt“'', 29. April 2009]
Religion
In 2007, 45.9% of the inhabitants were
Evangelical
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and 26.9%
Catholic
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. The rest belonged to other faiths or adhered to none.
Politics
Municipal council
The council is made up of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
The municipal election yielded the following results:
*
FWG = Freie Wählergruppe Kirchheim e. V.
*
KL = Wählergruppe Kirchheimer Liste e. V.
Coat of arms
The German blazon reads: ''Von Silber und Blau gespalten, rechts ein schwarzes Andreaskreuz, links auf grünem Grund eine rotgedeckte silberne Kirche mit goldenem Kreuz.''
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:
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* Ida A. T. Arms (1856–1931), American missionary-educator, temperance leader
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*Armaments or weapons
**Fi ...
might in English
heraldic
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language be described thus: Per pale argent a saltire couped sable and azure on ground vert a church of the first with roofs gules, the steeple to dexter and ensigned with a cross Or.
The arms were approved by ministerial decision in Munich in 1904 and go back to a seal from 1509. The church is a
canting
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charge
Charge or charged may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* '' Charge, Zero Emissions/Maximum Speed'', a 2011 documentary
Music
* ''Charge'' (David Ford album)
* ''Charge'' (Machel Montano album)
* ''Charge!!'', an album by The Aqu ...
, referring to the municipality's name, Kirchheim, ''Kirche'' being the
German
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**Ger ...
word for “church”. The
saltire
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, or X-shaped cross, is a reference to
Saint Andrew
Andrew the Apostle ( grc-koi, Ἀνδρέᾱς, Andréās ; la, Andrēās ; , syc, ܐܰܢܕ݁ܪܶܐܘܳܣ, ʾAnd’reʾwās), also called Saint Andrew, was an apostle of Jesus according to the New Testament. He is the brother of Simon Peter ...
, the parish church's patron.
[Karl Heinz Debus: ''Das große Wappenbuch der Pfalz''. Neustadt an der Weinstraße 1988, ]
Culture and sightseeing
Buildings
The heart of the village, consisting of Hintergasse 2, Kleinkarlbacher Str. 2 and Weinstraße Nord 1–43, has been set aside as a monumental zone. For the municipal area as a whole, the directory of the Rhineland-Palatinate General Directorate for Cultural Heritage (''
Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe'')
[Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe Rheinland-Pfalz: ''Nachrichtliches Verzeichnis der Kulturdenkmäler: Kreis Bad Dürkheim''](_blank)
/ref> lists 30 buildings or parts of buildings as worthy of protection. Among these are the following:
Saint Andrew's Church – Kirchheim's landmark is the Protestant
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''St.-Andreas-Kirche'', which in the main has its roots in the Late Gothic, although – especially in its tower – there have been Baroque
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additions and expansions. Inside stands, along with the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
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from the Middle Ages
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, one of the Palatinate’s oldest altars. In the Hartung organ from 1750, which was restored by the firm Mönch (Überlingen) in 1993, the church has at its disposal an instrument with 24 stops.
Protestant Parish House – The ''Protestantisches Pfarrhaus'' next door is a Late Baroque building with hipped gables and parts in timber framing
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; it dates from the late 18th century.
Friedrich-Diffiné-Haus – The ''Friedrich-Diffiné-Haus'' building complex across the street from Saint Andrew’s consists of a Baroque building with a Mansard roof from 1732/1737 and a Classicist
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outbuilding from 1844. It serves as a village community centre. Moreover, it also accommodates the ''Volkshochschule Kirchheim-Bissersheim'' (folk high school
Folk high schools (also ''Adult Education Center'', Danish: ''Folkehøjskole;'' Dutch: ''Volkshogeschool;'' Finnish: ''kansanopisto'' and ''työväenopisto'' or ''kansalaisopisto;'' German: ''Volkshochschule'' and (a few) ''Heimvolkshochschule;'' ...
).
File:2009-Kirchheim-Kirche-48.jpg, Saint Andrew’s Church with Baroque tower cupola
File:2009-Kirchheim-Diffine-53.jpg, Friedrich-Diffiné-Haus, entrance to main house
File:2009-Kirchheim-Diffine-52.jpg, Friedrich-Diffiné-Haus, outbuilding
File:2009-Kirchheim-Schule-51.jpg, Schoolhouse from 1903/1904
Worms Monastery Estate – The ''Wormsischer Klosterhof'', whose name refers to the old Prince-Bishopric of Worms, is a three-sided estate with a Renaissance
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stair tower; it has been witnessed since 1617.
Old Town Hall – The ''Altes Rathaus'' exhibits decorative timber framing
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 ...
with motifs from the Gothic
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*Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
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and the Renaissance; it had documentary mentions in 1574 and 1595.
Schoolhouse – The ''Schulhaus'' to the west, next door to the ''Friedrich-Diffiné-Haus'' was built in 1903 and 1904 to plans drawn up by Mannheim
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architect Albert Friedrich Speer (Nazi
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architect Albert Speer
Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (; ; 19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close ally of Adolf Hitler, he ...
’s father) as a late historical plaster building. It nowadays houses the local primary school
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.
Eckbach mills – Along the Eckbach runs the Eckbach Mill Path. On the brook, many mills were once run; within municipal limits, the ''Kandelmühle'' (or ''Oligmühle''), the ''Eselsmühle'' (“Ass’s Mill”) and the ''Gräfliche Leininger Mühle'' (“ Comital Leiningen Mill”) are still more or less well preserved. The last was originally called the ''Kochsche Mühle''; its customary name owes itself to its ownership history. In 1751 and 1752 it was owned by Countess Christiane Wilhelmine zu Leiningen, whom Carl Friedrich Wilhelm zu Leiningen, the first Leiningen to be raised to prince, had married in 1749.
Graveyards
Likewise set aside as monumental zones are:
*the municipal graveyard on Kleinkarlbacher Straße (laid out in 1835) with Classicist and historical grave painting done in the 19th and early 20th centuries;
*the Jew
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ish graveyard on ''Bundesstraße
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'' 271 south of the boundary of the built-up area, which was in use from 1887 to 1962 and still has eight gravestones dating from between 1907 and 1918.
Regular events
A widely known local cultural highlight each year since 1990 has been the ''Kirchheimer Konzertwinter''. At Saint Andrew's Church six concerts are held from September to March, each with a thematic focus. At the fore stand chamber music works and, often, the rediscovery of forgotten composers. The concert series was founded and is led by bass-baritone and Bach Prize winner Dominik Wörner
Dominik Wörner (born 1970) is a German classical bass singer in concert, Lied and opera. He is a specialist in Baroque music, especially works by Bach, but is open to music of other eras including contemporary music.
Career
Born in Grünst ...
.
Through the municipality runs the ''Marathon Deutsche Weinstraße'' (German Wine Route
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Marathon
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), which since 1998 has been held every other year.
Economy and infrastructure
Economy
The main economic factors are winegrowing
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and tourism
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. Kirchheim is hometown to the 2005-2006 German Wine Queen, Sylvia Benzinger.
Transport
The single-track 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 ...
–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 t ...
–Monsheim
Monsheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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railway line
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runs through the municipality. The halt at the former railway station
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is served by scheduled Regionalbahn trains. Local public transport is integrated into the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar
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(VRN), whose fares apply.
The municipality lies 2 km south of the Autobahn
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A 6 (Saarbrücken
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–Mannheim
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), which can be reached through the Grünstadt interchange. ''Bundesstraße
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Germany's ''Bundesstraßen'' network has a total length of about 40,000 km.
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'' 271 (Bad Dürkheim–Monsheim), here identical to the German Wine Route, currently still runs through the middle of Kirchheim and across a railway crossing secured with half-barriers; Kleinkarlbacher Straße also has such a crossing.
The building of a local bypass for the B 271 is in the planning stages. The bypass has been sought by the inhabitants for several decades. A citizen whose household sustained damage in an accident recommends such a “detour” with a sign posted on his outer wall ironically asking drivers to turn.
Within the municipality there is disagreement over the advantages and disadvantages of a “west road” and an “east road”. The east road would come cheaper because the stretch between Neustadt an der Weinstraße
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and Bad Dürkheim has already been built and Kirchheim's neighbouring municipalities are likewise planning such a thing. Furthermore, it would lead through reasonably priced cropland. The west road, which is favoured by a majority of citizens, would swallow up valuable vineyard lands, and it would also be necessary to build crossings and bridges to deal with both the B 271 and the railway line.
In February 2009, after a process lasting six years, the ''Landesbetrieb Mobilität'' in Speyer
Speyer (, older spelling ''Speier'', French: ''Spire,'' historical English: ''Spires''; pfl, Schbaija) is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located on the left bank of the river Rhine, Speyer li ...
, released a decision to confirm plans that stipulate the west bypass. At the time of the decision, it was reckoned that it would cost €16,400,000 and that, going by 2005 figures, it would handle 13,000 vehicles every day, 11,000 of which would be diverted from the municipal thoroughfare.[Die Rheinpfalz, Lokalausgabe Unterhaardter Rundschau: ''„Wir sind lediglich einen Schritt weiter“'', 12. Februar 2009]
Fire brigade
In early 2009 on Kleinkarlbacher Straße, a new fire station was brought into service that houses the “Kirchheim-Kleinkarlbach Firefighting Staging Post”. Because the driveway lies on a curve, a special traffic light had to be installed.
Famous people
Sons and daughters of the town
* Johann Friedrich Christian Hess (the Younger), Classicist architect
* Willi Jakobs, longtime mayor, local historian
Famous people associated with the municipality
* Sylvia Benzinger, German Wine Queen
* Johann Georg Christian Hess (the Elder), Classicist architect
* Dominik Wörner
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Career
Born in Grünst ...
, founder and artist director of the '' Kirchheimer Konzertwinter''
*Harald Glööckler
Harald Glööckler, real name Harald GlöcklerEintrag zHRB 122305unteHandelsregisterbekanntmachungendes Amtsgerichts Charlottenburg (Berlin) (born 30 May 1965 in Maulbronn), is a German fashion designer and entrepreneur, who became famous mainly ...
, fashion designer, lives in Kirchheim an der Weinstraße
Further reading
* Heinrich J. Keller und Willi Jakobs: ''Mein Heimatbuch: aus vergangenen und gegenwärtigen Tagen von Kirchheim an der Weinstraße''. 3. Auflage, bearbeitet und ergänzt von Willi Jakobs. Gemeinde Kirchheim an der Weinstraße, Kirchheim 1992
* Willi Jakobs: ''Denkmal dunkler Zeiten. Friedhof und Synagoge der jüdischen Gemeinde Kirchheim''. In: Heimatjahrbuch des Landkreises Bad Dürkheim, 15 (1997), S. 177–179, Bad Dürkheim 1996
References
External links
Kirchheim an der Weinstraße in the collective municipality’s Web pages
* SWR
Hierzuland Rheinland-Pfalz: Kirchheim
, Municipal portrait with video, 19 January 2003
* ttp://www.konzertwinter.de/ Kirchheimer Konzertwinter
Kirchheimer Weinwelt (“Wine World”)
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