Ruppertsberg is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a
municipality
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belonging to a ''
Verbandsgemeinde
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'', 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
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district in
Rhineland-Palatinate
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,
Germany
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.
Geography
Location
The municipality is a
winegrowing
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centre with a long tradition in the field, and is part of the
Rhine-Neckar
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urban agglomeration. Ruppertsberg belongs to the
''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Deidesheim, whose seat is in the
like-named town.
History
In 1040, Ruppertsberg had its first documentary mention. Most likely it grew out of the ''Hoheburg'' (castle) beginning in 800. About 1100, the last Count of the
Kraichgau
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donated the village to the
Bishopric of Speyer
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, which then enfeoffed the Knights of Ruppertsberg with it. In the 14th century,
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troops destroyed the
castle
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, whereupon the Knights built a moated castle, the so-called ''Schloss'', in the village's northeast. After the destruction wrought by the
Thirty Years' War
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, only two families were left in Ruppertsberg.
After the
French Revolution
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, the village became part of the Department of
Mont-Tonnerre
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(or Donnersberg in
German
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), until in 1815, the
Congress of Vienna
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assigned it, together with the rest of the
Palatinate, to
Bavaria
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. After the
Second World War
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, the new
state
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Rhineland-Palatinate
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was formed. Since 1973, Ruppertsberg has belonged to the
''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Deidesheim.
Religion
In 2007, 63% of the inhabitants were
Catholic
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and 19.4%
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. The rest belonged to other faiths or adhered to none.
Politics
Municipal council
The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:
Mayor
Ruppertsberg's mayor is Heiner Weisbrodt.
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Coat of arms
The German blazon reads: ''In Gold ein in den Ecken gemauerter schwarzer Turm mit vier Zinnen über einer schwarzen Mauer mit je einer Zinnen rechts und links und mit einem offenen Spitztor, darin in Gold eine grünbestielte blaue Traube.''
The municipality's arms
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might in English heraldic
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language be described thus: Or a tower embattled of four and masoned at the corners sable on a wall of the same with a merlon at each end, in base a gateway with pointed arch of the field in which a bunch of grapes azure slipped vert.
The arms were approved in 1955 by the Mainz Ministry of the Interior. They replaced the old armorial bearing which bore the letters “BS” flanking a charge
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that does not seem to be identifiable. It looked like a rake or perhaps a harrow. Many explanations have been put forth (a tool of some kind, a village symbol, somebody's monogram, a charge from the arms borne by the old feudal lords, and still others). The current arms are meant to represent the Knights’ castle and, with the bunch of grapes, the local winegrowing
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Town partnerships
Ruppertsberg fosters partnerships with the following places:
* Courpière
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, Puy-de-Dôme
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* Höchstädt an der Donau
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, Dillingen, Bavaria
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Culture and sightseeing
Buildings
Saint Martin's Catholic
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Parish Church (''Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Martin'') in Ruppertsberg is a three-naved Late Gothic building from the early 16th century. Particularly worth seeing is the stone pulpit, created about 1510 with its images of saints and prophets.
The former ''Teehaus'' (tea house) is Ruppertsberg's landmark. It was built in 1840 a few hundred metres west of the village in the vineyards on the model of the one at the English Garden
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in Munich
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. The former tea house is a big rectangular pavilion
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with a glazed upper floor.
Of the moated castle (''Wasserburg'') on the northeast side of the municipality, expanded into a residential castle (''Schloss'') in the 18th century under Damian Hugo Philipp von Schönborn
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, two of the original four wings have been preserved. Owing to later conversions, the building's character as a residential castle has been all but lost.
Regular events
The ''Ruppertsberger Weinkerwe'' (wine fair) is held each year on the last weekend in August. The Sunday of this weekend is also ''Erlebnistag Deutsche Weinstraße'' (“German Wine Route
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Adventure Day”).
Economy and infrastructure
Winegrowing
The municipality is characterized to a considerable extent by winegrowing
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and is among the Palatinate’s biggest winegrowing centres.
Appellations are:
* Linsenbusch
* Hoheburg
* Gaisböhl
* Nußbien
* Spieß
* Reiterpfad
Transport
Nearby Deidesheim station on the ''Pfälzische Nordbahn
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'' affords rail links to Bad Dürkheim
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Geography
Location
Bad Dürkheim lies at the edge of Palatinate Forest on the German Wine ...
and Neustadt an der Weinstraße
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. Moreover, buslines lead to surrounding places. Public transport is integrated into the VRN, whose fares therefore apply.
East of the municipality runs ''Bundesstraße
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'' 271. In the southeast there is a connection to the Autobahn
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A 65 through the Deidesheim interchange.
Famous people
Sons and daughters of the town
* Eduard Nortz (1868–1939), politician (BBB)
* Edmund Bien (1927–2007), Bundesliga referee
Famous people associated with the municipality
* Johann Kaspar Adolay (1771–1825), politician
References
External links
Municipality’s official webpage
Private page about Ruppertsberg
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Bad Dürkheim (district)