Wachenheim an der Weinstraße (formerly called ''Wachenheim im Speyergau'') is a small town 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 Win ...
district 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 ...
,
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
, roughly 1 km south 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 Win ...
and 20 km west of
Ludwigshafen. It is known above all else for its various businesses in the field of
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 ...
, and in particular for
Sekt
Sparkling wine is a wine with significant levels of carbon dioxide in it, making it fizzy. While the phrase commonly refers to champagne, European Union countries legally reserve that term for products exclusively produced in the Champagne regi ...
.
Geography
Location
Wachenheim lies in the
Middle Haardt at the eastern edge of the
Palatinate Forest and is also the seat of the
eponymous ''Verbandsgemeinde'', to which also belong the neighbouring places of
Friedelsheim,
Gönnheim and
Ellerstadt, themselves also characterized by winegrowing and also partly by fruitgrowing.
History
Antiquity
![Panorama Wachtenburg Wachenheim](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Panorama_Wachtenburg_Wachenheim.jpg)
The first traces of settlement in the Wachenheim area come from the early
Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity. It was preceded by the Stone Age ( Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the Bronze Age ( Chalcolithic). The concept has been mostl ...
(550 BC to 1). At this time,
Celts
The Celts (, see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples () are. "CELTS location: Greater Europe time period: Second millennium B.C.E. to present ancestry: Celtic a collection of Indo-European peoples. "The Celts, an ancien ...
were settling in the
Upper Rhine Plain
The Upper Rhine Plain, Rhine Rift Valley or Upper Rhine Graben ( German: ''Oberrheinische Tiefebene'', ''Oberrheinisches Tiefland'' or ''Oberrheingraben'', French: ''Vallée du Rhin'') is a major rift, about and on average , between Basel in the ...
area. About 60 BC,
Germanic tribes
The Germanic peoples were historical groups of people that once occupied Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages. Since the 19th century, they have traditionally been defined by the use of ancient and e ...
, presumably the
Nemetes
The Nemetes (occasionally ''Nemeti'') were a tribe settled along the Upper Rhine by Ariovistus in the 1st century BC.
Their capital, ''Noviomagus Nemeton'' (or ''Civitas Nemetum''), was close to the site of medieval Speyer.
Their area of settlem ...
, pushed into the region and drove the Celts out. The
Romans
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
* Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...
intervened in the disputes between the Germanic peoples and the Celts, and after their victory over
Ariovistus (57 BC) subdued the Nemetes and ruled the region for the next 400 years. Under Roman influence, crop farming was improved and also fruitgrowing and winegrowing began. Supposedly running through what is now Wachenheim's municipal area was a Roman road: from Mußbach along the Haardt and through
Rhenish Hesse
Rhenish Hesse or Rhine HesseDickinson, Robert E (1964). ''Germany: A regional and economic geography'' (2nd ed.). London: Methuen, p. 542. . (german: Rheinhessen) is a region and a former government district () in the German state of Rhineland- ...
to
Bingen.
After a brief invasion by the
Huns
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about AD 450, the
Alamanni advanced into the area, although by the late 5th century, they were being driven out of the region by the
Franks
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.
Middle Ages
Wachenheim's first documentary mention – as ''Wackenheim'' – dates from
Carolingian times and is found in the
Lorsch codex
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. There, on 30 March 766, the donation of a Wachenheim
vineyard
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is noted.
In the 11th century, Wachenheim's lords were the
Salians
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. The town passed on
Emperor Heinrich V's death to the
House of Hohenstaufen
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. From this time comes the castle complex, which nowadays is only ruins, but which at one time belonged to a system of castles planned and built by the Hohenstaufens.
On 24 June 1341, Wachenheim was granted town rights by
Emperor Louis the Bavarian. In 1436,
Emperor Ruprecht III's (1398–1410) son, Duke
Stephen
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built a
mint
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, which was in operation until 1471. In that year, Wachenheim, after hitherto having been under Duke
Louis the Black's ownership, was taken over by
Frederick I, Elector Palatine. At the time of this conquest, Wachenheim Castle was burnt down and mostly destroyed, with only partial reconstruction taking place later. The castle and town weathered the War of the Bavarian-Palatine Succession, emerging relatively unscathed. During the
German Peasants' War, the castle was used by marauding peasants as a base for their raids.
Modern times
During the
Thirty Years' War
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, Wachenheim was occupied beginning in 1621 by
Spanish
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**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
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troops, who were driven out in 1631 by
Swedish
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troops under King
Gustav II Adolf
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. After the Swedes’ defeat in 1634, little is known about the years that followed. There are, however, indications that the townsfolk had to flee several times to the nearby Hardenburg (castle) near
Dürkheim.
Even after the Thirty Years' War, the region was time and again beset with war. One of the highlights was the
Nine Years' War (known in Germany as the ''Pfälzischer Erbfolgekrieg'', or War of the Palatine Succession, 1688–1697), in the course of which Wachenheim was completely burnt down.
In the 18th century, Wachenheim was newly built and was developing favourably when along came the turmoil of the
French Revolution
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with its attendant hardships and destruction. In 1794,
French troops invaded the village and plundered it. Thereafter, and until 1815, Wachenheim belonged to the Department of
Mont-Tonnerre (or Donnersberg in
German
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), the
Arrondissement of Speyer and the Canton of Durkheim (without the
umlaut) in the French Empire. After
Napoleon's downfall, the
Palatinate on the
Rhine
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’s left bank, and thereby Wachenheim as well, was governed by the
Kingdom of Bavaria
The Kingdom of Bavaria (german: Königreich Bayern; ; spelled ''Baiern'' until 1825) was a German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1805 and continued to exist until 1918. With the unification of Germany into the German ...
beginning in 1816. In both the
Franco-Prussian War and the
First World War
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
, Wachenheim was spared further destruction and was occupied by
France
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at the end of the latter war, until the French pulled out of the
Rhineland
The Rhineland (german: Rheinland; french: Rhénanie; nl, Rijnland; ksh, Rhingland; Latinised name: ''Rhenania'') is a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly its middle section.
Term
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on 1 July 1930.
Late in the
Second World War
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, on 18 March 1945, parts of the Old Town were destroyed by several
Allied air raids, as parts of the German Army Command had stopped in town.
Politics
Town 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:
Mayors
* Torsten Bechtel (CDU), since 21 June 2009
* Arnold Nagel (FWG), 1979–2009
Coat of arms
The town's
arms
Arms or ARMS may refer to:
*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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might be described thus: Quarterly, first and fourth sable a lion rampant armed, langued and crowned gules, second and third bendy lozengy argent and azure, in a chief of the second, a letter W of the first.
As early as 1390, the town of Wachenheim used a seal with the quarterly composition
charge
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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 ...
d with the
Palatine Lion
The Palatine Lion (german: Pfälzer Löwe), less commonly the Palatinate Lion, is an heraldic charge (heraldry), charge (see also: Lion (heraldry), heraldic lions). It was originally part of the family coat of arms of the House of Wittelsbach and ...
and the Bavarian “bendy lozengy” pattern (that is, slanted diamond shapes of alternating
tincture
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s formed out of two sets of bends, or slanted stripes, each set at a different angle), although alongside this, another coat of arms, this one with the
escutcheon party per pale (divided down the middle), but also showing the Palatine Lion and the Bavarian “bendy lozengy” pattern, is also known. On the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side appears the lion already holding a W. Both coats are found alongside each other.
The current composition is first known from 1739 in a seal. The lion holding the W was adopted again in 1748 in the so-called small seal, only this time by himself.
This coat, along with the quarterly shield as the great seal, prevailed in the time that followed, and the Royal conferral acceded to Wachenheim's wish to be allowed to bear both coats,
[--*172] albeit with a
chief added to the great arms with a black W. The chief's tincture was originally argent (silver); this has since become gules (red).
Approval for the arms came from King
Ludwig I of Bavaria
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and was issued on 7 October 1845.
Town partnerships
Wachenheim fosters partnerships with the following places:
*
Cuisery,
Saône-et-Loire,
France
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*
Pegau
Pegau () is a town in the Leipzig district in Saxony, Germany, situated in a fertile plain, on the White Elster, 18 m. S.W. from Leipzig by the railway to Zeitz.
It has two Evangelical churches, that of St. Lawrence being a fine Gothic structure ...
,
Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...
,
Saxony
Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...
*
Schwetzingen,
Rhein-Neckar-Kreis
The Rhein-Neckar-Kreis is a district in the northwest of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The administrative headquarters are based in the city Heidelberg, which is a district-free city. As of 2019, the district is the most populous in Baden-Württe ...
,
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...
(wine sponsorship)
*
Neuburg an der Donau
Neuburg an der Donau (Central Bavarian: ''Neiburg an da Donau'') is a town which is the capital of the Neuburg-Schrobenhausen district in the state of Bavaria in Germany.
Divisions
The municipality has 16 divisions:
* Altmannstetten
* Bergen, Neu ...
,
Neuburg-Schrobenhausen
Neuburg-Schrobenhausen is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the districts of Pfaffenhofen, Aichach-Friedberg, Donau-Ries and Eichstätt, and by the city of Ingolstadt.
History
The dis ...
,
Bavaria
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(wine sponsorship)
Culture and sightseeing
Buildings
![Wachtenburg von Süden](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Wachtenburg_von_S%C3%BCden.jpg)
* Wachtenburg – The Wachtenburg castle ruins, owing to the view over the
Upper Rhine Plain
The Upper Rhine Plain, Rhine Rift Valley or Upper Rhine Graben ( German: ''Oberrheinische Tiefebene'', ''Oberrheinisches Tiefland'' or ''Oberrheingraben'', French: ''Vallée du Rhin'') is a major rift, about and on average , between Basel in the ...
is also known as the “Balcony of the
Palatinate”. From here, one can see the Rhine Valley, the
Odenwald and, on a clear day, the
Black Forest
The Black Forest (german: Schwarzwald ) is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is t ...
. The Wachtenburg, lying above the town, has its roots in the 12th century and was all but destroyed in the 15th century. In 1689, a half of the keep was blown up by French troops. Since 1984, the ''Förderkreis zur Erhaltung der Ruine Wachtenburg e. V.'' (“Promotional Circle for Maintaining the Wachtenburg Ruins”) has been working on the care and restoration of these ruins. The castle is a popular outing destination for hikers, who can drop into the castle inn also found there.
* Villa rustica – The
villa rustica
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is a
Roman
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*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...
country seat unearthed in the 1970s during the ''
Flurbereinigung''. The foundation walls were reconstructed and convey an impression of the size of the complex that once existed.
* Villa Wolf – The Villa Wolf is a country villa from the mid-19th century. It was completed in 1843 to plans by Karlsruhe architect
Friedrich Eisenlohr
Jakob Friedrich Eisenlohr (23 November 1805, Lörrach - 27 February 1854, Karlsruhe) was a German architect and university professor. His design for a cuckoo clock, now known as the Bahnhäusle (train station) style, was the first to be mass-pro ...
. An extensive estate complex and a garden with impressive tree growth round out the whole of the estate.
* Saint George's Church – ''St. Georgs Kirche'' was used, until the new
Catholic
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church was built in 1989, by both Catholics and
Protestants as a
simultaneous church. The sharing came about in the course of the
Electorate of the Palatinate
The Electoral Palatinate (german: Kurpfalz) or the Palatinate (), officially the Electorate of the Palatinate (), was a state that was part of the Holy Roman Empire. The electorate had its origins under the rulership of the Counts Palatine of ...
church division in 1707. The Catholics got the quire and an outbuilding, and the Protestants got the nave.
* Town Wall – Soon after town rights were granted in 1341, Wachenheim was fortified with a town wall. The roughly 1 200 m-long wall encloses the historical town centre and is shaped like a clothes iron. The town wall was about 9 m high and at the foot 1.5 m thick. In the north and the south stood town gates. Today, the town wall's course is still easy to make out and in places outside the town centre can also be viewed. In the town centre itself, however, the town wall has been widely incorporated into other structures and only parts can be directly seen.
* Schloss Wachenheim – The ''Schloss'' houses the
Sekt
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cellar named after it, the ''Sektkellerei Schloss Wachenheim''. The ''Schloss'' is located at Kommerzienrat-Wagner-Straße 1 and represents an extensive winemaking estate in a landscaped park. It was built in 1730, although later buildings were built about 100 years after this, and some even as late as the 20th century.
Parks
* Kurpfalz-Park
The ''Kurpfalz-Park'' (“Electoral Palatinate Park”), lying in the
Palatinate Forest on the ''Rotsteig'', houses many kinds of animals, some of which are displayed in game reserves. Besides this there is the only summertime toboggan run in the Palatinate, along with other sources of entertainment, among which are a bird of prey show, a
Kasperle theatre, a ''Kurpfalz-Express'' and many others.
Jewish graveyard
The
Jewish
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graveyard on Römerweg is the oldest one in the region and a cultural monument.
Economy and infrastructure
Winegrowing
The town is characterized by
winegrowing
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and
tourism
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. By land area, it is one of the Palatinate's biggest winegrowing centres. In June, the town's biggest event is held, the ''Burg- und Weinfest'' (“Castle and Wine Festival”).
Established businesses
* Dr. Bürklin-Wolf winery
* Sektkellerei Schloss Wachenheim
* Die Zunft Aktiengesellschaft
One peculiarity is the candle manufacturer Eyrich, which has been running since 1966. It is the only company in this business in the Palatinate.
Transport
Through Wachenheim runs the
German Wine Route
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, which used to be the same road as ''
Bundesstraße
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Germany
Germany's ''Bundesstraßen'' network has a total length of about 40,000 km.
German ''Bundesstraßen'' ...
'' 271. To relieve the traffic load, a bypass road was built in the 1990s that runs east of Wachenheim, linking
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 Win ...
with
Neustadt an der Weinstraße.
The town also has a halt on the single-tracked ''
Pfälzische Nordbahn
The Palatine Northern Railway (german: Pfälzische Nordbahn) is a non-electrified single-track main line that connects Neustadt (Weinstr) Hbf with Monsheim in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was opened between 1865 and 1873 in three ...
'' (Neustadt–
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.
Geography
Location
Monsheim lies in the southern Wonne ...
), at which
Regionalbahn trains stop according to Rhineland-Palatinate timetabling.
Famous people
Sons and daughters of the town
*
Isaac Rice
Isaac Leopold Rice (February 22, 1850 – November 2, 1915) was a German-born Jewish American businessman, investor, musicologist, author, and chess patron. (1850–1915), entrepreneur and chess player
musical director in Speyer
*
Hans Hüttig (1894–1980), Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
*
Godfrey Morse (1846–1911), German-American lawyer
*
Heiko Vogel
Heiko Vogel (born 21 November 1975) is a German football manager who is the current sporting director and interim coach of FC Basel.
Vogel grew up in Wachenheim and played football for his local clubs TuS Wachenheim and FC 08 Hassloch. Later he ...
(born 1975), German football manager
References
External links
Town’s official webpage
''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Wachenheim
Wachenheim Lions Club
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Towns in Rhineland-Palatinate
Palatinate Forest
Bad Dürkheim (district)