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Pleitersheim is an ''
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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, whose seat is in the like-named town, although this lies outside the ''Verbandsgemeinde''. Pleitersheim 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.


Geography


Location

Pleitersheim lies in the heart of
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some 7 km east of downtown
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 ...
on ground that slopes gently southeastwards to the Karlebach, a left-bank tributary to the
Appelbach Appelbach is a river of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The Appelbach springs north of Falkenstein. It discharges at Bretzenheim from the right into the Nahe. See also *List of rivers of Rhineland-Palatinate A list of rivers of Rhineland-Pal ...
. The outlying countryside is barely wooded at all and is grouped with the ''Wöllsteiner Hügelland'' (“hill land”), which hosts intensive
agricultural Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating Plant, plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of Sedentism, sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of Domestication, domesticated species created food ...
use. Pleitersheim borders on two neighbouring districts,
Mainz-Bingen Mainz-Bingen is a district (''Kreis'') in the east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Rheingau-Taunus, the district-free cities Wiesbaden and Mainz, the districts Groß-Gerau, Alzey-Worms, Bad Kreuzna ...
and
Alzey-Worms Alzey-Worms () is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the district Groß-Gerau (Hesse), the city of Worms and the districts of Bad Dürkheim, Donnersbergkreis, Bad Kreuznach and Mainz-Bingen. ...
.


Neighbouring municipalities

Clockwise from the north, Pleitersheim's neighbours are
Pfaffen-Schwabenheim Pfaffen-Schwabenheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Bad ...
(likewise 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 ...
district),
Badenheim Badenheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Sprendlingen-G ...
(in the Mainz-Bingen district),
Wöllstein Wöllstein 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 The municipality lies in Rhenish ...
(in the Alzey-Worms district) and
Volxheim Volxheim is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in ...
(also in the Bad Kreuznach district). Although the town and district seat of
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 ...
lies right nearby, Pleitersheim does not border directly on it.


History

Pleitersheim, whose name is interpreted as “Blithen’s Home” – it may well have been named after a
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nobleman – can rightly look back on 1,200 years of existence since the nobleman in question came here with his entourage and servants. As with so many other villages in the region, Pleitersheim had its first documentary mention in monastic landhold directories. While the
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s from
Lorsch Abbey Lorsch Abbey, otherwise the Imperial Abbey of Lorsch (german: Reichsabtei Lorsch; la, Laureshamense Monasterium or ''Laurissa''), is a former Imperial abbey in Lorsch, Germany, about east of Worms. It was one of the most renowned monasteries o ...
had landholds here as early as the 8th century – one source mentions the more specific date of 781 for the first documentary mention – Pleitersheim later belonged to the Lordship of Wöllstein. The monks enfeoffed the
Raugraves The Raugraves were a German noble family, which had its center of influence in the former Nahegau. They descended from the Emichones (Counts of Nahegau). History First family in the 12th until 15th centuries The family of the Raugraves (the ...
with landholds and the court that had formerly been held by the Lordship of Wöllstein. Besides this comital family, the Rhinegraves, too, had landholds in the village quite early on. More decisive to the village's fate were the Raugraves, who held a
castle A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Scholars debate the scope of the word ''castle'', but usually consider it to be the private fortified r ...
in the village, and whose policies of pledging and selling off landholds in the 14th century also affected Pleitersheim. Owing to acquisitions in the 14th century, half the village belonged to the
Counts of Sponheim The House of Sponheim or Spanheim was a medieval German noble family, which originated in Rhenish Franconia. They were immediate Counts of Sponheim until 1437 and Dukes of Carinthia from 1122 until 1269. Its cadet branches ruled in the Imperial C ...
and then, after they died out, to the heirs, 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 ...
, the
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and Veldenz-Zweibrücken. In 1601, every one of the 22 hearths (for which read “households”) in the village belonged to Sponheim subjects. Only two persons were subject to the County of Wöllstein. In the 19th century, Pleitersheim – and likewise
Tiefenthal Tiefenthal 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 a sm ...
 – did not undergo any great growth in population as was observed everywhere else in the region. In 1846, there were 286 people living in the little village, more than at any other time in its history to this point. Thereafter, this figure began to shrink, until in 1939 it had bottomed out at 142 inhabitants. By 1950, though, this had risen back up to 215 inhabitants, but even so, a downward trend was once again seen over the years, with the population figure reaching 183 in 1980. The low population figure notwithstanding, there were enough interested people in the village in 1875 for a singing club to be founded. A few years later came the volunteer
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. In 1911, Pleitersheim got
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, which began to be transmitted to the village from
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, but a watermain was not laid until 1950. Sewerage came even later, in 1973. The two world wars did not leave even a small village like Pleitersheim unscathed. In the
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, seven citizens of the municipality lost their lives, while in the
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, 15 soldiers from the village did not come back.


Population development

Pleitersheim'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

As at 30 November 2013, there are 328 full-time residents in Pleitersheim, and of those, 163 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 ...
(49.695%), 85 are
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(25.915%), 1 is
Lutheran Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Catholic Church launched th ...
(0.305%), 1 (0.305%) belongs to another religious group and 78 (23.78%) either have no religion or will not reveal their religious affiliation.


Politics


Municipal council

The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected by
proportional representation Proportional representation (PR) refers to a type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to geographical (e.g. states, regions) and political divis ...
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

Pleitersheim's mayor is Bodo Ehrhardt.


Coat of arms

The German blazon reads: ''Der Schild ist durch eine aufsteigende eingebogene Spitze in drei Felder geteilt. Feld 1 ist in Blau und Gold geschachtet, Feld 2 zeigt auf blauem, mit silbernen Kreuzchen bestreutem Grund einen steigenden, silbernen Löwen, silbern gekrönt und silbern gewehrt. Feld 3 zeigt in Rot ein silbernes sechsspeichiges Rad''. The municipality's
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might in English
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language be described thus: Tierced in mantle dexter chequy azure and Or, sinister azure semé of four crosses pattée argent a lion rampant of the same langued gules and in base gules a wheel spoked of six of the third. The German blazon says that the lion is to be crowned (''gekrönt''), but the crown does not appear in the actual arms. It also does not specify that the crosses are to be pattée (with broadened ends). There were no historical models for the municipal arms. Nobody could even confirm any old court seat from Pleitersheim. The coat of arms is thus a wholly modern creation, which interprets the village's history. Marshalled here are the heraldic devices formerly borne by Pleitersheim's longest ruling and most influential lords, namely the
Counts of Sponheim The House of Sponheim or Spanheim was a medieval German noble family, which originated in Rhenish Franconia. They were immediate Counts of Sponheim until 1437 and Dukes of Carinthia from 1122 until 1269. Its cadet branches ruled in the Imperial C ...
, as represented by the “chequy” pattern on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side, the Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken, as represented by the lion on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side and the
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, as represented by the spoked wheel in base. Although the coat of arms itself may have no historical basis, each of the
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borne in it is drawn from arms once borne by these lords. File:Wappen Vordere Grafschaft Sponheim.svg, Counts of Sponheim File:Wappen der Grafen von Saarbrücken.svg, Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken File:Wappen Erzbistum Mainz.png, Archbishopric of Mainz File:DEU Pleitersheim COA.svg, Pleitersheim


Culture and sightseeing


Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in
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’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: *
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, Hauptstraße 27 – former
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,
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 ...
, essentially Late Gothic, marked 1496, made over in
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, marked 1753 * Hauptstraße 21 – estate complex;
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 ...
house, plastered, marked 1828 * Hauptstraße 25 – three-sided estate; timber-frame house, plastered, about 1800 * Hauptstraße 36 – estate complex; timber-frame house, partly solid, early 19th century


More about the church

The
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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 ...
contains some important wall paintings depicting a
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scene, the
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and
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ascribed to the
Pfaffen-Schwabenheim Pfaffen-Schwabenheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Bad ...
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canon Johannes von Goch from Eberhardsklausen Abbey in Klausen, painted about 1500 and rediscovered in 1950/1951.


Clubs

The following clubs are active in Pleitersheim: *''Feuerwehrverein Pleitersheim e.V.'' —
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club *''Freiwillige Feuerwehr Pleitersheim'' — volunteer fire brigade *''Vereinigte Dorfjugend Pleitersheim'' — united village youth


Economy and infrastructure


Winegrowing

Pleitersheim belongs to the “Bingen
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 ...
Area” within the Rhenish Hesse wine region (''Rheinhessen''). Four winegrowing businesses are active in the village, and the area currently given over to
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s is 63 ha. Roughly 72% of the grapes are
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varieties (as at 2007).


Transport

Pleitersheim lies on ''
Kreisstraße A Kreisstraße (literally: "district road" or "county road") is a class of road in Germany. It carries traffic between the towns and villages within a '' Kreis'' or district or between two neighbouring districts. In importance, the ''Kreisstraße ...
'' 90 (which becomes ''Kreisstraße'' 2 just east of the village at the boundary with the
Mainz-Bingen Mainz-Bingen is a district (''Kreis'') in the east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Rheingau-Taunus, the district-free cities Wiesbaden and Mainz, the districts Groß-Gerau, Alzey-Worms, Bad Kreuzna ...
district). This leads eastwards to neighbouring
Badenheim Badenheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Sprendlingen-G ...
and southwestwards to neighbouring
Volxheim Volxheim is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in ...
, where there is a junction with ''
Landesstraße ''Landesstraßen'' (singular: ''Landesstraße'') are roads in Germany and Austria that are, as a rule, the responsibility of the respective German or Austrian federal state. The term may therefore be translated as "state road". They are roads t ...
'' 412. Pleitersheim lies within a frame made up of four ''
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n'', namely 41, 50, 420 and 428. The
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A 61 (
Koblenz Koblenz (; Moselle Franconian language, Moselle Franconian: ''Kowelenz''), spelled Coblenz before 1926, is a German city on the banks of the Rhine and the Moselle, a multi-nation tributary. Koblenz was established as a Roman Empire, Roman mili ...
Ludwigshafen Ludwigshafen, officially Ludwigshafen am Rhein (; meaning " Ludwig's Port upon Rhine"), is a city in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on the river Rhine, opposite Mannheim. With Mannheim, Heidelberg, and the surrounding region, it form ...
) also parallels ''Bundesstraße'' 50 just beyond Badenheim. Serving nearby
Sprendlingen Sprendlingen is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location Sprendlingen lies in Rhenish H ...
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 ''Rheinhessenbahn''. Another serves nearby
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 ...
with a variety of rail services.


References


External links


Pleitersheim in the collective municipality’s webpages


{{Authority control Bad Kreuznach (district)