Kallstadt

Kallstadt on the German Wine Route is a municipality in the district of Bad Durkheim in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Freinsheim. Kallstadt is a nationally recognized tourist.

History

The area of present-day Kallstadt lay on the Roman road, the old town in Alsace today joined with the Rhineland, and was already in Roman times, a thriving cultural scene. Numerous archaeological finds evidence of a settlement by merchants, former Legionaries and winemakers from about 79 BC to at least 383 AD The present town has its origin probably in the settlement of a Frankish tribe that has grown up around 500 and their head Chagilo to eponym.

The place is mentioned in the year 824 the first time as " Cagelenstat ". Originally an imperial village, it later came to the county Pfeffingen ( Homburg ) and was since 1321 to the Knights of Monfort and 1451 to about 1551 the looks of Lichtenberg fief given. Then Kallstadt belonged until 1794 as Kurpfälzisches fief to Leiningen possession. From 1816 to 1946 it was like the entire Palatinate to the Kingdom of Bavaria, since 1946 to Rhineland- Palatinate.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Kallstadt consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Allocation of seats in the local council:

Coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: "On golden battlements, is a red orb with golden ripe and red cross, beseitet each a blue arrow slit, in a blue rotbewehrter silver eagle ".

Structures

Salvator Church - The Protestant St. Salvator Church is the most important and in its Gothic components also the oldest building of the village.

Bismarck Tower - The Bismarck tower stands 497 meters high on the head on a Peter exclave Kallstadts in the Palatinate Forest.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Kallstadt

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Wilhelm Heinrich von Creuzer (~ 1740-1794 ), Duke of Palatinate - zweibrückischer Chamber President
  • Norbert Scharf (1952-2010), politician ( SPD)
  • Drumpf Friedrich (1869-1918), grandfather of the U.S. real estate entrepreneur Donald Trump
  • Elisabeth Christ (1880-1966), grandmother of U.S. real estate entrepreneur Donald Trump
  • Johann Heinrich Heinz (1811-1891), father of the founder of Heinz Ketchup Company, Henry John Heinz
  • The organ building family Hartung (see also Johann Michael Hartung )
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