Lustadt

Lustadt is a municipality in the district of Germersheim, in Rhineland- Palatinate. In the Palatinate dialect used regionally it is called Does not light. It belongs to the municipality Lingen field.

• 4.1 municipal
• 4.2 Coat of Arms

• 5.1 Structures
• 5.2 Regular events

• 6.1 traffic

• 7.1 Sons and daughters of the town
• 7.2 People who have worked on site

Geography

Geographical location

Lustadt is located in the south-west of Rhineland -Palatinate between the Rhine and the Palatinate Forest in the southern Palatinate region. The cities of Ludwigshafen am Rhein and Karlsruhe are 36 km and 50 km from Lustadt removed to Speyer and Landau in the Palatinate are both 17 km away.

Community structure

The municipality consists of two districts:

• Niederlustadt with the living quarters on the heath, in the field and at the sewage treatment plant Röder
• Oberlustadt with the living quarters on the high street, on the bushes, The Brickyard, fox garden, in the Lower Gardens, laughter mill Ludwigsmühle and Upper Village

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities of Lustadt include Bell Home, free stream, Germersheim, Weingarten (Pfalz ), West Home (Pfalz ), Zeiskam (all district of Germersheim ) and Freimersheim ( Palatinate) ( County Southern Wine Route ).

History

Lustadt one of the oldest settlements of the district of Germersheim. Mentioned in documents of the settlement was first 773

Here, between Zeiskam and Lustadt was also the " St. John Commandery Heimbach ," a rich castle of the famous Order, with a controlling influence on the Gäugebiet. It was destroyed by farmers in 1525. From the same century dates the Catholic parish church, was a notable late -Gothic building from the year 1510.

In the course of administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate were merged with effect of 7 June 1969, the two communities Niederlustadt and Oberlustadt and formed from its territory the new community Lustadt.

Religion

2012 were 47.7 percent of the population Protestant and 24.0 percent Catholic. The other belonged to a different religion or no religious affiliation were.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Lustadt consists of 20 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 blazon of the arms is: In red one by a silver bar and split up by a silver stake split silver ring, in the lower half of a floating silver eight-pointed cross of St. John.

It was approved in 1973 by the district government Neustadt and was born from the union of the symbols of the historic coat of arms of Lower and Oberlustadt.

Culture and sights

Structures

See: List of cultural monuments in Lustadt

Regular events

Every year around the 1st of May at the Handkeesplatz in Maiblumenwald between Lustadt and the neighboring community Zeiskam the Loschter Handkeesfescht place whose name would be on high Lustadter German hand cheese festival. The number of visitors of the town's main festival, which in 1925 on the initiative of teaching and Georg Georg Ott came about and has since been regularly celebrated, is around 40,000.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Lustadt lies immediately south of the two-lane state road 272 ( Landau Schwegenheim ) that acts as a bypass, and 4 km west of the four-lane federal highway 9 (Ludwigshafen, Karlsruhe, Germany), which is reached via the junction Schwegenheim.

Until the closure of the railway line Germersheim -Landau Lustadt had a railway station. Since May 2006 running on the old route as a tourist attraction, a trolley service between Lingen field and Bornheim; at the track is also Lustadt.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Augustin Violet (1799-1859), the first Palatine deaf teachers
• Martin inhibitors (1863-1947), Catholic priest and prelate
• Jacob Nagel (1899-1973), Secretary of State of the German postal 1937-45

Those who worked on site

• Jacob Schwalb (1872-1934), priest, chaplain was temporarily in Oberlustadt
• Since then, Max (1914-2003), politician (SPD ) from 1969 Mayor of Lustadt
• Peter Brauchle (born 1970 ), sculptor, lives and works locally