Rüssingen

Rüssingen is a municipality in the Thunder Mountain district in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Göllheim.

Geography

The municipality is located north of the Palatinate Forest, between Kaiserslautern and Worms. Bathed it is from the Meadow Brook, a left-side tributary of the Ammelbachs. Göllheim located in the southwest, Ottersheim in the northeast and southeast lies Biedesheim. 80.5 % of the district area Rüssingens be used for agriculture.

To Rüssingen includes the living space Lindenhof.

History

Rüssingen is an old settlement area. In the Rüssinger district uncovered archaeological finds prove settlements from the Neolithic period, from the late Early Bronze Age and the early Iron Age. The most famous of the prehistoric and early historic finds is the " Rüssinger ploughshare " of limestone.

Rüssingen 773 is first entered in the Lorsch Codex. There several land donations are listed at the monastery Lorsch for the end of the 8th century. The meaning of the name is not certain to clarify, alternatively, it is called a " place where there were many horses " or interpreted "place for the people of Hrusso ".

In later times, the village seems to have come into rich possessions and verlehnt in 1190 as an imperial fief of the Counts of Leiningen Werner II of Bolanden. Rüssingen thus attaining the Sponheim - dannenfelsischen possessions and fell in 1393 to Philip I of Nassau- Saarbrücken. Until 1574 it was under nassau saarbrückischer rule of 1574 to the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops under the sovereignty of Nassau- Weilburg. Under French rule Rüssingen was assigned to the Canton Göllheim and the Mairie Göllheim report directly.

Documentary evidence was from 1135 to 1424, a low noble family, the lords of Rüssingen, a resident of the place, who stood as vassals in the service of the lords of Bolanden.

The closed outer front of the village suggests that Rüssingen was fortified in the Middle Ages, but this is not to prove a document. Art history not insignificant is a font from the late Gothic period. This was after an eventful history in the chapter house of the Carthusian church in Nuremberg its new location. http://www.heimat-pfalz.de/images/stories/kleinodien/ruesstauf.gif http://www.heimat-pfalz.de/component/content/article/720.html

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Rüssingen consists of eight 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

Blazon: Azure, a silver jumping single horse, gold reinforced, bemähnt - and - beschweift.

Economy and infrastructure

Take the A 63 (Mainz - Kaiserslautern ) to the west is connected to the long-distance transport.