Bissersheim

Bissersheim is a municipality in the Palatine district of Bad Durkheim, who belongs to the municipality green town and country. The village is located about 16 km north- west of Ludwigshafen on the edge of European Metropolitan Region Rhine -Neckar.

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Geography and Geology

Bissersheim is located on 141 m height near the northern end of the German Wine Road and on the western edge of the Rhine valley. West of the Haardt ¹) rises as the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest, to the east, 35 km wide Upper Rhine Valley extends. Through the town flows eastwards of Corner Brook, which is regionally also called the corner and flows near Worms in the Rhine.

¹) Geologic belonging also to spur Leininger. The upstream vineyards of the former sub- Haardt count since the 1970s, the new wine region Mittelhaardt - German Wine Route. To see local geology municipality green town and country.

History

The village was mentioned in the year 774 was first documented as Bizzirichesheim. The Rhine Franconian duke Nanthar and his wife had given their possessions to the local monastery of them donated Münsterdreisen in the year. King Conrad III. confirmed in 1144, this foundation.

From 1816 to the Protestant parish of Bissersheim belonged to the Kingdom of Bavaria and was part of the canton green city in the Rhine district. In 1840 the city had 60 houses and 378 inhabitants, including 43 Jews. He was the seat of the Mayor's Office.

From 1939 it belonged to the district of Frankenthal, until it was dissolved in 1969. After completed in the same year change in the new district of Bad Durkheim Bissersheim the municipality also newly formed Green City land was allocated in 1972.

The development of the population of Bissersheim, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Bissersheim consists of eight council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms shows the hl. Margaret of Antioch, under whose patronage - together with Saint. Blasius - Bissersheimer the parish church of St. Blaise and St. Margaret stands.

Economy and infrastructure

Economy

The community is a wine-producing in the Palatinate wine region and looks back on a long tradition of viticulture.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Abraham Kuhn (1838-1900), professor of medicine at the University of Strasbourg