Ebertsheim
Ebert Home, Palatine Ewwertsem, is a municipality in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Bad Durkheim, located in the northwest of the European Metropolitan Region Rhine -Neckar. It belongs to the municipality green town and country.
- 4.1 municipal
- 4.2 Coat of Arms
- 6.1 traffic
- 6.2 Tourism
Geographical location
Ebert home with his local district Rodenbach is located in the historic Leiningerland in the north of the county. Through the town flows the Rein and its tributaries Rare Bach ( from the right) and Rodenbach ( from left). About three kilometers east of the glacial valley opens on the eastern edge of the Palatinate forest to the hill country on the German Wine Route and the Rhine valley.
Neighboring towns are from north clockwise Lautersheim, Quirnheim, Mertesheim, Green City, Tiefthal, Hettenleidelheim, Eisenberg and candles home.
History
Chronicle
A Frankish settlement " Eberolfsheim " was first mentioned in 765 in the Lorsch Codex. The first settlements were, however, much older, such as finds from the period around 500 BC and the Roman period show around 100 AD. Ebert got home from the Middle Ages continuously owned by the Earl Leininger. This is followed today reminds the Leininger road.
Until June 7, 1969, the town belonged to the district of Frankenthal, which was dissolved in the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform. Simultaneously with the county was changing from the small village of Rodenbach (then 271 inhabitants), which belonged to the neighboring and also extinct county Kirchheimbolanden until then, and the much larger home Ebert ( 1141 inhabitants), the current community Ebert home is newly formed. The name Rodenbach is still used in village life for the marking of places or clubs. In 1972, the community of the new green urban-rural municipality has been assigned. The district administration certain Rodenbach 2006 Local District, which thus acquired the right to document this property on the sign as well as to choose a mayor and a town council.
In August 2009, a runaway kangaroo Bennett made headlines, which was initially spotted on Ebert Heimer district and later photographed.
Religion
In 2011, 47.1 percent of the population Protestant and 26.4 percent Catholic. The other belonged to a different religion or no religious affiliation were.
Policy
Parish council
The local council in Ebertsheim 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 blazon of the arms is: " In green two diagonally crossed golden shovels with down swept silver blades with square handles on top of the stem, covered by a golden ax with a lowered silver iron ".
It was approved in 1926 by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior and goes back to a court seal from 1724. The symbols refer to the mining of ores and clay minerals, which formerly operated in the area.
Attractions
Today's Protestant church Ebert home, in the 12th century as " St. Stephan " built, one of the oldest in the Palatinate. After the Reformation it fell to the Protestants, but was used simultaneously to 1914. Three floors of the tower and the nave are still Romanesque, the fourth storey of the tower, which has rectangular sound holes, was placed later. Apart from the south portal is, carved into a sandstone blocks, a late gothic sundial. In the interior, the picture is hanging " Martin Luther Swan" of Ebert Heimer painter Johann Adam Schlesinger.
The Protestant church Rodenbach was in the 11th or 12th century as " St. Brigitta " built in, making it even older than that in Ebert 's home. They, too, was ceded to the Reformation the Protestants, but not used simultaneously. 1508 Romanesque tower was rebuilt in 1684 the ship. On three sides of the tower, stone sculptures are walled in by animal and human heads. It is not clear whether this is a kind of defensive magic or whether only the adventitious presence of components of older buildings, so-called spolia were used. There is a Romanesque relief, which was probably made already in the early days on the east side of the tower.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Ebert home is connected to the national road 395 (Green City sink Bach) with the Grünstadter district Asselheim and the B 271. The A6 is accessible via the interchanges Green city or Wattenheim, the A 63 via the connection point Dreisen / Göllheim. This Kaiserslautern and Mannheim ( A 6) are situated just 30 minutes drive away, the state capital Mainz ( A 63 ) can be reached in about 35 minutes.
The breakpoint Ebert home is located on the Eistalbahn (Green City Ramsen ) and is served to the beat movement of regional trains. The public transport system is integrated into the transport association Rhein- Neckar ( VRN), it shall apply the Community tariffs. The now disused and dismantled railway line Ebert Home Hettenleidelheim branched off from a specially -scale train station, about 600 meters was wöstlich of the present railway maintenance.
The nearest small airport is located about 3 kilometers away in Quirnheim, it is enabled for gliders and small airplanes with outdoor landing permission.
Tourism
Ebert home advertises with the slogan " the village in the countryside ." Its area is filled with not too steep terrain and therefore is ideal for nature walks.
The Hab -8 path signposted trail to its starting point is a Kneipp Armbecken.
The bird sanctuary on the outskirts suitable for ornithological observations.
Every year in early October - usually on the day of German Unity - attracts the action " Car-Free Ice Valley " many visitors to the region. The L 395 is a day locked for any road transport and is available exclusively for pedestrians, usually hikers, and skaters and cyclists available. The field experience Eisenberger earth Kaut is only about two kilometers from Ebertsheim away. As other destinations to offer the Eiswoog, a six- acre lake with rich bird life, Eistalbahn with their imposing bridge structures and the museum railway stump Forest Railway.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Johann Adam Schlesinger (1759-1829), Church painters
- John Schlesinger (1768-1840), portrait and still life painter in Mannheim and Heidelberg; Brother of Johann Adam Schlesinger
- Karl Fittler (1892-1966), politician ( SPD)
- Eugene Herrmann (1911-1976), Dean of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate
- Erwin Louis Diemer (1923-1990), Vicar General of the Diocese of Speyer and Papal prelate of honor