Edesheim

Edesheim is a municipality in the Southern Wine Route in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Edenkoben. Edesheim is a nationally recognized tourist.

• 4.1 Music
• 4.2 Structures

• 5.1 Viticulture
• 5.2 Education

Geography

The place is in Modenbachtal on the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest, between Neustadt on the Wine Route and Landau, two miles south of Edenkoben between the biosphere reserve Palatinate Forest and the Rhine.

To Edesheim includes the settlement Eckel and residential places Erlenmühle, forest house Wolfseck and house Guth

History

Already in the year 714 found Edesheim under the name "villa Auduino " or " Auduinovilla " mention in a document of the Abbey White Castle, which owned a manor house and two churches here. 755/56 the name Autineshaim was written later Otdensheim, Ödesheim and Edesheim. The place Edesheim belonged to the late 18th century to the Bishopric of Speyer.

After 1792 French revolutionary troops occupied the region and annexed after the peace of Campo Formio (1797 ). From 1798 to 1814 the village belonged to the French department of Thunder Mountain and was assigned to the Canton Edenkoben. Taken in response to the Congress of Vienna (1815 ) Agreements and a barter agreement with Austria the region came in 1816 with the Kingdom of Bavaria. As of 1818, the municipality Edesheim was later assigned to the country 's Commissariat Landau in Bavaria Rheinkreis the county Landau, from 1938, the district Landau emerged. Since 1978, the community belongs to the district of Southern Wine Route.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Edesheim 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.

The distribution of seats in the local council:

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality Edesheim, which has been run since 1493, St. Peter shows in a silver robe with blue cape on a red background. In his right hand he holds a flipped to the left golden key in his left hand a gold encompassed red book. The head is surrounded by a golden halo. (Source: City Hall Edesheim )

Culture and sights

Music

The local church has a reading and singing club (founded in 1869), as well as the MGV Concordia Edesheim, which was founded in 1878.

Structures

The Kupper Wolf castle was built by Franz Adam Baron von Holbach, the uncle of the Enlightenment philosopher Paul Henri Thiry d', and Holbach. It was named after its later owner, an Austrian general, named.

The Edesheim castle was built before the year 756 by the Abbey White Castle. In the Nine Years War, the castle was completely destroyed in 1594 and had to be rebuilt, only the water systems of the 12th century could be obtained. After the castle lost more and more important, it was finally demolished in 1748. Only in the 19th century started with the fact that Castle to build again in a contemporary style. It changed hands several times and was around the year 2000 completely renovated. Since then located on the premises of a hotel.

Village mill was first mentioned in 1354

Town hall and church

See also: List of cultural monuments in Edesheim

Economy and infrastructure

Viniculture

The place is considerably affected by the wine-growing and one of the largest wine-growing villages of the Palatinate.

Education

In Edesheim there is a primary school which bears the name of the place.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Paul Henri Thiry d' Holbach (1723-1789), a German-born philosopher, nephew of Franz Adam Baron of Holbach.

• Alfred Machol (1875-1937), Surgeon
• August Körber (1905 - after 1945 ), SS officer