Ellerstadt

Ellerstadt is a municipality in the district of Bad Durkheim in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Wachenheim on the wine route.

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Mayor
• 3.3 Coat of Arms

• 4.1 traffic

Geography

Ellerstadt is located in the Upper Rhine Valley in the Rhine -Neckar. Neighboring municipalities are birch heath, Fußgönheim, Gönnheim and Bad Durkheim. Which belongs to Ellerstadt acacia settlement is located in the north of the main town directly adjacent to the residential areas of the municipality Birch Heath.

History

The area around Ellerstadt was already inhabited in Roman times, as three stone Roman coffins and urns with glasses that were found in 1822 on the southern edge testify. Ellerstadt was probably already in the 5th century, a Frankish settlement. The first mention Ellerstadts was on 19 December 783 Busy is the donation of part of the village " Alaridestath " to the Lorsch Abbey through the free Franken Hubertus. More donations from Ellerstadt are mentioned in a document in the years 863, 873, 908 /9 on Lorsch and 985 to the monastery of Wissembourg in the Bas-Rhin. For the year 1190 Count palatine rights in Ellerstadt from the possession of the former monastery Weißenburger good and the advocacy of the Lorsch Abbey are detectable.

Of greater importance, the Lords of Flersheim who came from 1482 Ellerstadt in the possession of goods were. In 1548 the Flersheimer had two-thirds of the village and the Lords of Affenstein the other third. 1570 procured Friedrich von Flersheim of Emperor Maximilian II for permission to hold a annual Ross and cattle market is always for the 1st May and 19th November. The Flersheimer possessed not only the market supervision with all rights belonging, but also the neck Court and the blood spell. Your Weistum of 1555, for the church, the oldest document of the jurisdiction in disputes and criminal cases of its inhabitants, was again read in public. After the Flersheimer had become by 1577 termination of Affensteiner sole local lords, they died out in 1655. 1707 belonged Ellerstadt Casimir piston of Wartenberg and was part of the kingdom of County, which had direct imperial character. The impoverished Wartenberg eventually sold their rights in 1789 to the Counts of SICKINGEN.

1793/94 plundered the revolutionary troops of the French Republic, the community and attracted the inhabitants to serfdom zoom. The seizure of all property left bank nobility also had an impact on the Earl of SICKINGEN. There were no large landowners and serfs more. After the defeat of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna the Palatinate in 1816, incorporated in the Kingdom of Bavaria. Ellerstadt now belonged to the Land Commissioner Neustadt and for the judicial district of Frankenthal.

From the Neustadt district office in 1939 the district of Neustadt. Since the administrative reform early 1969 Ellerstadt belongs to the municipality Wachenheim, since the dissolution of the district Neustadt Ellerstadt belongs to the district of Bad Durkheim.

Demographics

1548 lived here 24 to 30 families and 1614 there were already 60 to 70; 1722 still stood at the street through which the Rhein- Haardt -Bahn, today not a single house; 1910, there are 767

The strong growth of recent decades is due not least to the Rhein- Haardt -Bahn. In the twenties, the thousand mark was exceeded. 1970 1.400 inhabitants had already been reported. 1980, the number was reached 2000 and after completion of the proposed development areas, the population will settle at around 2,500.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Ellerstadt 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 elected municipal council:

Mayor

Mayor Helmut Rentz (SPD ) 71.13 %

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of Ellerstadt was approved by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior in Munich on 10 August 1925. The coat of arms description reads: In silver on a green background a rooted cutting green Eller or alder tree with stylized leaves, the stem is beseitet of two coats of arms, reminiscent of two historic families of the local rule. The right sign is blue, silver and red split ( Lords of Flersheim ), the left shows a red bar in silver, accompanied above by two, down from a red ball (piston von Wartenberg ).

Economy and infrastructure

The agricultural community lives mainly on viticulture and to a lesser extent from the orchards. Some of the residents has been with BASF in nearby Ludwigshafen.

Viticulture has been around since the 8th century played for Ellerstadt a role, as can be seen from the Lorsch deed of gift. Since 1886, mainly Portuguese vines were planted on Ellerstadt district. The " Gewürztraminer ", which even Bismarck moved from Ellerstadt, usually brings only weak earnings and is therefore only rarely encountered, although the soils are particularly suitable in the community. The Weingut Markus Schneider is now the most well-known beyond the region vineyard of the place. The quality focus is on the red area.

1903 was attributable to the utilized agricultural area of the municipality ( 634 acres) 117 hectares of winegrowing, 357 on arable and garden areas and 70 ha on " Forests and Holzungen ". Fruit production had played a significant role to the last decade; Peach cultivation since 1867.

Known about the region, the peach variety " Red Ellerstädter " (also: Kernechter from the promontory and Vorgebirgspfirsich ). The species was found in 1870 by the winemaker George Fitz from Ellerstadt as a chance seedling in a group of peach seedlings have emerged from the seeds of a free withered tree.

Since 1925, more and more sour cherries were grown.

Traffic

Ellerstadt is located on the railway line for Bad Durkheim Ludwigshafen Rhein- Haardt line 4 ( in the VRN, formerly RHB ), the single track into Ellerstadt on the road through the village. There are two stops, Ellerstadt East and West Ellerstadt. The community belongs to the transport association Rhein- Neckar ( VRN).

Between Ellerstadt and acacia settlement the federal highway 650 runs

Sons and daughters of the town

• Because Abraham (1834-1900), financial officer of Jewish origin and honorary citizen of the community Leimersheim
• George Fitz (1860-1940), politician ( NLP)
• Manfred Geis (* 1949), politician ( SPD)