Fürfeld

Fürfeld is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Bad Kreuznach.

• 4.1 Structures

• 5.1 Viticulture
• 5.2 traffic

Geography

The place is located, as well as free - Laubersheim and Neu-Bamberg, in the Rheinhessen Switzerland. Town center point is the so -called " Roman ".

To Fürfeld includes the residential places Biedenthalerhof, yard Iben, Thaler mill and on the Gold Kaut.

History

The place was first mentioned in a deed King Zwentibolds of Lorraine to the monastery of St. Maximin in Trier 897 as Furnifeld.

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Fürfeld 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

Since 1973, the community Fürfeld leads this municipal coat of arms. It follows in the design of a court seal from 1614, showing in box 1 (top left = heraldic right) a golden leaf crown in red, in box 2 (top right = heraldic left) 2 rows blue Eisenhutfehs in silver, in box 3 (bottom left = heraldic right) a split eagle in gold, in box 4 three ( heraldic ) diagonally right silver buckles in red box 1 and 2 stand for the family of Cronberg, box 3 of belonging to the imperial knights, Section 4 for the Boos of Waldeck. Not to be confused with the marshals of Waldeck, who also lived at the castle Iben. But the strain is already extinct in 1553. Iben 1614 was already the Cronbergern that in Fürfeld were also court gentlemen and therefore in the coat of arms are quite correct twice present. Court gentlemen were also the Boos von Waldeck.

Partnerships

Fürfeld maintains partnership relations with Crissey in Burgundy and Brachstedt in Saxony -Anhalt.

Culture and sights

Structures

• Protestant parish church, baroque hall building with an older tower
• Catholic Church of St. Giles, built in 1774-1776, designed by Peter Reheis
• Gothic Knights Templar chapel in the courtyard Iben

See also: List of cultural monuments in Fürfeld

Economy and infrastructure

Viniculture

Fürfeld part of the " wine field Bingen " in the Rheinhessen region. In the village 15 wineries operate, the area under vines is 57 hectares. Approximately 64 percent of the cultivated wine are white wine varietals ( 2007). In 1979, 48 companies were still active, the former vineyard was 66 acres.

Traffic

• Fürfeld is located on the main road 420 in the north- east is the federal motorway 61
• The station was in Fürfeld endpoint of the railway line opened in 1898 Sprendlingen - Fürfeld. She was decommissioned in 1960. In nearby Hochstätten trains to the Alsenztalbahn.

Personalities

• Ludwig Tree ( 1800 - after 1871 ), Grand Duke of Hesse - mayor to Fürfeld ( 1845-1871 ), deputy of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse Darmstadt ( 1856-1862 )
• Franz Josef Brunck (1787-1848), Grand Duke of Hesse - mayor to Fürfeld (1814-1836), deputy of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse Darmstadt ( 1826-1848 ), deputy of the Frankfurt National Assembly (1848 )
• Henry Steitz (1907-1998), a Protestant theologian