Fußgönheim
Fußgönheim is a municipality in the Rhein- Pfalz-Kreis in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Maxdorf.
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Coat of Arms
- 4.1 Structures
- 4.2 Museums
- 5.1 traffic
- 5.2 Education
Geography
Fußgönheim located west of Ludwigshafen on the Rhine in the Upper Rhine Plain. Through the town flows the brook Swabia. Adjacent communities from east clockwise are Ludwigshafen, Schauernheim, Gönnheim, Ellerstadt, Birch Heath and Maxdorf.
History
Archaeological finds indicate a settlement at the time of the Celts and Romans, the first certain documentary evidence comes from the Product Classification Prüm Abbey from the year 893
Fußgönheim was of 900 to 1100 in the possession of the Salian emperors house, later the sovereignty passed to the Palatinate. Fußgönheim was divided into an upper town and a lower town, and verlehnt to the families of Falkenstein and Bolanden. Later, the Indian bolan property was sold to the Count of Leiningen. The Palatine Court Chancellor James Tillman Hallberg 1728 bought the rights of succession of the Oberdorf, a year later the sub- village, to which reference him by Elector Karl III. Philipp sovereign rights over the village were granted. In 1740 he built the Hallberger castle with church and resulted in the Lutheran since the Reformation, a place the Catholic denomination. The rule of the Hallberg family ended with the conquest of the Palatinate by the French.
Since the departure of the French in 1818, the leadership of the community was subject to the mayor and the municipal council. Manages the place was initially the borough of Speyer of the " Bavarian Rhine circle ", which was later renamed the " Palatinate ". 1886 Fußgönheim went to the newly formed county Ludwigshafen, from which, after the Second World War the county Ludwigshafen, today Rhein- Pfalz-Kreis originated.
On 7 June 1969, the BASF settlement was umgemeindet 1602 inhabitants according Maxdorf.
Religions
In 2007, 47.2 percent of the population Protestant and 26.3 percent Catholic. The other belonged to a different religion or no religious affiliation were.
Population Development
Getting information to the population there from the year 1560, at that time there were about 150-200 people in Fußgönheim. Until the 19th century was only the stretch of road today lying east, consisting of a main road and Ruchheimer street populated. Through the establishment of many small farmers, artisans, and merchants came in the first half of the 19th century, to a strong increase in population of about 500 inhabitants in 1815 up to 1000 in 1840. During this time found first settlements to the west instead. By 1900, the city limits were practically unchanged, then new settlements were created almost exclusively on the western side of the founding core, because the terrain drop to the low terrace at the eastern city limits there made it difficult to build. 1950 had a total population of 1,500 inhabitants was achieved mainly through development of the western stretch of road from Bahnhofstrasse and Speyer road. In the 1960s and 1970s there was by designation of development areas the largest areal growth Fußgönheims, the population rose to 2565 in 1988.
Policy
Parish council
The local council in Fußgönheim consists of 20 council members, who were elected at the municipal election on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman location.
Allocation of seats in the elected municipal council:
Coat of arms
The blazon of the arms is: "Divided and split up, up right in a Gold sechsspeichiges red wheel, top left in blue rotbewehrter a silver eagle, silver down in a bouncing red fox ".
It was founded in 1927 approved by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior. The fox talking points to the origin of the place name, which is derived from Fox Gönheim. The wheel is reminiscent of the Bolandener and the eagle on the Leininger, both former local lords.
Culture and sights
Structures
The Hallbergsche castle was built in 1728-31 for the Palatine Chancellor Baron Jakob Tilmann Hallberg. In 1815 the castle is privately owned and was used as a shop, barn and storage. In 1972 it was purchased by the Catholic church and carefully restored.
The complex belongs to the baroque palace church of St. James the Great was built in 1740/41.
The Protestant Lutheran Church was built in 1732/33. On the site can already demonstrate a church in 1253. The round-arched structured with sandstone plastered building has a three-sided choir circuit and a eingestalteten facade tower, which was built along with the new facade in 1842. The nave was built in 1911 increased.
See also: List of cultural monuments in Fußgönheim
Museums
The German Potato Museum presents an exhibition around the potatoes. It is located since 1997 in the former synagogue built in 1842.
The local museum is housed in the Fußgönheim Hallberg 's castle.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
North of Fußgönheim the federal highway runs 650 ( Bad Durkheim -Ludwigshafen ). By Rhein- Haardt Bahn (Mannheim - Bad Durkheim ), a narrow gauge railway, the town is connected to the rail network since 1913. Fußgönheim belongs to the tariff zone of the transport association Rhein- Neckar.
Education
The village has a kindergarten, a primary school and a community library.