Gleisweiler

Gleisweiler ( pfälz. Glääswoiler ) is a municipality in the Southern Wine Route in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Edenkoben. Gleisweiler is a nationally recognized resort.

• 4.1 municipal
• 4.2 Coat of Arms

• 6.1 wine
• 6.2 Kurklinik

• 7.1 Sons and daughters of the town
• 7.2 People who have worked on site

Geography

Location

The wine-growing village located 9 km south of Edenkoben between the biosphere reserve Palatinate Forest and the Rhine.

The local church track hamlet lies at about 300 m above sea level. NN on the slopes of the Haardt and at the foot of the 598 m high mountain devil on the German Wine Route.

To track hamlet includes the residential places paper mill Hainbachtal and sanatorium Bath Street.

Climate

Gleisweiler has a mild climate due to its location on the German Wine Route in the lee of the Palatinate Forest and calls himself the " Palatinate Nice ".

History

The village was mentioned in documents in 1006 for the first time under the name " Glizenwilere ". King Henry II had given the place along with Hochstadt and Wollmesheim the cathedral chapter at Speyer. In 1414, Wolfgang Ritter sold, Judge of Knittelsheim his goods in Gleisweiler to Count Palatine Louis III. , Also the Palatinate had the Oberbotmäßigkeit and serfs in place. 1587 sold the cathedral chapter of Speyer its share of the rights over Gleisweiler to John Casimir of the Palatinate- simmering, who was acting head of the Palatinate at the time. The place came to the court of the Siebeldinger valley that belonged to the Palatine Oberamt Germersheim.

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 Gleisweiler was attributed to the country 's Commissariat Landau in Bavaria Rhine district, later the county Landau, from 1938, the district Landau emerged. Since 1972 Gleisweiler belongs to the municipality then newly Edenkoben and since 1978 the district of Southern Wine Route.

Religion

2013 were 37.8 percent of the population Catholic, 37.1 percent Protestant. The other belonged to a different religion or no religious affiliation were. Catholics belong to the diocese of Speyer, the Evangelical Lutheran Church for Protestant Palatinate.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in track hamlet consists of twelve council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local council:

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " In under a silver with studs down swept a black horseshoe protruding into the cavity of blue grape with green stem ." It was approved in 1844 by the Bavarian king and goes back to a seal of 1708.

Culture and sights

On the Kittenberg are the remains of the castle Kittenberg, an early medieval castle wall.

1760-62, the Catholic Church of St. Stephen was built by the Palatine court architect Franz Wilhelm Rabaliatti. The hall building with corner pilasters is bounded by a pilastergegliederten choir. The former choir tower is from the year 1354 on the north side His last bullet is vorgekragt on a round- arched frieze and covered with a hipped roof. ; this speaks for the function of a defensive tower. On the ground floor under the starry vault, there is a oriole projecting Sacrament Shrine, which was built around the year 1500.

The spa house was built in 1844 according to plans by Leo von Klenze. This is surrounded by an extensive park with majestic redwood trees and Mediterranean plants. The garden pavilion " Temple of the Sun " ( 1780 ) was transferred here from Landau in the Palatinate. The semi-circular columns made ​​open to the south.

There are also important the archway at Hausbergstraße 4 ( ref. 1619) and an archway from 1823 with " mountain man character " the house Bath Street 9/11. It is historically interesting also the half-timbered house in the late medieval " Hinz hole wells ."