Heddesheim

Heddesheim ( heddesheimerisch: Hellese ) is a town with approximately 11,100 inhabitants. It is situated in Rhein- Neckar-Kreis in Baden- Württemberg near Mannheim and is part of the metropolitan region Rhein- Neckar.

  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Mayor
  • 3.3 Coat of Arms
  • 3.4 twinning
  • 4.1 Sport and Leisure
  • 4.2 dialect
  • 5.1 Economics
  • 5.2 Media
  • 5.3 traffic
  • 5.4 Education
  • 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 6.2 Other persons who are connected with the community

Geography

Location and natural space

Heddesheim is in the northwest of Baden-Württemberg in the Upper Rhine Plain. Nearly half of the district is on the Neckarschwemmkegel. In the immediate vicinity are located east of the mountain road and the Odenwald.

The northern boundary of the municipality collides with the city limits of four home, which is already in the state of Hesse. Northeast borders Heddesheim at Weinheim, east of Jelenia Gora on the mountain road, to the south by Ladenburg, on the southwest by Ilves home and to the west of Mannheim with the districts Feudenheim, Wall Street and city home.

The Gememeindegebiet extends over 1271 hectares. Of these, 24.8 percent for housing and transport area and 74.2 percent is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipality includes the hamlet Heddesheim Muckensturm, the homestead Neuzenhof and the houses cup break and the train station Heddesheim / Hirschberg.

History

First settlements in the area of ​​Heddesheimer district can already by 100 AD. , When the Romans founded the city of Ladenburg, prove. The name Heddesheim comes from the Franks, who during the mass migration to the Heddesheimer district were allegedly settled. The Frankish name was probably "home of Hedo " from which later developed into the place name Heddesheim.

The first mention of Heddesheim took place in 917 as ' Hetenesheim ' instead. The Lorsch Abbey received a donation 949 lands of the district, which finds mention in the Lorsch Codex. Probably at the end of the 12th century the Counts Palatine took over the lordship of the Rhine. 1222 Muckensturm was first mentioned. By 1450 about 200 people lived in Heddesheim, which belonged to the Palatinate for apples Bacher center.

The tobacco cultivation began around 1600 in the fields of the village. How many towns in the region was also destroyed Heddesheim the Thirty Years War from Tilly. Despite several wars in the region, the village also scored in the 17th century still 200 inhabitants.

The Old Town Hall was built in 1719, in 1756 the Catholic rectory and a reformed church. The Catholic church was built in its present form 1792. 1803 the Palatinate was dissolved and Heddesheim reached the Grand Duchy of Baden. The district office Ladenburg was responsible for Heddesheim from 1820. Later, this function took over the district office Mannheim, later the district of Mannheim.

Around 1825 the village had 1200 inhabitants. The Reformed Church in 1870 demolished and replaced by the present Protestant church. Towards the end of the 19th century inhabitants in 2600 have already been counted.

In the 20th century the site by the Upper Rhine Railway (OEG ) was connected to the railway network. 1929, the separate districts of Muckensturm and Neuzenhof were combined with Heddesheim. Road home had been slammed originally also the community. The road Heimer however defended themselves successfully against it because they wanted to be incorporated to Mannheim.

Against 1939 was the cultivation of tobacco in Heddesheim at its peak. On an acreage of 300 ha, a yield of almost 900 tons of tobacco was achieved, which Heddesheim made ​​the largest tobacco -growing community in Germany. Since 2010, no tobacco is grown more in Heddesheim after the removal of EU subsidies.

1868 was the " Old School ", built in the Beindstraße. The building in the street came to school. 1958 Heddesheim had the population almost doubled with 5280 inhabitants and another school building was erected. With the establishment of the second school location in the Rhine street of the old location in Hans -Thoma- primary school was renamed.

In 1969, the new city hall and the fire station were built, the church now had over 8000 inhabitants. The second school, the Johannes - Kepler - secondary school (now with Werkrealschule ), was built in 1971. With the dissolution of the district of Mannheim in 1973 came the church to the Rhein- Neckar-Kreis. The twinned with the French community Nogent -le- Roi was created in 1974., The new community center was built in 1989, the community numbered 11,200 inhabitants Heddesheim.

Policy

Parish council

The council has 22 seats and is elected by direct vote for five years. In addition, the mayor comes as council chairman. After the local elections in Baden-Württemberg, the voters the opportunity to the counting and vote splitting. The next municipal election will take place as scheduled in 2014. In the local elections in 2009 there were the following result:

Mayor

Michael Kessler 's 1998 mayor since June. He was elected with 53.32 percent of the votes in the first ballot. 2014 he was confirmed with 63.28 percent in his office.

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: In halbgespaltenem and shared sign above the front in black on the left inverted, red reinforced, red bezungter and red crowned golden lion, up backwards schräggerautet of silver and blue, below in red over blue Wellenschildfuß the silver latin capital letter H.

The coat of arms dates back to a court seal from 1555. It can also be found on the portal of the town hall, built in 1719. Lion and diamonds are the heraldic symbols of the Palatinate. In 1901 the coat of arms was officially granted by the State Archive.

The flag is blue and white and in 1968 was awarded by the Ministry of Interior.

Twinning

Heddesheim maintains active since 1974 twinned with Nogent -le- Roi. Nogent -le- Roi is a commune in the Eure -et -Loir in the Centre region. It belongs to the district Dreux and is the administrative center of the canton of Nogent -le- Roi.

Culture and sights

Sport and Leisure

Through the development of regions and the construction of sports facilities and cultural institutions a wide for a community this size range has been created to leisure activities in Heddesheim:

  • Indoor swimming pool
  • Lake with two heated pools
  • Skating rink outdoors
  • Two multi-purpose sports halls
  • 18- hole golf course
  • Mini-golf course
  • Gemeindebücherei
  • School of Music
  • Two soccer fields ( one turf pitch and a hard place in the stadium at the Maple Road, the stadium has 2,000 seats and is home to the football club FV Fortuna Heddesheim ).
  • Five Bolzplätze
  • Riding Club
  • Youth Center, among others with table tennis, skating, table football and billiards.

In addition, more than 50 clubs contribute to the cultural and sporting life. These include, inter alia, the SG Heddesheim (handball ) and the FV Fortuna Heddesheim (soccer ), with approximately 500 members. The handball player currently playing (2013 /14) in the BWOL ( 4.Liga ). They closed the 2012/13 season in the league with the 1.Tabellenplatz from Baden and thereby rose up in the BWOL. The footballers of Fortuna were masters in the circle class B 2 and play in the season 2011/ 2012 in the district Class A 2 ( 9.Liga ).

Dialect

The Heddesheimer dialect is characterized in addition to the usual Palatine dialect features by the Lambdazismus. Therefore, the local name is called in the original Heddesheimer dialect Hellese and not Heddese.

Economy and infrastructure

Economy

Originally dominated by agriculture, a number of smaller industrial enterprises have settled in Heddesheim. Centrally located in the Rhine - Neckar triangle Heddesheim it is mainly a residential community for commuters to nearby regional centers of Mannheim and Heidelberg. The agricultural area Heddesheims is at 1130 ha, including 700 ha of cereals, 266 ha and 100 ha of sugar beet cattle. Although called tobacco community, is cultivated with the year 2010, no more tobacco, since the subsidies no longer exist and the last four tobacco farmers can gain any economic benefit more from cultivation.

In Heddesheim 2012 one of the largest logistics centers in the region ( 200,000 m²) was completed. For the construction of the head of the Viernheimer Group Pfenning Logistics, Karl-Martin Pfenning has established with the Viernheimer Estate Agents Johann Georg Adler Phoenix 2010 GbR. By his own admission, the businessmen have invested nearly 100 million euros in the project. The settlement made ​​since the announcement for a local political dispute between its advocates and its opponents; inter alia, conducted a non-binding plebiscite, which yielded a slight majority for the project. On the eleven -acre roof of the distribution center in Heddesheim the company Wirsol the end of July in 2013 to build the largest crystalline rooftop solar installations in Europe. The plant produces a peak power of 8.1 MW.

Media

Freelance journalist and Heddesheimer citizens Hardy Prothmann founded under the name " The heddesheimblog " a so-called "Place or City Blog " in the community, which was nationally known fast because of the critical reporting and " has been awarded in December 2009." The heddesheimblog the only local editorial office is in place and the concept has been copied nationwide for other communities more than a dozen times by journalists.

Traffic

Heddesheim is since 1909 a branch line terminal of Upper Rhine Railway (short OEG ), which runs from Mannheim -Käfertal about Mannheim -Wall city to Heddesheim. The route will be operated since 1995 as part of the tram line 4 with a line path of Heddesheim via Mannheim and Ludwigshafen am Rhein Oggersheim. Since December 2008, every half hourly rate is (hourly on weekends and holidays) through bound to Bad Durkheim from line 4.

In the area of ​​outlying industrial area is the support of the Deutsche Bahn Heddesheim / Hirschberg at the Main- Neckar line. Bus routes to Ladenburg and Großsachsen. Heddesheim belongs to the tariff zone of the transport association Rhein- Neckar.

Several highways lead past in the immediate vicinity of Heddesheim. In the north, the A 659 between Mannheim and Weinheim, in the East, A 5 and A 6 in the West

Education

In Heddesheim there are four kindergartens (two Protestant, one Catholic, one local). There is also the Hans -Thoma- primary school ( built in 1958 ) and the Johannes Kepler primary and secondary school with Werkrealschule ( built in 1971 ). In March 2011, the main school in Karl Drais school was renamed. The background is the foundation of a school purpose Federation of Municipalities Heddesheim and Hirschberg on the mountain road, which now operate a common main and Werkrealschule at two locations.

Students who want to attend a high school or a high school must go into the neighboring towns of Ladenburg, Four Home, Weinheim or to Mannheim to school.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

Other personalities who are associated with the community

  • Georg Friedrich Schlatter (1799-1875), worked in Heddesheim as a Protestant minister from 1832. He was presiding over the constituent national assembly in Baden and was sentenced to ten years in prison because of his prominent position during the Baden Revolution 1848/49.
  • Allmang Philipp (1799-1867) was twice deputy in the national assembly Baden.
  • Heinrich Bedford - Strohm, Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Bamberg and Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, was from 1992-1994 vicar in Heddesheim.
  • Richard Nutzinger (1896-1963), writer and native Protestant theologian, was from 1931-1936 as vicar and pastor in Heddesheim active.
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