Herxheim bei Landau/Pfalz

The local church Herxheim bei Landau / Pfalz ( pfälz. Herxe (m) ) and the district Hayna in Rhineland-Palatinate is based on the number of inhabitants, the largest municipality in the district of Southern Wine Route. Herxheim is the administrative seat of the municipality of the same name, a nationally recognized tourist and reported as a secondary center in accordance with state planning.

• 4.1 Museums
• 4.2 Sport
• 4.3 theater

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

History

The area of Herxheim was already inhabited in the Neolithic period. West of Herxheim remains of a 7,000 -year-old settlement were discovered. In the 6th century Frankish settlers found the place. It is first mentioned in a document Harieschaim 773 for the monastery of White Castle, as a Sigibald his property overrides the monastery. As part of the so-called " White Burger monastery robbery " ( 985/991 ) taken from the Salian Herxheim and other possessions of the monastery. Under the Salian a church built in 1004 on the Kirchberg plateau, from which the received lower part of the bell tower. 1057 came Herxheim by a donation of the Salian Emperor Henry IV rebuilt in spiritual possession, namely, to the diocese of Speyer. In this Herxheim remained around 600 years. After the Peace of Nijmegen 1678/79 Herxheim fell with all communities south of Queich to France. 1816, after the Congress of Vienna, the Palatinate to the eighth province of the Bavarian kingdom was. Herxheim belonged to the canton and the country 's Commissariat Landau. While membership of Bavaria, the school house was inaugurated (1824 ), the first tobacco factory founded (1879 ) and the railway line opened Herxheim -Landau (1898 ). The Bavarian period ended in 1946 when the state of Rhineland -Palatinate was formed. A referendum of 1956, which provided for a return to Bayern failed. 1972 Herxheim was in the course of administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate seat of the municipality Herxheim. On March 17, 1974, until then independent municipality Hayna was incorporated.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Herxheim consists of 28 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local council:

Because of population growth in recent years the number of seats increased in 2004 from 24 to 28

Youth Parliament

The local church Herxheim was the first and so far the only municipality in the Southern Wine Route, which has been introduced with the establishment of a Youth Parliament in May 2000, a voice for young people. The Youth Parliament will take care of the needs of young people from the local community. Be elected the twelve members of the panel that must be old when preparing to choose between 14 and 18 years, all two and a half years by majority vote. At the inaugural session, a Chairman and one or more deputies will be elected from among the members. The Youth Parliament including the ability to organize events. For example, the Bundestag elections in 2005 and 2009 and to the 2009 municipal elections was offered a panel discussion for young people. Chairman of the fifth Youth Parliament Herxheim, elected in June 2009, Fabian Kuntz is. After a brief tenure as chair of luer Juliana in the sixth Youth Parliament (2012 - 2014) and her deputy Maximilian Winstel takes over the presidency. As deputy Anna Lischke was nachgewählt. 2014 is the next choice.

Community partnerships

• Ilfracombe
• Saint -Apollinaire

Coat of arms

• Short Description: " In split of silver and blue shield a heraldic lily with confused colors, upper end accompanied by two gold stars ."
• Approval: February 20, 1923, Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, Munich
• Genesis: The origins of the Herxheimer coat of arms go back to the late 17th and the early 18th century.

After the Peace of Nijmegen ( 1679 ) the area had come south of the Queich under the sovereignty of France. This included the fürstbischöflich speyerische Oberamt Loud Castle, was one of the Herxheim. Some rights remained the Prince Bishop. The French tried to win over the population. The prince-bishop tried his hand, his subjects to abide by larger concessions than previously weighed down. That might have been a reason to give the community Herxheim a seal for the village court. With the inclusion of the lily in the new court seal appears to have been reminded both the membership Herxheims the diocese Speyer with its St. Mary's Cathedral and at the same time at the lilies of the Bourbons, the most powerful representatives of Louis XIV was the supreme lord even of Herxheim now.

The first representation of the lily in Herxheim and thus for all visible place in the corner posts of the former town hall Lower Main Road 132, which was built in 1716. The first document in which the Herxheimer court seal appears with the lily and seven stars or above indicated a siebenperligen crown, is from the year 1733.

To the still valid appearance of the coat of arms Herxheimer it came in the early 1920s. After a long discussion, it was agreed to use the lily in the new coat of arms. The reason was primarily the former belonging to the Bishopric of Speyer - the lily is the symbol of the Virgin Mary, patroness of the cathedral chapter. With regard to the colors used silver and blue oriented themselves to both the colors of the cathedral chapter, as well as those of the former residents here Holzapfel family of Herxheim.

Based on the dating from the 1733 seal with the crown siebenperligen the lily was " decorated " with two golden stars.

Archeology

In the years 1996-1999 a settlement of the linear pottery was excavated in advance of the commercial area west. The excavations were continued due to unusual results in 2005/ 06. The investigation is further underway.

The settlement consisted of the second ( " Flomborn " ) until the most recent stage of the Linear Pottery, ie about 5300-5150 BC, the south of this a large number of pits was found, which together were so dense and overlapped again and again that the impression of two running around the village ditches arose. This first led to interpretation as earthwork. In the pits, which are attributable to the youngest section, were a number of human bones, often battered, almost always released from the anatomical association. The number of 450 skulls (at a non completed excavation of the pit plant) shows that in Herxheim many more people were buried, as there may have lived within the recent period of Pottery. In the pits is also found numerous other finds, such as pottery, flint or grinding stones, which have often been deliberately destroyed also.

The investigation of the cleaned bones of travertine and thereon cut marks brought Bruno Boulestin, an anthropologist at the University of Bordeaux to the assumption that the skeletal remains were found cannibalistic meals. The cut marks indicate that the skin was removed, tendons were severed to separate limbs and body parts were systematically fleshed. The tracks are comparable such that can be found on the slaughtered animal bones. A massacre was excluded due to lack of combat injuries. The archaeologist Andrea Zeeb -Lanz pointed out that a real proof of cannibalism thesis, such as the detection of human myoglobin in feces, was not satisfied. In addition, the number of dead would related to duration of colonization mean that over the years human flesh would have been a staple food of the Linear Pottery culture. The study of the isotopes of strontium -87 and strontium -86 in the enamel of 54 individuals showed that they came from granite -rich mountain country, so were not a band ceramist who yes settled exclusively on lössreichen valleys and their fields docked.

In November 2004, a local history museum was opened in Herxheim whose barn cellar of the Linear Pottery and their local finds dedicated.

Attractions

Tobacco drying shed at Bruchwegstadion

Citizens fountain in front of the Villa Wieser

Museum

• Jewish cemetery. Between Herxheim and Ruelzheim is located right next to the road, a Jewish cemetery. This is accessible and a testimony of Jewish culture in the Palatinate. Buried here are mostly Jewish compatriots from the communities Germersheim, Ruelzheim, Leimersheim and Herxheim.
• Kirchberg with Church of the Assumption and war memorial chapel. In the village center rises north of the Lower main street of the Kirchberg with church and war memorial chapel. The oldest part of the church is the church tower stump of 1004. The network vaulted choir ( 1507) and the upper storeys of the tower ( bell storey 1585 ) are the late Gothic style, the nave was built in 1776/77. Below the church is the war memorial chapel. It is a one-story long building with classical elements ( stem with triangular pediment ). 1831 the building was built as a watch - and gaol. In his place was by then the town hall. 1921-1922 they built the guard-house to a war memorial chapel.
• Tobacco shed. In Herxheim and its neighborhood Hayna numerous, mostly wooden tobacco sheds are still standing. By 1860, the tobacco growing was introduced in Herxheim. The older high scales are usually on the farm-yard, newer flat scales are usually on the outskirts or directly in the fields. On Bruchwegstadion several older sheds are the only sides built shed road.
• Villa Wieser. 1856/57 was Leonard Peters in the town center, opposite the present city hall, built a neo-baroque castle. The Villa Wieser is a two story house with Mansardwalmdach, neo-gothic turrets and cultivation. For the Upper Main street, the property is flanked ( 1850 ) of two classical stems. Between the two today is the designed by sculptor Gernot Rumpf village well.
• Around Herxheim a ring of chapels draws with eight chapels.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Herxheim bei Landau / Pfalz

Museums

• Museum Herxheim with the permanent exhibition " Stone Age in the barn cellar "

Sports

Nationally known Herxheim is mainly due to the motorcycle races held there. The forest stadium has a 1,000 -meter sand track on which, inter alia, annually on Ascension Day, the so-called Father's Day race takes place, at which most part is taking the world head of the long-track driver. Multiple (1984, 1990, 1996, 2001), the forest stadium was the venue for the long track World Cup both the solo and the team class. Organizers of the race is the Motorsport Association Herxheim ( MSVH ), for, inter alia, is also the multiple long course world champion Gerd crack started.

The football team of SV Viktoria Herxheim played several years in the Oberliga West in 1991 and took part in the DFB Cup.

Theater

Herxheim is the seat of Chawwerusch theater.

Traffic

Herxheim is connected via highway 65 to the trunk road network. Coming from is via exit number 19 ( Rohrbach ), coming from the south via exit number 20 ( Kandel -north) there.

Herxheim is by bus routes to Landau ( 555 ), Kandel (554 ) and Ruelzheim (553) connected verkehrlich. The bus lines are harmonized with the local stations. By 1983, drove passenger trains on the railway line between Landau and Herxheim, reactivation and continuation to Ruelzheim was investigated in 2003 by the State of Rhineland -Palatinate, but for the time being rejected. A route safeguards agreement still exists, however.

A Ruftaxilinie set Rohrbach - change of timetable summer 2005 was on the track Herxheim - Insheim. The Ruftaxi runs on a set schedule on weekdays and Saturdays six times three times and served it in Herxheim and Insheim three and in Rohrbach two stops.

With the establishment of the Ruftaxiverbindung the desire of the population was taken into account to link the villages in the area of ​​community association Herxheim better.

By three and 554 Herxheim - Kandel - Also on 12 June 2005, the bus lines 555 - (- Landau Herxheim Herxheim ) were Herxheim supplemented by two additional trips on Saturday afternoon. This can now be achieved Landau and Kandel to 18 clock on Saturday.

Economy

Herxheim is still heavily reliant on agriculture. After the end of the EU subsidies for tobacco growers is this industry that for decades has been shaped by its distinctive shed for drying tobacco the townscape, come to a complete standstill. Strongly represented in the cultivation of vegetables, together with downstream industries such as vegetables wholesale and logistics.

Herxheim is home to the Business Unit Electrical Heaters of the Eberspacher group. The catem Eberspacher GmbH & Co. KG is based in the industrial area west. Also to be found in Herxheim two large furniture stores, Ehrmann Gilb and Weber. Already since 1911, there is a candy factory Eugen Trauth & sons, their products such as Schokoküsse mainly marketed in direct sales. In the district Hayna is the Restaurant Zur Krone, chef Karl -Emil Kuntz, an evaluated with a Michelin star and 18 out of 20 Gault Millau points awarded restaurant.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Georg Adam Zotz (1753-1816), commander of the French artillery and Knight of the Ordre royal et militaire de Saint -Louis
• Albert Detzel, Rhineland- Palatinate politician and mayor of Herxheim
• August Knecht (1866-1932), Catholic theologian
• Valentin Oak (1882-1958), trade unionists, civil servant and politician ( center )
• John Finck (1888-1953), politician ( center, CDU)
• Albert Finck (1895-1956), politician ( center, CDU)
• Since then, Max (1914-2003), member of the Bundestag (SPD )
• Bertold K. Jochim (1921-2002), author
• Hans -Jürgen Kerner ( born 1943 ), criminologist
• Willi servant ( b. 1947 ), Catholic theologian
• Fritz Brechtel ( born 1955 ), biologist and politician ( CDU)
• Jörg- John Lechner ( b. 1966 ), educationist and anthropologist
• Mark Eichenlaub (born 1970 ), organist
• Jochen Rieder ( b. 1970 ), conductor

Those who worked on site

• Jakob Friedrich Bussereau, a Catholic priest, Founder and founder of St. Paul's pin in Herxheim
• Michael Bauer, lives in Herxheim since 1995
• Karl -Emil Kuntz, operates in the district Hayna the Restaurant Zur Krone
• Gerd Riss, multiple motorcycle world champion on the sand track ( long course )