Knittelsheim

Knittelsheim is a municipality in the district of Germersheim, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Bell home.

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Geography

The place is between Germersheim and Landau in the Palatinate. To Knittelsheim includes the residential places Knittel Mühle, Am Hochweg and in the upper sand.

History

Although the village Knittelsheim has a great age - the first documentary mention goes to the " White Burger Codex Traditionum " back to the year 808 - it is now one of the small villages of the district of Germersheim. The viewer has when he coming the west side of the village seen by Landau, a closed, almost military-like town, which may have been subjected to probably little change in recent centuries. In the village itself is a look at a memorial, which has built the church in memory of the fallen and missing both world wars in the 1950s.

Religion

In 1835 Knittelsheim had 667 inhabitants, of whom 415 (62%) Catholic, and 252 (38%) were Protestant.

2012 were 61.3 percent of the population Catholic and 24.2 percent Protestant. The other belonged to a different religion or no religious affiliation were.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Knittelsheim consists of 16 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:

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " Argent, three rising from the sign foot green reeds with brown Schilfkolben whose average is inflated by the two outer diagonal right and left, covered with a blue horseshoe with down swept studs in the grows into the middle Schilfkolben ".

It was established in 1950 approved by the Mainz Ministry of Interior and is based on a seal from 1730.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

East of the municipality runs the federal highway 9, which runs from Karlsruhe to Speyer. Knittelsheim is served by two bus routes to the larger towns in the area.