Leimen, Rhineland-Palatinate
Sizing is a municipality in the district of West Palatinate in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Rodalben. Sizing is a nationally recognized resort.
- 4.1 municipal
- 4.2 Coat of Arms
Geography
Location
Glues located in Gräfensteiner country in the Palatinate Forest. 91.5 percent of the district area is forested. In the southwest is Merzalben, northeast locust cross. Nearest large city is the south west of Pirmasens. In 1970 the community was named " state-approved leisure ". The community glues is 500 meters above sea level and is the highest resort in the Palatinate. For sizing includes the hamlet Röderhof and the living space forestry house glues.
Climate
The annual rainfall is 1071 mm. Rainfall is high. They are located in the upper quarter of the detected values in Germany. At 88% of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values are registered. The driest month is April, the most rainfall comes in December. In December, falling 1.5 times more rainfall than in April. Precipitation varies moderately. At 45% of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.
History
A near Röderhof located Celtic grave suggests that the area was originally inhabited in the area of present-day sizing of the Celts. The exact Initial colonization is unknown. However, it can be assumed that the place glues existed long before the reign Gräfenstein. The first mention of glues was made on 27 May 1152 when Pope Eugene III. the abbot tungsten and the Religious of the church of St. Mary to Wadgassen took under his protection, and they confirmed all the possessions, one in hooves glue ( Leima ), which was acquired by the East Melbourne monastery against a hereditary annual interest rate of 7 solidi.
The value held in the Latin original of the certificate is as follows:
" In Hesemingen Mansum unum et Leima quamhabetis from ecclesia de Herbodesheim, sub censu septem solidorum eidem ecclesiae a vobis vestrisque successoribus annis singulis persolvendo ... "
This glues heard despite the remoteness of its geographic location to the oldest recorded settlements in the West Rich. The actual date of establishment can not be determined approximately. It is likely that the site of the monastery as Bailey East Melbourne on a relatively fertile because loam rich plateau was established. Glues belonged to Bliesgau and to the diocese of Metz.
Without a doubt, even then a symbol of the place was an ancient church. One suspects the construction period to 1350. In 1413 the chapel has the Patrozinum " Our Lady " worn. This emerges from a deed of 8 July 1413. quote:
" Mayor and City Council Annweiler act that before them in court manner Claus Zolner and his wife welcome humility citizen to Annweiler, brother Masters of Our Lady have to Leymen for 24 pennies prescribed an annual Martinigült of 1 simmering oil and set the following properties for sub- pledge Women. "
Sealed have Dieze Lauwer as well as the Mayor and the Council to Annweiler.
The church was located at the entrance of the village. According to ancient histories, the chapel was visited by pilgrims diligently from near and far. However, nowhere is written that it was a hermitage. In 1467 for the first time a pastor Clingeler mentioned in glues: " Peter Clingeler pastor at the Church of Our Lady to Leymen ". Glues was later assigned to the diocese of Speyer. It belonged in 1560 to possession of the Margrave of Baden. With the Thirty Years War, great suffering and misery came over the area. Sizing was almost extinct. 1653 were three citizens residing here. The old church was falling apart. Only in 1700 it has undergone a thorough repair. The year 1723 brings the separation of the villages glues and Merzalben of the previous parent church Rodalben. In 1782 was ground-breaking ceremony of a new church in the village. It lasted until 1864, was declared to glues for independent parish.
The last Expositus (i.e., " also set " from the vicarage Merzalben Kaplan ), Josef Ulrich, the first own pastor of glues was. The village had at that time 547 souls. The Church in the town center, built in 1782, the community served for 150 years as a church until it has been built and inaugurated the third, beautiful and magnificent house of worship in 1932. Today's Catholic Church to St. Catherine of Alexandria has thus replaced the old church dating back to 1350 as a symbol of the community.
Religion
2012 were 69.4 percent of the population Catholic and 15.5 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 sizing consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
Allocation of seats in the local council:
Coat of arms
The blazon of the arms is: " In gold, a red oblique bar, topped with a golden crosier, beseitet of each half broken red wheel, both diagonally left covered with a blue sword that is covered by the red slant bar".
It was established in 1961 approved by the Ministry of Interior and Mainz remembers the red oblique beams on the former belonging to Baden.
Culture and sights
- See also: List of cultural monuments in glues
- In a short distance to the place a monument in honor of Fritz Claus singer of the Palatinate Forest.
- The biggest club in the city is the TuS glues, but there are still a fruit and horticulture club, a men's choir, the cath. Church choir, a carnival club, a club Palatinate Forest and a home club.
Economy and infrastructure
- Through the town the provincial road 496 About performs the motorways A 62 in the west and the A6 to the north is connected to the long-distance transport.
- Glues, there is a primary school.
- 90 meter high telecommunications tower of Deutsche Telekom AG of reinforced concrete at 49 ° 16'13 " north latitude and 7 ° 49'37 " east longitude on the Hort head.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Hans -Jürgen Kaiser ( born 1959 ), organist
- George Anstett ( born 1968 ), Triathlete