Leinsweiler

Leinsweiler is a municipality in the Southern Wine Route in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Landau - country. Leinsweiler is a wine village and a nationally recognized resort.

  • 3.1 Cultural Monuments
  • 3.2 Structures
  • 4.1 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 4.2 People who have worked on site

History

The name Leinsweiler arose as a Frankish king gave the place a free woman named Landswinda fief, which was sung at the Frankish court if their beauty. Leinsweiler is mentioned as Lantsindewilare in Codex Edelini when it was 985 at the Salic sacrilege to the monastery White Castle expropriated.

1988 Leinsweiler was awarded a prize by the German Wine Road as " The beautiful wine village ".

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Leinsweiler consists of eight council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: "In Blue half rotbewehrter and bezungter silver lion, possibly a grip ".

Community partnership

Since August 23, 2003, a municipal partnership with the Hungarian community Gerjen. This was completed at the request of the local council in 2011, as both the long distance and the linguistic communication problems in the long run made ​​a cooperation almost impossible.

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

  • See list of cultural monuments in Leinsweiler

Structures

Worth seeing is the town hall of Leinsweiler is from the year 1619 with its arcades hall and the village fountain in 1581st In addition, the place has a late Gothic St. Martin's Church from the 13th century and a number of well-preserved half-timbered houses.

In the district of Leinsweiler are the ruins of the castles Anebos, coin and Neukastel belonging to Trifels ensemble. However, most popular destination on Leinsweiler district is the so-called Slevogthof, where the famous artist Max Slevogt (1868-1932) lived from 1914 intermittently until his death and worked.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Jan- Christoph Hauschild (* 1955), German literary scholar

Those who worked on site

  • Conrad III. von Scharfenberg (1165-1224), Bishop, his ancestral seat was the castle Scharfenberg.
  • Max Slevogt (1868-1932), German painter, printmaker, illustrator and stage designer of Impressionism had his summer residence on the Slevogthof.
  • Friedrich Ackermann (1876-1949), politician ( SPD), died in Leinsweiler
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