Maikammer

Maikammer is a municipality and a wine and spa resort in the southwest of Germany in the Palatinate south of Neustadt on the Wine Route. Maikammer is the administrative seat of the municipality of the same name.

• 2.1 religions

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Coat of Arms

• 4.1 Structures
• 4.2 Sport
• 4.3 Regular events

• 5.1 traffic
• 5.2 Education

• 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical location

At an altitude of 120 to 300 m at the foot of Kalmit, the highest elevation of the Palatinate forest ( 673 m), situated Maikammer is located in a landscape dominated by vines. Other surveys on boundaries of the community in addition to the Kalmit are the northern flank of the sheep's head (617 m), the Rotsohlberg (607 m), the northern flank of the Stotz (603 m), the northeast face of the width of a mountain ( 545 m), flat head ( 498 m) and the weather Kreuzberg ( 401 m).

Neighboring municipalities are - clockwise - Neustadt on the Wine Route, Kirrweiler (Pfalz ), Edenkoben, Saint Martin (Pfalz ), Edenkoben ( exclave ), Gommersheim ( exclave ) and Kirrweiler ( exclave ).

Climate

Due to the mild climate to grow here with the wine of exotic fruits such as kiwi, lemons, almonds and chestnuts.

History

After Maikammer and Alsterweiler had grown together, the community contributed to 31 May 1938 Double Names Maikammer - Alsterweiler. see also Kredenburg

Religions

In 2007, 58.9 percent of the population Catholic, 23.1 percent Protestant. The other belonged to a different religion or no religious affiliation were.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Maikammer consists of 20 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Allocation of seats in the elected municipal council:

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " Sable, a golden district mark in the form of a rising arrow, the shaft terminating in a cross."

It was in 1937 approved by the Bavarian imperial governor and goes back to a seal of 1743rd

Culture and sights

Structures

• The Alsterweiler Chapel with the " Maikammerer altar " and a late Gothic triptych. The altarpiece is one of the few surviving examples of Gothic panel painting in the Palatinate. Well completed in 1445, it is a valuable testimony Upper Rhenish painting.
• In addition, the brothers Ullrich, the inventors of the joint lock for folding Yardsticks above Maikammer has been a monument: a giant ruler.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Maikammer

Sports

Side 's Historical has Maikammer still a heated outdoor pool with a giant slide, an open-air hall with four tennis courts ( artificial grass with quartz sand) and four squash courts. Other sporting highlights: The newly built Kalmithalle and the artificial turf on which the TuS Maikammer his football games discharges.

Regular events

• May Day - Wine Treff
• Well Kerwe
• Wine Kerwe
• Garden market
• Mineral Maikammer

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Highway access Edenkoben to A 65 in close proximity with direct access and exit in the direction of Karlsruhe or Ludwigshafen / Mannheim.

Education

• Elementary School John Leonhardt School in Maikammer; former headmaster: Karl Burckgard
• Realschule Plus Maikammer -Hambach

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• The brothers Franz and Anton Ullrich invented a new feature on joint standards with spring lock ( Imperial Patent Office, Patent No. 41417 patented on September 10, 1886, published on December 2, 1887). Folding Rules with latching device in the joints already existed previously, but brought this invention to simplify the handling with it. The brothers Ullrich was placed at the southern entrance a monument in the form of a folding meter, even if the folding meter not an invention is the same.
• Two interesting children of the community were the general Jakob von Hartmann, whose monument is larger than life on the marketplace, and " Holmes" carpenter, the posthumous " Palatine James Dean " said the silent film star who started his career in the early 1920s.
• Jakob Hildenbrand (1860-1933), politician ( BVP )
• Holmes Zimmermann (1900-1957), actor
• Karl Lackner (1917-2011), lawyer
• Heinrich Koch, significant classicist architect, born in 1781 in Maikammer, 1861 died in amber (Burgenland), mainly active in Vienna (Palais Clam- Gallas ), Bohemia (Prague, Villa Kinský ) and Hungary ( Castle in Fehérvárcsurgó )