Queichheim

49.1972228.139722Koordinaten: 49 ° 11 ' 50 " N, 8 ° 8' 23" E

Location of Queichheim within the city of Landau in der Pfalz

Queichheim is a district of Landau in Rhineland- Palatinate. The 3430 inhabitants Queichheim ( population with primary residence to December 31, 2011) is located east of the railway line Karlsruhe - Neustadt, south of the Queich, bordering the core city. The area of ​​the former municipality was 793.93 acres. Today's district area of the district is 581.16 hectares.

History

Queichheim was probably founded by one franc named Cogich, Cogin or Cogo, as in ancient manuscripts of the Abbey White Castle dating from the 7th century ever by a Cogichheim or Cogisheim is mentioned. With probability bordering on certainty was meant by this term today Queichheim.

Finds of stone coffins, which were made during the excavation of the site for today's Protestant church in 1769 let ( 8th centuries 7th ) close to a settlement in the Merovingian period. Later, like the above name, which was the residents of no importance, have converted (at the Queich village) in Queichheim.

In the oldest document the donation of the located at Queichheim Daumühlen by the Bishop of Speyer Guntram is listed at the monastery Hördt. A hundred years later a diether of Queichheim had a castle in the town. Until 1274, the nascent Landau belonged to the parish Queichheim.

Since April 1, 1937, until then independent municipality Queichheim together with Mörlheim a district Landau.

Policy

Mayor is Jürgen Doll ( CDU).

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Johannes Birnbaum (1763-1832), lawyer and president of the court in Zweibrücken ( ennobled since 1817)
  • Heinrich Jakob Fried (1802-1870), painter
  • Jacob Danner (1865-1942), Bavarian Lieutenant General
Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer Johann Birnbaum Jakob Ritter von Danner
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