Rödersheim-Gronau

Rödersheim -Gronau is a municipality in the Rhein- Pfalz-Kreis in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Schauernheim.

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Coat of Arms

History

The community Rödersheim was re-formed in the course of municipal reform on June 7, 1969 the previously independent municipalities Rödersheim and Alsheim -Gronau and renamed on 1 October 1969 in Rödersheim -Gronau.

Rödersheim

Rödersheim is a Frankish settlement from the 6/7 Century, which was documented for the first time 858 in a document of King Louis the German in the form " Ratherisheim ". In this document, Ludwig certifies the transfer of usufruct of the place from the possession of Domklosters Speyer at the Speyer bishop Gebhard I. for life. With the mentioned therein obligation to " annual supply of four tuns of wine " Rödersheim one of the oldest documented wine-growing villages of the Palatinate. Rödersheim remained under the dominion of the Prince-Bishopric of Speyer to the connection to France 1797.

After the Napoleonic period Rödersheim was an independent municipality since 1817, the Land Commissioner Neustadt in the " Bavarian Rhine Kreis ", later assigned to " Pfalz ". In 1862, the country 's Commissariat in " county Neustadt an der Haardt " and in 1939 renamed the " district of Neustadt an der Haardt ." With interruption from 1902 to 1931, as Rödersheim belonged to the partitioned county Durkheim, Rödersheim remained until 1946 with Bayern and then came to newly formed state of Rhineland -Palatinate. After the dissolution of the district Neustadt with effect from June 7, 1969 it was united with Alsheim -Gronau and reclassified in the district of Ludwigshafen.

Alsheim -Gronau

The name component Alsheim refers to the Franks in the 6th / 7th Founded Century City, which was first mentioned as 778 " Alasheim " in the Lorsch Codex. With Gronau the former castle was called, which lay north-east of the town and its genesis is in the dark.

Alsheim first part of the Frankish duchy, then the German king country retained its direct imperial status to 1331st This year it was, as part of the bailiwick of Speyer formed from empire owned by Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian in the County Palatine, later the Electoral Palatinate pledged, and remained until 1797 kurpfälzisch.

The Gronau castle was first mentioned in 1341 on the sale by the knight Heinrich gag of Katzenelenbogen to the Count Palatine. From 1363 to the village and castle were always verlehnt together on various noble families, to the ruins of the 1784 newly built in 1795 and destroyed by Austrian troops castle demolished and the site was leveled.

After the French rule, which lasted from 1797 to 1814, the village belonged first to the country 's Commissariat Speyer, later county Speyer, in the " Bavarian Rhine Kreis ", from 1886 to the newly formed county Ludwigshafen, emerged from the 1939, the district of Ludwigshafen. 1921 Alsheim was renamed Alsheim -Gronau.

Religion

In 2007, 51.4 percent of the population Catholic and 25.6 percent were Protestant. The remainder belonged to a different religion or no religious affiliation were.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Rödersheim -Gronau 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: " split from silver and blue, right goldbekrönte Lady in a blue robe, standing on a golden crescent moon, the goldbekrönte child on her left arm, a blue orb holding in his right hand with golden ribbons and cross, left a four towers of gold (water) castle ".

It was approved by the district government Neustadt 1977. The Mother of God comes from the old coat of arms of Rödersheim, the castle of the Alsheim -Gronau.