Ruchheim
Ruchheim is a neighborhood and one of the ten local districts the independent city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rhineland- Palatinate.
- 4.1 Attractions
- 4.2 School
- 4.3 daycare
- 6.1 Sports clubs
Location
Ruchheim located about nine kilometers west of the city center and can be reached via the motorway. The place is located in a low terrace of the Rhine valley and has only slight elevation changes. The altitude varies only between 94-95 meters above sea level. This also the water table is very high. This meant that in the past most of the houses were built without a basement. Even the cemetery was barely usable without padding and therefore was filled to about one meter. On the other hand, this location provides favorable conditions for the irrigation of fields and thus the vegetables.
The 929 -acre district is bordered to the north by the municipalities Maxdorf and Eppstein, on the west by Fußgönheim and on the south by mother (all Rhein- Pfalz-Kreis ).
Climate
Ruchheim is located in the Upper Rhine Valley, which is protected by the Odenwald from cold easterly winds and through the Palatinate Forest before stormy westerly winds. Therefore, blow here mainly winds from the north and south. Most commonly, the winds are from the southwest. Thus, the area is one of the driest regions in Germany. The mean annual temperature is about 10 ° C.
Due to its location west of Ludwigshafen Ruchheim remains largely unaffected by the industrial waste gases of Ludwigshafen. This is also an old saying says:
History
Ruchheim was first mentioned around the year 800 AD in the Lorsch codex. It says in Latin:
In 1700 Ruchheim was sold to a native of Basel family of Russicon. This built the water tower to a baroque palace complex, are obtained from the still the house and part of the surrounding wall.
On March 16, 1974 Ruchheim was incorporated into Ludwigshafen. The place at that time had 2,409 inhabitants. Meanwhile, he has grown to approximately 6,200 residents.
Name
The oldest recorded name Ruchheims can be found in the Lorsch codex in the form Richinisheim what that means as much as the home of the Richin. The name Rich Ines home appears in a document of the monastery White Castle in the year 895. In a document of the same monastery from the 10th century states then Ruochheim (Home of Ruoch ). In 1271, the city name is reproduced with Rucheim. From 1600 onwards there is then for the first time today notation Ruchheim. However, the name is still occasionally written Rugheim 1836.
For the spelling of the name, there is a happy anecdote from 1972, in which the SPD local association in the hall celebrated its 70th founding Zum Schwanen hard. On the stage stood in large red letters Styrofoam:
Since the landlord Kurt Gerhardt came into the room and scolded:
The question threw the whole assembly into confusion, and all comrades began to spell. No one was more sure how the name of locality would be spelled correctly. So they resorted to the phone book and asked relieved that they had Ruchheim but spelled correctly.
Culture
Attractions
Outside the castle there is a fountain, reminiscent of the 1879 -born Ruchheim dialect poet Paul Münch.
See also: List of cultural monuments in Ludwigshafen- Ruchheim
School
In the Astrid Lindgren Elementary School about 220 children are taught in classes 9 to the 4th grade level.
Daycare
The two daycare centers in Ruchheim have room for a total of 215 children.
Religion
In Ruchheim there is a Catholic and a Protestant church. There was also from 1850 to 1940 an independent Jewish community, which had a synagogue.
Clubs
The glee club 1862 Ruchheim is a Men's Choir, which was founded in 1862 and is one of the oldest choirs of Ludwigshafen and Rhein-Pfalz -Kreis. The Choral Society Ruchheim 1975 is a mixed choir, which was founded in 1975.
Sports clubs
Among the most important clubs in Ruchheim include the SVR ( Sports Club Ruchheim ) and the members stronger TVR ( Turnverein - Ruchheim ).
Economy and Transport
Ruchheim is served by the Rhein- Haardt Bahn (line 4) and the number 72 bus to the Rhine -Neckar transport. In addition, the location near the motorway A 650, A 61 and the main road is B 9
Ruchheim has a horse farm. The Leuchtfeuerhof in Ruchheim was created in 2005 on the site of a former vegetable farm and is one of 14 agricultural full- time farms of this district of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. It received its name in reference to a quote from the native Ludwigshafen philosopher Ernst Bloch, who described his hometown as one of the first seaside towns of the interior and as such exercised a beacon function. The Leuchtfeuerhof in the Rhine -Neckar is known as a horse operation, above all, as a riding school.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Ernst Münch (1876-1946), forest scientists
- Paul Münch (1879-1951), dialect poet