Ruppertsberg

Ruppert Berg is a municipality in the district of Bad Durkheim in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Deidesheim.

  • 5.1 Structures
  • 5.2 Regular events
  • 6.1 Viticulture
  • 6.2 traffic
  • 7.1 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 7.2 People who have worked on site

Geography

History

Ruppert mountain was first documented in 1040. It probably evolved out of 800 from the High Castle. Around 1100 gave the last Count Kraichgau the place to the diocese of Speyer, which gave him as a fief to the Knights of Ruppert mountain. In the 14th century destroyed imperial troops the castle, whereupon the knight in the north- east of the village a water castle, called the castle built. After the devastation of the Thirty Years' War lived in Ruppertsberg only two families. By the end of the 18th century Ruppert mountain belonged to the Bishopric of Speyer.

After 1792 French revolutionary troops occupied the region and annexed after the peace of Campo Formio (1797 ). From 1798 to 1814 the village belonged to the French department of Thunder Mountain and was assigned to the Canton Town. Taken in response to the Congress of Vienna (1815 ) Agreements and a barter agreement with Austria the region came in 1816 with the Kingdom of Bavaria. As of 1818, the municipality Ruppert mountain was later assigned to the country 's Commissariat Neustadt in Bavaria Rheinkreis the county Neustadt, from 1938, the district of Neustadt on the Wine Route emerged. After the Second World War Ruppert mountain came to the then newly founded state of Rhineland -Palatinate. Since 1969, Ruppert mountain belongs to the district of Bad Durkheim and since 1972 the municipality Deidesheim.

Religion

End of 2011, 57.1 percent of the population Catholic and 20.2 percent were Protestant. 20 percent had no religious affiliation, and 3 percent were any other religion.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Ruppert mountain consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman location.

The distribution of seats in the local council:

Mayor

The local mayor Ruppert mountain since 2004 Ursula Knoll ( CDU). In the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, in which she had no opponent, she was re-elected with 87.9 percent of the vote.

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " In a brick of gold in the corners black tower with four pinnacles on a black wall with one battlements right and left and with an open Spitztor, is in gold a grünbestielte blue grape".

It was founded in 1955 approved by the Mainz Ministry of Interior.

Partnerships

Ruppert Berg maintains partnerships with Courpière in France and Blenheim on the Danube.

Culture and sights

Structures

The Catholic parish church of St. Martin in Ruppert mountain is a three-aisled late Gothic building from the early 16th century. Worth seeing is mainly about 1510 created stone pulpit with its images of saints and prophets.

The former teahouse is the symbol Ruppert mountain. It was built in 1840 a ​​few hundred meters west of the village in the vineyards along the lines of the English Garden in Munich. The former tea house is a large square pavilion with a glass floor.

From the 18th century under Damian Hugo von Schönborn to the castle developed Wasserburg on the northeast side of the town have been preserved two of the original four wings. Through subsequent rebuilding of the castle character has been lost largely.

At the border of the district Königsbacher the Catholic pilgrimage chapel Holy Fourteen Holy Helpers ( Klaus Chapel ). The leading there, lying on Königsbacher page pilgrimage with Stations of the Cross leads from the local parish church through the forest to the chapel.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Ruppertsberg

Regular events

The Ruppertsberger wine Kerwe takes place every year on the last weekend in August. It falls on Sunday this weekend with the adventure day German wine road together.

Economy and infrastructure

Viniculture

The place is considerably influenced by the wine-growing and one of the largest wine-growing villages of the Palatinate.

Vineyards are:

  • Linsenbusch
  • High Castle
  • Gaisböhl
  • Nußbien
  • Spit
  • Reiterpfad

Traffic

The nearby train station Deidesheim on the Palatine Northern Railway allows trains to Bad Durkheim and Neustadt on the Wine Route. In addition, bus routes in the surrounding villages. Ruppert mountain belongs to the tariff zone of the transport association Rhein- Neckar.

East of the village the main road runs 271 In the southeast there is a junction with the highway 65 via the ramp Deidesheim.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Eduard Nortz (1868-1939), politician ( BBB)
  • Edmund Bien (1927-2007), Bundesliga referee
  • Franz -Georg Roessler ( b. 1949 ), teacher, composer and esperantist
  • Jakob Wilhelm Köhr (), landowner, a founding board member and first chairman of the Ruppertsberger Winzerverein eGmuH (1911 - 1939)

Those who worked on site

  • Johann Kaspar Adolay (1771-1825), politician
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