Sankt Martin, Germany

Saint Martin is a municipality in the Southern Wine Route in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Maikammer.

  • 5.1 Structures
  • 5.2 Regular events
  • 5.3 Nature Parks and Gardens

Geographical location

In an elongated valley fold embedded, the village leaning against the eastern slopes of the Haardt. In the north it is bounded by the elevation of the Palatinate Forest, the Kalmit ( 673 m), which is already located on the boundary of Maikammer. The skull road leading westward into the hills of the Palatinate Forest, here takes its starting point. South of the town stands on a hill upstream of the high mountain, the fourth largest mountain of the mountain, the fortress Kropsburg, once the seat of the supreme lords of the Empire, of the Knights of Dalberg. To the east, the Rhine valley spreads out. Other surveys on boundaries of the community are the southern flank of the sheep's head (617 m), the southern flank of Stotz (603 m) of the chalets Mountain ( 591 m), the south-western flank of the width of a mountain ( 545 m), Kley head ( 459 m) and Heidelberg ( 338 m).

Neighboring municipalities are - clockwise - Maikammer, Edenkoben Kirrweiler ( Palatinate) ( exclave ), Gommersheim ( exclave ), Edenkoben ( exclave ), Gommersheim ( exclave ) and Kirrweiler ( exclave ).

History

The area has been inhabited since Roman times. The first documentary mention of the place, but was only 1149th However, it is believed that a village is at this point since the 7th century.

Religions

In 2007, 70.2 percent of the population Catholic, 14.3 percent Protestant. The other belonged to a different religion or no religious affiliation were.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Saint Martin consists of 16 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: " In blue with three rising in the golden shield main peaks in the first and third a silver lily with golden whorls, a gold- clothed, silbernimbierter St. Martin on rotbesäumtem silver Ross ( mold), a red coat with a silver sword sharing, in the middle of the foot plate covered with a silver shield, in a black horseshoe with down swept Stollen ".

It was established in 1952 approved by the Mainz Ministry of Interior and is based on a seal dating from the 18th century, which showed a horseshoe. To distinguish itself from the multitude of other horseshoe communities, the holy Martin was added in 1952.

Culture and sights

Structures

The medieval town center is worth seeing and since 1980 has been a historical monument. St. Martin, Martin of Tours, is also the patron of the Catholic parish church of St. Martin. In addition to a late Gothic vaulting in the choir the jewel of medieval architecture, other art treasures of Gothic sculpture bears ( UNESCO plaque ).

See also: List of Cultural Monuments in Saint Martin

Regular events

The St. Martin Martini (November 11 ), is celebrated as a local holiday in Saint Martin. Different traditions ( Martin fire, lantern [ lantern procession ], Martin game of amateur dramatics group) make the feast a highlight of Ordinary and attract numerous guests in the historic center of 'Made ' as the wine village in the Palatinate dialect means (derived from ' Mart Home, Marten ' ).

Nature Parks and Gardens

  • Bible Garden

Economy and infrastructure

Saint Martin lives mainly from wine, which is grown on about 200 acres in three layers and the associated tourism revenue. The landscape-shaping mountain above the town was in 2012 across terraced and mostly newly planted with vines. This visible from a distance location is popularly known as St. Martiner Wingertsberg.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Aloys Weisenburger (1815-1887), Catholic priest; famous preacher, writer and publicist. Because of the long-standing issue of his house calendar it is also called " Palatine calendar man ".
  • Nikolaus Moll (1879-1948), Catholic priest, prelate and youth educators
  • Swiss Franz (1886-1969), Magicians
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