Südliche Weinstraße

The county Southern Wine Route is a district in the south of Rhineland -Palatinate in the Rhine -Neckar. The administrative headquarters is located in the fully enclosed by the district independent city of Landau in der Pfalz.

• 4.1 castles, palaces and buildings
• 4.2 Excursions
• 4.3 Museums

• 5.1 Economics
• 5.2 traffic

Geography

The county derives its name from the first tourist route in Germany, the German Wine Route whose southern half of South leads to the north by the county. This has a share in the Palatinate Rhine valley to the east and the Palatinate Forest in the west. The largest rivers are the Queich and - near the border with France - the volume, which is called the upper reaches Wieslauter.

Adjacent counties are the Southwest Palatinate, Bad Durkheim, Rhein- Pfalz-Kreis and Germersheim. In the north, the district-free city Neustadt adjacent to the wine route, in the south of the French département Bas-Rhin.

History

The area of ​​today's circle belonged from 1816 to Bavaria, divided into the districts Bergzabern and Landau, from which emerged later counties. After the Second World War, the two counties Bergzabern and Landau 1946 were part of Rhineland- Palatinate and were, with the license plate LD or BZA, first to the governmental district Palatinate.

The present boundaries of the county received in the district reform in 1969 by the merger of the two old counties to "County Landau Bad Bergzabern " with the license plate LD. On January 1, 1978, he was renamed "County Southern Wine Route " and changed the license plate in SÜW.

Policy

Council

The district council elections on 7 June 2009, the following result:

District

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was granted on 24 June 1970 and has the following blazon: Through a silver slant Links bar divided: top in black on the left inverted, red reinforced golden lion, down in blue a silver cross, beseitet each a golden -stalked grapes with leaf; the whole covered with a red heart sign is a golden imperial crown.

The grapes symbolize the German Wine Route, which gave its name to the district. The Palatinate lion stands for the Elector Palatine and the cross for the diocese Speyer. The Imperial Crown refers to the kingdom Trifels, which is located in the district and at the times the imperial insignia were kept in the Middle Ages.

Attractions

Castles, palaces and buildings

(Selection)

• Empire Trifels at Annweiler
• Stork village Bornheim
• Fortified church with attached cemetery and Renaissance town hall of 1592 Doerrenbach
• Villa Ludwigshoehe, former summer palace of King Ludwig I of Bavaria in Edenkoben
• Rietburgbahn, chair lift to Rietburg Edenkoben
• Madenburg at Eschbach
• Burg Landeck at Klingenmünster
• Slevogthof Neukastel Leinsweiler
• Animal and Nature Park Southern Wine Road at Silz
• Castle Lindelbrunn at Vorderweidenthal
• Berwartstein in Erlenbach
• Castle Kropsburg in Sankt Martin
• Castle ruins at Neuscharfeneck Dernbach
• Castle ruins Ramburg at Ramberg
• German Wine Gate in silence law Bach
• Fortified church with attached cemetery and Renaissance town hall of 1592 in Doerrenbach

Tips for trips

(Selection)

• German Wine Route
• Leisure LaOla in Landau
• Reptilium in Landau
• Landauer zoo in Landau
• Suedpfalz Therme in Bad Bergzabern
• Adventure Park in Kandel
• Kakteenland in Steinfeld
• Animal and Nature Park in Silz
• Stork Centre in Bornheim
• Rietburgbahn Edenkoben
• Waldgeisterweg at Oberotterbach
• Biosphärenhaus Palatinate Forest / Northern Vosges with treetop path in Fischbach
• Holiday Park in Haßloch

Museums

(Selection)

• Museum in Herxheim
• Bürstenbindermuseum Ramberg
• Museum at below Trifels Annweiler
• Westwall Museum in Bad Bergzabern
• Museum of Vine and urban history in Edenkoben
• Mill Museum in Edenkoben
• Figurine Museum in Bad Bergzabern

Economy and infrastructure

Economy

Larger industrial facilities are rare. In the East, large parts of the district are characterized by winegrowing, next there wins tourism is becoming increasingly important. Also for the forest areas in the west, which account for about 43 percent of the county area and were once used primarily for forestry, tourism has become the most important source of income.

Traffic

By the district lead 14 km of motorway 65 (Karlsruhe, Ludwigshafen, Germany). Furthermore, the circuit area of ​​several federal highways and county roads will be developed, including B 10, B 38, B 48 and B 427

At the edge of the Upper Rhine Valley, the Palatine Maximilian Railway Company opened in 1855 the route Neustadt- Landau - winds - White Castle (Alsace ), with Maikammer - Kirrweiler, Edenkoben Edesheim (Pfalz ), Knöringen - Essingen, Insheim, Rohrbach (Pfalz ), Steinfeld (Pfalz ), Kapsweyer Schweighofen and has a total of nine intermediate stations in the district. 1870 From their branched from the branch line winds ( Bad ) Bergzabern, which is now referred to as a spa resort line and connects the next Bad Bergzabern Barbelroth and Chapel Drusweiler to the rail network. 1872 was followed by a cross- link the railway line Germersheim -Landau on Dreihof and Hochstadt. The Palatine Ludwig Railway Company in 1874 led the route of Landau first to Annweiler and a year later through the Palatinate Forest in the direction of two bridges; more Unterweghalte in the district are Siebeldingen - Birkweiler, Albers Weiler, Annweiler - Sarnstall and Rinnthal. Other short spur tracks of the Palatine Maximilian Railway followed in 1892 by Rohrbach- Steinweiler on Cheap -Ingenheim and Heuchelheim blades after Klingenmünster ( Klingbach Valley Railway ) and in 1898 by Landau on Offenbach at the Queich to Herxheim. After the founding of Pfalzbahn was still 1905, the narrow gauge railway Speyer- Neustadt added that served only the station Gommersheim in a circle.

The villages on the wine route between Neustadt and Landau were from 1911/12 by the German Railway Company, served by a narrow gauge electric tramway, the Palatinate Oberlandbahn who still received a branch line from the operating station Edenkoben to the Villa Louis altitude from 1936. The Palatine Oberlandbahn was 1953/55 as the first track ( in a circle 20 km) shut down:

In the following years further 46 km were shut down from the rail network earlier 92 km comprehensive:

Throughout the district the rates of the transport association Rhein- Neckar and the Karlsruhe Transport Association shall apply

Cities and Towns

(Population at 31 December 2012)

Association of communities with their member municipalities:

( The seat of the municipality *)

• 2 municipality Bad Bergzabern

• 3 municipality Edenkoben

• 4 community association Herxheim

• 5 municipality Landau - country [Seat: Landau ]

• 6 municipality Maikammer

• 7 municipality Offenbach at the Queich

Freeman

2011, the former district administrator Gerhard Schwetje was appointed the first honorary citizen of the circle.