Venningen

Venningen is a municipality in the Southern Wine Route in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Edenkoben.

Geography

The wine-growing village located three kilometers east of Edenkoben between the biosphere reserve Palatinate Forest and the Rhine. To Venningen also includes forest settlement Helmbach.

History

For the first time the place in the year 859 was mentioned.

Religion

2012 were 64.8 percent of the population Catholic and 19.4 percent Protestant. The other belonged to a different religion or no religious affiliation were. Catholics belong to the diocese of Speyer, the Evangelical Lutheran Church for Protestant Palatinate.

Parish council

The local council in Venningen consists of twelve council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Economy

  • Wineries
  • Weinessiggut Doktorenhof

Traffic

Closest train station is Edenkoben on the Palatine Maximilian Railway Neustadt- Wissembourg.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Weindel Philipp (1900-1988), Catholic priest
  • Petronia Steiner (1908-1995), a Dominican, to hymn poet

Gallery

Church

Edenkoben (Verbandsgemeinde) History of the term "Catholic" Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer Municipal council Albersweiler Altdorf, Rhineland-Palatinate Bad Bergzabern Barbelroth Billigheim-Ingenheim Birkweiler Bornheim (Pfalz) Burrweiler Dernbach, Südliche Weinstraße Dierbach Edesheim Eschbach, Südliche Weinstraße Essingen, Rhineland-Palatinate Flemlingen Frankweiler Freimersheim, Südliche Weinstraße Gleisweiler Gleiszellen-Gleishorbach Gommersheim Gossersweiler-Stein Hainfeld, Germany Hergersweiler Herxheimweyher Heuchelheim-Klingen Hochstadt, Rhineland-Palatinate Impflingen Insheim Kapellen-Drusweiler Kapsweyer Kirrweiler Kleinfischlingen Leinsweiler Niederhorbach Niederotterbach Oberhausen, Südliche Weinstraße Oberotterbach Oberschlettenbach Offenbach an der Queich Pleisweiler-Oberhofen Ramberg, Rhineland-Palatinate Ranschbach Rinnthal Rohrbach, Palatinate Roschbach Sankt Martin, Germany Schweigen-Rechtenbach Schweighofen Siebeldingen Silz, Rhineland-Palatinate Steinfeld, Rhineland-Palatinate Vorderweidenthal Waldhambach, Rhineland-Palatinate Waldrohrbach Walsheim Wernersberg Weyher in der Pfalz
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