Weisenheim am Berg
Way home on the mountain, Palatine " Weisrem " (or to illustrate that not way home is meant in the sand: " Weisremberg ") is a municipality in the district of Bad Durkheim in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Freinsheim. Way home on the mountain is a nationally recognized tourist.
- 4.1 Structures
- 4.2 Natural Monuments
- 4.3 Regular events
- 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
- 6.2 People who have worked on site
Geography
The community lies on the edge of the Harz Mountains, in the Palatinate. 55 percent of the district area is forested. To the south, Bad Durkheim, in the west Altleiningen, in the north Bobenheim on the mountain and to the east is Herxheim on the mountain.
History
The first documentary mention of the place was in the year 771 in the Lorsch Codex. Oldest and most important building is the Protestant Church (formerly St. John and Paul ), which has medieval paintings.
Policy
Parish council
The local council in way home consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
Allocation of seats in the local council:
Coat of arms
The coat of arms description reads: " divided by silver and black, above the intertwined black capital letters WAB, below sechsstrahliger gold star, beseitet of each of a silver rose with golden slugs ".
Banner
Community partnerships
The municipality maintains partnerships with plaus (South Tyrol, Italy ), St. Gengoux le National ( Mâcon, France) and Niederdorla ( Thuringia).
Culture and sights
Structures
See: List of cultural monuments in way home on the mountain
Natural Monuments
The nearby surrounded by mixed forest Ungeheuersee is protected as a natural monument.
Regular events
- On holiday weekend Ascension takes place the traditional partnership, wine and local festival as the largest regular event way home.
- Every year, on the penultimate weekend in August, the church fete, celebrated a wine festival.
- On the Sunday before the Memorial Day the Stutz festival takes place, in which traditionally the new citizens " trimmed ", are thus naturalized.
Economy and infrastructure
To the east runs the federal highway 271 which leads north to the Federal Highway 6. In Herxheim am Berg is a railway station of Palatine Northern Railway. From Bad Durkheim from the Rhein- Haardt Bahn runs to Ludwigshafen and Mannheim. Way home on the mountain is located in the tariff area of the transport association Rhein- Neckar.
In way home there is a daycare and an elementary and junior high school plus.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Otto Georgens (* 1950), Auxiliary Bishop in the Diocese of Speyer
Those who worked on site
- Karl Gayer (1822 - 1907), forest scientist, was from 1851-55 forester in way home on the mountain.
- Johann Georg Lehmann (1797 - 1876), minister and historian, held the evangelical pastor from 1828 way home on the mountain.
- Theo Roerig ( born 1940 ), sculptor, designed the chancel of the Catholic Church in way home on the mountain.
Views
Synagogue
Main road with community center (right)
Main road No.47
Leistadter road, to Admiral
War memorial