Ebertsheim
Ebertsheim | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Ebertsheim within Bad Dürkheim district  | |
  Ebertsheim  Ebertsheim | |
| Coordinates: 49°34′06″N 08°06′31″E / 49.56833°N 8.10861°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Bad Dürkheim |
| Municipal assoc. | Leiningerland |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2019–24) | Bernd Findt[1] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5.29 km2 (2.04 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 237 m (778 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
| • Total | 1,301 |
| • Density | 250/km2 (640/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 67280 |
| Dialling codes | 06359 |
| Vehicle registration | DÜW |
| Website | www.ebertsheim.de |
Ebertsheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
Location
The municipality lies in the northwest of the
History
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On 7 July 1969, within the framework of the administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate, the small municipality of Rodenbach, which until then had belonged to the neighbouring, and now likewise abolished district of Kirchheimbolanden, and the considerably bigger centre of Ebertsheim were merged to form today's municipality. The name Rodenbach is still used in village life to tag sites or clubs. In 2018, the municipality became a constituent part of the new Verbandsgemeinde of Leiningerland. The district administration designated Rodenbach as an Ortsbezirk in 2006, giving it the right to document this status on the placename sign and to elect a local leader (Ortsvorsteher) and a deputy.
In 1996, the Pennsylvania German and Palatine newspaper
In August 2009, a runaway
Religion
In 2007, 49.5% of the inhabitants were
Politics
Municipal council
The council is made up of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following result:[5]
| SPD | CDU | FWG |
Total | |
| 2009 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 16 seats |
| 2004 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 16 seats |
Coat of arms
The German blazon reads: In Grün zwei schräggekreuzte goldene Schippen mit abwärts gekehrten silbernen Schaufeln mit viereckigen Handgriffen oben am Stil, überdeckt von einem goldenen Pickel mit gesenktem silbernen Eisen.
The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Vert two shovels in saltire argent helved Or, with rectangular handles to chief, surmounting them in pale a pickaxe of the second helved of the third, the helve to chief.
The arms were approved by the Bavarian ministry of the interior in 1926 and go back to a court seal from 1724.[6]
Culture and sightseeing
Evangelische Kirche Ebertsheim
Today's Ebertsheim
Evangelische Kirche Rodenbach
The Rodenbach Evangelical Church was built in the 11th or 12th century as Saint Bridget's (St. Brigitta) and is thereby older than the church in Ebertsheim. It, too, was yielded to the Protestants after the Reformation, but there was no simultaneum. In 1508, the defensive tower was converted, and in 1684 the nave. On three of the tower's sides, stone sculptures of animal and human heads are set into the wall. It is unclear whether these were meant to ward off evil or were simply bits of older buildings – spolia – used in this structure. On the tower's east side is a Romanesque relief, which is believed to have been created as early as the beginning.
Economy and infrastructure
Transport
The Landesstraße (state road) 395 (Grünstadt–Enkenbach), links Ebertsheim with Grünstadt's outlying centre of Asselheim and Bundesstraße 271. The A 6 motorway can be reached via the Grünstadt or Wattenheim interchange, and the A 63 via the Dreisen/Göllheim interchange. This puts Kaiserslautern or Mannheim only about 30 minutes away by car; the state capital, Mainz, is, thanks to the new bypass at Eisenberg, about 35 minutes away.
The Ebertsheim halt lies on the Eis Valley Railway from Grünstadt to Ramsen, and is served by scheduled Regionalbahn trains. Public transport is integrated into the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN), whose tariffs apply.
The nearest small
Tourism
“Hab-8-Weg”
Ebertsheim advertises with the slogan das Dorf im Grünen (“The Village in the Green”). Its environs await with lands that are not too steep, offering themselves up for hiking in nature. Signed specially fir this is the Hab-8-Weg, at whose starting point is found a Kneipp armbath. The birdlife conservation area on the municipality's outskirts likewise lends itself to natural adventure.
Aktionstag „Autofreies Eistal“
The “Car-free Eis Valley Action Day” – each year in early October, and as a rule around German Unity Day – lures many visitors to the region. For this event, the L 395 is closed to all motorized traffic for a whole day and made available exclusively to pedestrians, as a rule hikers, as well as skaters and cyclists. As an outing destination, there are the Eiswoog, a 6 ha lake with a wealth of birdlife, the Eis Valley Railway with its imposing bridges and the museum railway, the Stumpfwald Railway. The Eisenberg Erdekaut adventure area lies some 2 km away.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Johann Adam Schlesinger (1759–1829), painter
- Karl Fittler (1892–1966), politician (SPD)
- Dr. Michael Werner(1965-), publisher
References
- ^ Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Bad Dürkheim, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 3 August 2021.
- Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
- ^ Die Rheinpfalz, Lokalausgabe Frankenthaler Zeitung: Känguru im Weinberg gesichtet, 21. August 2009
- ^ KommWis, Stand: 31.12.2007 Archived September 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat
- ISBN 3-9801574-2-3
External links
- Ebertsheim in the collective municipality’s Web pages (in German)
- Description: Ebertsheim and Rodenbach (in German)
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