Neustadt an der Weinstraße
Neustadt an der Weinstraße | |
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Urban district | |
Government | |
• Lord mayor (2017–25) | Marc Weigel[1] (FW) |
Area | |
• Total | 117.10 km2 (45.21 sq mi) |
Elevation | 136 m (446 ft) |
Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 53,981 |
• Density | 460/km2 (1,200/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Postal codes | 67433, 67434, 67435 |
Dialling codes | 06321, 06327 |
Vehicle registration | NW |
Website | www |
Neustadt an der
Geography
Location
The town itself lies in the western park of the
The borough, with its incorporated parishes, measures 22.5 km (14.0 mi) from west to east and 9.5 km (5.9 mi) from north to south. Its highest point is 619 m above sea level (NN) at the Hohe Loog House at the top of the Hohe Loog mountain and its lowest is 108 m above NN in the village of Geinsheim.
Municipal divisions
Town and town quarters
Over time the original town and its surrounding settlements,
The best-known quarter is Winzingen which was first recorded in 774 and thus much older than the Neustadt or "new town" founded in the early 13th century. It was a wine growing village that lay below the Speyerbach, i.e. to the east of the new settlement. In 1892 it was incorporated into the then Neustadt an der Haardt. Since then the town has grown beyond Winzingen to the east.
Inclusive all its incorporated subdistricts, Neustadt covers an area of 11,713.5[3] hectares. Of that, 5,020.0 ha is woodland, 2,216.0 ha are vineyards, 2,300.0 ha are used for other agricultural purposes, 1,607.0 is built up and 50.0 ha are industrial and retail areas.[3]
Subdistricts
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Diedesfeld
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Duttweiler
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Geinsheim
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Haardt
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Hambach
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Königsbach
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Gimmeldingen
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Lachen-Speyerdorf
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Neustadt (Kernstadt)
In 1969 the villages of Diedesfeld, Geinsheim, Gimmeldingen, Haardt, Hambach, Königsbach, Lachen-Speyerdorf and Mußbach were incorporated into the borough, followed in 1974 by Duttweiler. These villages lie between one and ten kilometres from the main town. They are legally constituted subdistricts, are known as Ortsteil and have a parish chair (Ortsvorsteher) to whom some of the functions of the former mayors have been transferred.
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Neustadt seen from Steinberg
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View of Neustadt and the Hambach Schloss
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Houses on the slopes of the Haardt
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Almond blossom in Gimmeldingen
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King Ludwig's Pavilion on the Gimmelding Neuberg
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Mußbach: part of the manor house courtyard
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The White House in Mußbach
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Diedesfeld's 1601 village hall
Population in 2012
Main town and quarters | 26,685 |
Diedesfeld | 2,030 |
Geinsheim | 1,954 |
Gimmeldingen | 2,426 |
Haardt | 2,656 |
Hambach | 5,288 |
Königsbach | 1,144 |
Lachen-Speyerdorf | 5,470 |
Mußbach | 4,184 |
Duttweiler | 1,018 |
Total | 52,855 |
Neighbouring communities
Neustadt's neighbouring municipalities running clockwise from the north are the small town of
Climate
Neustadt has an equable climate, like that of the whole of
However, this climate chart is from a weather station at 161 m above NN in the subdistrict of Haardt above the town, which is 25 metres lower. So the values differ, with temperatures being a little lower and rainfall higher. The chart shows an annual average temperatures of 10.1 °C (50.2 °F) to 18.4 °C (65.1 °F) in the summer months dropping 1.7 °C (35.1 °F) during the winter. Its annual precipitation measured 614 mm (24.2 in).
Climate data for Neustadt an der Weinstraße (Pelzerhaken) (1991–2020 normals) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 4.0 (39.2) |
4.4 (39.9) |
7.8 (46.0) |
12.4 (54.3) |
16.5 (61.7) |
20.2 (68.4) |
22.6 (72.7) |
22.1 (71.8) |
18.6 (65.5) |
13.8 (56.8) |
8.7 (47.7) |
5.3 (41.5) |
13.1 (55.6) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 0.1 (32.2) |
0.8 (33.4) |
4.3 (39.7) |
8.4 (47.1) |
12.7 (54.9) |
16.2 (61.2) |
17.9 (64.2) |
17.7 (63.9) |
13.3 (55.9) |
9.0 (48.2) |
4.2 (39.6) |
1.0 (33.8) |
8.9 (48.0) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −0.1 (31.8) |
−0.4 (31.3) |
1.0 (33.8) |
3.6 (38.5) |
7.3 (45.1) |
10.9 (51.6) |
13.4 (56.1) |
13.4 (56.1) |
11.1 (52.0) |
8.0 (46.4) |
4.2 (39.6) |
1.5 (34.7) |
6.2 (43.2) |
Average relative humidity (%)
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88.5 | 86.1 | 82.5 | 80.0 | 78.7 | 77.2 | 77.9 | 80.5 | 82.5 | 86.0 | 87.9 | 88.6 | 83.0 |
Source: World Meteorological Organisation[4]
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History
Chronological table
Period | Event |
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774 | First recorded mention of the villages of Winzingen, Lachen and Speyerdorf |
around 1200 | Construction of Count Palatine Louis I
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early 13th Century | Founding of the new town (Neue Stadt) by Count Palatine Louis I and his son, Otto II below their Winzingen Castle
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1254 | Member of the Great Rhenish Town Federation (Großer Rheinische Städtebund) |
1275 | Granting of town rights |
until 1797 | Part of the Electorate of the Palatinate , seat of the Oberamt of Neustadt an der Haardt
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1797–1815 | Neustadt in the Département du Mont-Tonnerre )
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1816–1945 | Neustadt part of the Rhenish Palatinate , later Rheinpfalz)
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1832 | Hambach Festival: Demonstration by 30,000 people at Hambach Castle for democracy and state unity |
1847 | Opening of the Ludwigshafen am Rhein & Neustadt Railway
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1892 | Incorporation of the village of Winzingen |
1969–1974 | Incorporation of nine surrounding parishes |
Chronology
Early history
The oldest traces of settlement and archaeological finds indicate that Celts used to live in the area of the present town. They have left behind ringworks, clay pots, coins and weapons that date to the time around 150 B.C. The Romans probably took possession of the land around 20 A. D. Around 400 it was taken by the Alemanni who were superseded in turn around 500 A.D. by the Germanic Franks.
There are no precise details for the centuries after the end of Roman rule, but it is known that villages already existed before the actual town of Neustadt was founded:
Middle ages
Just a few decades after its foundation in the early 13th century, Neustadt was granted
Town quarters
In the Late Middle Ages Neustadt was divided into four town quarters, whose names indicate the status and occupations of their inhabitants or give important local information:
In the Lauerviertel (from Loheviertel = "
Towards the end of the 15th century, other quarters were established outside the town fortifications: the Stadtgasserviertel, the Kirschgartenviertel and the Ägyptenvorstadt.
Reformation
In the Peasants' Uprising, rebellious peasant bands entered the town unopposed on 6 May 1525.
During
In 1578, Count Palatine John Casimir founded the Neustadt College that was named after him, the Casimirianum, because his Lutheran brother, Louis had cleared the university in Heidelberg of Calvinists; John Casimir was active as an advocate of the reformed faith and offered the exiled professors and students asylum. When he moved to Heidelberg in 1583 in order to take over the regency for his still under-age son there after the death of the brother's reign, Neustadt's short time as a university seat ended.
17th century
Denominational disputes over the following century were no longer pursued purely by argument, but with weapons, and the Palatinate was invaded by one campaign after another. Neustadt was conquered six times during the
Unlike other Palatine towns, Neustadt survived the
18th and 19th centuries
In 1744 of the town population of 2,496, 1,676 were reformed, 620 were Roman Catholics and 200 were Lutherans. Jews were not included in these statistics.
In the 18th century the town lost its medieval appearance, because its militarily obsolete and superfluous town walls were demolished. When, in 1722, the state road to
Following the seizure of the
In 1815, Neustadt became part of the
20th century
A
According to the Armistice Agreement the Pfalz region fell within the French zone during the occupation of the Rhineland. The Siamese Expeditionary Forces occupied Neustadt following the end of World War I.
In 1920 Neustadt, like six others in the Palatinate, separated from its Bezirksamt and became an independent town.[6]
Neustadt's role during the
On 7 June 1969 the hitherto independent municipalities of Geinsheim, Gimmeldingen, Haardt an der Weinstraße, Hambach an der Weinstraße, Königsbach an der Weinstraße, Lachen-Speyerdorf, Mussbach an der Weinstraße and Diedesfeld were incorporated into the town's borough. On 16 March 1974 they were followed by Duttweiler.[9]
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The Old Town: Mittelgasse
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The Old Town Hall
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Rathausplatz and the Scheffelhaus
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Concert hall
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Central station
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Historic house in the Old Town
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Portico of a timber-framed house in der Old Town
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Archway in the Old Town
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Archway of an old pub in the Old Town
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Archway in the Old Town
Etymology
Officially abbreviated as Neustadt a. d. Weinstr., the name can be shortened as Neustadt/Weinstrasse (as on train departure and arrival boards) or Neustadt (Weinstrasse). The name literally means "new town on the
Culture, nature and sights
Culture
The following venues are available for cultural events: the
Nature
Neustadt's borough extends from the Rhine Plain into the
Structures
Neustadt's main attraction is its historic
Outside the residential areas there are palaces and castles: Hambach Castle, the Wolfsburg, Winzingen Castle, Haardt Castle and the rather more distant Spangenberg Castle above the Elmstein Valley. In the quarter of Hambacher Höhe, by the edge of the Haardt, lies the Abbey of the Sacred Heart.
The outlying villages also have their sights; for example Mußbach with its Old Church of St. John, the manor house, White House and Carl Theodor Hof; or Gimmeldingen with St. Nicholas' Church, the Mithras Shrine, the Old Castle and King Ludwig's Pavilion.
Monuments
In Neustadt, the artist, Gunter Demnig, has laid 41 so-called
On 10 March 2013 the Justice Minister for Rhineland-Palatinate, Jochen Hartloff, and Neustadt's Lord Mayor, Hans Georg Löffler, opened the memorial site to Nazi victims which had been established in the prison building of the old Turenne Barracks by a friends' association founded in 2009. Eighty years earlier, on 10 March 1933, the Nazis had established a concentration camp in the barracks for several months under the title of Schutzhaft- und Arbeitslager ("Protective Detention and Labour Camp"). About 500 men from over 80 Palatine municipalities were detained here who, due to their political or religious activities, had fallen foul of the authorities.[11][12]
Museums
The town is home to the following museums: the town museum, Villa Böhm, the Otto Dill Museum, the Palatine Bible Museum, the "Getreidekasten" Vineyard Museum in the
Regular events
Since 1949, as part of the German Wine Festival, the German Wine Queen has been chosen and crowned in Neustadt. The high point of the festival, which traditionally takes place at the end of September/beginning of October, is the largest Vintners' Parade in Germany.
Other wine festivals take place regularly, usually at weekends from almond blossom time in March/April until October. Especially well known are the Gimmeldingen Almond Blossom Festival, the Eselshautfest in Mußbach and the Andergasser Fest in Hambach.
At the end of August the German Wine Road Adventure Day takes place, when the German Wine Road is closed to motorised traffic – even in Neustadt – and is only open to cyclists and pedestrians.
There's also a Christmas festival at the Marktplatz square in the Altstadt. A large Christmas tree is usually put on the north side of the square.
Patronage
Neustadt was the patron of the U-boat
Economy
The largest local employer is BASF, located in Ludwigshafen am Rhein – one of the largest chemical companies in the world.
Symbols
The symbols of Neustadt are Elwedritsche, mythical animals of local folklore. Depictions of them are carved on a well in the town centre.
Transport
Neustadt is less than an hour away from larger cities such as Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg and Frankfurt.
Twin towns – sister cities
Neustadt an der Weinstraße is twinned with:[13]
- Echt-Susteren, Netherlands
- Lincoln, England, United Kingdom
- Mâcon, France
- Manchester, United States
- Quanzhou, China
- Wernigerode, Germany
- Yenişehir, Turkey
Notable people
- Frederick II, Elector Palatine (1482–1556), Elector of the Palatinate from 1544 to 1556
- Johannes von Geissel (1796–1864), Cardinal, Archbishop of Cologne, Bishop of Speyer
- August Rothpletz (1853–1918), geologist, paleontologist
- Georg Balthazar von Neumayer, German polar explorer and scientist, died here in 1909
- Ludwig Wolff (1857–1919), chemist
- Franz Xaver Kugler (1862–1929), astronomer, chemist, mathematician, theologian
- Albert Fraenkel(1864–1938), physician, tuberculosis and heart researcher
- Karl Helfferich (1872–1924), banker, politician (DNVP) in the Weimar Republic
- Hans Geiger (1882–1945), physicist, inventor of the Geiger counter
- Hermann Künneth (1892–1975), mathematician
- Friedrich Siebert (SS member) (1903–1966), jurist, SS official
- Walter Bruch (1908–1990), electrical engineering technician, inventor of the PAL color television system
- Willi Geiger (1909–1994), lawyer
- Fritz Wiedemann (1920–1987), painter, sculptor
- Herbert Culmann (1921–1998), lawyer, CEO of Deutsche Lufthansa AG
- Karlheinz Rudolph (1923–1994), television journalist
- Günther Osche (1926–2009), evolutionary biologist, ecologist, parasitologist
- Alfred Mechtersheimer (1939–2018), political scientist, politician, Member of Bundestag
- Jörg Zimmermann (born 1944), diplomat
- Heiner Goebbels (born 1952), musician, composer, radio play director, director
- Gregor Braun (born 1955), track cyclist, road bicycle racer
- Malu Dreyer (born 1961), jurist, politician (SPD), Rhineland-Palatinate Minister President since 2013
- Randolf Stich (1966-2023), politician (SPD)
- Uwe Wolf (born 1967), footballer
- Mario Basler (born 1968), football player, coach
- Bernhard Hoëcker (born 1970), comedian
- Sin With Sebastian (born 1971), pop singer
- Gustav Policella (born 1975), football player, coach
- Danko Bošković (born 1982), footballer
- Moritz Oeler (born 1985), water polo player
- Joseph Moog (born 1987), classical pianist and composer
- Dominique Heintz (born 1993), footballer
- Kevin Akpoguma (born 1995), footballer
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