Pleitersheim

Geography

Location

Pleitersheim lies in the heart of Rhenish Hesse some 7 km east of downtown Bad Kreuznach on ground that slopes gently southeastwards to the Karlebach, a left-bank tributary to the Appelbach. The outlying countryside is barely wooded at all and is grouped with the Wöllsteiner Hügelland (“hill land”), which hosts intensive agricultural use. Pleitersheim borders on two neighbouring districts, Mainz-Bingen and Alzey-Worms.

Neighbouring municipalities

Clockwise from the north, Pleitersheim's neighbours are Pfaffen-Schwabenheim (likewise in the Bad Kreuznach district), Badenheim (in the Mainz-Bingen district), Wöllstein (in the Alzey-Worms district) and Volxheim (also in the Bad Kreuznach district). Although the town and district seat of Bad Kreuznach lies right nearby, Pleitersheim does not border directly on it.

History

Pleitersheim, whose name is interpreted as “Blithen’s Home” – it may well have been named after a

Pleitersheim's population development since Napoleonic times is shown in the table below. The figures for the years from 1871 to 1987 are drawn from census data:^[5]

Religion

As at 30 November 2013, there are 328 full-time residents in Pleitersheim, and of those, 163 are

Politics

Municipal council

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The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected by proportional representation 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 results:^[7]

Mayor

Pleitersheim's mayor is Bodo Ehrhardt.^[1]

Coat of arms

The German blazon reads: Der Schild ist durch eine aufsteigende eingebogene Spitze in drei Felder geteilt. Feld 1 ist in Blau und Gold geschachtet, Feld 2 zeigt auf blauem, mit silbernen Kreuzchen bestreutem Grund einen steigenden, silbernen Löwen, silbern gekrönt und silbern gewehrt. Feld 3 zeigt in Rot ein silbernes sechsspeichiges Rad.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Tierced in mantle dexter chequy azure and Or, sinister azure semé of four crosses pattée argent a lion rampant of the same langued gules and in base gules a wheel spoked of six of the third.

The German blazon says that the lion is to be crowned (gekrönt), but the crown does not appear in the actual arms. It also does not specify that the crosses are to be pattée (with broadened ends).

There were no historical models for the municipal arms. Nobody could even confirm any old court seat from Pleitersheim. The coat of arms is thus a wholly modern creation, which interprets the village's history. Marshalled here are the heraldic devices formerly borne by Pleitersheim's longest ruling and most influential lords, namely the

• 
  Counts of Sponheim
• 
  Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken
• 
  Archbishopric of Mainz
• 
  Pleitersheim

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:^[8]

• Evangelical church, Hauptstraße 27 – former shared church, aisleless church, essentially Late Gothic, marked 1496, made over in Baroque
  , marked 1753
• Hauptstraße 21 – estate complex; timber-frame house, plastered, marked 1828
• Hauptstraße 25 – three-sided estate; timber-frame house, plastered, about 1800
• Hauptstraße 36 – estate complex; timber-frame house, partly solid, early 19th century

More about the church

The

The following clubs are active in Pleitersheim:[10]

• Feuerwehrverein Pleitersheim
  fire brigade
  club
• Freiwillige Feuerwehr Pleitersheim — volunteer fire brigade
• Vereinigte Dorfjugend Pleitersheim — united village youth

Economy and infrastructure

Winegrowing

Pleitersheim belongs to the “Bingen

Winegrowing Area” within the Rhenish Hesse wine region (Rheinhessen). Four winegrowing businesses are active in the village, and the area currently given over to vineyards is 63 ha. Roughly 72% of the grapes are white wine varieties (as at 2007).^[5]

Transport

Pleitersheim lies on

railway station on the Rheinhessenbahn. Another serves nearby Bad Kreuznach

with a variety of rail services.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Bad Kreuznach, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 2 August 2021.
2. Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz
   . 2023.
3. ^ First documentary mention
4. ^ "History". Archived from the original on 2014-01-08. Retrieved 2014-01-02.
5. ^ ^{a b} Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz – Regionaldaten
6. ^ Religion
7. ^ Der Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz: Kommunalwahl 2009, Stadt- und Gemeinderatswahlen
8. ^ Directory of Cultural Monuments in Bad Kreuznach district
9. ^ Joachim Glatz: Mittelalterliche Wandmalerei in der Pfalz und in Rheinhessen. Dissertation, Mainz 1981, S. 308.
10. ^ "Clubs". Archived from the original on 2014-01-08. Retrieved 2014-01-02.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pleitersheim.

• Pleitersheim in the collective municipality’s webpages (in German)
• Pleitersheim’s history at regionalgeschichte.net (in German)