Jump to content

Kallstadt

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 37.49.26.19 (talk) at 15:52, 9 November 2016 (→History). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Kallstadt
Municipality
Kallstadt, main street
Kallstadt, main street
Coat of arms of Kallstadt
Coat of arms
Location of Kallstadt within Bad Dürkheim district
Bad DürkheimGrünstadtGrünstadtHaßlochMeckenheimNiederkirchen bei DeidesheimRuppertsbergForst an der WeinstraßeDeidesheimWattenheimHettenleidelheimTiefenthalCarlsbergAltleiningenEllerstadtGönnheimFriedelsheimWachenheimElmsteinWeidenthalNeidenfelsLindenbergLambrechtFrankeneckEsthalKindenheimBockenheim an der WeinstraßeQuirnheimMertesheimEbertsheimObrigheimObersülzenDirmsteinGerolsheimLaumersheimGroßkarlbachBissersheimKirchheim an der WeinstraßeKleinkarlbachNeuleiningenBattenbergNeuleiningenKirchheim an der WeinstraßeWeisenheim am SandWeisenheim am SandWeisenheim am SandErpolzheimBobenheim am BergBobenheim am BergDackenheimDackenheimFreinsheimFreinsheimHerxheim am BergHerxheim am BergHerxheim am BergKallstadtKallstadtWeisenheim am BergWeisenheim am BergAlzey-WormsWormsLudwigshafenFrankenthalRhein-Pfalz-KreisGermersheim (district)Neustadt an der WeinstraßeSüdliche WeinstraßeLandauKaiserslauternKaiserslautern (district)DonnersbergkreisKaiserslauternSüdwestpfalz
CountryGermany
StateRhineland-Palatinate
DistrictBad Dürkheim
Municipal assoc.Freinsheim
Government
 • MayorDr. Thomas Jaworek (CDU)
Area
 • Total6.58 km2 (2.54 sq mi)
Elevation
134 m (440 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[1]
 • Total1,267
 • Density190/km2 (500/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
67169
Dialling codes06322
Vehicle registrationDÜW
Websitewww.kallstadt.de

Kallstadt (German pronunciation: [ˈkalʃtat]) is an Ortsgemeinde in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Geography

Winegrowing in Kallstadt, 2014.

Kallstadt is located on the German Wine Route.

It is part of the Verbandsgemeinde of Freinsheim, whose seat is in the like-named town.

History

The area where Kallstadt now is lays on the Roman road that linked Altenstadt – now in French Alsace and a constituent community of Wissembourg – with the Rhineland, and was blossoming even in Roman times with its cultural landscape. Many archaeological finds witness settlement by merchants, former legionnaires and also winegrowers from about 79 BC to at least AD 383. The today's settlement could well have had its beginnings when the land was settled by a Frankish clan that arose about 500 and whose chief, Chagilo, became the village’s namesake.

In 824, Kallstadt had its first documentary mention as Cagelenstat. Originally an Imperial Village, it later passed to the County of Pfeffingen (Homburg) and from 1321 was held in fief first by the Monfort knights, and then from 1451 until about 1551 by the House of Blicken von Lichtenberg. Thereafter, Kallstadt belonged, until 1794, as an Electoral Palatinate fief, to the Leiningens’ holdings.

The Left Bank of the Rhine was occupied by France during the War of the First Coalition in 1794. Following the Treaty of Campo Formio (1797), the First French Republic annexed the region and between 1798 and 1814 Kallstadt belonged to the French department of Mont-Tonnerre.

Neither the Holy Roman Empire nor the Electoral Palatinate were restored at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Germany became a loose confederation of states dominated by Austria and Prussia, which both annexed most of the German territories left of the Rhine. Kallstadt came under Austrian rule, but Austria quickly exchanged the area with the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816. After this agreement, Kallstadt belonged to Bavaria, which joined the German Empire in 1871.

The (Western) Palatinate, including Kallstadt, remained Bavarian until after the end of World War II when the German states were formally reorganized after becoming virtually defunct under the Nazi regime, when Kallstadt belonged to the Gau Westmark. The Palatinate was separated from Bavaria in 1946 and became a part of the new State of Rhineland-Palatinate, a founding state of the Federal Republic of Germany. A referendum to restore the union of the Palatinate and Bavaria failed in 1956, and Kallstadt continues to belong to Rhineland-Palatinate.

Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 25 May 2014, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The municipal election held on 25 May 2014 yielded the following results:[2]

SPD CDU FWG Total
2014 4 7 5 16 seats
2009 4 6 6 16 seats
2004 4 5 7 16 seats

Coat of arms

The German blazon reads: Über goldener Zinnenmauer, darin ein roter Reichsapfel mit goldenem Reif und rotem Kreuz, beseitet von je einer blauen Schießscharte, in Blau ein rotbewehrter silberner Adler.

The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per fess embattled, azure an eagle displayed argent armed and langued gules, and Or masoned an orb of the third banded of the field and ensigned with a cross fleuretty of the third, this last between two arrowslits of the first.

Kallstadt’s oldest known seal dates from 1494 and bears as charges both the Palatine Lion and the Wittelsbach bendy lozengy pattern (slanted diamond shapes alternating in tincture between argent and azure, that is, silver and blue) accompanied by a small letter K in base. In 1506, something similar to the current arms appeared when another seal showed an eagle above a wall. This reflected the village’s incorporation into the Leiningen holdings. A similar composition prevailed until 1711 when a seal charged simply with a globus cruciger appeared. This stood for the Counts Palatine, possibly putting its origin before 1506. On 15 January 1845, a coat of arms that might be described as “Azure an orb ensigned with a cross Or”, that is, a blue escutcheon bearing a golden globus cruciger with a cross on top, was granted as the municipality’s arms. On 22 June 1962, however, the current arms combining the charges of these last arms and the 1506 seal were granted.[3]

Culture and sightseeing

The Bismarck Tower

In the regional dialect, the locals of Kallstadt are "affectionately" known as Brulljesmacher (braggart).[4]

Buildings and structures

Famous people

Further reading

  • Ernst Merk: Heimatbuch des Edelweinortes Kallstadt. 1952

References

  1. ^ "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
  2. ^ Der Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz: Kommunalwahl 2014, Stadt- und Gemeinderatswahlen
  3. ^ Description and explanation of Kallstadt’s arms
  4. ^ "Trump's German roots: Kallstadt's king: How the German heritage he has hidden shaped Donald Trump". The Economist. 13 February 2016. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  5. ^ Gwenda Blair (2000). The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire. Simon and Schuster. pp. 28–9. ISBN 9780743210799.

Media related to Kallstadt at Wikimedia Commons

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kallstadt&oldid=748669605"