Bockenheim an der Weinstraße | |
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Location of Bockenheim an der Weinstraße within Bad Dürkheim district  | |
 Location of Bockenheim an der Weinstraße | |
  Bockenheim an der Weinstraße  Bockenheim an der Weinstraße | |
| Coordinates:49°36′17″N8°10′57″E / 49.60472°N 8.18250°E /49.60472; 8.18250 | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Bad Dürkheim |
| Municipal assoc. | Leiningerland |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2019–24) | Gunther Bechtel[1] (SPD) |
| Area | |
• Total | 11.24 km2 (4.34 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 160 m (520 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 2,356 |
| • Density | 209.6/km2 (542.9/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 67278 |
| Dialling codes | 06359 |
| Vehicle registration | DÜW |
| Website | www.bockenheim.de |
Bockenheim an der Weinstraße (orBockenheim an der Weinstrasse) is anOrtsgemeinde – amunicipality belonging to aVerbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in theBad Dürkheim district inRhineland-Palatinate,Germany.
The municipality lies in thePalatinate and theRhine-Neckar urban agglomeration. It belongs to theVerbandsgemeinde of Leiningerland, whose seat is inGrünstadt, although that town is itself not in theVerbandsgemeinde. Bockenheim lies at the north end of the 85 km-longGerman Wine Route, and has even adopted an epithet referring to its location there:an der Weinstraße means “on the Wine Route” inGerman. The Route runs concurrently here withBundesstraße 271.
Bockenheim is made up of two smaller centres called Großbockenheim and Kleinbockenheim (groß means “great” andklein “little”), which were merged in 1956. The two places arose from small settlements that themselves had grown out of Frankish estates after the Franks took the land about 500. In 770, Bockenheim had its first documentary mention in theLorsch codex.
In April 1525, in the Palatine Peasants’ War – part of theGerman Peasants' War – theBockenheimer Haufen (“Bockenheim Cohort”) was formed, a rabble of peasants who joined the uprising.
Until 1969, Bockenheim belonged to the now abolished district of Frankenthal (Landkreis Frankenthal). Since then it has been in what was then the newly formed district ofBad Dürkheim (Landkreis Bad Dürkheim). In 2018, it was grouped into the newly formedVerbandsgemeinde of Leiningerland.
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 results:[3]
| SPD | CDU | FWG | Total | |
| 2009 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 16 seats |
| 2004 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 16 seats |
The municipality'sarms might be described thus: Per fess azure Saint Martin of Tours nimbed Or and vested argent cutting his mantle gules with a sword of the third, and riding a horse passant of the third, and argent on a mount vert a goat clymant sable attired of the second.
Martin of Tours is the local church's patron saint, also bearing his name (Martinskirche, or Saint Martin's Church). The billygoat (Ziegenbock inGerman) is acantingcharge for the municipality's name. Bockenheim's arms are based on the two constituent communities’ coat of arms. The Saint Martin charge came from Kleinbockenheim's old arms, and the goat from Großbockenheim's.
The arms have been borne since 1959.[4]
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The village's appearance is characterized by many old homesteads, of which ever more are being restored.
From the 11th century comes the tower at theRomanesque Saint Martin's Church (Martinskirche), which once stood next to the Emichsburg, a castle belonging to theCounts of Leiningen, after which today's community centre is named. The castle, after being destroyed many times, was eventually converted into a residential castle, which itself was also destroyed. Its remnants have been incorporated into a winery, which bears the nameSchlossgut (“Castle Estate”) in memory of the now mostly vanished complex.
In 1995, to offer a counterpart to the “German Wine Gate” (Deutsches Weintor) at the other end of theGerman Wine Route inSchweigen, which since 1936 had been marking the route's far (from Bockenheim's point of view) end, theHaus der Deutschen Weinstraße (“House of the German Wine Route”) was built between Großbockenheim and Kleinbockenheim. Built in the style of aRomancastrum, the House spans the road like a bridge and affords room not only for a 120-place restaurant with a lakeside terrace, but also for various event venues. In theTurmzimmer (“Tower Room”) with its view of the surrounding vineyards, theUpper Rhine Plain and even theOdenwald, those wishing to be wed may have aWeinstraßenhochzeit (“Wine Route Wedding”).
Since 1953, the Palatine Dialectal Poetry Contest (Pfälzischer Mundartdichterwettstreit) has been being held each October, at which participants who speak and write in thePalatine Dialect meet. The jury chooses the best ten poems from among their entries.
At theBockenheimer Mundarttagen (“Bockenheim Dialect Days”), held each year on a weekend in May, dialectologists give lectures in public about dialects and discuss them, too – traditionally in dialect – at the podium.
Bockenheim is an oldwinegrowing centre in which the craft has been practised for more than 1,200 years. Even today, it is still the village's most important industry. Bockenheim's vineyards stretch for more than 400 ha. Nevertheless,tourism is also growing in importance.
AlongBundesstraße 271, which still runs as a narrow and winding road through the middle of the village, is aninterchange on theAutobahnA 6 (Mannheim–Saarbrücken) that runs by 6 km to the south. For years, there have been efforts to have a village bypass built.
ThePfälzische Nordbahn betweenMonsheim andGrünstadt runs by at the village's eastern edge. The haltBockenheim-Kindenheim is served byRegionalbahn trains running on “Rhineland-Palatinate timing”. The public transport is integrated into theVerkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN), whose fares therefore apply.
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