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30-605: The first part of the name, Kirchheim , dates back to 774. It became a town in 1368, and the Sponheim family improved its security with many towers and walls. William, Duke of Nassau , ancestor of the royal families of Belgium , Sweden , Denmark and Norway , and of the grand-ducal family of Luxembourg , was born in Kirchheimbolanden. It was also ruled by the First French Empire between 1792 and 1814, before passing to

60-507: A German imperial constitution whose introduction and execution, however, was opposed by various German princes against the wish and wellbeing of the people. The population of the Bavarian Palatinate and of Baden stood up for their rights, but their militia [Volkswehr] were defeated by the superior forces deployed by the princes, and the hope of creating a united, free German empire receded over the horizon. In these battles for their rights

90-457: Is located about four kilometres (as the crow flies) northeast of Donnersberg on the slope of Wartberg, also known as Schillerhain . The Leiselsbach, a left tributary of the Pfrimm, rises in the urban area. The lowest point lies at 229 m above sea level, the highest at 496 m above sea level. The highest point of the district is the summit of the 502 meter high Eichelberg in the far west, further east

120-608: Is reminiscent of the Counts of Eberstein , former masters of Stauf Castle , who temporarily held local authority. Kirchheimbolanden has a moderate climate. It is classified as a " Cfb " (Marine West Coast Climate/ Oceanic climate ) by the Köppen Climate Classification system. Sponheim Sponheim is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate in western Germany . Sponheim

150-655: The Freikorps initially resisted the Prussians in front of the town, but then pulled back when it was attacked from three sides. The situation of the Freikorp , which had come under artillery fire, had become precarious. Because the Polish Major Rouppert, who was formally in command, made no decisions, a withdrawal to Rockenhausen was organised by Zitz and Bamberger. One section of Mainz riflemen remained, for reasons unknown, in

180-636: The Kingdom of Bavaria in 1815. It was a rural district centre in the Rheinkreis , which was renamed Pfalz ( Palatinate ) in 1835. The name Kirchheim was first mentioned in the Lorsch codex on 28 December 774, which can be traced back to the 7th century, where a parish church stood in present-day Kirchheimbolanden named St. Remigius . The term Kirch is derived from the Old High German word for "church," while

210-582: The Wormser wall-building ordinance from around 900 as one of the places that shared responsibility for maintaining the city wall of Worms . At the end of the 13th century, Kirchheim was inherited by the Sponheim branch line Bolanden-Dannenfels. Count Heinrich II. Von Sponheim-Bolanden raised the village to a town in 1368 and made it his residence. Via his granddaughter Anna von Hohenlohe († 1410) and her husband Philipp I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg , Kirchheimbolanden and

240-566: The 1st Prussian Army Corps under Moritz von Hirschfeld . The advance guard of his 1st Division, commanded by Major General von Hannecken, crossed the Palatine border unopposed near Kreuznach and advanced south. The Rhenish-Hesse Freikorps - under the Pole, N. Rouppert, appointed by General Sznayde - which included members of the gymnastic club of Mainz and the worker's union - had originally about 1,500 men and four small iron cannon. The vanguard of

270-454: The 430.7 meter high Kuhkopf extends. The development is on the slope of the Wartberg, alternatively called Schillerhain. In the northwest of the district rises the 399.7 meter high Albertskreuz and northwest of the settlement area the 354.1 meter high Steinkopf. The Hungerberg range of hills, up to 302 meters high, is located in the southeast. Kirchheimbolanden is divided into the city centre with

300-634: The 4th Division of the 1st Prussian Army Corps with the Berlin-based Guards Landwehr Battalion , the fusilier battalion of the 24th Infantry Regiment , two squadrons of the 7th Uhlan Regiment and two cannon under Colonel von Schleinitz. As early as 13 June, during a recce by the Prussians near Morschheim , there was a clash with a company of volunteers, who reported one dead and two wounded. The rebels left behind in Morschheim as an outpost left their positions, against orders, on

330-603: The House of Nassau-Weilburg and his rich, clever and musical wife Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau . After 1792, French revolutionary troops occupied the region and after the Treaty of Campo Formio (1797), annexed the left bank of the Rhine . From 1798 to 1814, Kirchheim belonged to the French department of Donnersberg and was the main town (chef-lieu) of the canton of the same name. Due to

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360-649: The agreements made at the Congress of Vienna (1815) and an exchange contract with Austria , the region became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816. From 1818, Kirchheim was the seat of a land commissioner in the Bavarian Rhine circle . When the Rhenish Hessian Legion hurriedly evacuated Kirchheim from a Prussian overwhelming power during the Palatinate uprising on June 14, 1849 , Palatine militants remained in

390-501: The battle. On 16 June 1872 a monument to the rebels who had fallen on 14 June 1849 was unveiled at the cemetery in Kirchheimbolanden. It depicts Germania with a shield emblazoned with the imperial eagle . On the pedestal is an inscription that reads as follows: "In 1848–1849 the German imperial assembly in Frankfurt a. M., which was elected by the German people, discussed and legally agreed

420-623: The castle garden where a company of the Guards Landwehr battalion captured the barricade . The Landwehr and fusiliers soon broke through the main gate into the castle garden where the volunteers were killed or captured. Among the prisoners was Mathilde Hitzfeld, who is portrayed in one illustration holding a flag at a barricade, an image that is probably based on portraits of the French Revolution. The Rhenish-Hessian Freikorps pulled back further to Neustadt an der Weinstraße , where it

450-472: The district Haide and the districts Ambach, Bolanderhof, Edenbornerhof, Hessenhütte, Neuhof, Rothenkircherhof and Schillerhain Further places of residence are railway station 2262, Brunnenberg, brickworks Ebert, Kohlhütte and Ziegelhütte. The city council in Kirchheimbolanden consists of 24 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019, and

480-619: The entire Sponheim-Bolander family property finally fell to the Nassau House , which owned it until the end of the feudal period. Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg moved his residence from Weilburg to Kirchheim in 1737. Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg temporarily owned his own infantry regiment (1755–1759) in Mannheim with the Elector of the Electoral Palatinate and

510-576: The first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform, the city moved in 1969 to the newly formed Donnersbergkreis and its seat; three years later, Kirchheimbolanden was incorporated into the also newly created community of the same name. Kirchheimbolanden lies in the Palatinate at the transition point of the Nordpfälzer Bergland to the Alzeyer Hügelland bordering to the east. The city centre

540-421: The honorary city mayor as chairman. The distribution of seats in the city council are: In 2019, the town gained international attention after Lisel Heise, a 100-year old former physical education teacher, ran for the local council and was elected. The previous mayors of Kirchheimbolanden: Blazon : "Divided; at the top of silver and black sheathed in three rows, at the bottom in green a black boar striding to

570-452: The night of 13/14 June and withdrew to Kirchheimbolanden. The advance of the Prussians was spotted in Kirchheimbolanden on 14 June at 5 a.m. A Prussian company of fusiliers occupied Orbis , initially unopposed, and continued from the northwest towards Kirchheimbolanden, while the main body of the Prussian units attacked the town from the north. A third group advanced from the west. One company of

600-565: The palace garden without notification. In the battle of Kirchheimbolanden in the presence of the Prince of Prussia , 17 militants were killed. From 1939, the place was part of and administrative seat of the district of the same name. After the Second World War , Kirchheimbolanden became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate , within the French occupation zone . In the course of

630-628: The representative of the Central Power for the Palatinate, Bernhard Eisenstuck , legitimized the National Defence Committee. On 3 May 1849, the May uprising in Dresden broke out, but this was put down on 9 May by Saxon and Prussian troops. On 11 May, the third Baden uprising began with the mutiny of Baden troops in the federal fortress of Rastatt . The request by the Palatine state committee for

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660-486: The right." Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms was awarded by King Ludwig I of Bavaria on January 30, 1844 and was last confirmed on June 18, 1976 by the district government, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . It comes from a city seal from the 14th century. The chess (actually blue and gold) comes from the coat of arms of Count Heinrich II. Von Sponheim-Bolanden ( Grafschaft Sponheim ), who in 1368 obtained town rights from Emperor Charles IV in 1368. The boar

690-556: The state as a hereditary constitutional monarchy. The Prussian king Frederick William IV refused the imperial crown that he was offered. On 23 April, the Bavarian king and his government rejected the constitution, which was regarded by the left as a coup. On 2 May, it was decided to set up a ten-member National Committee for the Defence and Implementation of the Constitution and on 7 May 1849

720-552: The suffix -heim was commonly used during the Frankish colonisation to denote a "home" or "settlement". After Kirchheimbolanden gained town privileges in 1368, it was first mentioned as Kirchheim bei Bolanden in 1370, owing it's name to the Lords of Bolanden  [ de ] . The place Kirchheim was first mentioned in 774, later it belonged to the Lords of Bolanden. It is mentioned in

750-516: The support of Baden and Hesse was made on 9 May in Rheinhessen . and led to the calling up of a Rhenish-Hessian volunteer army or Freikorps by Franz Zitz and Ludwig Bamberger . Military command was initially given to Karl Ludwig Heußner. The corps assembled in Wörrstadt and marched via Alzey to Pfeddersheim and then on to Kirchheimbolanden . On 11 June, came the feared intervention of

780-567: Was elected abbot in 1483, at the age of twenty-one. In his time, the abbey library increased from around fifty items to more than two thousand. However, his efforts were not met with praise, and his reputation as a magician did not further his acceptance. Increasing differences with the convent led to his resignation in 1506. This Bad Kreuznach district location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Battle of Kirchheimbolanden The Battle of Kirchheimbolanden ( German : Gefecht bei Kirchheimbolanden )

810-475: Was temporarily general of the Netherlands, where he was governor. Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (1788–1816) left the city in 1793 because of the French Revolution and went to Bayreuth . This ended the time as the royal seat for Kirchheimbolanden, then only called Kirchheim. It experienced its greatest heyday under Prince Charles August (1719–1753) and especially under Carl Christian (1753–1788) of

840-533: Was the capital of the County of Sponheim . There was a Benedictine abbey which was founded in 1101 by Stephan II, Count of Sponheim not far from the comital residence at Castle Sponheim . Johannes Trithemius was one of the abbots . Traveling from university to his home town in 1482, he was surprised by a snowstorm and took refuge in the Benedictine abbey of Sponheim near Bad Kreuznach . He decided to stay and

870-744: Was the first battle in the Palatine Uprising of 1849. It took place on 14 June near Kirchheimbolanden and ended in the defeat of the volunteers ( Freischaren ) by the Prussian Army . The movement of the March revolution within the member states of the German Confederation led to the election of Frankfurt Assembly , the first all-German parliament. This parliament proclaimed the Constitution of St. Paul's Church on 28 March 1849 that provided for

900-588: Was united with Schlinke's militia ( Volkswehr ) battalion and Blenker's corps and then marched over the bridge over the Rhine at Knielingen on 18 June and made for Baden. On 20 June the Rhenish-Hesse Freikorps was disbanded. The Prince of Prussia , the supreme commander of the whole army that defeated the revolution in the Palatinate and in Baden accompanied the 4th Division and personally thanked his troops after

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