Kirchheim an der Weinstraße
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Location of Kirchheim an der Weinstraße within Bad Dürkheim district
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| Coordinates: 49°32′14″N 08°10′51″E / 49.53722°N 8.18083°ECoordinates: 49°32′14″N 08°10′51″E / 49.53722°N 8.18083°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Bad Dürkheim | |
| Municipal assoc. | Grünstadt-Land | |
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| • Mayor | Robert Brunner (CDU) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 8.98 km2 (3.47 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 145 m (476 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 1,905 | |
| • Density | 210/km2 (550/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 67281 | |
| Dialling codes | 06359 | |
| Vehicle registration | DÜW | |
| Website | www.gruenstadt-land.de | |
Kirchheim an der Weinstraße (or Kirchheim an der Weinstrasse) is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
The municipality lies in the northwest of the Rhine-Neckar urban agglomeration. It sits at an elevation of just under 150 m above sea level near the north end of the German Wine Route. To the west rises the Haardt at the Palatinate Forest’s eastern edge, and to the east stretches the Upper Rhine Plain. Through the municipality, from west to east, flows the Eckbach, regionally known as die Eck. Kirchheim an der Weinstraße belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Grünstadt-Land, whose seat is in Grünstadt, although that town is itself not in the Verbandsgemeinde.
Clockwise from the north, these are the town of Grünstadt and the villages of Bissersheim, Herxheim am Berg and Kleinkarlbach.
Down on the Eckbach floodplain lay the municipality’s beginnings. It was here that the seeds were sown that grew into the village on the Eckbach’s right (south) bank, spreading up from there. On the other hand, archaeological finds make it clear that this place was settled as early as the Bronze Age.
Until 1952, the village’s name was Kirchheim an der Eck and it belonged to the district of Frankenthal, until this was abolished in 1969. After Kirchheim’s reassignment to the new district of Bad Dürkheim had been completed that same year, it was also assigned in 1972 to the likewise newly formed Verbandsgemeinde of Grünstadt-Land.
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