Quirnheim ( Palatine German: ''Querem'') is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a

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belonging to a ''

Verbandsgemeinde A Verbandsgemeinde (; plural Verbandsgemeinden) is a low-level administrative unit in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt. A Verbandsgemeinde is typically composed of a small group of villages or towns. Rhinelan ...

'', a kind of collective municipality – in the

Bad Dürkheim Bad Dürkheim () is a spa town in the Rhine-Neckar urban agglomeration, and is the seat of the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location Bad Dürkheim lies at the edge of Palatinate Forest on the German Win ...

district in

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. It lies in the northwest of the Rhine-Neckar urban agglomeration.

Geography

Location

The municipality lies in the Palatinate on a rise at the edge of the Haardt near the north end of the

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. Until 1969 it belonged to the now abolished district of Frankenthal. It has belonged to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Leiningerland, whose seat is in

Grünstadt Grünstadt ( pfl, Grinnschdadt) is a town in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany with roughly 13,200 inhabitants. It does not belong to any ''Verbandsgemeinde'' – a kind of collective municipality – but is nonetheless t ...

(although that town is itself not in the ''Verbandsgemeinde'') since it was formed in 2018.

Constituent communities

To the village belong the ''

Ortsteil A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

e'' of Quirnheim-Tal and Boßweiler.

History

In May 771, Saint Mary’s and Saint Martin’s Church (''Kirche St. Maria und St. Martin'') had its first documentary mention. It is therefore said to be the district’s oldest church. The outlying centre of Boßweiler was mentioned as early as 767 in the

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. In 1467, Quirnheim came to be under the ownership of the Counts of Leiningen-Westerburg. In the 17th century, Quirinus von Merz was enfeoffed with both places.

Religion

In 2007, 41.9% of the inhabitants were

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and 32.6%

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. The rest belonged to other faiths or adhered to none.

Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 12 council members (as at municipal election held on 7 June 2009). The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:

Coat of arms

The German blazon reads: ' The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per fess, in chief per pale, in dexter per pale chequy of six argent and azure and Or a demi-eagle reguardant sable couped at the partition, in sinister a lion rampant of the first armed and langued gules, in base argent a horseshoe of the second. The arms were approved in 1926 by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior and date from a 1674 court seal.Karl Heinz Debus: ''Das große Wappenbuch der Pfalz''. Neustadt an der Weinstraße 1988,

Culture

Regular events

* ''Erbsenkerwe'' (“Pea Fair”), held in July * ''Dorfkerwe'' (“Village Fair”), held in the first week in October

Air sports

On one of the municipality’s hills is found the

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site of the ''Luftfahrtvereins Grünstadt und Umgebung'' (“Grünstadt and Area Air Travel Club”).

Museum

On the lands of the former

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Nike-Hercules The Nike Hercules, initially designated SAM-A-25 and later MIM-14, was a surface-to-air missile (SAM) used by U.S. and NATO armed forces for medium- and high-altitude long-range air defense. It was normally armed with the W31 nuclear warhead, but ...

launcher area for C Btry 2nd/1st ADA. is found a commercial area that houses, among other things, a motorcycle and technology museum run by unpaid workers. Right next to it are the airfield and the abandoned

IFC (Integrated Fire Control) Area of C Btry 2nd/1st ADA.

Famous people

The forebears of German resistance fighter against

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and 20 July plot co-conspirator

Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (25 March 1905 – 21 July 1944) was a German Army colonel and a resistance fighter in Nazi Germany involved in the 20 July plot against Adolf Hitler. Early life Quirnheim was born in Munich, the son of Herma ...

were connected to the village.

References

External links

Quirnheim in the collective municipality’s Web pages

Quirnheim: Tourism
{{Authority control Bad Dürkheim (district)