Lampertheim () is a town in the Bergstraße district in

Hesse Hesse or Hessen ( ), officially the State of Hesse (), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt, which is also the country's principal financial centre. Two other major hist ...

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. In 1984, the town hosted the 24th '' Hessentag'' state festival.

Geography

Location

Lampertheim lies in the southwest corner of Hesse in the Rhine rift at the Biedensand Conservation Area (an old arm of the

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) and borders on

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and

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. It is on the right bank of the

across from

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(

), roughly north of

Mannheim Mannheim (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (), is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, second-largest city in Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, the States of Ger ...

(

). The town is broadly, but visibly surrounded by the

Odenwald The Odenwald () is a low mountain range in the Germany, German states of Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. Location The Odenwald is located between the Upper Rhine Plain with the Bergstraße Route, Bergstraße and the ''Hessisches Ried' ...

and the

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Neighbouring communities

Lampertheim is one of Hesse’s southernmost towns and borders on Bürstadt, Lorsch,

Viernheim Viernheim () is a midsize industrial town on Mannheim's outskirts and is found in the Rhine Neckar Area, Rhine Neckar agglomeration and economic area. It is the second biggest town in Kreis Bergstraße, Bergstraße district in Hesse, Germany. Since ...

and

(

Constituent communities

Lampertheim has the outlying centres of Hofheim, Hüttenfeld, Neuschloß and Rosengarten, which are all '' Stadtteile''. Furthermore, there are residential neighbourhoods named Heide, Oberlach-Rosenau, Am Küblinger Damm, Lache, An der Wormser Straße, In den Böllenruthen, In den Ruthen, Wehrzollhaus, Wildbahn and Seehof. Lampertheim Biedensand 01

History

The earliest forms of the town’s name handed down from 832 were ''Langobardonheim'' or ''Langbardheim'', which led to the conclusion that the town was founded by the

Lombards The Lombards () or Longobards () were a Germanic peoples, Germanic people who conquered most of the Italian Peninsula between 568 and 774. The medieval Lombard historian Paul the Deacon wrote in the ''History of the Lombards'' (written betwee ...

(''Langobarden'' in German). There is however today no further doubt that Lampertheim arose at the time of Frankish settlement and that the name is to be taken as meaning “Lantberths’ Home”, the name “Lantberth” – also “Lampert” or “Lambert” – meaning “Land-brightening ones”. In 1716, the town was granted market rights, and on 4 August 1951 town rights.

Mayors

Mayors in Lampertheim since 1960:

Culture and sightseeing

Religion

Lampertheim has these parishes: *

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parish of ''Mariä Verkündigung'' (the

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) *

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parish of Martin Luther * Catholic parish of ''St. Andreas'' (St. Andrew’s) * Evangelical ''Lukasgemeinde'' (St. Luke’s) * Evangelical

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parish * Free Evangelical parish * Evangelical ''Liebenzeller'' parish * Baptist parish,

New Apostolic Church The New Apostolic Church (NAC) is a Christian denomination, Christian church of the Catholic Apostolic Church, Irvingian tradition. Its origins are in 1863, in the split from the Catholic Apostolic Church during a schism in Hamburg, Ger ...

Museums

''Stadtmuseum Lampertheim'' is the town museum. It is found in an old house and there are guided tours.

Music

At the ''Musikschule Lampertheim'' is a children’s

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led by Sabine Nicolai. One can also learn to play various instruments at the music school, such as

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piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

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, and others. There is also singing instruction there, either singly or in groups of 3 or 4 pupils.

Buildings

Worth mentioning is the ''Schloss Rennhof'' built by Baron Rothschild in 1853 and the old schoolhouse built in 1906 and 1907, both in Hüttenfeld. In the ''Schloss Rennhof'' is found the ''Litauisches Gymnasium Hüttenfeld'' (“

Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...

n Gymnasium”), originally established as a school for Lithuanian émigrés’ children after their homeland was overrun by the

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in the

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. It is the only recognized Lithuanian school in Western Europe. The many transmission masts of the shortwave broadcaster Radio Free Europe Lampertheim, one of the biggest shortwave transmission facilities in Germany, are up to 125 m tall. They are guyed steel-lattice masts, set in pairs in a row, bearing dipole antennae. Some of these transmission masts are linked to each other by crossbeams furnished with catwalks.

Sport

* DLRG * TV Lampertheim (gymnastics, football etc.) * Wassersportverein Lampertheim 1929 e.V. (watersports, among others canoeing) * Kanu-Club Lampertheim 1952 e.V. * Olympia Lampertheim (football)

Regular events

The
Lampertheimer Spargellauf
' ("Asparagus Walk") is a public walking event that is traditionally held a week before the Lampertheim Asparagus Festival (''Lampertheimer Spargelfest''). It is staged by the Lampertheim Gymnastic Club. Every finisher gets a ''Spargellauf'' T-shirt, which comes in a different colour every year.

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

Lampertheim is on ''

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'' 47, the ''Nibelungenstraße'', which leads from Worms to

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in the

. Lampterheim is also on ''

'' 44, which runs from Mannheim towards Biblis and further.

US activities

Near Lampertheim, the American foreign broadcasting service

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runs a

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transmission facility, and US troops run a United States Army and

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base, Coleman Barracks, in neighbouring Mannheim-Sandhofen. Furthermore, American soldiers also train at a shooting range in the Lampertheim woods.

Education

In Lampertheim itself are four secondary schools, the ''Lessing Gymnasium Lampertheim'', a Gymnasium that also received a certificate for “Promotion of the Gifted”. There are also the '' Alfred-Delp-Schule'', a joint

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, and the ''Biedensandschule'', a special school for special-needs pupils. There is also the district vocational school.

Twin towns – sister cities

Lampertheim is twinned with: * Ermont, France (1966) *

Maldegem Maldegem (), earlier spelled Maldeghem, is a municipality located in the Belgian province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the villages of Maldegem, Adegem and Middelburg. and have always been separate hamlets of Maldegem. On 1 Jan ...

, Belgium (1967) *

Adria Adria is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Rovigo in the Veneto region of northern Italy, situated between the mouths of the rivers Adige and Po River, Po. The remains of the Etruria, Etruscan city of Atria or Hatria are to be found below ...

, Italy (1979) * Dieulouard, France (1993) * Świdnica (rural gmina), Poland (2006)

Notable people

* Wilhelm Herz (1912–1998), motorcycle racing driver and world record holder * Klaus Schlappner (born 1940), football coach * Manfred Herweh (born 1954), motorcycle racing driver * Elke Voelker (born 1968), organist, musicologist *

Denis Gremelmayr Denis Gremelmayr (born 16 August 1981) is an inactive German male tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is World No. 59, achieved in May 2008. Glemelmayr was born in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg. He reached the semifinals of Estoril, ...

(born 1981), tennis player * Carolin Leonhardt (born 1984), sprint canoer * Nicole Reinhardt (born 1986), canoeist, Olympic champion * Constantin Braun (born 1988), ice hockey player * Laurin Braun (born 1991), ice hockey player

References

External links

* {{Authority control Bergstraße (district)