Kallstadt

Kallstadt

Kallstadt, main street

Coat of arms
Kallstadt

Coordinates: 49°29′26″N 08°10′33″E / 49.49056°N 8.17583°E / 49.49056; 8.17583Coordinates: 49°29′26″N 08°10′33″E / 49.49056°N 8.17583°E / 49.49056; 8.17583
Country Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Bad Dürkheim
Municipal assoc. Freinsheim
Government
 • Mayor Dr. Thomas Jaworek (CDU)
Area
 • Total 6.58 km2 (2.54 sq mi)
Population (2015-12-31)[1]
 • Total 1,225
 • Density 190/km2 (480/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 67169
Dialling codes 06322
Vehicle registration DÜW
Website www.kallstadt.de

Kallstadt (German pronunciation: [ˈkalʃtat]) is an Ortsgemeinde in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Kallstadt has a long standing background as a Edelweinort, a place where noble wines are being produced, dealt and consumed and is part of the touristic destinations at the Weinstraße.

It gained some international media attention for being the ancestral home of the related families Trump and Heinz, two of the most prominent business and political families of the United States.

Geography

Winegrowing in Kallstadt, 2014.

Kallstadt is located on the German Wine Route.

It is part of the Verbandsgemeinde of Freinsheim, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Its wine production brought Kallstadt a good reputation early on, as an Edelweinort (place of noble wine[2]) and several wine houses.[3] Unlike other places, those who emigrated from Kallstadt were more often the ambitious than the poor.[3]

The village of 1,200 inhabitants is currently in a booming region. It has restaurants that can accommodate about 2,000 guests and hotels with about 400 beds. Tourists include e.g. Americans from Ramstein Air Base.[3]

The historical local nickname of Kallstadt and its inhabitants is Brulljesmacher (Palatine German for "loudmouth" respectively via French "brouilles", "troublemaker"). The id is humorously referring to the inhabitants as big mouthed braggarts.[4][5]

History

The area where Kallstadt now is lies on the Roman road that linked Altenstadt – now in French Alsace and a constituent community of Wissembourg – with the Rhineland, and was prosperous even in Roman times. Many archaeological finds witness settlement by merchants, former legionnaires and also winegrowers from about 79 BC to at least 383 AD. Kallstadt could well have had its beginnings when the land was settled by a Frankish clan that arose about 500 and whose chief, Chagilo, became the village’s namesake.

In 824, Kallstadt had its first documentary mention as Cagelenstat. Originally an Imperial Village, it later passed to the County of Pfeffingen (Homburg) and from 1321 was held in fief first by the Monfort knights, and then from 1451 until about 1551 by the House of Blicken von Lichtenberg. From then until 1794, Kallstadt belonged as an Electoral Palatinate fief to the holdings of the House of Leiningen.

The Left Bank of the Rhine was occupied by France during the War of the First Coalition in 1794. Following the Treaty of Campo Formio (1797), the First French Republic annexed the region and between 1798 and 1814 Kallstadt belonged to the French department of Mont-Tonnerre.

Neither the Holy Roman Empire nor the Electoral Palatinate were restored at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Germany became a loose confederation of states dominated by Austria and Prussia, which both annexed most of the German territories left of the Rhine. Kallstadt came under Austrian rule, but Austria quickly exchanged the area with the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816. After this agreement, Kallstadt belonged to Bavaria, which joined the German Empire in 1871.

The (Western) Palatinate, including Kallstadt, remained Bavarian until after the end of World War II, when the German states were formally reorganized after becoming virtually defunct under the Nazi regime, when Kallstadt belonged to the Gau Westmark. The Palatinate was separated from Bavaria in 1946 and became a part of the new State of Rhineland-Palatinate, a founding state of the Federal Republic of Germany. A referendum to restore the union of the Palatinate and Bavaria failed in 1956, and Kallstadt continues to belong to Rhineland-Palatinate.

Buildings and structures

Trump and Heinz families

The Salvatorkirche (Saviour's church) in Kallstadt

The organ builder Johann Michael Hartung (1708–1763) and his son Johann Philipp Hartung lived in Kallstadt. Kallstadt is as well the ancestral home of both the Trump family and the Heinz family, founders of the Heinz company. The two families are related. Donald Trump is related to the Hartung family via Elizabeth Christ Trump. The Trump family has resided in Kallstadt since the 17th century and the name is first mentioned there in 1608.[8][9] Stories about famous emigrants are stock items in the region, where a large portion of the inhabitants are remotely related to them.

In 2015, filmmaker Simone Wendel, herself from Kallstadt (and remotely related to Trump) produced a documentary called Kings of Kallstadt. The film deals with the ongoing relationship between the local inhabitants and their prominent relatives in the USA. Wendel showed the strong and longstanding winemaking and gastronomic tradition in Kallstadt. She assumes that the Heinz family is more liked by the locals – their main product being a rather practical condiment, less abstract than Trump's real-estate business.[10][11] The locals positively remember the Heinz trust receiving a Kallstadt delegation. The Heinz family recently provided a major donation (€40,000) for the renovation of the organ in the local church, St. Salvator, while Trump did not contribute.[4] Wendel interviewed Trump in New York and showed a Kallstadt delegation at the Steuben Day parade. Trump prolonged the interview over the preset time and promised to visit Kallstadt.[10] The relationship with the US Trump family had been upheld by a cousin of Donald, John Trump, who is well received locally.[10]

The 2016 media interest about Kallstadt started in the middle of the night after the announcement of Trump's election. The local reaction has been mixed.[3] There is not much interest in becoming a place of pilgrimage for Trump aficionados; local tourism is already flourishing.[3] The house where Trump's grandfather Friedrich (Frederick) Trump was born is currently for sale.[4][4][12] Deutsche Welle notes: "[T]he villagers used to have a better opinion of Donald Trump, before he started his boisterous campaign."[13]

Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 25 May 2014, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The municipal election held on 25 May 2014 yielded the following results:[14]

SPD CDU FWG Total
2014 4 7 5 16 seats
2009 4 6 6 16 seats
2004 4 5 7 16 seats

Coat of arms

The German blazon reads: Über goldener Zinnenmauer, darin ein roter Reichsapfel mit goldenem Reif und rotem Kreuz, beseitet von je einer blauen Schießscharte, in Blau ein rotbewehrter silberner Adler.

The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per fess embattled, azure an eagle displayed argent armed and langued gules, and Or masoned an orb of the third banded of the field and ensigned with a cross fleuretty of the third, this last between two arrowslits of the first.

Kallstadt’s oldest known seal dates from 1494 and bears as charges both the Palatine Lion and the Wittelsbach bendy lozengy pattern (slanted diamond shapes alternating in tincture between argent and azure, that is, silver and blue) accompanied by a small letter K in base. In 1506, something similar to the current arms appeared when another seal showed an eagle above a wall. This reflected the village’s incorporation into the Leiningen holdings. A similar composition prevailed until 1711 when a seal charged simply with a globus cruciger appeared. This stood for the Counts Palatine, possibly putting its origin before 1506. On 15 January 1845, a coat of arms that might be described as “Azure an orb ensigned with a cross Or”, that is, a blue escutcheon bearing a golden globus cruciger with a cross on top, was granted as the municipality’s arms. On 22 June 1962, however, the current arms combining the charges of these last arms and the 1506 seal were granted.[15]

Famous people

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ "Gemeinden in Deutschland mit Bevölkerung am 31. Dezember 2015" (PDF). Statistisches Bundesamt (in German). 2016.
  2. ↑ See Ernst Merk, Heimatbuch des Edelweinortes Kallstadt, 1952
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Frasch, Timo (2016-11-09). "Im Ort von Trumps Vorfahren: 'Trump hat sich wenigstens getraut, das auch zu zeigen'". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ISSN 0174-4909. Retrieved 2016-11-27.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Donald Trumps Wurzeln: King of New York, Knallkopf of Kallstadt". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 20 January 2016.
  5. ↑ Kranish, Michael; Fisher, Marc (2016-08-23). Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781501155772.
  6. ↑ Gwenda Blair (2000). The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire. Simon and Schuster. pp. 28–9. ISBN 9780743210799.
  7. ↑ User, Super. "Geschichte des Henningers". Hotel und Restaurant Weinhaus Henninger (in German). Retrieved 2016-11-27.
  8. ↑ Connolly, Kate (29 January 2016). "Kallstadt, Germany: on the trail of 'the Donald' in the Trump ancestral home". The Guardian.
  9. ↑ "Media frenzy over Donald Trump's German hometown leaves locals unhappy". Deutsche Welle.
  10. 1 2 3 "Deutsche Großeltern: Donald Trump, King of Kallstadt". Die Welt. Retrieved 2016-11-27.
  11. ↑ "Kings of Kallstadt | Dokumentarfilm: Mein Dorf, Ketchup & der König von New York" (in German). SWR Fernsehen. Retrieved 2016-11-27.
  12. ↑ "Nach US-Wahl: Trump-Haus in Kallstadt steht zum Verkauf!". Heidelberg24. 9 November 2016.
  13. ↑ "Donald Trump's German roots". Deutsche Welle.
  14. ↑ Rheinland-Pfalz, Statistisches Landesamt. "LWL RLP - Kommunalwahlen: Ergebnisse der Ratswahlen: Wahlergebnisse 2014: Stadt- und Gemeinderatswahlen:".
  15. ↑ "Heraldry of the world - Outdated file".
  16. ↑ Kurt Stuck: Verwaltungspersonal im Herzogtum Zweibrücken, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Pfälzisch-Rheinische Familienkunde, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1993, p. 16.
  17. ↑ Germany, Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Hannover, Niedersachsen,. "Donald Trump und das Dorf der Großmäuler: US-Promis mit deutschen Wurzeln – HAZ – Hannoversche Allgemeine". Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2016-11-27.
  18. ↑ "Wie Köchin Luise den Saumagen rettete". morgenweb, das Nachrichtenportal für die Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar. Retrieved 2016-11-27.

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