Ebertsheim

Geschichte

Ebertsheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies in the northwest of the Rhine-Neckar urban agglomeration. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Grünstadt-Land, whose seat is in Grünstadt, although that town is itself not in the Verbandsgemeinde. Ebertsheim, with its Ortsbezirk of Rodenbach lies in the historic Leiningerland on the river Eisbach in the eastern Eis valley, just short of where this opens out at the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest onto the uplands of the Weinstraße region (as distinct from the Deutsche Weinstraße – or German Wine Route – itself) and the Upper Rhine Plain.HistoryA Frankish settlement called Eberolfsheim had its first documentary mention in 765 in the Lorsch codex. The first settlements here, however, are considerably older, as witnessed by finds from La Tène times about 500 BC and Roman times about 100 BC. Ebertsheim was held uninterruptedly beginning in the Middle Ages by the Counts of Leiningen. Recalling this today is Leininger Straße (a street). Until 1969, the municipality belonged to the now abolished district of Frankenthal.