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🎨 Design & Symbolism The fountain was designed in 1989 by the renowned Palatinate artist couple Prof. Gernot Rumpf and Barbara Rumpf. It is rich in bronze figures that reflect the history and identity of the village of Hayna.

⛲️ In Hayna, a district of the municipality of Herxheim near Landau in the Palatinate, the village fountain (often also called the tobacco fountain) is a central landmark and popular meeting place.

Knight Stefan von Mörlheim, co-founder of the Cistercian monastery of Eußerthal, donated his manor, including a chapel, to the monastery in Mörlheim around 1148. After a turbulent history, the dilapidated St. Martin's Church in Mörlheim passed into Catholic ownership in 1705. The monastery church in Eußerthal and the church in Mörlheim still display a mitre and abbot's staff alongside the cross on their steeples – ecclesiastical symbols that Heinrich Wilhelm, Baron von und zu Sickingen, was permitted to wear as a layman. In 1754, Heinrich Wilhelm, Baron von und zu Sickingen, had the Mörlheim church rebuilt. It was consecrated on September 14, 1754. One hundred and fifty years later, at the beginning of the 20th century, the church had once again fallen into disrepair. The swinging of the bells in the bell tower had weakened the church ceiling, and the cramped space was no longer sufficient for the congregation. One hundred years ago, on July 1, 1912, the reconstruction of the church into the present one began, based on plans by the architect Johannes Albert Boßlet. It was extended to the west, and the existing beamed ceiling was replaced by a Baroque-style lath and plaster ceiling suspended from the roof truss, visually resting on newly added wall piers. Finally, a church tower nearly 30 meters high was erected. Two bells call the faithful to prayer, and the city of Landau owns the clock and its large clock faces. The reconstruction of the church, and especially the construction of the new church tower, was made possible by the Bavarian Church Community Ordinance of 1912. According to this ordinance, even landowners outside the parish could be assessed for the construction and maintenance of religious buildings. A good 75 percent of the land in Mörlheim subject to these assessments formerly belonged to outsiders, the so-called "outsiders." The extensive renovation of the church in 2008 has given the Mörlheim church a great splendor. (Egon Ehmer)

Holy Cross Church, a Neoclassical plastered building, architect: presumably Friedrich Samuel Schwarze (building inspector in the "Bavarian Rhine District"), 1820, chancel and sacristy added in 1862. War memorial 1914/18, relief tondo, 1920s; to the right of the main entrance of the Catholic Church of the Holy Cross are three panels and a relief made of yellow sandstone. The relief depicts a mounted soldier with a lance fighting a dragon. Stone crucifix at the church, 19th century. At the chancel: Neoclassical tombstones, dated 1803 and 1813.

The small, round chapel with niches, situated at the edge of the forest, was built in 1994 according to the plans of architect Hermann Wiechmann from Hayna, largely through the volunteer efforts of the Marienkapelle e.V. (St. Mary's Chapel Association), and consecrated in 1996. Its striking features include a conical roof with a spire and bell, as well as modern stained-glass windows. An old field chapel on Kapellenweg (Chapel Path) had been demolished in 1960 due to its dilapidated condition. A promise was made to build a new, more attractive chapel elsewhere. The chapel contains a neo-Gothic Pietà and an 18th-century statue of St. John Nepomuk, both painted. Also of note is the photographic documentation of those killed and missing in action during both World Wars.

Hayna has had an independent parish since 1785. A new church was built in 1722 to replace the medieval one, which was then demolished in 1820 to make way for the present church, Holy Cross (Church of the Finding of the True Cross). The altar, sculpted by Leopold Hafner of Passau, depicts a Tree of Life.

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