Spiesheim

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Alzey-Worms
Association municipality :	Wörrstadt
Height :	173 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.31 km 2
Residents:	953 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	130 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55288
Area code :	06732
License plate :	AZ
Community key :	07 3 31 061
Association administration address:	Zum Römergrund 2–6 ; 55286 Wörrstadt
Website :	www.spiesheim.de
Local Mayor :	Hans-Philipp Schmitt ( SPD )
Location of the local community Spiesheim in the Alzey-Worms district

Spiesheim is a municipality in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Wörrstadt .

geography

location

As a wine-growing community , Spiesheim is located in the largest wine-growing district in Germany and in the middle of the Rheinhessen wine-growing region . The nearest towns are Wörrstadt (3 km) and Alzey (6 km). The state capital Mainz is less than 30 km away and can be easily reached via the federal motorway 63 .

Neighboring communities

General

The 750-hectare district has a height difference of over 100 meters. A lively club life is maintained in Spiesheim.

history

Celtic traces of settlement from the period from 250 BC onwards are archaeologically documented . Christ, further finds prove a Roman settlement continuity. In the 5th century the Franks took over the land . The village of Spiesheim was probably created around the year 500. The first documentary mention under the name "Spizisheim" is dated to the year 770 and is based on a donation of vineyards and fields to the Lorsch monastery .

The tithe and the patronage of the parish church transferred the Lords of Löwenstein to the monastery of Sion in 1248 . With the abolition of the monastery, these rights fell to the Count Palatine .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Spiesheim consists of twelve council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	WfS	WGS	total
2019	-	7th	5	12 seats
2014	-	7th	5	12 seats
2009	5	7th	-	12 seats
2004	5	7th	-	12 seats

WfS = Free Voting Group Spiesheim “We for Spiesheim” e. V.
WGS = Schmitt voter group

mayor

Philipp Grünewald ( FWG ) 1946–1964
Jakob Babel (FWG) 1964–1966
Friedrich Weinz (FWG) 1966–1979
August Ohl (FWG) 1979–1994
Klaus Gombert (FWG) 1994-2004
Hans-Philipp Schmitt (SPD) since 2004

In the local elections on May 26, 2019, Hans-Philipp Schmitt was confirmed in office with 77.99% of the vote.

coat of arms

The Spiesheim municipal coat of arms was approved in 1986 by the then district government of Rheinhessen-Pfalz . It goes back to a court seal from 1492 that was demonstrably still in use in 1738. It already shows all the attributes of today's coat of arms in a shield that was carried as a shield holder by the holy church patron Stephanus . This seal must have existed around 1900 because it was included in the Otto Hupp seal collection between 1894 and 1928 .

It is made up of coats of arms of former local families. The fiddle in a red field sprinkled with flowers refers to the Wilch von Alzey family (cf. tomb in the tower of the Catholic church). The golden lion in a field sprinkled with golden shingles stands for the Lords of Löwenstein , who in 1248 handed over the patronage rights over the Spiesheim church to the Sion monastery near Mauchenheim . The soaring bracke and horns , medieval hunting horns, refer to other noble families, of which unfortunately only one is known: on an old grave slab in the church in Spiesheim is a coat of arms with a red horn (on a red three-hill in gold) as the lords of Horneck evidenced belonging to it. Possibly, however, it is also the - in a reversed color - coat of arms of the originally Mainz patrician family zum Junge .

Culture and sights

Weinbergsturm southwest of Spiesheim

Regular events

Spiesheimer curb on the second Sunday in July
Oberbrunnenfest on the third weekend in August

Buildings

Mountain church with a defense tower from the 11th century
Singing hall with lead glazing
Weinbergsturm with viewing platform

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The transport connections can be described as very good for the size of Spiesheim: The A 63 can be reached practically directly via the Biebelnheim junction, and the Bornheim junction of the A 61 is only 4.5 km away from Spiesheim. The A 63 connects Spiesheim with Mainz and Kaiserslautern . Ludwigshafen am Rhein and the Rhine-Neckar area can be reached via the A 61. To the north, the A 61 connects to Koblenz , Mönchengladbach and the Netherlands .

Personalities

Philipp Keller (born September 4, 1858 in Spiesheim, † December 21, 1908 in Stein-Bockenheim), farmer and member of the German Reichstag

literature

Literature about Spiesheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Spiesheim - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Spiesheim. Retrieved September 5, 2019 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Wörrstadt, Verbandsgemeinde, eighth result line. Retrieved September 5, 2019 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).