Westhofen

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Westhofen (disambiguation) .

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 42 '  N , 8 ° 15'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Alzey-Worms
Association municipality :	Wonnegau
Height :	121 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.73 km 2
Residents:	3350 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	227 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67593
Area code :	06244
License plate :	AZ
Community key :	07 3 31 071
Association administration address:	Am Schneller 3 67574 Osthofen
Website :	www.gemeinde-westhofen.de
Local Mayor :	Ottfried Fehlinger ( CDU )
Location of the local community Westhofen in the Alzey-Worms district

Community center

Westhofen is a municipality in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Wonnegau community . According to state planning, Westhofen is designated as a basic center.

geography

Westhofen is located in Rheinhessen between Worms , Mainz and Alzey . Neighboring cities and communities are Monzernheim and Bechtheim in the north, Osthofen in the east, Abenheim in the south-east, Gundheim and Bermersheim in the south and Gundersheim in the west . The Seebach , the strongest spring in Rheinhessen, rises in Westhofen . It is also the only spring in the region that rises on the valley floor. It feeds groundwater from the Donnersberg area .

The Neumühle residential area also belongs to Westhofen .

history

Westhofen was mentioned for the first time in Carolingian times and was granted market rights in 1324. The importance of Westhofen in earlier times can be seen in the still preserved defense with a patch wall and multiple ditches.

Until the end of the 18th century, Westhofen belonged to the Palatinate Oberamt Alzey . During the French period , the place was the seat of a Mairie in the canton of Bechtheim , which was part of the Donnersberg department . Due to the agreements reached at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and a state treaty concluded in 1816 between Hesse , Austria and Prussia , the region came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse and was assigned to the province of Rheinhessen by this . After the dissolution of the Rhine-Hessian cantons, the place came in 1835 to the newly established Worms district , to which it belonged until 1969.

Population development

The development of the population of Westhofen, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 1,468 1835 2,004 1871 1,657 1905 1,767 1939 1,882 1950 2,279 1961 2,225

year Residents 1970 2,480 1987 2,779 1997 3,081 2005 3,252 2011 3,161 2017 3,219

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Westhofen consists of 20 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	CDU	FWG	total
2019	6th	9	5	20 seats
2014	5	9	6th	20 seats
2009	5	8th	7th	20 seats
2004	7th	6th	7th	20 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group Wonnegau

mayor

Ottfried Fehlinger (CDU) has been the local mayor of Westhofen since 2009. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with 67.27% of the votes.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In silver, three blue grapes on a six-leaf green vine."

Culture and sights

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  Protestant church

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  Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul

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  Old half-timbered houses on the market square

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  Source of the Seebach

Buildings

At one of the most beautiful marketplaces in Rheinhessen, there are not only half-timbered houses and monuments, but also the Protestant and Catholic churches, under which an ossuary was discovered on October 3rd, 1981.

• See also: List of cultural monuments in Westhofen

Natural monuments

Westhofen is one of the sites in Rheinhessen with about ten million year old mammal remains from the Dinotheriensands of the Ur-Rhine. The term Dinotheriensande is based on the fact that these deposits often contain teeth and bone fragments of the proboscis Dinotherium .

Events

Westhofen has annual festivals such as the four-day grape blossom festival (on the second weekend after Whitsun), the Westhofen market (on the weekend of the penultimate Sunday in August), the Westhofen Christmas market (on the weekend of the first Advent) and the Dreikönigsdreschen (on the first Saturday after Holy Three Kings).

Economy and Infrastructure

Viticulture

Largest wine-growing communities in the growing area	Rank according to vineyard area (within RLP)	Planted vineyards in 2017	Grape varieties
			White wine	red wine
		Ha	%
Rheinhessen		26,617	61	29
Worms	03	01,564	63	37
Westhofen	07th	00.787	75	25th
Alzey	08th	00.778	63	27
Nierstein	09	00.742	77	23
Alsheim	10	00.707	63	27
Bechtheim	11	00.660	73	27
Flörsheim-Dalsheim	12	00.646	68	32
Ingelheim am Rhein	13	00.642	51	49
Bingen am Rhein	15th	00.566	74	26th
Saulheim	16	00.523	76	24
Source: Leaflet Viticulture 2018. State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate, Bad Ems, May 2018

Westhofen is heavily influenced by viticulture and with 787 hectares of vineyards, 75 percent of which are white and 25 percent red, after Worms (1,564 hectares), it is the second largest wine-growing community in Rheinhessen . The Morstein is the most famous single vineyard and classified by the Association of German Predicate and Quality Wineries as a "first vineyard ". The Wittmann and KF Groebe wineries contribute to the town's reputation with their quality approach .

See also : Strasbourg filter

traffic

The station Westhofen (Rheinhess) was the end point of railway Osthofen-Westhofen . Passenger traffic ended in April 1953 .

Sons and daughters of the church

• Christian Orb (1813–1887), Member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
• Fritz Huxel (1892–1972), winery owner and vine pioneer in Rheinhessen
• Walter Beyer (1920–2012), economist, civil servant and local politician (SPD)
• Markus Jüllich, drummer and manager of the gothic metal band Crematory

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

• J. Ebersmann: History of Westhofen, Monzernheim and Blödesheim. Westhofen 1909.
• Julius Grünewald , Heinrich Stroh: Chronicle of the market town Westhofen. Contributions to the history of the community of Westhofen. 1974
• Julius Grünewald: From Westhofen houses and people. Westhofen 1984.
• Julius Grünewald: Tour through Westhofen. Westhofen 1999.
• Leif Hansen: Current research and prospecting on the Iron Age in Westhofen, Alzey-Worms district. Mainzer Archäologische Zeitschrift 10, 2015, pp. 153–168.
• Ernst Probst: The Ur-Rhine. Rheinhessen ten million years ago. GRIN, Munich 2009.
• Dieter Krienke and Ingrid Westerhoff: Alzey Worms district. Verbandsgemeinden Eich, Monsheim and Wonnegau = monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate 20.3. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2018. ISBN 978-3-88462-379-4 , pp. 289-349.

Web links

Commons : Westhofen  - Collection of Images

• Official website of the local community Westhofen
• Literature about Westhofen in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ^ ^{A b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved September 5, 2019 . 
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 135 (PDF; 3 MB).
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved September 5, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Ottfried Fehlinger takes up his third term in Westhofen
6. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Wonnegau, Verbandsgemeinde, eleventh result line. Retrieved September 8, 2019 .