Alzey-Worms district
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Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ' N , 8 ° 10' E |
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| State : | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Administrative headquarters : | Alzey |
| Area : | 588.15 km 2 |
| Residents: | 129,687 (Dec. 31, 2019) |
| Population density : | 220 inhabitants per km 2 |
| License plate : | AZ |
| Circle key : | 07 3 31 |
| Circle structure: | 69 municipalities |
| Address of the district administration: |
Ernst-Ludwig-Strasse 36 55232 Alzey |
| Website : | |
| District Administrator : | Heiko Sippel ( SPD ) |
| Location of the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
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The Alzey-Worms district is a regional authority in Rhineland-Palatinate . The seat of the district administration and at the same time the most populous municipality is the association-free city of Alzey . The district largely emerged from the districts of Alzey and Worms , which were in the state of Hesse until 1945 .
geography
location
The district is named after the city of Worms , which is located in the southeast of the district, but does not belong to the district, and the city of Alzey , the administrative seat of the district. The Rhine is the eastern district border and at the same time the state border with Hesse. From here, the Alzeyer hill country spreads westwards to the northeastern foothills of the Palatinate Forest . The western part of the district is a rocky forest landscape, also called Rheinhessische Schweiz .
Neighboring areas
The district borders clockwise in the northeast, beginning with the districts of Groß-Gerau and Bergstrasse (both in Hesse ) as well as the city of Worms and the districts of Bad Dürkheim , Donnersbergkreis , Bad Kreuznach and Mainz-Bingen (all in Rhineland-Palatinate).
history
In Roman times the area was part of the province of Germania superior . While Alzey was a vicus in Roman times , there was a Roman fort in Worms. From the twelfth century to the end of the Holy Roman Empire , large parts of the region belonged to the Electoral Palatinate . After the French conquest, it belonged to the Département du Mont-Tonnerre from 1797 to 1814 .
Since 1816 it was part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse as the province of Rheinhessen . Within Hesse, the two districts of Alzey and Worms were created on February 5, 1835. On April 7, 1938, the western part of the dissolved Oppenheim district was incorporated into the Alzey district.
On the occasion of the district reform , both districts, with the exception of four communities in the Alzey district and six communities in the Worms district, were merged to form the new Alzey-Worms district on June 7, 1969. In addition, the Mauchenheim community of the disbanded Kirchheimbolanden district was added. On March 16, 1974, the communities of Dorn-Dürkheim and Wolfsheim moved to the Mainz-Bingen district .
History of the Alzey district
History of the district of Worms
Population statistics
- 1961: 92,937 (census result on June 6, 1961 based on the borders on May 25, 1987)
- 1970: 96,304 (census result on May 27, 1970 based on the borders on May 25, 1987)
- 1980: 95.946
- 1987: 99,619 (census result on May 25, 1987)
- 2000: 123.243
- 2005: 126,381 (October 31, 2005)
- 2010: 124,760
- 2013: 125.213
- 2014: 125.998
- 2015: 127.274
- 2016: 128.197
- 2017: 128,791
- 2018: 129,727
- 2019: 134.606
- 2020: 134,506 (January 31, 2020)
The number of residents has increased in the observed period.
Denomination statistics
According to the 2011 census , 46.6% of the population in 2011 were Protestant, 24.8% Roman Catholic and 28.6% were non-denominational , belonged to another religious community or did not provide any information. Currently (as of May 31, 2020) 39.1% of the population are Protestant, 22.4% Roman Catholic and 38.5% are non-denominational or belong to another religious community. The number of Protestants and Catholics has therefore decreased in the observed period.
politics
District council
The district council of the Alzey-Worms district consists of 46 district council members elected in a personalized proportional representation and the district administrator as chairman. After the last district election on May 26, 2019 , the following distribution of seats results:
| choice | SPD | CDU | GREEN | FDP | THE LEFT. | AfD | NPD | FWG | ÖDP | total |
| 2019 | 13 | 12 | 7th | 3 | 1 | 4th | - | 5 | 1 | 46 seats |
| 2014 | 16 | 14th | 4th | 2 | 2 | 3 | - | 5 | - | 46 seats |
| 2009 | 16 | 14th | 4th | 4th | 1 | - | 1 | 6th | - | 46 seats |
| 2004 | 17th | 16 | 4th | 3 | - | - | - | 6th | - | 46 seats |
| 1999 | 18th | 14th | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | 5 | - | 42 seats |
- Due to the population growth in recent years, the number of district council members increased from 42 to 46 in 2004.
- Because of the special features of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipal electoral law ( personalized proportional representation ), the percentage of votes shown in the graph are shown as “weighted results”, which can only represent the voting behavior arithmetically.
- The SPD, FWG and GRÜNE have formed a coalition in the district council since 2014 . They are replacing a coalition of the SPD, FWG and FDP, which no longer received a majority in the 2014 district elections due to the FWG and FDP losing seats. After the district elections in 2019, the coalition of the SPD, the Greens and the FWG was renewed.
District administrators
Source reference:
- District administrators in the old district of Alzey (1835 to 1969)
- 1835–1848: District Councilor Friedrich Müller
- 1852–1860: District Councilor Theodor Wilhelm Georg Hallwachs
- 1860–1861: District Councilor Ludwig Strecker
- 1861–1893: District Councilor Carl Ludwig Wolff
- 1893–1897: District Councilor Georg von Wedekind
- 1897–1900: District Councilor Friedrich von Hombergk zu Vach
- 1900–1905: District Councilor Ernst Süffert
- 1905–1913: District Councilor Freiherr Schenk zu Schweinsberg
- 1913–1923: District Councilor (from 1917: District Director) Friedrich Martin von Bechtold
- 1924–1932: District Director Karl Draudt
- 1932–1937: District Director Konrad Wolf
- 1937–1939: District Director Wilhelm Köhler
- 1940–1944: District Administrator Alfred Klostermann
- 1944–1945: Government Director Paul Stieh
- 1945–1946: District Administrator Konrad Elm
- 1946–1947: District Administrator Wilhelm Bechtolsheimer
- 1947–1952: District Administrator Eugen Klee
- 1952–1969: District Administrator Heinz-Eberhardt Andres
- District administrators in the old district of Worms (1835 to 1969)
- 1835–1841: District Councilor Gustav Eduard Städel
- 1841–1845: District Councilor Reinhard Carl Friedrich von Dalwigk
- 1846–1848: District Councilor Wilhelm von Willich called von Pöllnitz
- 1848–1850: Conductor of the Rheinhessen Government Commission Reinhard Carl Friedrich Carl von Dalwigk
- 1850: designated conductor of the Worms government commission Carl Schmitt
- 1850–1852: Councilor Johann Pfannebecker, conductor of the Worms government commission
- 1852–1874: District Councilor Johann Pfannebecker
- 1874–1881: District Councilor Hermann Lotheißen
- 1881–1888: District Councilor Maximilian von Gagern
- 1888–1894: District Councilor Franz Gros
- 1894–1898: District Councilor Andreas Breidert
- 1898–1919: District Councilor (from 1917: District Director) Karl Kayser
- 1919–1929: District Director Hans Wolff
- 1929–1934: District Director Wilhelm Schön
- 1934–1937: District Director Otto Schwebel
- 1937–1940: District Director Otto Straub
- 1940–1945: District Administrator Hans Becker
- 1945–1946: District Administrator Adolf Güngerich
- 1946–1963: District Administrator Georg Schick
- 1963–1969: District Administrator Willibrord Fischer
- District administrators in the Alzey-Worms district (since 1969)
- 1969–1988: District Administrator Rolf Rein ( SPD )
- 1988-2004: District Administrator Hansjochem Schrader (SPD)
- 2004–2019: District Administrator Ernst Walter Görisch (SPD)
- since 2020: District Administrator Heiko Sippel (SPD)
Heiko Sippel became district administrator on January 1, 2020. In the runoff election on June 16, 2019, he prevailed with a share of 51.0% of the vote, after none of the original three applicants had achieved a sufficient majority in the direct election on May 26, 2019.
badges and flags
Hoist flag
The district of Alzey-Worms has a coat of arms and a flag.
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Blazon : "In the divided shield above a red dragon lying to the right( Fafnir from the Nibelungen saga ) in gold with a raised right paw, below a slanting, golden fiddle in red." |
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Justification of the coat of arms: The dragon, symbol of the dragon slayer Siegfried , was the main motif of the former Worms district coat of arms and the fiddle refers to Volker von Alzey .
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Economy and Transport
In the Future Atlas 2016, the Alzey-Worms district was ranked 152nd out of 402 districts, municipal associations and independent cities in Germany, making it one of the regions with a “balanced risk-opportunity mix”. In the 2019 edition, it was ranked 205 out of 401.
traffic
The federal highways 61 (Ludwigshafen – Koblenz) and 63 (Kaiserslautern – Mainz) run through the district , both of which cross at the Alzey motorway junction . The district is also crossed by the federal highways 9 , 271 and 420 .
After the introduction of the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle in May 1994, local public transport in this part of the country was significantly upgraded. The most important connection, on which many long-distance trains run, runs along the Rhine ( Mainz – Mannheim line , route 660). In addition, the following routes are operated by Deutsche Bahn:
- Mainz– Armsheim - Alzey (route book route 661) ( Alzey – Mainz railway line )
- Bingen –Alzey– Monsheim - Worms (route book route 662) ( Rheinhessenbahn )
- Monsheim– Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (route book route 667) ( Palatinate Northern Railway )
In addition, local rail transport takes place on two routes in the district by private companies:
- Alzey– Kirchheimbolanden (course book route 661) ( Donnersbergbahn , operator: RP-Eisenbahn )
- Monsheim - Langmeil (route book route 662.1) ( Zellertalbahn , (excursion traffic, operator: Donnersberg Touristik Verband)
There are also rail lines that no longer exist today, including:
- the Amiche from Alzey to Bodenheim
- the Wiesbachtalbahn from Armsheim to Wendelsheim
- the Altrheinbahn from Osthofen via Eich to Guntersblum
- the Gickelsche from Osthofen to Westhofen
- the Osthofen-Gau-Odernheim railway line
- the Worms – Gundheim railway line
- the Worms – Grünstadt railway line
cities and communes
- Compilation
(Residents on December 31, 2019)
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Association municipalities with their association members:
The following municipalities have lost their independence since the district was founded in 1969:
- Dautenheim , on April 22, 1972 in Alzey
- Heimersheim , on April 22, 1972 in Alzey
- Rommersheim , on November 7, 1970 in Wörrstadt
- Weinheim , on April 22, 1972 to Alzey
For lists of the term "area changes" see area reforms in Rhineland-Palatinate
License Plate
On June 7, 1969, the district was assigned the distinctive character AZ , which had been valid for the Alzey district since July 1, 1956 . It is still issued today.
Homeland yearbook
The district is the publisher of the "Heimatjahrbuch Landkreis Alzey-Worms", which has been published annually since 1965 (first year 1966). The home yearbook usually appears in November / December of the previous year.
literature
- Susanne Karkosch / Karin Müller: The Rheinhessen districts (Alzey, Mainz, Oppenheim, Worms). Darmstadt / Marburg 1973 (= Repertories of the Hessian State Archives Darmstadt, Dept. G 15 District and District Offices ), DNB 730535312 , ( online )
- Susanne Karkosch / Karin Müller: Alzey district office. Darmstadt 1973/2006 (= Repertories of the Hessian State Archives Darmstadt, Dept. G 15 Alzey), ( online )
Web links
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Website of the district of Alzey-Worms
- Brochure about the district (status: 12/2015) 4.7 MB PDF
- Statistical data for the Alzey-Worms district at the Rhineland-Palatinate State Statistical Office
- Literature from and about the Alzey-Worms district in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature on the district of Alzey-Worms in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 158 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.
- ↑ District Alzey-Worms Status: January 31, 2020 , accessed on May 31, 2020
- ↑ Alzey-Worms Religion District , 2011 census
- ↑ Alzey-Worms district , accessed on June 7, 2020
- ↑ https://www.wahlen.rlp.de/de/kw/wahlen//kk/verbindungen/3310000000.html
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: District Alzey-Worms. Final results of the 2019 district assembly. Accessed August 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Explanation of the regional returning officer on the "weighted result" ( memento of the original from October 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The coalition of the SPD, FWG and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen is available at nibelungen-kurier.de, July 7, 2014.
- ↑ for the data from 1835 to 1969: Karkosch, Susanne / Müller, Karin: Die Rheinhessischen Kreise (Alzey, Mainz, Oppenheim, Worms). Darmstadt / Marburg 1973 (= Repertories of the Hessian State Archives Darmstadt, Dept. G 15 District and District Offices)
- ↑ Thomas Ehlke: Heiko Sippel takes over district office from Ernst Walter Görisch. Allgemeine Zeitung, December 23, 2019, accessed on January 1, 2020 .
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Direct election 2019: Alzey-Worms, district. June 24, 2019, accessed December 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Zukunftsatlas 2016. Archived from the original ; accessed on March 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Future Atlas 2019 | Handelsblatt. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
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