Eimsheim

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 48 '  N , 8 ° 17'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Mainz-Bingen
Association municipality :	Rhine-Selz
Height :	200 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.61 km 2
Residents:	531 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	115 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55278
Area code :	06249
License plate :	MZ , BIN
Community key :	07 3 39 015
Association administration address:	Sant 'Ambrogio-Ring 33 55276 Oppenheim
Website :	www.vg-rhein-selz.de
Local Mayor :	Dirk Hesse
Location of the local community Eimsheim in the Mainz-Bingen district

Eimsheim is a municipality in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Rhein-Selz community , which has its administrative headquarters in the city of Oppenheim .

geography

Eimsheim is located in Rheinhessen . It borders on Dolgesheim to the west, Uelversheim to the north, Guntersblum to the east and Wintersheim to the south . The area of ​​the wine - growing community is around 451  ha , of which around 100 ha are vineyards .

history

Archaeological finds from the Bronze Age suggest a settlement that lasted around 1800 to 1000 BC. Goes back to BC. The continuous remains of a column capital from a Jupiter temple from Roman times .

The Franks settled around 500 , the place name "Uminisheim" goes back to the clan elder "Umin". The place in Wormsgau is first mentioned in writing in a deed of donation from 762, in which Egilolf transferred a vineyard in the “Huminsheimer Marca” to the Lorsch monastery .

At the beginning of the 11th century Eimsheim belonged to the diocese of Worms , which later ceded it to the Cistercian monastery " Weidas " near Dautenheim . In 1485 half of the village was handed over to the Palatinate Elector Philip "the Noble" , the other half of the village only fell to the Electoral Palatinate in 1551 under Philip's son Friedrich "the Wise" .

In 1780 the new Catholic Church was completed. A little later, Eimsheim fell under French administration, and Eimsheim citizens also took part in the Napoleonic campaigns . To commemorate this time, a so-called Napoleon stone was erected in 1852 as a veteran memorial in the old cemetery .

In a phase of heavy building activity between 1890 and 1906, the old school, the new school, the town hall and the Protestant church were built. The population was already around 600 at that time.

In 1982 Eimsheim won first prize in the competition “ Our village should be more beautiful ”.

From 1972 to 2014 Eimsheim belonged to the Guntersblum community and since July 1, 2014 to the Rhein-Selz community .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Eimsheim consists of twelve council members, who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

Local mayor

• Hans-Joachim Eller (SPD), 2002–2019
• Dirk Hesse, since 2019

coat of arms

Blazon : “In shields divided into black over blue, a growing, red-armored and crowned, golden lion above, a golden fountain basin with a silver fountain below. Behind it agolden crook, lying on the top left . "

Founding of the coat of arms: Eimsheim belonged to the Electoral Palatinate from 1565 until the Napoleonic period , hence the electoral Palatinate lion in the upper half of the coat of arms . The Catholic Church is consecrated to St. Pirminius . This saint therefore appears in the Eimsheim court seal, which can be proven in 1546. A second court seal with the same coat of arms dates from 1769. On both seals the saint appears in full figure as a bishop with miter and with a crook in hand. Next to the saint you can see a small fountain basin with a water jet on the floor. This motif reminds us that, according to legend , St. Pirminius let a spring gush up with his bishop's staff, the water of which is said to have healed eyes and rheumatism sufferers . This is said to have happened on the island of Reichenau in Lake Constance - in addition to driving away poisonous snakes - on which he founded the famous monastery. The saint, who died in Hornbach near Zweibrücken - his last place of work - in 753, was one of the most important missionaries in southwest Germany; in the Middle Rhine region he rarely appears as a church patron . The fact that it is this for a church in Eimsheim is explained by the fact that the place formerly belonged to the Palatinate , where it often appears. Incidentally, springs have always gushed up on slopes and in many courtyards in Eimsheim. Until 1906, ten local wells supplied the population with water.

Attractions

• 

  Catholic Church of St. Pirmin

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  Evangelical Church of the Redeemer

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  town hall

• Catholic parish church St. Pirmin : Equipment high altar from 1660/1680, Marien Altar 1723, Antonius Altar 1672. High altar with a portrait of St. Augustine and a portrait of St. Theresa of Avila. Baroque altar of Mary, with a figure of the Madonna with baby Jesus and an image of St. Stephen. Anthony altar from 1672 - architectural style between Renaissance and early baroque with a portrait of St. Anthony and St. Jodokus. Picture on the organ gallery - Lamentation of Christ from the 18th century. Tower Madonna from the 19th century.
• Evangelical Church of the Redeemer, two-aisled sandstone block building in Baroque style, built in 1905/06, consecrated in 1906

See also : List of cultural monuments in Eimsheim

Economy and Infrastructure

• United wineries Krebs-Grode

Web links

Commons : Eimsheim  - Collection of Images

• History of Eimsheim on regionalgeschichte.net
• Literature about Eimsheim 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. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved July 30, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung, September 5, 2019: Welcome to new mayor territory. Retrieved September 8, 2019 . 
4. ↑ The Evangelical Church of the Redeemer in Eimsheim. Protestant parishes Uelversheim - Eimsheim, accessed on November 8, 2018 .