Flonheim

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '  N , 8 ° 2'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Alzey-Worms
Association municipality :	Alzey Land
Height :	198 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.95 km 2
Residents:	2705 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	181 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55237
Area code :	06734
License plate :	AZ
Community key :	07 3 31 025
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Weinrufstrasse 38 55232 Alzey
Website :	www.flonheim.de
Mayoress :	Ute Beiser-Huebner ( SPD )
Location of the local community of Flonheim in the Alzey-Worms district

Flonheim is a municipality in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Alzey-Land association.

geography

Geographical location

Flonheim is located in western Rheinhessen , approx. 5 kilometers northwest of Alzey . The next larger town close to the municipality is Bad Kreuznach (approx. 15 kilometers northwest).

geology

In the district of Flonheim there is a sandstone quarry in which the Flonheim sandstone was mined until the 1960s . The Wiesbach flows through Flonheim .

climate

The annual precipitation is 532 millimeters. The rainfall is very low. They are in the lower tenth of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at seven percent of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is January, with the most rainfall in June. In June there is twice as much rainfall as in January. The rainfall is distributed fairly evenly over the year. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at 28 percent of the measuring stations .

Neighboring communities

• Armsheim
• Bornheim
• Uffhofen (until 1969, now part of Flonheim)
• Wendelsheim

history

• In Roman times, a quarry was operated in the Flonheim area . Sculpture finds (including Viergötterstein) in the Alzey Museum .
• Rich grave finds from Franconian times, especially a princely grave from the 7th century with weapons fittings.
• 764 first documented mention ("Flonenheim").
• Mentioned in 960 as the seat of the Emichons (later "Counts of Flonheim").
• Around 1133, Wildgraf Emich II founded an Augustinian canon monastery , which was abolished in 1554.
• Around 1300 the place was fortified.
• Until the French Revolution (1792), Flonheim was the seat of an office for the Wild and Rhine Counties.
• In the Hinkel house in Flonheim there was a post station on the approximately 920 kilometer long Habsburg Dutch postal route from Innsbruck to Mechelen (north of Brussels), which was operated by the Taxis family . This post station has been proven to have been in the period from 1506 to around 1558. This post station was given up in 1563 at the latest and moved to Wöllstein .
• A petrified manatee was found during construction work and is exhibited in the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt am Main.

Incorporations

As part of the administrative reform, the two municipalities of Uffhofen and Flonheim were merged on June 7, 1969 to form today's municipality of Flonheim.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Flonheim 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	9	5	6th	20 seats
2014	11	4th	5	20 seats
2009	11	4th	5	20 seats
2004	11	4th	5	20 seats

mayor

Local mayor is Ute Beiser-Hübner. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, she was confirmed in office with a share of 69.81% of the votes.

coat of arms

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  old coat of arms of Flonheim

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  old coat of arms of Uffhofen

	Common coat of arms
	Blazon : “Square of black and gold; Fields 1 and 4 a red-tongued silver lion, field 2 a silver-armored and crowned red lion, field 3 two red fish, turned right and left. "

Community partnerships

• Schwepnitz , Germany
• Villenauxe-la-Grande , France

Culture and sights

theatre

The fourth oldest cinema in Germany (1923) is located in Flonheim. Until his death, Hans Frank (1915–2008) was Germany's oldest projectionist.

Buildings

Floor covering (13th century) from the former collegiate church

• Evangelical parish church, built 1882–85 in place of the Augustinian canons' collegiate church, has a floor covering made of clay tiles from the old monastery church.
• Romanesque reliefs (around 1120) from the monastery church can be found on a house in Langgasse and in the rectory garden (they are stylistically related to reliefs in the south-eastern vestibule in Mainz Cathedral ).
• Catholic parish church, neo-Gothic quarry stone building from 1883–85.
• Town hall, 1733 with stair tower from 1587 (not shown).
• former Wildgraves' office from 1750.
• Mennonite church in the Uffhofen district, simple hall building from 1756, modified in the 19th century.

See also : List of cultural monuments in Flonheim

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  Trullo Flonheim

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  Remains of the defensive wall built around 1300

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  Evangelical church, built in place of the former Augustinian collegiate church.

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  Stone carving "Essigfabrik Flonheim"

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  Catholic Church

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  Mennonite church in the Uffhofen district

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  Haus Hinkel , former post office

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  Official house of the Wild and Rhine Counts

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  Official house of the Wild and Rhine Counts

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  Pharmacy, built in 1892 in the Italian villa type

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  Neo-Renaissance gable of the GHS Flonheim

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  Memorial plaque residential building Geistermühle

Regular events

• Wine market on the historic market square on the last weekend in May
• Wine festival: In September, wine tasting at the producer's vineyards during a circular hike with a roast roast with wine
• Flonheim annual market on the first Sunday in July
• Mill day at the ghost mill on Pentecost Sunday and Monday
• Wine hike “Trullo in Flames” on the Saturday of the last weekend in April
• Wine and art in Eberhard Linke's studio and sculpture park
• Christmas market on the first of Advent
• From May to October every Saturday guided tour through the historic town center and wine bar under the town hall arcades

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The federal autobahn 61 and the Bornheim junction are around five kilometers away. About the Kreuz Alzey is Bundesautobahn 63 achievable. Local public transport is limited to the ORN bus routes .

There used to be a train station for the Wiesbachtalbahn in Flonheim.

education

Up until the 2009/2010 school year there was a primary and secondary school. At the beginning of the 2010/2011 school year, the Hauptschule was converted into a Realschule plus .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Birthplace of Sir William Schlich - today an evangelical rectory

• Emicho (crusader) (* probably after 1050)
• Johann Wilhelm Baum (1809–1878), Protestant theologian and professor at the University of Strasbourg
• Sir William Schlich (1840–1925) was born on February 28, 1840 in Flonheim. He was a professor at Oxford, inspector general of forests in India and Burma.
• Jakob Roos (1868–1942), liberal Hessian member of the state parliament
• Eva Pauser was Rheinhessische Weinkönigin 2005/2006.

Personalities who have worked on site

• Verena Bechtluft (* 1986), bowling world champion 2004 and multiple German champion

literature

• Hermann Ament :  Flonheim. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 9, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1995, ISBN 3-11-014642-8 , pp. 231-232. (on-line)
• Literature about Flonheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Flonheim  - Collection of Images

• Official website of Flonheim
• Information from the Verbandsgemeinde Alzey-Land about Flonheim
• Local history of Flonheim-Uffhofen ( Memento from October 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, 480 kB)
• Historical information about Flonheim at regionalgeschichte.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Ernst-Otto Simon: The postal course from Rheinhausen to Brussels over the centuries , in: Archive for German Postal History 1/1990, p. 24 and p. 17, Wöllstein is mentioned in Giovanni da l'Herba's travel book 1563.
3. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 163 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local council election 2019 Flonheim. Retrieved September 7, 2019 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
6. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Alzey-Land, Verbandsgemeinde, twelfth line of results. Retrieved September 7, 2019 . 
7. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: history of the Flonheim cinema ); online on the Internet: December 14, 2015
8. ^ Flonheimer Filmtheater Frank ( Memento from February 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
9. ^ The Flonheimer Filmtheater 1923-2004
10. ^ "Hans im Glück" film about the oldest projectionist on SWR television
11. ↑ Image of the relief in Langgasse ( Memento from March 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ Wine hike "Trullo in flames"