Gau-Heppenheim

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Coat of arms of the local community Gau-Heppenheim
Gau-Heppenheim
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Coordinates: 49 ° 45 '  N , 8 ° 10'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Alzey-Worms
Association municipality : Alzey Land
Height : 280 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.53 km 2
Residents: 517 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 93 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 55234
Area code : 06731
License plate : AZ
Community key : 07 3 31 031
Association administration address: Weinrufstrasse 38
55232 Alzey
Website : www.gau-heppenheim.de
Local Mayor : Peter Moritz
Location of the local community Gau-Heppenheim in the Alzey-Worms district
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Gau-Heppenheim is a municipality in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Alzey-Land association.

geography

Gau-Heppenheim is located in Rheinhessen , approx. 3 kilometers east of Alzey . The Selz flows about one kilometer north of the community.

Neighboring communities of Gau-Heppenheim are Framersheim in the north, Dittelsheim-Heßloch in the east, Monzernheim in the southeast , Hochborn in the south and Alzey in the west.

history

Heppenheim was first mentioned in a document as Hepfanheim in 790, when several goods were lent to Lorsch Abbey . The former castle, which was mentioned around 1500, was completely destroyed by lightning and subsequent fire in 1766. Until the end of the 18th century, the place belonged to the Count Palatine of the Rhine.

In 1816 Heppenheim came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse . At that time the place was still called Heppenheim im Loch . In 1903 it was renamed Gau-Heppenheim to differentiate between two other communities in the Grand Duchy of Hesse called Heppenheim ( Heppenheim an der Wiese , Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse ).

The regionally important noble family of the Lords of Heppenheim, called vom Saal , which died out in 1684 and whose family coat of arms became the municipal coat of arms, comes from the place .

religion

The Catholic parish in Gau-Heppenheim St. Urban is connected to the Framersheim branch . The proportion of the Catholic population is only about 20% of the total population and considers itself to be living in the diaspora . The services do not take place in the original parish church of Gau-Heppenheim, but in the branch church of the Seven Sorrows of Mary in Framersheim.

Anton Spiehler was a Catholic priest here , later bishop secretary, clergyman and cathedral capitular of the diocese of Speyer , as well as sub-rain of the diocesan seminary and summus custos (supreme guardian) of the Speyer cathedral. He belonged to the so-called Mainz Circle .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Gau-Heppenheim consists of eight 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. Until the 2019 election there were twelve council members.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice WGMo GHA WGMa total
2019 5 3 - 8 seats
2014 - 4th 8th 12 seats
2009 by majority vote 12 seats
  • WGMo = Moritz voter group
  • GHA = Gau-Heppenheim Aktiv e. V.
  • WGMa = Matthäi voter group

Local mayor

  • Manfred Becker (until 2007)
  • Klaus Krieger (2007-2014)
  • Helmut Matthäi (2014-2019)
  • Peter Moritz (since 2019)

In the local elections on May 26, 2019, Peter Moritz was elected with a share of 70.18% of the vote, following Helmut Matthäi, who was no longer a candidate.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Split by blue and silver; on the right a silver bar accompanied by three silver alarm clocks (2: 1), on the left two blue grapes on a green vine with green leaves ”.

The coat of arms shows the coat of arms of the von Heppenheim family, called vom Saal, on the right and a vine with two blue grapes on the left.

Culture and sights

The originally Romanesque Catholic Church of St. Urban still has a sacristy from 1505. On the flat ceiling from 1726 there are paintings that have been renewed. Only an arch in the sacristy, the north wall and the gable wall in the west have been preserved from the Romanesque period . The late Gothic choir is higher than the nave and has no buttresses. It consists of a yoke and an end of five sides of an imaginary octagon. Inside, the finely profiled star vault is striking, similar to those in the Evangelical Church in Armsheim (former pilgrimage church of the Holy Blood of Christ ) and the Catholic Church of St. Alban in Gabsheim . The organ gallery from the 18th century with beautiful stands, on it the organ around 1760 from the workshop of Joseph Anton Onimus , which has been stripped of its pipes and other parts since 1917. In 1993 Förster & Nicolaus reconstructed the console of the Onimus organ in St. Walburga, Friesenheim (Rheinhessen) and in 2012 Rainer Müller Orgelbau Merxheim (Nahe) the console of the Kohlhaas organ in Großwinternheim based on the example of this case . A very detailed baroque saint figure, according to the attributes - a chalice standing on a book - a St. Alban, stands out inside.

The nave of the Protestant parish church was built in 1726. A pulpit from 1730 can be seen inside.

The stately rectory above the Catholic Church was built around 1580.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Gau-Heppenheim

literature

Web links

Commons : Gau-Heppenheim  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. Announcement of the Grand Ducal Ministry of the Interior of May 5, 1903, Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette 1903, p. 273.
  3. http://www.bistummainz.de/bm/dcms/sites/pfarrei/dekanat-alzey/gemeinden/freimersh/gemeinden/gau-heppenheim_framersheim/index.html
  4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Gau-Heppenheim. 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, 15th line of results. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .