Gau-Odernheim

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Coat of arms of the local community Gau-Odernheim
Gau-Odernheim
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Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '  N , 8 ° 12'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Alzey-Worms
Association municipality : Alzey Land
Height : 148 m above sea level NHN
Area : 18.27 km 2
Residents: 3867 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 212 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 55239
Area code : 06733
License plate : AZ
Community key : 07 3 31 032
Community structure: 2 districts
Association administration address: Weinrufstrasse 38
55232 Alzey
Website : www.gau-odernheim.de
Local Mayor : Heiner Illing ( SPD )
Location of the local community of Gau-Odernheim in the Alzey-Worms district
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Gau-Odernheim with Petersberg in the background

Gau-home (to 1896 or home ) is a Rheinhessische local community in Alzey-Worms in Rheinland-Pfalz . It belongs to the Alzey-Land association. According to state planning, Gau-Odernheim is designated as a basic center.

In the late Middle Ages and early modern times , Odernheim was initially an independent, later a pledged imperial city in the Holy Roman Empire . A circumstance that has found its way into the design of the town's coat of arms .

geography

Geographical location

The village lies on the small river Selz , which meanders along the Petersberg . The next towns are Alzey (8 km southwest), with the administrative offices responsible for the place (district and association administration) and Wörrstadt (12 km north). The state capital Mainz , 30 km away, can be easily reached via the 63 motorway. As an important wine-growing community, Gau-Odernheim is located in the largest wine-growing district in Germany and in the middle of the Rheinhessen wine-growing region . Because of its proximity to the Rhine-Main area , the village is an immigration community and therefore has many new development areas and new residents.

Neighboring communities

Community structure

Gau-Odernheim town center and the Gau-Köngernheim district . The Felsenkeller, Weinheimer and Westerschoss residential areas also belong to the Gau-Odernheim district .

history

Ottenkreuz on Deutsche Alleenstrasse towards Hillesheim.

middle Ages

In the early Middle Ages, a Franconian village and a royal Franconian domain with a castle existed here under the name Otternheim . The written tradition begins in the middle of the 9th century. Until 1187 the village was owned by the bishops of Metz . Viticulture on the southern slopes of the Petersberg goes back to this time. From the 10th century, the St. Peter's Church existed on the Petersberg . From 1187 to 1282 the place was owned by the Lords of Bolanden . In 1268 the property of the Lords of Bolanden was divided between the Donnersberg and the Rhine . An open feud later broke out among the descendants, and one of those involved lost his life here. At the place of the fight near Ottenheim , as Odernheim was called at the time, on the border of the divided country, a cross of atonement was set up. The Ottenkreuz was later forgotten. It had disappeared under the earth, bushes and thorn hedges, was searched for a long time and finally exposed again. Until 2008 it was on the right side of the road from Gau-Odernheim to Hillesheim. After several attempts to steal the Otten Cross, it was seized in 2008 and has been under protection since 2013 in the left side of the funeral hall of the cemetery of Gau-Odernheim and can be viewed at any time.

King Rudolf von Habsburg bought Odernheim in 1282 from the Lords of Bolanden and on April 16, 1286 granted the place imperial city freedoms , which he retained until 1579. In 1315 the place was pledged to Kurmainz and in 1407 permanently to Kurpfalz . In the time of the Electoral Palatinate, Odernheim belonged to the Oberamt Alzey until 1797.

The master Erhart Falckener , known for his late Gothic church furniture, lived in Odernheim according to a factory signature from 1510. It is believed that he and his journeymen found plenty of work here because on August 1, 1479, the whole village except for six houses was burned down.

Modern times

Since 1521, Messrs. Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler had local rule over Odernheim, which they had inherited from Eberhard Vetzer von Geispitzheim .

The city fortifications were demolished between 1826 and 1828. A new Jewish cemetery was laid out in the direction of Bechtolsheim on a hill facing Petersberg in 1848. During the construction of the railway in 1896, Odernheim was renamed Gau-Odernheim to avoid confusion with Odernheim am Glan . At the same time, Köngernheim was renamed Gau-Köngernheim.

Certificate of Honor for Hitler signed by Ritter

Gau-Odernheim was one of the germ cells of National Socialism in Rheinhessen. In 1938 the community boasted that it was "the first place in Rheinhessen where Adolf Hitler's idea had already taken root in 1923 and 1924 and from where it was carried on to the near and far ". Half a year before the "seizure of power", the community granted Adolf Hitler honorary citizenship on May 25, 1932 . After 1945 there were repeated discussions about the revocation of honorary citizenship, since after the war a directive of the Allied Control Council applied to war criminals, but it was disputed whether this also applies to Hitler, since he could never be convicted after his suicide. According to the statutes, honorary citizenship automatically expires upon death. On August 1, 2007, the municipal council officially and unanimously revoked the honorary citizenship.

Incorporations

The district of Gau-Köngernheim has been part of the local community since June 7, 1969 .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Gau-Odernheim consists of 20 council members who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice SPD CDU FWG total
2019 11 4th 5 20 seats
2014 12 4th 4th 20 seats
2009 12 - 8th 20 seats
2004 11 4th 5 20 seats

Local mayor

  • Jakob Keller, 1798–1823
  • Heinrich Schneider, 1825–1837
  • Michel Brand, 1837–1851
  • Jacob Weber, 1851–1871
  • Wilhelm Brand, 1871–1898
  • Edmund Diehl ( National Liberal Party ) 1898–1923
  • Karl Brand, 1924–1929
  • Heinrich Ritter ( NSDAP ) 1929–1933
  • Georg Becker 1933–1935
  • Johann Kraus, 1936–1943
  • Chr. Einsfeld, 1943–1945 (executive)
  • Karl Brückner, April to November 1945
  • Georg Eckel, 1945–1948
  • Heinrich Mildenberger (SPD), 1948–1972
  • Friedrich Wörner (SPD), 1946–1969 (Mayor Gau-Köngernheim, today part of Gau-Odernheim)
  • Wilhelm Beck (SPD), 1972-1984
  • Karlheinz Merker (SPD), 1984–2004, honorary citizen of the Gau-Odernheim community
  • Bernd Westphal (SPD), 2004 until his death on June 9, 2013
  • Heiner Illing (SPD), since October 11, 2013 (previously provisionally as 1st alderman). Illing won the direct election on September 22, 2013. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with a vote of 77.54%.

Partnerships

The partnership with Pulnoy near Nancy in the French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle was officially sealed on July 12, 1982, and the friendly relations have existed since 1980.

Coat of arms, flag and banner

Banner, coat of arms and flag
Banner Gau-Odernheim.svg DEU Gau-Odernheim COA.svg
Flag of Gau-Odernheim.svg

Description : "In gold (yellow) a red crowned king's head with long silver (white) hair, two black eagle wings attached to the shoulders".

The coat of arms awarded by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of the Interior in 1961 is derived from the first seal after the granting of imperial freedom from the year 1286, which already showed the winged king's head.

The flag and banner are striped in a ratio of 1: 4: 1 yellow-red-yellow across or lengthways with the coat of arms in or above the middle.

Culture and sights

Buildings

  • The Stadtschreiberhaus is one of the most beautiful and best preserved half-timbered houses in the old town center of Gau-Odernheim.
  • The gothic simultaneous church Gau-Odernheim is divided in the middle with a wall into a Catholic and a Protestant part. The Protestant community uses the main nave of the church and the Catholics hold their services in the choir. The Catholic part is called “St. Rufus Church "(after Rufus von Metz ), the Protestant" former town church ".
  • The “Zur Krone” inn is also a well-preserved half-timbered house. It adorns the Lower Market in Gau-Odernheim. Until a few years ago it was still possible to book guest rooms here. The times when it was a real inn are long gone.
  • The Petersberghalle was built in 1990 as a multi-purpose hall.
  • The sights still include the old castle tower and the old school building.

  • Former town clerk's house in Gau-Odernheim

  • Simultaneous church left Protestant, right Catholic

  • Town hall of Gau-Odernheim

  • Former inn "Zur Krone" in Gau-Odernheim

  • "Vinothek Hubertushof" used until 2017 ...

  • Obermarkt at night

Natural monuments

Wild tulip population in the vineyards on the Gau-Odernheimer Lieberg.

The largest collection of wild tulips north of the Alps can be found in the vineyards on Gau-Odernheimer Lieberg . The local nature conservation group Gau-Odernheim eV organizes the flowering at the end of April / beginning of May. V. holds the Wild Tulip Blossom Festival every year on their nature experience area (near the TSV site).

Regular events

  • Mardi Gras parade on Mardi Gras Sunday (every five years, including 2013)
  • Wild tulip blossom festival every year at the end of April / beginning of May on the nature experience area
  • Gau-Odernheimer Markt (end of September, beginning of October)
  • Christmas market on the Saturday before the first Advent

Economy and Infrastructure

The community is mainly characterized by viticulture and agriculture. There is also a car dealer, four grocery stores and two butchers on site . One of these two butcher shops was named the best butcher of 2004 by Der Feinschmecker magazine . In 2006, the meat sausage from the same butcher's shop was named one of the four best meat sausages in Germany by the Zentrag .

traffic

The A 63 can be reached via the Biebelnheim junction after about 4.5 km, while the Alzey junction of the A 61 is 6 km away. The A 63 connects Gau-Odernheim with Mainz and Kaiserslautern . Ludwigshafen am Rhein and the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region can be reached via the A 61. To the north, the A 61 connects to Koblenz , Mönchengladbach and the Netherlands .

The Amiche railway line in Gau-Odernheim in 1904

Gau-Odernheim is located on the former Bodenheim – Alzey (“Amiche”) railway line , which has not been used for passenger traffic since 1985 and freight traffic since 1995. The branch line from Osthofen that was closed in 1992 also ended here . Today all buses that go from Mainz or Worms to Alzey stop in town. In 2005, a local relief road was built on a former track in the Gau-Odernheim area .

education

  • Primary school Gau-Odernheim: The primary school was nominated by the Robert Bosch Foundation in January 2013 and was awarded the German School Prize as one of the best primary schools in June 2013 , and received prize money of 25,000 euros.
  • Realschule Plus am Alten Schloss (formerly: Primary and Secondary School Gau-Odernheim )

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Other personalities associated with the church

Honorary citizenship certificate for Adolf Hitler from May 25, 1932

Others

In the local dialect , Gau-Odernheim is called “Orem”, with a long “O” and an unstressed “E”.

literature

  • The story of Gau-Odernheim. Edited by the community of Gau-Odernheim. 5 volumes. Krach, Mainz 1954 ff.
    • Volume 1: H. Gredy: History of the former free imperial city "Odernheim". With e. View from Odernheim to Merian u .d. old urban seals. From several 100 previously unknown documents u. Documents and some known zsgest. Krach, Mainz 1954.
    • Volume 2: Christoph Einsfeld, Adam Reck, Heinrich Mildenberger: The story of Gau-Odernheim. Illustrated book and additions over the last 100 years. Krach, Mainz 1957.
    • Volume 3: Ernst Mayer: The history of Gau-Odernheim 1957–1984. Gau-Odernheim 1985.
    • Volume 4: Ernst Mayer: Gau-Odernheim illustrated book. Gau-Odernheim 1986.
    • Volume 5: Heinz-Jürgen Boller, Ernst Mayer: The history of Gau-Odernheim 1985 to 2005. Gau-Odernheim 2006.
  • Helmut Schmahl: The Simultaneum in Gau-Odernheim from the 17th to the 19th century. In: Information sheet on Rhine-Hessian regional studies. NF 6. Special Issue Gau-Odernheim. Alzey 6.2004, pp. 17-23. ISSN  0932-3430
  • Jürgen Kaiser, Uwe Dettmer (photos): Simultankirche Gau-Odernheim. (= Art Guide. Volume 2498). Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2002, ISBN 3-7954-6406-4 .
  • Literature about Gau-Odernheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Gau-Odernheim  - Collection of images
Wikisource: Odernheim in Merians Topographia Hassiae  - Sources and full texts
Wikisource: Odernheim in the Topographia Palatinatus Rheni (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved October 31, 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. 132 f . (PDF; 3 MB).
  4. ↑ Because Kunigunde assassinated Otto ( memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) - regional archaeologist Gerd Rupprecht has rediscovered the atonement cross near Gau-Odernheim. In: Rhein Main Presse . February 9, 2007.
  5. ↑ Werner Kremer: Article. In: Kiedricher personalities from seven centuries. Self-published Förderkreis Kiedricher Geschichts- und Kulturzeugen e. V., Kiedrich im Rheingau 2008, p. 46.
  6. ^ Regest on the division of the estate, 1521. Mainz City Archives
  7. ↑ Announcement of the Grand Ducal Ministry of the Interior and Justice of February 28, 1896 ( ulb.tu-darmstadt.de )
  8. ^ Museum Alzey
  9. ↑ Heinz Leiwig: It was nothing. National Socialism in Rheinhessen. Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-00-017338-2 , pp. 12, 55.
  10. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 163 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
  11. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: City Council Election 2019 Gau-Odernheim. Retrieved September 6, 2019 .
  12. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections.
  13. ↑ Gau-Odernheim mayor Bernd Westphal has died. In: Allgemeine-zeitung.de , June 12, 2013. ( Allgemeine-zeitung.de ( Memento from June 30, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ))
  14. ^ Local community Gau-Odernheim: News 2013 from the community. Thomas Merker is the new alderman (inauguration of Heiner Illing). Accessed January 2, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Anita Pleic: Mayor election in Gau-Odernheim: Victory for Heiner Illing (SPD). In: Allgemeine-zeitung.de , September 22, 2013. ( Allgemeine-zeitung.de ( Memento from September 22, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ))
  16. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Alzey-Land, Verbandsgemeinde, 16th line of results. Retrieved September 6, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Klemens Stadler: German coat of arms Federal Republic of Germany . tape 2 : The municipal coats of arms of the federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland . Angelsachsen-Verlag, Bremen 1966, DNB  458203432 , p. 28 .
  18. ^ Flag of Gau-Odernheim
  19. ↑ wildtulpe.de
  20. ↑ SWR TV, SWR Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz , from January 31, 2013 (6:45 p.m.)
  21. ↑ Gau-Odernheim primary school is one of Germany's best ( memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) by Nadja Weickel, Allgemeine-zeitung.de from February 2, 2013.
  22. ↑ Winner: Primary School Gau-Odernheim ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) online on the Internet: September 22, 2013.
  23. ↑ Education Minister Ahnen congratulates the Gau-Odernheim primary school on mbwwk.rlp.de on June 6, 2013.
  24. ↑ Historical website for the Gommersheim monastery
  25. ↑ Ernst Mayer, Helmut Becker, Heinz Jürgen Boller, Manfred Brunn, Ulrich Lind: Photo book Gau-Odernheim . In: Municipality of Gau-Odernheim (ed.): History of Gau-Odernheim . tape IV . Mainz 1986, p. 117, 119 .