Gensingen

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '  N , 7 ° 56'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Mainz-Bingen
Association municipality :	Sprendlingen-Gensingen
Height :	90 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.72 km 2
Residents:	3985 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	457 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55457
Area code :	06727
License plate :	MZ , BIN
Community key :	07 3 39 021
Association administration address:	Elisabethenstrasse 1 55576 Sprendlingen
Website :	www.gensingen.de
Local Mayor :	Armin Brendel
Location of the local community Gensingen in the Mainz-Bingen district

town hall

View of the Protestant church in Kirchgasse

Gensingen is a municipality in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Sprendlingen-Gensingen , which has its administrative seat in the municipality of Sprendlingen .

geography

Gensingen is located in Rheinhessen between Mainz and Bad Kreuznach an der Nahe . The Rumpfmühle residential area also belongs to Gensingen .

Neighboring communities are (clockwise): Grolsheim , Bingen am Rhein , Horrweiler , Welgesheim , Biebelsheim , Bad Kreuznach and Langenlonsheim .

history

The place was mentioned for the first time in a deed of donation on November 1, 768 when Faginolf gave the Lorsch monastery everything he owned in the Nahegau in the Gensingen district.

Statistics on population development

The development of the population of Gensingen, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 693 1835 917 1871 982 1905 1,080 1939 1,347 1950 1,360

year Residents 1961 1,443 1970 1,904 1987 2,629 2005 3,424 2011 3,728 2017 4.017

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Gensingen 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	FDP	FWG	total
2019	5	7th	2	6th	20 seats
2014	7th	7th	2	4th	20 seats
2009	7th	6th	3	4th	20 seats
2004	9	7th	-	4th	20 seats

• FWG = Free Voters Group Gensingen e. V.

mayor

Armin Brendel was re-confirmed as local mayor on May 26, 2019 with a share of the vote of 69.25 percent.

Parish partnership

The French municipality of Pierre-de-Bresse in Burgundy is connected to Gensingen by a municipal partnership.

Culture and sights

The Protestant church with its historic silent organ was built in 1774/1778 and restored in 2000. Concerts take place here regularly.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Gensingen

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies in the community of Gensingen are the furniture manufacturer Bretz and the young plant company Kientzler.

traffic

South of Gensingen is the end of the four-lane upgraded section of federal highway 41 . This will lead to the federal highway 61 . The two-lane part bypasses the community on a shared route with federal highway 50 in a north-south direction.

To the west, the bypass road is connected via the approx. 4.5 km long state road 242 with federal road 48 near Langenlonsheim on the left near side.

To the north there is a connection from the federal highway 41 (old) to the triangle Nahetal, where the western end of the Rhine-Main stretch of the federal highway 60 is connected to the BAB 61.

Trains of the Nahetalbahn and Rheinhessenbahn stop at the train station in Gensingen .

Personalities

• Reinhard Leisenheimer (1939–2014), singer and university professor
• Peter Paul Nahm (1901–1981), historian, journalist, State Secretary (CDU)

literature

• Karl Johann Brilmayer : Rheinhessen in the past and present, Verlag Emil Roth, Gießen 1905, pp. 177–179. (Reprint 1985, ISBN 3-8035-1265-4 .)
• Literature about Gensingen in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Gensingen  - Collection of images

• Gensingen parish
• Local community Gensingen on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Sprendlingen-Gensingen
• For the history of Gensingen at www.regionalgeschichte.net
• Short portrait of Gensingen on SWR television

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 (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 108 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ^ Heinrich Eduard Scriba : Regesten of the documents printed up to now on the regional and local history of the Grand Duchy of Hesse , Volume 3, Darmstadt 1851, p. 9, No. 143. Online and Karl Josef Minst : Lorscher Codex , Lorsch 1970, Certificate 2016
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
5. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: City and municipal council elections 2019. Accessed on August 1, 2019 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Individual elections 2019. Retrieved on August 1, 2019 .