Gimbsheim

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Alzey-Worms
Association municipality :	Calibration
Height :	85 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.62 km 2
Residents:	3023 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	172 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67578
Area code :	06249
License plate :	AZ
Community key :	07 3 31 034
Association administration address:	Hauptstrasse 26 ; 67575 Eich
Website :	www.gimbsheim.de
Local Mayor :	Matthias Klös (FWG)
Location of the local community of Gimbsheim in the Alzey-Worms district

Entering the town from Gimbsheim, coming from Eich

Gimbsheim is a municipality in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Eich Verbandsgemeinde .

geography

Geographical location

The community is located in Rheinhessen about 15 kilometers north of Worms . Mainz is about 25 kilometers north of Gimbsheim.

Neighboring communities

Gimbsheim borders in the north on the community Guntersblum , in the west on the community Alsheim and in the south on the community Eich . The municipality of Gimbsheim is bordered by the Rhine in the east.

history

Gimbsheim was probably founded by a Franconian named Gimmund around the year 500 during the settlement of the Franks under Clovis I. Since the name of a place in the historical sources changes over the centuries, the name Gimmundheim (home of Gimmund) is now known as Gimbsheim .

As with many other villages in the region, the village is first mentioned in the Lorsch Codex . This includes a document dated May 13, 766, in which two residents of Gimmenheim , as it was called at the time, donated farmland and vineyards to the Lorsch Monastery for their salvation. Another gift from a villager was made in 813 to the Fulda monastery . More concrete information about the development of Gimbsheim is only available for 1194; From this year there is a first documentary evidence of a church in town. Just a few years later, in 1208, a Gimbsheim pastor named Heinrich appears in the sources, where he is mentioned as a member of the Worms cathedral chapter .

In 1402 the Gimbsheim court seal, the "Mauricius seal", was mentioned for the first time today. In 1499 the place burned down completely, in 1662 it came to the Electoral Palatinate . Four years later, a plague epidemic struck the population. On October 17, 1704 there was another major fire that destroyed a large number of homesteads.

In the course of the French Revolution, the village came to France through the Napoleonic campaigns in 1798, to which it belonged until 1814 as part of the Département du Mont-Tonnerre (Donnersberg district). This also went hand in hand with secularization: the important entries on the local history have not been made in the church register since then, but instead are noted in the town hall. A doctor in Gimbsheim is mentioned for the first time in 1800.

In 1830 the Rhine was pierced in the course of straightening this river. The areas of the Gimbsheimer Altrhein , which are dry apart from smaller areas of water, were placed under nature protection in 1977. The outdoor pool in Gimbsheim had already opened three years earlier. In 1997 the TV series "Himmelsheim" was shot for SWR in the town; In the same year the Niederrheinhalle was built as a center for sport and culture. In 2000 the “Pfarrwiesensee” was finally redesigned from a gravel pond to a bathing lake.

Religions and denominations

The Jewish community

A small Jewish community existed in Gimbsheim from the second half of the 19th century until after 1933. The highest number of Jewish residents was reached around 1900/1905 with 72 people (3% of the total population). A synagogue was inaugurated on August 27, 1892. After 1933 it was sold and converted into an existing residential building. At least eight of the Jewish people living in Gimbsheim perished after the deportations during the Nazi era .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Gimbsheim 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	OLfG	total
2019	4th	3	11	2	20 seats
2014	9	2	5	4th	20 seats
2009	9	2	6th	3	20 seats
2004	8th	2	7th	3	20 seats

FWG = Free Voting Community Gimbsheim e. V.
OLfG = Open List for Gimbsheim e. V.

Local mayor

Günther Debusi - SPD (until 1999)
Jakob Scheller - FWG (1999-2009)
Peter Kölsch - SPD (2009-2012)
Amanda Wucher - SPD (2012-2019)
Matthias Klös - FWG (since 2019)

In the local elections on May 26, 2019, Matthias Klös was elected with 73.62% of the vote and is the successor to Amanda Wucher, who was no longer running.

Community partnerships

A partnership exists with the municipality of Talant in France.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Under a black shield head in red covered with golden ears, grapes and vine leaves, a silver diagonal bar covered with a black double hook."
	Reasons for the coat of arms: The double hook on the coat of arms was taken from the Gimbsheim coat of arms of the 18th century. It stands symbolically for hunting, fishing and shipping on and in the Rhine. The emblems of the head of the shield represent the viticulture and agriculture that has been carried out in Gimbsheim for a long time.

Culture and sights

War memorial with the figure of Germania for the German soldiers who died in the Franco-Prussian War from 1870 to 1871 in Eicher Strasse

regional customs

The "Gemsemer Curb " is celebrated on the last weekend in September, it goes back to a centuries-old tradition. A candle princess has been elected annually since the 1970s.

Cultural and natural monuments

Economy and Infrastructure

Viticulture

Gimbsheim belongs to the "Nierstein wine-growing area" in the Rheinhessen growing area . 23 wine-growing businesses are active in the community, and the area under vines is 118 hectares . About 71% of the cultivated wine are white grape varieties (as of 2010). In 1979 84 companies were still active, the area under vines at that time was 191 hectares.

traffic

Tracks of the old Osthofen – Rheindürkheim – Guntersblum railway in the old Gimbsheim station

The federal highway 9 , which connects Ludwigshafen am Rhein with Mainz , runs in the immediate vicinity of the community .

Until 1969 Gimbsheim had a connection to the passenger traffic on the Osthofen – Rheindürkheim – Guntersblum railway line .

Gimbsheim is conveniently connected to Guntersblum , the other Altrhein municipalities and Worms via bus route 432 of the Rhein-Neckar bus service .

Established businesses

MGL Metro Group Logistics GmbH Co. KG (MGL) with a 50,000 m² central food warehouse for 8,500 items
HG Oswald Sanitärheizung GmbH: The company was founded in 1958 by Hans Gerhard Oswald and has grown steadily since then. Today the company has 21 employees and 2800 square meters of premises for workshops, offices, warehousing and sales rooms. The fleet includes 9 company vehicles.

Sons and daughters of the place

Heinrich Hirsch (* 1838; † 1919): Father of Harold Hirsch , who was the legal advisor at the Coca-Cola Company and who helped to introduce the contoured Cola bottle and the logo of the shower manufacturer. Heinrich's brothers Raphael, Moritz and Joseph also emigrated and settled in the state of Georgia, USA.
Moritz David (1875–1956), rabbi in Bochum.
Jakob Muth (1927–1993), professor who became known for his commitment to integrating disabled children into the school system.
Herbert Scheller (born May 19, 1948), former German soccer player who played for 1. FC Kaiserslautern and TSV 1860 Munich in the Bundesliga. Record player of 1. FSV Mainz 05 .

literature

Literature about Gimbsheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography
Dieter Krienke and Ingrid Westerhoff: Alzey Worms district. Verbandsgemeinden Eich, Monsheim and Wonnegau = monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate 20.3. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft , Worms 2018. ISBN 978-3-88462-379-4 , pp. 62–70.

Web links

Commons : Gimbsheim - Collection of Images

Official website of the Gimbsheim parish
Information on the Jewish community in Gimbsheim
Brief portrait of Gimbsheim on SWR television
Historical information about Gimbsheim at regionalgeschichte.net
Link catalog on Gimbsheim at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Gimbsheim. Retrieved September 8, 2019 .

^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections

^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2009, city and municipal council elections

^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Eich, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results. Retrieved September 8, 2019 .

^ Official website of the Gimbsheim parish

^ Gimbsheim and its parish festival

↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data

↑ Reference to Harold Hirsch, legal advisor of the Coca-Cola Company, whose father came from Gimbsheim on alemannia-judaica.de/; The birth of a legend: COCA COLA The Gimbsheim emigrant Harold Hirsch invented the world-famous fizzy bottle in the 19th century ( page no longer accessible , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. By Angela Zimmermann, as of November 12, 2011 in Wormser Zeitung.@1@ 2

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).