Gimmies

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Gimmies
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Gimmigen
Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 29 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 58 ″  E
Height : 100 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 735  (Jun. 30, 2015)
Incorporation : 7th June 1969
Postal code : 53474
Area code : 02641
Gimmigen (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Gimmies

Location of Gimmigen in Rhineland-Palatinate
Chapel of St. Cosmas, Damian and Katharina
Chapel of St. Cosmas, Damian and Katharina

Gimmigen is a district and a local district of the city of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler in the Ahrweiler district in Rhineland-Palatinate . Until 1969 Gimmigen was an independent municipality.

history

middle Ages

His first mention was that the parish Kirchdaun belonging village Gimmigen 853 in a Schenkungs certificate for the Bonner St. Cassius . Until 1252 Gimmigen belonged to the county of Neuenahr with the higher court of Wadenheim . The Gimmiger Chapel was built in the 12th century and has been partially preserved in its original form. She is that of Saints Cosmas and Damian and St. Consecrated to Catherine . From the 14th century on, Gimmigen belonged to the joint property of the County of Neuenahr and the Landskron dominion .

Modern times

In 1565 the Duke of Jülich became lord of the two villages of Gimmigen and Kirchdaun through an exchange of fiefs . Gimmigen fell entirely to Jülich and was under the administration of the Jülich office of Sinzig-Remagen until the end of the 18th century . In the so-called French era , Gimmigen belonged to the canton of Remagen in the Rhine-Moselle department from 1798 to 1814 and was assigned to Mairie Heimersheim from 1800 . As a result of the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna , the place came to Prussia in 1815 . Since 1816 Gimmigen belonged administratively to the mayoralty Ahrweiler in the district of Ahrweiler and Koblenz .

World Wars and Post-War Period

In World War I , there was no damage, but 15 war victims. During the economic crisis of 1930/32 hardly any Gimmiger had a job. Only after Hitler came to power did unemployment decrease. At the beginning of the Second World War , men who were fit for military service were drafted into military service.

In 1947 there were severe supply bottlenecks. In 1953 Gimmigen was connected to the water network. Gimmigen was incorporated into the town of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler in 1969 and has since been represented by a town councilor and a town council. The village center of Gimmigen, which was still clearly recognizable until the 1960s, consists mainly of half-timbered houses . The oldest surviving houses in Gimmigen were built in 1632 and 1736 respectively. A recreational facility was created and developed into a popular meeting place for the population.

politics

District

Gimmigen is one of ten districts in the city of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler. The district is represented by a local advisory board and a local mayor .

Local advisory board

The local advisory board consists of five members who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local advisory board:

choice SPD CDU FWG 1 total
2019 1 3 1 5 seats
2014 2 2 1 5 seats
2009 2 2 1 5 seats
1Free voter group Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler e. V.

Mayor

Stephan Hübinger (CDU) became mayor of Gimmingen in 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected with 79.71% of the vote.

Hübinger's predecessor Rudi Frick (SPD) had held the office for 25 years, but did not take office again in 2019.

schools

There is a primary school in Heimersheim. 140 students from the districts of Ehlingen , Gimmigen, Green , Heimersheim, Heppingen , Kirchdaun and Lohrsdorf are taught in the building, which was built in 1974 . A school kindergarten was also affiliated there until the 2013/14 school year .

Personalities

  • Hans Boes (1942–2016), farmer, TV weather engineer

Web links

Commons : Gimmigen  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, population statistics as of June 30, 2015
  2. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 158 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
  3. ↑ Main statute of the city of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler. (PDF) § 2. City of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, April 7, 2020, accessed on July 27, 2020 .
  4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Gimmigen. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2014 Gimmigen. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Board Election 2009 Gimmigen. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  7. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, association-free municipality, fourth line of results. Retrieved July 27, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Four decades of service for gimmicks. In: localbook.de. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH, September 1, 2019, accessed on July 27, 2020 .
  9. ^ Heimersheim primary school ( memento of February 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on January 25, 2014
  10. ↑ Former Heimersheim school kindergarten ( memento from February 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on January 25, 2015
  11. ↑ Mourning for Hans Boes: Wetterbauer from Gimmigen is dead. In: Rhein-Zeitung. February 29, 2016. Retrieved November 27, 2017 .